As a word of caution, we should be aware that in actual practice no message is purely one of the four types, question, command, statement, or exclamation.

In an article in the Columbia Law Review in 1908, Roscoe Pound of the University of Chicago mounted a vigorous attack on " mechanical jurisprudence ," the judicial practice of " rigorous logical deduction from predetermined conceptions in disregard of ... the actual facts.

But then it was already a long established practice that Rome itself was only a ceremonial capital, as the actual seat of the Imperial administration was determined by the needs of defense.

It examines ethics not from a top-down a priori perspective but rather observations of actual choices made by moral agents in practice.

In practice, the collection of true and timely actual cost data can be the most difficult aspect of EVM.

In practice, actual performance on modern computers is usually dominated by factors other than arithmetic and is a complicated subject ( see, e. g., Frigo & Johnson, 2005 ), but the overall improvement from O ( N < sup > 2 </ sup >) to O ( N log N ) remains.

Once a GSSP boundary has been agreed upon, a " golden spike " is driven into the geologic section to mark the precise boundary for future geologists ( though in practice the " spike " need neither be golden nor an actual spike ).

In practice, that role is ceremonial, with actual authority in the hands of the Defence Minister and the Chief of the Defence Force ( CDF ).

However, taking into account that it was common practice to release prisoners who were either suffering from incurable diseases or on the point of death, the actual Gulag death toll was somewhat higher, amounting to 1, 258, 537 in 1934-53, or 1. 6 million casualties during the whole period from 1929 to 1953.

According to a number of sources, it was Emmylou who forced the band to practice and work up an actual set list.

Some followers of the Golden Dawn tradition believe that the Secret Chiefs are not necessarily living humans or supernatural beings, but are rather symbolic of actual and legendary sources of spiritual esotericism, a great leader, or teacher of a spiritual path or practice that found its way into the teachings of the Order.

Folklorists such as Gwenith Gwynn, interviewing people in the early twentieth century, were unwittingly discovering folk memories of a Victorian misunderstanding rather than an actual, earlier folk practice.

It thus introduced the first glimpse at Marx's historical materialism, an argument that the world is changed not by ideas but by actual, physical, material activity and practice.

But in actual practice, subjects belonging to mechanics and fields are closely interwoven.

Though his work was widely reproduced, and over 200 copies, translations, and extracts survive today, the extent to which Vegetius affected the actual practice of warfare as opposed to its concept is unclear due to his habit of stating the obvious.

In practice, however, actual mergers of equals don't happen very often.

" Scott McCrea describes the setting as " a nonrealistic Venice " and the laws invoked by Portia as part of the " imaginary world of the play ", inconsistent with actual legal practice.

Although the practice of selling " Chametz " dates back many years, some contemporary rabbinical authorities have come to regard it with disdain – since the supposed " new owner " never takes actual possession of the goods.

In actual practice, the Party CMC, after consultation with the democratic parties, proposes the names of the State CMC members of the NPC so that these people after going through the legal processes can be elected by the NPC to the State Central Military Commission.

Peine forte et dure was abolished in the Kingdom of Great Britain in 1772, although the last known actual use of the practice was in 1741.

Certain judicial functions are also performed by the Queen in Council, although in practice the actual work of hearing and deciding upon cases is carried out exclusively by the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council.

At the same time, even within societies which allow polygyny, the actual practice of polygyny occurs relatively rarely.

While tying it to one fixed date would serve to underline the belief that Easter commemorates an actual historical event, without an accompanying calendar reform it would also break the tradition of Easter always being on a Sunday, established since the 2nd century AD and by now deeply embedded in the liturgical practice and theological understanding of almost all Christian denominations.

" Standard silent film speed " is often said to be 16 fps as a result of the Lumière brothers ' Cinematographé, but industry practice varied considerably ; there was no actual standard.

Final ratings were made on the basis of a point system which was developed after studying the distributions of actual behaviors recorded and assigning weight values to each type of behavior that was deviant from the discovered norms.

Questioned this myth of the presence of meaning in itself (" objective ") and / or for itself (" subjective ") Derrida will start a long deconstruction of all texts where conceptual oppositions are put to work in the actual construction of meaning and values based on the subordination of the movement of " differance ":

Careful study of the actual numerical values of these proportions led Dalton to propose his law of multiple proportions.

The values of luminosity ( L ), radius ( R ) and mass ( M ) are relative to the Sun — a dwarf star with a spectral classification of G2 V. The actual values for a star may vary by as much as 20 – 30 % from the values listed below.

In these cases the computed values of molar mass and average molecular mass, which are ultimately derived from the standard atomic weights, will not be the same as the actual molar mass or average molecular mass of the sample.

Some standard values of atmospheric pressure such as 101. 325 kPa or 100 kPa have been defined, and some instruments use one of these standard values as a constant zero reference instead of the actual variable ambient air pressure.

There are a variety of interpretations of the constants ' values, including that of a divine creator ( the apparent fine-tuning is actual and intentional ), or that ours is one universe of many in a multiverse ( e. g. the Many-worlds interpretation of quantum mechanics ), or even that a universe without the capacity for conscious beings cannot exist.

For example, Spearman is a non-parametric test as it is computed from the order of the data regardless of the actual values, whereas Pearson is a parametric test as it is computed directly from the data and can be used to derive a mathematical relationship.

Though Vesalius ' work was not the first such work based on actual autopsy, nor even the first work of this era, the production values, highly detailed and intricate plates, and the fact that the artists who produced it were clearly present at the dissections themselves made it into an instant classic.

To illustrate how one may use Newton's formula in actual practice, consider the first few terms of the Fibonacci sequence f = 2, 2, 4 ... One can find a polynomial that reproduces these values, by first computing a difference table, and then substituting the differences which correspond to x < sub > 0 </ sub > ( underlined ) into the formula as follows,

Domains are therefore pools of values from which actual values appearing in the columns of a table are drawn.

It is not necessary to know the polarity of the sent signal since the information is not kept in the actual values of the voltage but in their change: in other words it does not matter whether a logical 1 or 0 is received, but only whether the polarity is the same or different from the previous value ; this makes synchronization easier.

Its storyline is supported by lavish production values, actual circus acts, and documentary, behind-the-rings looks at the massive logistics effort which made big top circuses possible.

A mathematical model of the economy, having been fitted to historical economic data, is used as a proxy for the actual economy ; proposed values of government spending, taxation, open market operations, etc.

The actual values of the function have no importance.

In " Social Capital and Development: The Coming Agenda ," Francis Fukuyama points out that there isn't an agreed definition of social capital, so he explains it as " shared norms or values that promote social cooperation, instantiated in actual social relationships " ( Fukuyama, 27 ), and uses this definition throughout this paper.

However, the actual charge and mass values were unknown.

Grey lines show actual US dollar values.

This represents the value ( or values ) of the argument x in the interval that minimizes ( or minimize ) the objective function x < sup > 2 </ sup > + 1 ( the actual minimum value of that function is not what the problem asks for ).

The value of the derivatives market, because it is stated in terms of notional values, cannot be directly compared to a stock or a fixed income security, which traditionally refers to an actual value.