| The trades were in theory all supervised and regulated by the livery companies, one for each trade. |
| Such cross activation could, in theory, also occur between widely separated areas. |
| But if the market ruled supreme in theory during the 1980s and 1990s, reality was different. |
| The precautionary principle sounds good in theory, but in practice it is a nightmare. |
| The executives of international oil corporations, avowed globalizers in theory, are in practice the friends of regressive political economies. |
| A four of a kind is closed, and can no longer be extended, and the same would apply in theory to a run of 14 cards with an ace at each end. |
