Sentences with phrase «in ordinary sense»

It is important to stress that PAS is not always «intentional» in the ordinary sense of that word.

Properly understood, the principle of self - determination, commensurate in the values it incorporates, benefits groups — that is, «peoples» in the ordinary sense of the term — throughout the spectrum of humanity's complex web of interrelationships and loyalties, and not just peoples defined by existing or perceived sovereign boundaries.

Q5 oddly implies that what you might do with data defines whether the data is «personal data», which is confusing, but amounts to saying «even if this is in the ordinary sense «personal data», it is not subject to the protection requirements» — this is not uncommon in law, where rules are stated in terms of a label («personal data»), and the rules are very simple, but the definition of the label can be complicated.

It only briefly alludes to the personal circumstances of the original plaintiff in the case, pointing out that she was «not an «impoverished» person in the ordinary sense of the word» (which made her ineligible for an exemption from the fees at issue).

What occurred here is no more judicial factfinding in the ordinary sense than would be the factual findings that deficit spending will not lower the unemployment rate... Yet because they have been branded «factual findings» entitled to deferential review, the policy preferences of three District Judges now govern the operation of California prison's system.»

(i) it was not a policy for exceptional cases because a person was automatically disqualified if he could be likened to another: in order to qualify, a patient must show in effect that he is unique, rather than merely exceptional in the ordinary sense of the word as being «of the nature of or forming an exception; out of the ordinary course, unusual, special.»

Much of what the legal profession calls public interest litigation, he argued, «is purely political, and transcends the interest of the named plaintiffs, who are not clients in any ordinary sense.»

Accordingly, the statutory requirements on service will apply even where: (i) there is an ongoing arbitration in England; (ii) the Court proceedings may be ancillary to that arbitration; and (iii) it is said that the foreign state entity has waived immunity in the ordinary sense by agreeing to and participating in the arbitration.

Nor are they public authorities in the ordinary sense of the word.

But let's take the stilts away and consider rights in their ordinary sense.

As has been widely noted, confusing not statistically significant» with «not significant; in the ordinary sense indicates either deliberate dishonesty or ignorance of a point covered in excruciating detail in every introductory stats course.

Coming back to «bogan», the big issue in agnotology is not ignorance in the ordinary sense of the term (people who don't know much about political issues, and don't care to learn — that is certainly part of the stereotypical bogan image, and may perhaps be descriptive of the actual demographic groups commonly associated with the term, though I don't know of any evidence of this).

Think of Cindy Sherman drawing upon cinema tropes to explore representations femininity, or Himid's images of colonial history, dress and custom: these aren't self - portraits in any ordinary sense, but journeys into the history of art, cinema, economics and literature.

This is not a cruise ship in the ordinary sense.

Inflation, in the ordinary sense, increase in the prices of goods and services.

Six days of talking in Bangkok made it clear that the world should plan its response to AIDS on the assumption that there will be no vaccine, in the ordinary sense of the word, to stop the spread of HIV.

«It isn't a movie in the ordinary sense of images you can watch on a screen,» he said.

Not exactly a wave in the ordinary sense, the swerve was a deviation from straight line motion postulated by the Greek philosopher Epicurus around 300 B.C. Unlike Aristotle, Epicurus believed in atoms, and argued that reality was built entirely from the random collisions of an infinite number of those tiny particles.

In just the same way there may be objects which are so small that they can not affect a ray of light, and such objects are forever invisible in the ordinary sense.

«We may suppose that a rodless mouse will not see in the ordinary sense,» he wrote in one journal article.

Each one has its own meaning in a brief and ephemeral sense, but meaning in the ordinary sense is built up out of patterns of sense which emerge moment by moment in the course of a myriad of microevents happening and vanishing and passing on the meaning they briefly achieve.

That most such feelings are not conscious in any ordinary sense of «conscious» is no argument against this position.

Since creativity has no characteristics, we can neither point to it nor define it in any ordinary sense.

It has no immediate contemporary, since it is historical in the first degree, corresponding to faith [belief] in the ordinary sense; it has no immediate contemporary in the second degree, since it is based upon a contradiction, corresponding to Faith in the eminent sense.

His reply is that they are not laws in an ordinary sense at all.

So Whitehead's reply to Berkeley is, in effect, that matter really does matter in the ordinary sense of the word, since whatever acquires material existence is always capable of influencing by means of signs the becomings of subsequent «things.»

Obviously there is no «hearing» in the ordinary sense, and God's «pleasure» must be equally metaphorical.

That's exactly what Peter did because he took Jesus» command literally, in its ordinary sense.

This is exactly what I'm after when I say, «I take the Bible in its ordinary sense.»

I'd say instead that I take the Bible in its ordinary sense, that is, I try to take the things recorded there with the precision I think the writer intended.

In the ordinary sense we have more «Government» than ever, i.e., massively expensive regulatory bureaucracies micromanaging ever more details of people's lives and livelihoods.

(I use the term «duration» here in the ordinary sense of a stretch of time rather than in Whitehead's technical sense of a cross section of the universe.)

With the sole exception of a single allusion to Jesus» last supper with his companions, nothing which could in the ordinary sense be called an act of Jesus or an incident in his career is so much as referred to, and in only a few highly dubious passages are his words quoted.

These interpreters hold that Jesus used the phrase only in its ordinary sense of «man,» and that some community in which the Gospel tradition was being formed, itself thinking of Jesus as the apocalyptic Son of Man, read that meaning back into Jesus» words.

I am using the word «person» in its ordinary sense to designate an individual possessed of self - consciousness and will [whatever be the essential nature of personality].

This statement is altogether in line with the words quoted from Acts as representative of the primitive view:» God hath made this same Jesus both Lord and Christ,» In each case a son of man in the ordinary sense is spoken of as becoming the Son of God in a unique sense.

To be sure, in the earliest tradition Jesus is sometimes called a prophet, but the term is apparently used in its ordinary sense and is soon displaced by messianically significant terms.

What we shall be considering is the relatively close - knit unit or group, composed of a few people — normatively, of course, a family in the ordinary sense but also other possible associations that involve the presence of a person with several others, so that there can be an expression of belonging, with mutual love and concern, sympathy, and understanding, and hence the opportunity and occasion for enrichment and growth in each of the participants.

Aspiration is more than hope in the ordinary sense which Cicero defines as expectatio boni (expectation of the good), insofar as one can hope for something while sitting around in an armchair doing nothing to bring it about.

«Whether transcendence is conceived of in a technical philosophical sense (as that metaphysical realm above the rational) or in an ordinary sense (as that phenomenon or experience found within the natural world, but which appears to point beyond that world) the meaning is about the same» (op.

I, for one, have rather definite views about a range of political topics, but politics, in the ordinary sense of the term, is a small part of subjects addressed in First Things.

In the first place, by no means all the functioning of the unconscious is «mental» in any ordinary sense.

You can not find out which view is the right one by science in the ordinary sense.

Faith is not, in the ordinary sense, knowledge, and it is futile and dishonest for moderns to act as if things were otherwise.

So the point of Whitehead's example in the above passage would be that in talking about the membership of the complex structured society which is a total man, in the ordinary sense of the term, one is referring not to a subordinate society, such as the enduring object which is the life, or soul, of the man, but to all the individual actual occasions in all the subordinate societies and subordinate nexus which make up the man.

This assumption does not require any belief in «absolutes» in the ordinary sense of known values that are independent of time and circumstance.

«2 In fact, it was often used as a mere synonym for eros (passionate, though not necessarily sensual, desire) or for philia (liking or caring for another person in the ordinary sense).

Such aesthetic sensitivity, he suggests, can be learned, although it can not be taught in the ordinary sense of teaching.

Such chronicles have always been fraught with ambiguity and the possibility of misinterpretation, however, and such reckonings have generally been disapproved by the church; Origen and Augustine, among many others, both argued that many of the ages chronicled in the OT are simply of unknowable length, and went on to note that the «days» of the creation story simply can not be «days» in the ordinary sense of the term as the sun isn't created until the fourth «day».

Its events belong to the sphere, not of history in the ordinary sense, but of the supra - historical; they can not be objects of historical research because they are discernible only by faith.