Sentences with phrase «ordinary meaning of the term»

He is, rather, a very complex structured society which sustains, among many other societies, a regnant, personally ordered, subordinate society (an enduring object) which Whitehead refers to as «the soul of which Plato spoke» (Adventures of Ideas 267 — see also pp. 263 - 264 for a clear statement of the distinction between «the ordinary meaning of the term «man,» which includes the total bodily man, and the narrow sense of «man,» where «man» is considered a person in Whitehead's technical sense, i.e., as the regnant, personally ordered society which he identifies as his equivalent of Descartes» thinking substance and Plato's soul).

The court looked at the the ordinary meaning of the term radio communications, and indicated that the electromagnetic spectrum includes not only WiFi transmissions, but television broadcasts, Bluetooth, cell phones, and many other devices.

From a practical perspective, the result was not surprising; a license is not real estate under the ordinary meaning of the term.

Not exact matches

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.

Because of God's transcendence it would be mythological to refer to God's action in terms appropriate only to objects available, in principle at least, to ordinary sense perception.13 This especially means that one can not speak of God in terms of the categories of time and space; 14 i.e., whatever is predicated of God can not apply only to some particular time and space, but must apply equally to all times and spaces.15 Thus the implication of Ogden's criterion for non-mythological language about God corresponds to his statement of several years ago, that «there is not the slightest evidence that God has acted in Christ in any way different from the way in which he primordially acts in every other event.

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 term «God» at least means that reality or dimension of reality which can not simply be equated with ordinary experience, but which yet discloses itself concretely in ordinary experience as the source of its reality and value.

Consequently, many of us spent the next decade working through an answer to the question of the meaning of religious language in terms of ordinary experience, in terms of a «revision» or «re-presentation» of the Christian tradition «intelligible to modern minds,» and worked on formulating an appropriate and strong political theology.

By means of this distinction, one can argue that, although the primary sense of a term with respect to how it means is the sense it has as applied to a creature, or ordinary individual, the primary sense of the term with respect to what is meant by it is the sense it has as applied to the Creator, or eminent individual.

If God does actually love such men as we are, the meaning of that love lies far beyond the power of ordinary terms to convey, and the Christian story, which does succeed in conveying that meaning, is therefore in the truest possible sense true.

The term «conscious superject» can be taken to refer to the physiological correlate of a moment of ordinary human experience, although this does not exhaust its technical meaning.

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.»

a: in a way that uses the ordinary or primary meaning of a term or expression He took the remark literally.

One of the key reasons Hudson believes the time is ripe for a reusable rocket is the availability of extremely light, extremely rigid materials loosely termed composites, which means combinations of different materials, in this case not ordinary forms of foam and plastic.

Thus, their total deductions will be $ 3,950 x 2 + $ 12,400 = $ 20,300, which means their ordinary income will be $ 50,000 — $ 20,300 = $ 29,700 and their $ 50,000 of long - term capital gains go on top.

@DaleM: I have always understood the term as used in the context of U.S. state and federal constitutions to mean something that is above ordinary legislation.

«The term «pro bono» refers to activities of the firm undertaken normally without expectation of fee and not in the course of ordinary commercial practice and consisting of (i) the delivery of legal services to persons of limited means or to charitable, religious, civic, community, governmental, and educational organizations in matters which are designed primarily to address the needs of persons of limited means; (ii) the provision of legal assistance to individuals, groups, or organizations seeking to secure or protect civil rights, civil liberties, or public rights; and (iii) the provision of legal assistance to charitable, religious, civic, community, governmental, or educational organizations in matters in furtherance of their organizational purposes, where the payment of standard legal fees would significantly deplete the organization's economic resources or would be otherwise inappropriate.»

So words are interpreted as having their ordinary meaning, unless there is a special stipulation as to the meaning of a term in the contract.

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).

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.

The 1947 Convention had to be interpreted in accordance with the principles codified in Arts 31 — 33 of the Vienna Convention on the Law of Treaties 1969, which required that a treaty be interpreted in good faith, in accordance with the ordinary meaning to be given to the terms of the treaty in their context and in the light of the treaty's object and purpose.

[the Committee thus recommends to the US to:] Interpret the Covenant in good faith, in accordance with the ordinary meaning to be given to its terms in their context, including subsequent practice, and in the light of its object and purpose and review its legal position so as to acknowledge the extraterritorial application of the Covenant under certain circumstances, as outlined inter alia in the Committee's general comment No. 31 (2004) on the nature of the general legal obligation imposed on States parties to the Covenant;

At the same time, thinking about ethics only in terms of ordinary morality, of the general idea of what it means to be a good person, is also insufficient.

Specifically, the term «investment» carries inherent, well - established features as part of its ordinary meaning, and the tribunal must consider these inherent features in addition to the open - ended definition and examples listed in the Treaty.

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.

With all the apparent confusion over the correct claim construction at this point, you could almost forgive Samsung's expert for using an ultimately incorrect claim construction of the» 647 patent's claims in his expert report (he followed the one Judge Koh made giving claim terms their plain and ordinary meaning, but he could have given alternate opinions based on the divergent constructions of Judge Posner).

In light of this consensus as to the term's ordinary meaning, the Court concludes that «funds,» for the purposes of § 1960, means pecuniary resources, which are generally accepted as a medium of exchange or a means of payment.

Contracts mean what they say they do, what you are thinking of as «basic contract law» is actual just an ordinary and customary term that people in your industry usually make a part of the contract, not contract law itself.

The term «replacement cost» is not defined under the definitions of standard commercial property and homeowners insurance policies.1 Words not defined within the policy are interpreted by their ordinary, plain and usual meaning.

The Supreme Court did not define what «egregious fault» means other than to say it is something more than ordinary fault, defining it loosely as a term of art that requires not simply more, or even more public acts of marital indiscretion, but acts that by their very nature, are different in kind than ordinary fault that breaks up a marriage.

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