Sentences with phrase «use ordinary words»

My English is not very well, so I can only use ordinary words to describe my trustfully thankful feeling....

Even the reader, who knows that Jesus has been using ordinary words to refer to extraordinary things, is inclined to agree: «Whoever eats me will live because of me.»

Not exact matches

The headset already can be used to control most ordinary functions in common software, such as word processing and spreadsheet programs, by taking the place of a mouse — the cursor simply follows your gaze, and you can think your way into triggering the equivalent of a left or right mouse click.

god (s): Hebrew word # 430 «elohiym (el - o - heem»); plural of OT: 433; gods in the ordinary sense; but specifically used (in the plural thus, especially with the article) of the supreme God; occasionally applied by way of deference to magistrates; and sometimes as a superlative: [usages of the word in the] KJV — angels, exceeding, God (gods)- dess, - ly), (very) great, judges, mighty.

Let us take belief in its widest sense, as when we use the words «I believe» in ordinary conversation.

The claim of my nonpacifist colleagues that the system they are using is more socially responsible, more understandable to ordinary people, more culturally accessible to people of other value communities, more able to manage with discrimination the factual data of political decisions, than is my testimony to Jesus» words and work, still has the burden of proof.

The difficulty is a typical example of how easy it is to use words that have good meanings in ordinary discourse in such a way that neither the ordinary, nor any extraordinary, meaning remains.

The editorial columns of ordinary newspapers in the United States are now using the word triage relative to the food situation.

The word which the apostolic community used and offered to us is the word «resurrection,» hardly a term derived from or consonant with our usual conceptuality or our ordinary human experience, however rich and varied.

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.»

When Bishop Trautman of Erie complained about unfamiliar words being used, bloggers jokingly vied with eachother to include the words «ineffable», «wrought» and «gibbet» into ordinary posts.

It is an old ecclesiastical word, of course, used commonly by the Roman and Orthodox churches, but new in the ordinary nomenclature of Protestantism.

3) Neither the quasi-empirical meaning nor the quasi-juridical sense exhausts the ordinary use of the word testimony.

Another error was to used the word «crusade» something that to any ordinary Muslim brings back thoughts of the crusades and «conversion by the sword».

But the Gospel does not use the ordinary Greek word for adultery, moicheia, but rather it uses this porneia.

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.

When the preacher comes really to believe in the incarnation, that God comes to us in the ordinary, that God's word comes in the usual patterns of the vernacular, he will trust that God can use the local idiom.

I am using the word «person» in its ordinary sense to designate an individual possessed of self - consciousness and will [whatever be the essential nature of personality].

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.

It always seems so odd to bend over and twist so much to keep loaded words when we have ordinary words that everyone can use like «Let's All Pull Together!»

I don't know about your country, but in mine, that particular word — «socialism» — was transformed long ago into just an ordinary truncheon used by certain cynical, parvenu bureaucrats to bludgeon their liberal - minded fellow citizens from morning until night, labeling them «enemies of socialism» and «antisocialist forces.

It uses «ordinary» materials such as fire, bread, wine, clothing, and books and proscribed words and gestures as its elements.

Of course, the word «information,» as it is used in ordinary speech, often has some implication that the information will be useful as a guide to action.

Process thought uses its key words not unfamiliar in ordinary speech - words such as «event,» «process, organism,» «sentience» and «internal relations.»

Faith is here taken first in the direct and ordinary sense [belief], as the relationship of the mind to the historical; but secondly also in the eminent sense, the sense in which the word can be used only once, i.e., many times, but only in one relationship.

«Liberty» is as close as we get to an ethical norm, and that term is deeply ambiguous, depending on whether it is, in John Winthrop's words, freedom to do the just and the good (Christian freedom) or freedom to do what you list (the freedom of natural man).10 While American civil religion remained extremely vague with respect to particular values and virtues, the public theology that fleshed it out and made it convincing to ordinary people used it with more explicitly Christian, particularly Protestant, values.

Key words used religiously, if the meaning is not immediately clear in our modern culture, can be placed in their ordinary secular setting in order to clarify the meaning.

Firstly, he has to come up with an initiative which will be seen as fair to the ordinary person trying to get on in life or the «striver» (a word that I object to — when was the last time you heard someone in the pub use it?).

Marketers use these buzz words for a reason — research has shown that putting an organic label on ordinary foods can trick shoppers into paying up to 23 per cent more for them by believing they are healthier and taste better.

I am using the word ordinary as a term to mean usual, not plain.

Stylish and sleek might not be words you're used to being associated with a minivan, but we assure you that the Pacifica is no ordinary family vehicle.

You also know this is no ordinary BMW M4 thanks to the extensive use of Alcantara inside the cockpit but exterior add - ons like the carbon fiber front splitter, rear diffuser and boot lid lip also have a word to say on the M4 CS» aura.

Using the generic fonts that come with Microsoft Word can make your book look ordinary.

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.

As with many ancient working breeds, there is little direct evidence in word or picture to prove how the Corgi came to be; unlike the pets of aristocrats, working dogs were largely undocumented and tended to be lumped together as «curs» — not a derogatory term in those times, but simply used to distinguish ordinary canines from dogs of high breeding.

The artist — a Chicago native who today divides his time between New York City and Marfa, Texas — is perhaps best known for his paintings of large stenciled letters, which he uses to form words or phrases, often abbreviated or arranged in run - on configurations that disrupt ordinary patterns of perception and speech.

Partially because of his use of such ordinary items, Rauschenberg has become known as an artist who, in his own words, «works in the gap between art and life.»

The ordinary and therefore authoritative use of the word «content» is in contrast to «form.»

The other uses words in the ordinary way; The other makes true statements; The other makes valid arguments; The other says something interesting.

And, of course, it would be too cumbersome to replace ordinary dictionaries, unless it were used as a plug in for e-mail clients or word processors, like a spell checker.

If I had thought that was equivalent to «if I used a sim that wasn't tested,» then I would've gently criticized Jaye for using obfuscatory jargon «V&V» when English has a perfectly good ordinary word «test» that means precisely the same thing.

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».

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].

«It has long been settled that the interpretation of a document is a matter of law for the court, save in those cases where there is some ground for thinking that the words were used by the writer — and understood by the reader — in a special sense different from their ordinary meaning.»

Justice Goss also mentioned the Supreme Court of Canada decision in Sattva Capital Corp v Creston Moly Corp, 2014 SCC 53 (CanLII) for the proposition that a court must read an agreement «as a whole, giving the words used their ordinary and grammatical meaning, consistent with the surrounding circumstances known to the parties at the time of formation of the contract» (at para 25).

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».

Held The defendant's argument was correct and the statute should be construed on the basis of a natural and ordinary meaning of the words used, particularly given the fact that it was a penal provision.

Looking at the «grammatical and ordinary sense» of the word «modern,» the Oxford Dictionary, the go - to text for the Supreme Court of Canada (CanLii search found 147 SCC cases referencing the Oxford Dictionary as opposed to a paltry 11 cases for Merriam - Webster), the definition is «relating to the present or recent times as opposed to the remote past» or «characterized by or using the most up - to - date techniques, ideas, or equipment.»