Sentences with phrase «accepted meaning of the phrase»

You can call that a lot of things, but you can't call it a «graduate program» without doing some serious damage to the generally accepted meaning of the phrase.

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Its like you arent supposed to peep behind the curtain but just accept the phrase as some kind of deep mystical statement, full of meaning... oooh, he died for our sins you know... did he?

Nevertheless, the phrase «mutually give and accept each other» has a real and profound meaning that corresponds precisely to the nature of true spousal love.

This understanding of the limited scope of scientific method had been generally accepted since Kant's Critique of Pure Reason (1781); but in nineteenth - century evolutionary parlance it took on the specific meaning that «all beginnings and endings are lost in mystery,» a phrase that became commonplace in the sciences and social sciences as a way of dismissing or circumventing probing questions that sought to assess the larger implications or consequences of scientific analysis.

I accept neither, and to break out of the dilemma I must clarify my meaning when I use the phrase» «depth» dimension of the psyche,» and when I refer to these regions as «dimly conscious.»

In other words, the fallacy of equivocation occurs when in the course of an argument the meanings of an ambiguous word or phrase are traded unfairly to get us to accept the conclusion when in fact we shouldn't.

I just mean that maybe Christians can compromise by acknowledging that laws evolve and change and to accept that gays want the same rights as married people and to be respectful of that and maybe gays can compromise by not insisting to use the word «marriage» but instead use the word «union» or some other word or phrase to describe their relationship.

Here, I use the phrase eligible candidate to mean that the candidate is actually in the image of the voting system (if three candidates exist but you accept that one of them can not be elected in any situation, then you can consider the simple majority rule on the other two candidates, which is neither dictatorial nor manipulable).

The improvements included using larger fonts, lists, headers, white space, simple language, and logical organization.29 In a study of voter behavior, Reilly and Richey found that increasing language complexity on ballots made voters more likely to skip ballot questions.30 Rogers and Brown found that subjects who received «high - impact» instructions complied with those instructions at a significantly higher rate than the group that received instructions in the «low - impact» style.31 Finally, McGlone and Tofighbakhsh found that readers presented with two phrases with identical meaning more readily accepted and believed the version of the phrase that rhymed.

However, attorneys and the courts generally accept that either phrase means one parent has both sole legal custody and sole physical custody of the children.