Thus, MMT pays considerable attention to the operational reality of interactions between government, the central bank, and the commercial banking sector.

Courts should not be prohibited from taking account of a committee's "operational reality," the brief says.

Homeland security officials "must be able to make split-second decisions to deal with operational realities," the department said.

Her official reason was that the military needed an in-house intelligence capability run by people who understood operational realities.

Considerations of privacy must also take into account "operational realities" of the workplace in question, O'Connor said.

Russia had injected operational reality into the war games.

"It does make sense to ensure that the standards are reasonable, and reflect operational realities," he told the committee.

And if we're going to be honest, some of them have personal axes to grind which have nothing to do with operational realities.

"With international contacts proliferating and transnational corporations allocating resources on a world scale, the 'global village' had become an operational reality," he writes.

It looks as if the court will be a reality, operational "within two years' time."