Sentences with phrase «ordinary meaning»

For example, the common or ordinary meaning of the word «comprehensive» is including all or nearly all elements or aspects of something.

We are just an average family with ordinary means setting out to have an extraordinary life one trip at a time.

OverDrive has supported Kindle devices for several years now, but only through ordinary means, not by using Amazon's kid - centric Kindle FreeTime app that lets parents setup and control how long kids can use certain features on Kindle Fire tablets.

Given ordinary meaning and the conventions of English, we hold that a person does not «use» a firearm under § 924 (c)(1)(A) when he receives it in trade for drugs.

It might have been a public holiday in Australia, but it was just an ordinary day at the office for the stars... if ordinary means wearing couture and strutting the red carpet... Another awards night — aren't the celebs getting tired?

The Giants used more ordinary means to obtain Jim Deshaies (11 - 13 and loser of six straight) in a trade last Saturday with the Minnesota Twins.

Ordinary Meaning vs. Legal Meaning....

Those who support the use of corpus linguistics in legal interpretation do regard ordinary meaning as an empirical question — or at least as involving empirical questions.

«The use of bitcoin is equal to the use of ordinary means of payment if they serve no other purpose than the method of payment.

They are ordinary terms with ordinary meaning being bastardised by deluded people who believe they can fine the government and refuse to be bound by the law of the land.

People tend to rely primarily on e-mail and text messaging because these communications are precise and less intrusive, while a phone call now signals that a matter can't be solved by ordinary means.

OverDrive has supported Kindle devices for several years now, but only through ordinary means, not by using Amazon's kid - centric Kindle FreeTime app that lets -LSB-...]

«To raise money successfully,» said the senator, «a political party must appeal to Canadians of ordinary means... The Conservative party's fundraising success is built not on the depth of our donors» pockets but on the breadth of our donor base and that is what the other parties do not understand and why they are lagging behind.»

Words had to change their ordinary meaning and to take that which was now given them.

But when a legal contract calls itself marriage and sanctions same - sex marriage, then it's not marriage, at least not in the ordinary meaning of the word, and certainly not in the Christian meaning.

The statement says that the book is incompatible with Catholic doctrine on three crucial scores: Jesus Christ as the unique and universal Savior of all; the salvific character of non-Christian religions; and the Church as the ordinary means of salvation.

Not that ordinary means universal: some of us are struggling with family relationships, with health, or with finding jobs.

Group sessions during these weeks are structured by John Wesley's «Six Ordinary Means of Grace.»

Does your prayer accomplish anything demonstrable by ordinary means?

The preaching of the Word, sacraments, and prayer are the three ordinary means of grace, as Presbyterians call them.

And when Evangelical leaders regard an emphasis on the ordinary means of grace as jeopardizing the Christian faith while going easy on, for example, serious deviations from Nicene teaching on the Trinity, they have traveled a long way from the concerns of the Reformers.

Confession remains the ordinary means of reconciliation for those conscious of serious sin.

Again, we explain this wonderful dispensation, and where anointing is not appropriate we offer the ordinary means of grace, e.g. Confession, the Eucharist, prayer and a blessing.

(They also tend to reject abortion as an ordinary means of birth control.)

One use of the word «criticism» is its ordinary meaning — fault - finding, picking flaws, and harsh judgment with which is often joined the barbs of ridicule.

Some went further, saying that the Church is not only not the ordinary means of salvation; it is an extraordinary means for people who happen, for one reason or another, to be Catholic.

Causation is experienced, Whitehead insists against Hume, but is not a sensum or perceptum in any ordinary meaning of the terms.

If someone claims the theory of evolution is false because it contradicts their understanding of what the Bible says, that is not a scientific argument in the ordinary meaning of science.

I've found that most people — including many law professors — have a great deal of difficulty wrapping their minds around the idea that the Court would permit the intentional destruction of a healthy infant who was capable of living outside his or her mother's body, when the mother's health (in the ordinary meaning of that word) is not in serious danger.

(In that respect it is far closer to the Christian virtue of hope than to the ordinary meaning of the term «hope.»)

All the traits of the ordinary meaning are resumed, assumed, and transmuted by contact with this confessional «kernel.»

The Church continues to insist that explicit faith, reception of the sacraments, and obedience to the Church are the ordinary means to salvation.

God has ordained that the ordinary means of grace (Bible reading, prayer, fellowship, sacraments, preaching) be done in the context of a local church.

A month later, Archbishop Justin Rigali issued a statement reiterating the Church's position on such matters, citing several Church sources including Pope John Paul II's 1998 statement calling medically assisted food and water «an ordinary means of preserving life.»

'' in many analyses of variance studies (where «due to,» «explained by,» «account for» don't have ordinary meanings).

Exposing stats illusions Shalizi warns «causal - sounding phrases... encourage confusion» in many analyses of variance studies (where «due to,» «explained by,» «account for» don't have ordinary meanings).