Continue reading the main story In one sense, we learned relatively little of practical import.

It is, however, the residential social worker who most often faces sexual problems of a practical import in his or her work.

The simple oxidation of Grignard reagents to give alcohols is of little practical import as yields are generally poor.

Norms are concepts (sentences) of practical import, oriented to effecting an action, rather than conceptual abstractions that describe, explain, and express.

We tend to focus instead on measures of central tendency, and as a result we make some terrible mistakes, often with considerable practical import.

But whatever the practical import, his work is generally credited with breathing life into a theory that could be applied to a host of questions.

They said the removal of the remaining two-thirds was technically justified, though many had already been published or contained old secrets with little practical import.

"The practical import is we don't have a filing to put out to the public," Ms. Neville said.

Far more limited in scope, but of immediate practical import, was the question of the re-organization of the courts.