for all practical purposes
to all intents and purposes
for all intents and purposes

For all practical purposes the keep is in our hands.

The game, for all practical purposes, was over at that point.

His mother had for all practical purposes died with her husband.

It was over, for all practical purposes, in less than five minutes.

For all practical purposes, the value is still exactly 1.

Everyone says that they are a government for all practical purposes.

For all practical purposes it could have been any of them.

"You should have some use of it Enough for all practical purposes."

But there were no workers any more, for all practical purposes.

For all practical purposes, from now on, you are my husband.

For all practical purposes, he would have no more income.

And for all practical purposes that was the end of the interview.

Then, for all practical purposes, he sent her to bed.

Your playing career may well be at an end for all practical purposes.

That put an end to the meeting, for all practical purposes.

By this time, for all practical purposes, I was no longer a member of the family.

Many days went by; and he learned enough of the language for all practical purposes.

So for all practical purposes, the 17-year-old girl who was to be the senior class president has no school.

I am known for all practical purposes as the Commander.

The play, for all practical purposes, is over before it begins.

Under the plan, he said, the local has "for all practical purposes, become a company union."

For all practical purposes, the family is a ward of the state.

For all practical purposes this means any data held in electronic form.

The four American boys were now, for all practical purposes, surrounded.

For all practical purposes, he deserted his family when you were seven.

His whole life was over, to all intents and purposes.

To all intents and purposes he became one of them.

"So to all intents and purposes you were living as a woman now?"

It is a human being to all intents and purposes.

I knew to all intents and purposes she had now died for good.

He was now, to all intents and purposes, in two places at once.

She was, to all intents and purposes, turned into stone.

One moment she was to all intents and purposes asleep.

They'd been walking through what looked like, to all intents and purposes, a park.

To all intents and purposes I was back in the bottle.

To all intents and purposes, Earth now was dead; they had been away from it for three or four years.

The rest of her was also naked to all intents and purposes.

To all intents and purposes, she is mistress of this house.

So to all intents and purposes you are your ancestor.

To all intents and purposes, in other words, it was a billboard.

Our borders are, to all intents and purposes, wide open.

But his job requires a close working relationship with the man who, to all intents and purposes, runs the town.

To all intents and purposes, there'd never been a hole to Hell.

But he was still to all intents and purposes uninterested.

By court order, I'm also, to all intents and purposes, her legal guardian.

In short, women are to all intents and purposes largely more polite than men.

Once that goes into place, this country is to all intents and purposes under a form of martial law.

To all intents and purposes, I am its mother.

To all intents and purposes an idyllic, successful young couple.

To all intents and purposes the man was wearing a mask that never changed.