Sentences with phrase «ordinary use of language»

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.

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The Tel Aviv - based startup creates software that uses artificial intelligence to study contracts, flagging any language or stipulations that seem out of the ordinary.

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.

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.

Jesus used the ordinary, acceptable language of his day to refer to lesbian love - making.

What separates this new meaning of testimony from all its uses in ordinary language is that the testimony does not belong to the witness.

He suggests that we look at some uses of language which take us beyond ordinary language.

An Emergent definition of relevance, modulated by resistance, might run something like this; relevance means listening before speaking; relevance means interpreting the culture to itself by noting the ways in which certain cultural productions gesture toward a transcendent grace and beauty; relevance means being ready to give an account for the hope that we have and being in places where someone might actually ask; relevance means believing that we might learn something from those who are most unlike us; relevance means not so much translating the churches language to the culture as translating the culture's language back to the church; relevance means making theological sense of the depth that people discover in the oddest places of ordinary living and then using that experience to draw them to the source of that depth (Augustine seems to imply such a move in his reflections on beauty and transience in his Confessions).

We are not all brains of Britain but ordinary people, and we are entitled to our say (when not using filthy language, which he did not)!

Either he is economically illiterate (possible, but unlikely) or he is adding to the Coalition Government's woes by using confusing language which makes it even harder for ordinary voters either to understand the scale of the problem, or the likely sacrifices to come in order to tackle it.

We think that Miller's «ordinary military equipment» language must be read in tandem with what comes after:» [O] rdinarily when called for [militia] service [able - bodied] men were expected to appear bearing arms supplied by themselves and of the kind in common use at the time.»

Even trademarked words if used in the ordinary normal English language use of said word, gives the suing person not a leg to stand on cocked up or otherwise.

But in a larger sense, Ms. Murphy was also teaching about the differences in language, and the importance of paying attention to words that are being used even in the most ordinary circumstances.

In other words, it seems that if my home is my main work location in the ordinary - language sense (i.e., I have no other office), but there is no part of it exclusively designated for business use, then not only can I not deduct business use of the home, I also can not deduct travel from there to a workplace.

Ordinary Things is a consideration of the ways in which Lucas uses the sculptural languages of the figure and the cast.

The works presented at Craig Krull are a conceptual extension of her previous paintings which explored the ways in which codes, used for converting information from one form into another, are particularly useful where ordinary language is difficult.

Calling this post normal is just evidence of an inability to think clearly, or use ordinary language in a meaningful way.

Mother and son team of Pamela and Xenone Gray and developers of the superexpert system shell eGanges pointed out that big data analysis uses ordinary language deconstructed algorithms, not legal language and interpretation deconstructed algorithms.

The principles barriers to the intelligibility of a particular law are, in my view, are excessively involuted sentence structure, the use of language other than in its plain or ordinary sense, and recursive drafting techniques that require the reader to interpret one section by reference to another.

In Kazakewich v. Kazakewich, [1936] A.J. No. 10 (C.A.), the Alberta Court of Appeal summed up the ratios in Lambe, Severn and Edwards in this way at paragraph 86: I take it then that in approaching the interpretation of the pertinent sections of The B.N.A. Act with respect to the administration of justice, a Court should keep in mind that these sections are embodied in an Imperial statute to which the ordinary rules for the interpretation of statutes apply, that therefore the intention of the framers of this Imperial statute must be ascertained as at the date of the enactment by having regard to the words employed without extraneous aids to interpretation where the language is unambiguous, and that having regard however to the nature of the statute, a great constitutional charter, the widest and most liberal construction of the words used should be adopted with a view to giving effect to the whole scheme of Canadian union [Emphasis Added].

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; the statutory language also shows there is no requirement for a causal connection between the disturbance of the accused's mind and the act or omission causing the child's death; but there is, however, a required link between the disturbance and not having fully recovered from the effects of giving birth to the child or of the effect of lactation consequent on the child's birth ̶ in either case the disturbance must be «by reason thereof».

The three Supreme Court judges in the minority argued that «nobody using ordinary language would describe people living happily in a domestic setting as being deprived of their liberty».