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Example sentences for "practically speaking"

  • As, practically speaking, the larval stages are passed within the egg, and there is no free embryo differing in form from the parent, it is necessary for the young creatures to be well supplied with nutritive material.

  • The main portion of the alimentary system is, practically speaking, a straight tube (fig.

  • Since the successful application to submarine cables of various modifications of Wheatstone's automatic transmitter, the limit to the speed attainable only depends, practically speaking, upon the type of cable employed.

  • Thus the cable constantly increases its density, or specific gravity, in going down, while the equal bulk of the water surrounding it continues to have, practically speaking, very nearly the same specific gravity as at the surface.

  • Practically speaking, the sum of their decisions, all and singular, has been, that there are no limits to the power of the government, and that the people have no rights except what the government pleases to allow to them.

  • Practically speaking, no government knows any limits to its power, except the endurance of the people.

  • Such a standpoint is of course, practically speaking, atheism, and in this sense atheism was widely spread among the higher classes of the Graeco-Roman society about the time of the birth of Christ.

  • After the close of antiquity the pagan gods had receded to a distance, practically speaking, because they were not worshipped any more.

  • Practically speaking, also, it is important not to consider every functional situation hysterical, since the non-hysterical functional changes may be extremely obstinate to treatment.

  • Practically speaking, psychotherapy applied as in cases of hysteria may often cure the simulator and the exaggerator.

  • Taitsong, moved by a feeling of humanity, offered the Prince of Han generous terms before delivering an assault which was, practically speaking, certain to succeed, and he had the good sense to accept them.

  • This had, practically speaking, been already accomplished, and the English merchants had taken refuge at Macao or in their ships anchored at Hongkong.

  • These have, practically speaking, been untouched in recent years.

  • Practically speaking, his state was more inaccessible to us than Tibet, and the Russians at Yarkand would be a source of far less danger to us than warlike and hostile Chinese might become at Lhasa.

  • Practically speaking, Yakoob Beg was safe from invasion from the east so long as he maintained order within his own frontier; and the Tungani in Ili on his north had manifested no special hostility against his state.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
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