Sentences with phrase «ordinary meaning of a phrase»

So in a relevant context, the ordinary meaning of a phrase would be the legal meaning?

In one early Charter decision, Re B.C. Motor Vehicles Act, 28 a unanimous Supreme Court used the living tree doctrine to expand the ordinary meaning of the phrase «principles of fundamental justice.»

Not exact matches

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.

Yet it remains a misleading phrase to those who, lacking a technically precise knowledge of Whitehead's vocabulary, understand the term «mental pole» by analogy to the ordinary meaning of «mental.»

Read in isolation, Miller's phrase «part of ordinary military equipment» could mean that only those weapons useful in warfare are protected.

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).

«King excels in his disturbing portrait of Brady, a genuine monster in ordinary human form who gives new meaning to the phrase «the banality of evil.»

In his view, since both tests are set using ordinary English words that can have a range of meaning depending on their context, they can «be said to be «chameleon» phrases or words».

The original meaning should also be construed in broad enough terms to accommodate new phenomena that accord with the ordinary meaning of the text (for example, interpreting the phrase «freedom of the press and other media of communication» in section 2 (b) of the Charter to include internet publications, which did not exist at the time of the enactment).

In interpreting, for example, fair and equitable treatment provisions, an interpretation of the ordinary meaning may replace the terms «fair and equitable» with similarly vague and empty phrases such as «just,» «even - handed,» «unbiased,» or «legitimate,» but does not succeed in clarifying the standard's normative content, nor does it indicate what is required of States in specific circumstances.

In this context, the phrase refers to knowledge or reckless lack of investigation, rather than its ordinary meaning of malicious intent.