Sentences with phrase «in ordinary use»

It was smooth enough in ordinary use but a little noisy when pushed and definitely short on the kind of low - rpm muscle that distinguishes the Blazer V - 6.

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The predominant concept known as «interval training» used by top athletes and Olympic medalists for decades can now help busy entrepreneurs and ordinary folk do a lot more in less time.
Weighted average number of ordinary shares used in computing non-GAAP basic and diluted net loss per share (*)
To be fair, stock - based compensation isn't new — and it's used in many industries like banking, tech, and media — so it's not as if how Tolstedt was paid is out of the ordinary.
The shares of the ETF would have traded on a major exchange, and let ordinary investors use their brokerage accounts to short them in the same way as an ordinary stock.
This ability to use vision and touch sensing to improvise its way to successful task completion makes Baxter highly adaptable to the ordinary, human - oriented work conditions found in small - company assembly lines.
Locke created a buzz among ordinary Chinese even before he arrived in Beijing via a widely circulated photo of him wearing a backpack and trying to use a coupon to buy coffee at Seattle's airport.
And while it's clear the Liberals hope to use their tax changes as a sort of parable for the standing - up - for - ordinary - workers part of their broader discourse — a centre - left populism that Trudeau believes other like - minded leaders, such as Hillary Clinton, forgot to defend, to their peril — the specific tax changes in question didn't appear on the Liberals» radar because the current arrangements are unfair.
In many cases, inmates used ordinary household items purchased through the jail's commissary.
The headset already can be used to control most ordinary functions in common software, such as word processing and spreadsheet programs, by taking the place of a mouse — the cursor simply follows your gaze, and you can think your way into triggering the equivalent of a left or right mouse click.
In the early days of bitcoin, enthusiasts could use ordinary video graphics cards to profitably process computations needed to mine the cryptocurrency.
Since the token is formatted as an ordinary card number, it can be used at multiple merchants; this differs from other types of tokenization systems in which a token can only be used at one merchant.
If a businessperson wanted to display a VisiCalc program simultaneously on his Apple computer and on a salesperson's Apple in an office 3,000 miles away, he could use ordinary telephone wires with Reflexive VC software published by Arrow Micro Software ($ 45; 11 Kingsford Crescent, Kanata, Ontario K2K 1T5, Canada) and the appropriate hardware (a modem).
From a janitor who left behind an $ 8,000,000 fortune to a reclusive computer programmer who amassed $ 18,000,000; a lawyer who quietly built a stock portfolio worth $ 188,000,000 to a retired IRS agent who turned her $ 5,000 savings into a portfolio valued in the tens of millions of dollars from her apartment in New York, ordinary Americans have been using the stealth wealth strategy to grow rich for a long time.»
In my article, Revitalizing SEC Rule 14a - 8's Ordinary Business Exemption: Preventing Shareholder Micromanagement by Proposal (March 29, 2016), available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=2750153, I argued that shareholder use of the proposal rule should be substantially restricted:
With this strategy, generally, excess capital losses can be used as loss carryforwards to offset capital gains and portions of ordinary income in future tax years.
In that document I had laid out the concept of playing games using an ordinary TV set and proposed a lot of game ideas, thus making that document the closest thing to the Magna Carta of the home video - game industry.
They've been modified in such a way that they never, ever break down, are light and maneuverable enough to use on ordinary streets, and use no more fuel than a subcompact car.
Well now we have the $ 24,000 tax free and then the next $ 77,000 at 12 %, so yeah, there's some wiggle room you can still use, but technically speaking if we had just one average tax rate for ordinary income and one average tax rate for capital gains, you would have to do some re-weighting in your accounts there.
Since then, divestment has become a grassroots movement to urge ordinary consumers to invest their retirement savings in ethical ways, and even to use them as vehicles for political change, such as with the divestment movement targeting fossil fuels.
Get Bitcoin Debit Card Bitcoin Debit Card SpectroCoin offers prepaid Bitcoin cards, which can be used at any ATM around the globe and in shops as an ordinary payment card.
A block model with sub-cells was constructed in order to perform the resource estimation using ordinary kriging.
god (s): Hebrew word # 430 «elohiym (el - o - heem»); plural of OT: 433; gods in the ordinary sense; but specifically used (in the plural thus, especially with the article) of the supreme God; occasionally applied by way of deference to magistrates; and sometimes as a superlative: [usages of the word in the] KJV — angels, exceeding, God (gods)- dess, - ly), (very) great, judges, mighty.
No money involved there, but how can we dissuade people from learning it, I got it... throw in some Christian faith, high - jack it from ordinary people and use said faith to attack said theory even though it really doesn't matter — but hey, its a wedge issue and might get said right - wing politician into power by exploiting peoples faith.
Although the machines involved are extraordinarily dangerous, the moral principle governing their use is perfectly ordinary: It is the familiar one that human beings should engage in an activity that poses dangers to others only if, in the totality of the circumstances, doing so is reasonable» i.e., if the good to be achieved, taking account of the probability of success, is proportionate to the possible ill effects.
I do not use it as much as the Times does, and I think it should not be used in a way that precludes the conversation and persuasion that should be, but is not, the ordinary mode of public discourse.
In true Christina Dean style, this is no ordinary fashion brand: all its garments are made using upcycled clothing and textile waste.
Let us take belief in its widest sense, as when we use the words «I believe» in ordinary conversation.
It seems to me that these latter novels are all illuminated by discussing them in terms very similar to the ones we used to discuss parables: they evoke the graciousness of the transcendent by means of a distortion of the familiar, for the purpose of providing a new and extraordinary context for ordinary experience.
In ordinary usage these concepts are remarkably vague, but as applied to the book's proposal they are to be used only by the analysis given here.
One does not grow conceptually in the ways needed to discern and respond to God simply by acquiring abilities and capacities related to «grace,» «wrath,» and «glory,» and the like, as they are generally used in ordinary language in one's society or as they may be generally used in the various world religions.
Surveying the swathes of songs regularly used in churches, you would think that ordinary daily life means nothing.
Thus perhaps we should conclude that Whitehead uses «perception» in an extended sense, like many other terms he appropriates from ordinary language, such that one need not be conscious to have perceptions in the mode of CE.
In my own journey, I have been led from supernatural theism to seeing God as the encompassing Spirit, from seeing God as another being out there, to seeing God, or the Sacred, or the Spirit (terms which I use synonymously and interchangeably) as a nonmaterial layer or level of reality all around us, more real than the world of our ordinary, visible experience.
The difficulty is a typical example of how easy it is to use words that have good meanings in ordinary discourse in such a way that neither the ordinary, nor any extraordinary, meaning remains.
«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 senseIn 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 sensein the ordinary sense).
It is acceptable in ordinary speech to simplify complexities and use a language that is least encumbered by intricacies.
The editorial columns of ordinary newspapers in the United States are now using the word triage relative to the food situation.
(1) In one sense, «knowledge of God» and «ordinary knowledge» (including theological knowledge — I use these clumsy concepts here mainly to distinguish them and so to argue their relatedness) are related because they set each other off; they help define one another by spelling out what each is not.
Scientific language («The temperature was -5 degrees Fahrenheit») seeks language that has a certain kind of precision lacking in our ordinary speech — a precision that we can quantify and test, that can be used to settle disputes about how cold it actually is.
Further, the language used in these descriptions seems to be dependent on language used to directly describe ordinary things.
Nonetheless a continuing and increasingly important task of ordinary teachers and parents will be to develop in young people the trained perception and critical judgment that will enable them to use published materials profitably and responsibly.
Like Matthew, Luke says «lost its taste» instead of Mark's «lost its saltness,» suggesting that the ordinary use of salt for seasoning is in mind; but instead of Matthew's «It is no longer good for anything except to be thrown out and trodden under foot» Luke has «It is fit neither for the land nor for the dunghill; men throw it away.»
One may need to look up words not used in ordinary conversation to understand what Berger means when he writes: «the problem of theodicy was solved in terms of eschatology» or «one should not confuse epistemology (i.e., knowledge) with historical gratitude.»
The student of mathematics is taught to be precise in his use of terms and rigorous in his arguments, avoiding the vagueness and ambiguity that play so large a part in ordinary speech, and shunning the intuitive leaps and tacit assumptions that figure so prominently in everyday reasoning.
«Polemics,» as I use it here, does not denote or connote simple hostility, or opposition for its own sake — even though the term has come to mean something like this in ordinary English usage.
It is an old ecclesiastical word, of course, used commonly by the Roman and Orthodox churches, but new in the ordinary nomenclature of Protestantism.
What separates this new meaning of testimony from all its uses in ordinary language is that the testimony does not belong to the witness.
We shall see enough of the religious melancholy in a future lecture; but melancholy, according to our ordinary use of language, forfeits all title to be called religious when, in Marcus Aurelius's racy words, the sufferer simply lies kicking and screaming after the fashion of a sacrificed pig.
I would agree that it is in ordinary secular use — e.g. of the soldier's death on the field of battle — but in the case of Christ it means something entirely different.
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