Sentences with phrase «ordinary sense of the word»

The grammatical and ordinary sense of the words used in s. 233 of the Criminal Code supports the conclusion the legislator did not intend to restrict the availability of infanticide to situations where the psychological health of the woman was substantially compromised or where a mental disorder was established.

Here I have to propound a paradox (in the ordinary sense of the word).

Where everyone is an actor, there is no audience in the ordinary sense of the word.

So Whitehead's reply to Berkeley is, in effect, that matter really does matter in the ordinary sense of the word, since whatever acquires material existence is always capable of influencing by means of signs the becomings of subsequent «things.»

I don't even know for sure that dark matter particles are particles in the ordinary sense of the word.

Nor are they public authorities in the ordinary sense of the word.

This question was decided, not with reference to the 2003 case of Durant v Financial Services Authority as had been anticipated, but by looking at whether the information requested simply related to the children in question in the ordinary sense of the word.

28 The ordinary sense of the word «reside» connotes more than simply having a base address.

It is important to stress that PAS is not always «intentional» in the ordinary sense of that word.