How To Use Ad hoc In A Sentence

The Council meets on an ad hoc basis to discuss problems.
But it is no longer entirely ad hoc. Times, Sunday Times
A sword is not, however, in virtue of the meaning of the word ˜sword™, a phase of anything, and to use the term to name a phase of something in a given case, when it suits, is ad hoc. Substance
He should set up a monthly direct debit of an amount that he is happy to pay and add ad hoc single premiums. Times, Sunday Times
By the time they had shared an ad hoc hot tub together, it was clear our host had gone completely feral. Times, Sunday Times

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Problems were solved on an ad hoc basis.
Yesterday, as our correspondent's account made clear, an ad hoc motorised cavalry of scores of youth fighters on pick-up trucks charged at Ajdabiya, only to retreat in disarray when Gaddafi's tanks, which were dug in around the town, fired back. Libya: Moving targets | Editorial
[128] "Prorsus si Dei adjutorium defuerit, nihil boni agere poteris; agis quidem illo non adjuvente libera voluntate, sed male; ad hoc idonea est voluntas tua quae vocatur libera, et male agendo fit damnabilis ancilla. Pneumatologia
This is an ad hoc committee specially established to deal with a particular subject.
Having suffered grievously from biological weapons attacks in the past, China supports work that helps comprehensively to strengthen the effectiveness of the convention. It has actively participated in the work of drawing up a Protocol of the Ad Hoc Group of States Parties to the BWC established in 1994, and has made contributions to the progress of the negotiations on the Protocol.
Accedit ad hoc, quod natura in contemplatione, cerebro prorsus cordique intenta, stomachum heparque destituit, unde ex alimentis male coctis, sanguis crassus et niger efficitur, dum nimio otio membrorum superflui vapores non exhalant. Anatomy of Melancholy
These ad hoc units were locally raised and led, but funded by the federal government and under the overall command of U.S. Army generals.
But he was instead an apostle, an ad hoc theologian, a proclaimer, a charismatic who saw visions and spoke in tongues - and a religious genius.
Cum in aliorufti prin - cipum efletpoteftateres publica, diu inanemcu - piditatem, fine fpei folatiis, foui: Vnde enim mihi adipirandi ad hoc nomen eflet apentia, opum uacuo, et ignaro ambiendi? Panegyrici veteres qvos ex codice ms. librisqve collatis recensvit ae notis integris iisqve partim ad hve ineditis Christiani Gottlibii Schwarzii et excerptis aliorvm additis etiam svis instrvxit et illvstravit Wolfgangvs Iaegervs ..
Having suffered grievously from biological weapons attacks in the past, China supports work that helps comprehensively to strengthen the effectiveness of the convention. It has actively participated in the work of drawing up a Protocol of the Ad Hoc Group of States Parties to the BWC established in 1994, and has made contributions to the progress of the negotiations on the Protocol.
Professor STEVE KOZLOWSKI (Industrial and Organizational Psychology, Michigan State University): And it's really very, very difficult to generalize from the small set of tasks that were examined in these studies, using college students, ad hoc teams, very short periods of measurement. Collaboration Beats Smarts In Group Problem Solving
Of necessity they have been learning on the job, developing ad hoc methods of reading when little or no guidelines were supplied in the discipline's infancy, and extrapolating from what they have gleaned supervising their own students.
Ad hoc arbitration plays a great role in settling international trade and economic disputes with a long history.
Taking painkillers on an ad hoc basis does no harm. Times, Sunday Times
Habet haec ciuitas consuetudinem, quod quando vnus vult facere conuiuium amicis suis, ad hoc sunt hospitia deputata, et vbi ille circuit per hospites, dicens sibi tales amicos meos habebis, quos festabis nomine meo, et tantum in festo volo expendere, et per illum modum meliùs conuiuant amici in pluribus hospitijs quam facerent in vno. The Journal of Friar Odoric
An ad hoc committee has been set up to deal with the problem.
No ad hoc studies on the incidence of mesothelioma in areas of Italy characterized by the presence of tremolite in soil are available.
Having suffered grievously from biological weapons attacks in the past, China supports work that helps comprehensively to strengthen the effectiveness of the convention. It has actively participated in the work of drawing up a Protocol of the Ad Hoc Group of States Parties to the BWC established in 1994, and has made contributions to the progress of the negotiations on the Protocol.
Being able to redeploy analysts and form ad hoc teams quickly and effectively is a basic requirement for intelligence organizations today.
Groups of citizens have formed ad hoc neighbourhood watch schemes and started farms. Times, Sunday Times
The posturing calls in Congress for rollbacks in federal fuel taxes will die out, as will the ad hoc consumer protests.
* Prorsus si Dei adjutorium defuerit, nihil boni agere poteris; agis quidem illo non adjuvente libera voluntate, sed male; ad hoc idonea est voluntas tua quae vocatur libera, et male agendo fit damnabilis ancilla. Pneumatologia
Sumptus quidem non exiguus erat futurus, sed tanta erat principi cognoscendi auiditas, vt nullis pecunijs ad hoc iter necessarijs se diceret parsurum. The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation
It is a constant barrage of ad hoc requests. Times, Sunday Times
Trying to do things on a well-meaning ad hoc basis is also likely to lead to trouble, including a high risk of missing systemic problems. Times, Sunday Times
an ad hoc committee meeting
The ad hoc coalitions and local groups that have mushroomed in recent months now face the rocky prospect of connecting with or transforming themselves into groups equipped for the longer haul.
All you're doing now is offering ad hoc solutions here and there to legitimize an epenthetic vowel that I've already disproved. I tripped over Pre-IE the other day
This is an ad hoc committee specially established to deal with a particular subject.
Although the results would seem to indicate American news consumers are "grazers" that switch between news sources on an ad hoc basis, the survey seems to show that while news consumers don't often seem to have favorite sites, they only utilize a handful of news sources in their typical day-to-day activities. Digital Trends
Not just another ad hoc addition to the company of quarks, the charm quark did so many things in a simple, economical package.
Right now, the meetings are kind of ad hoc. Globe and Mail
In contrast to the Lisa approach, the Macintosh team implemented its interface issues on an ad hoc basis.
All the alternative approaches require some ad hoc steps by users of the trait, which is error prone because they might do it wrong or forget to do it all.
However, comparative infection experiments carried out ad hoc in Marburg showed no differences in susceptibility, and extensive research led finally to the explanation that the number of cattle reacting to tuberculin is, in the main, dependent upon whether any or few cattle are kept permanently in the same stalls. Emil von Behring - Nobel Lecture
The ad hoc-tech use of standard fittings and relatively simple technology makes the enterprise admirably economical, though replacing exhausted light bulbs might prove a bit tricky.
Something caught my attention in the final message of the Conference of Aparecida—please note that I am not referring to the magnificent Final Document of the Conference, but to the Final Message, a sort of draft of the Final Document written by the Ad Hoc Commission—In this Final Message, different from the later, final document, the Father ends up relegated to an implicit role in the whole opening part, the doctrinal-kerygmatic speaking of Jesus (10 times,) or Lord Jesus (1 time,) or Jesus Christ (4 times.) Liberalism: Sin, Iniquity, Abomination
But informal, ad hoc networks may then appear and disappear as the net is rearranged.
But those designs had been for ad hoc, one-of-a-kind products. No one had done the serious engineering required to design a mobile data center as a mass- producible commodity.
But this ad hoc roadside culture would not do for the motorways. Times, Sunday Times
So maybe the problem is thinking sins are relative to some arbitrary and ad hoc rulebook, rather than to our very nature and being.
What would they have said to the proposal to create a monocrat _ad hoc_, an official permanently endowed by virtue of his office with the function of king-maker? The Critical Period of American History
This is an ad hoc committee specially established to deal with a particular subject.
Usually you can pay lump sums on an ad hoc basis or set up regular overpayments. Times, Sunday Times
Germany and England, corresponded regularly with Madame Blavatsky and Olcot, wrote in spiritualist journals, and was always giving ad hoc séances. Wladyslaw Reymont - Autobiography
The Council meets on an ad hoc basis to discuss problems.
The line of descent from the first organism to the manifold life around us is astonishingly beautiful, orderly, lawful and harmonious, the more so if there are no gaps that must be bridged by ad hoc divine interventions. Stromata Blog
Custuma nostra Burgi predicti si firme nostre predicte ad dictam summam pecunie sufficere non poterunt vel de nova Custuma nostra Burgorum nostrorum de Edenburg et de Hadington Si firme nostre et Custuma nostra ville Berwici aliquo casu contingente ad hoc forte non sufficiant. The Monastery
Ad hoc guidelines developed in response to an outbreak of epidemic proportions in Great Britain have been implemented holus-bolus in response to one sick cow.
We can't deal on an ad hoc basis with every individual who expresses a point of view.
But informal, ad hoc networks may then appear and disappear as the net is rearranged.
I am late to this party, but if I am getting it right, the authors of this piece are giving a thumbs-down to the City of Portland's proposal that it alone among Oregon cities be given wide discretion as to what kind of infill housing it accepts and rejects, to be judged more or less on an ad hoc basis. An apartment bunker in your neighborhood? If it's "delightful." (Jack Bog's Blog)
We think a healthy percentage of Google Docs adoption is coming from ad hoc use. Google Docs gains traction in the office
Atque interim aues regionis rapaces, et immundæ, vt corui, vultures, et aquilæ, quæ pro consuetudine optimè morem norunt, aduolant magno numero in aere: Tuncque Relligiosi cum sacerdotibus detruncant corpus in frusta velut in macello, proijcientes pecias in altum auibus, ac decantantes certam ad hoc compositam orationem, tanquam si nostri sacerdotes cantarent. The Voyages and Travels of Sir John Mandeville
But informal, ad hoc networks may then appear and disappear as the net is rearranged.
Out of these ad hoc sessions came a bold plan to drill a hole into the earth.
When we compare the standard historicist theory (SHT) with Doherty's ahistoricist or "mythicist" theory (DMT) by the criteria of the Argument to the Best Explanation, I must admit that, at present, Doherty wins on at least four out of the six criteria (scope, power, plausibility, and ad hocness ; I think DMT is equal to SHT on the fifth criterion of disconfirmation ; neither SHT nor DMT wins on the sixth and decisive criterion). Mythicist Misunderstanding
In contrast, modern policies seem ad hoc, opportunistic and confused. Times, Sunday Times
Rather than the simple working of flint cores found in earlier phases, where flaking would proceed in an ad hoc fashion, Levallois was a technique that shaped the core to predetermine the size and form of the resulting flakes.
The meetings will be held on an ad hoc basis.
Naturally, average citizens enjoy no similar immunity from government ad hoc opinions about unclarified law, especially in crystal clear SCOTUS 5–4 pronouncements. The Volokh Conspiracy » I’ll say it if Justice Souter Won’t:
We get an ad hoc amputation in the first few minutes and an emergency trepanning about halfway through. Times, Sunday Times
Having suffered grievously from biological weapons attacks in the past, China supports work that helps comprehensively to strengthen the effectiveness of the convention. It has actively participated in the work of drawing up a Protocol of the Ad Hoc Group of States Parties to the BWC established in 1994, and has made contributions to the progress of the negotiations on the Protocol.
This means sex workers can only legally make outcalls to ad hoc places, leaving them vulnerable; even using the same hotel frequently can be illegal.
Usually you can pay lump sums on an ad hoc basis or set up regular overpayments. Times, Sunday Times
When she conducts an ad hoc job interview on Powell, she asks him ‘Do you buttle?’
Dr. Ernst Fehr of the University of Zurich and colleagues recently presented findings on the importance of punishment in maintaining cooperative behavior among humans and the willingness of people to punish those who commit crimes or violate norms, even when the chastisers take risks and gain nothing themselves while serving as ad hoc police.
Las siguientes recomendaciones especificas se basan en documentacin compilada sobre el estado actual de este arte y en la propia evaluacin del panel ad hoc de selectas aplicaciones del ferrocemento, tanto marinas como terrestres, que mas adelante se detallan en este informe. Chapter 13
He should set up a monthly direct debit of an amount that he is happy to pay and add ad hoc single premiums. Times, Sunday Times
The preexistence of mobile Ad Hoc network is packet radio network.
The software is based on some simple devices and a lot of ad hoc patches to cope with particular recurrent problems. The Chomsky Update - Linguistics and Politics
An ad hoc coalition will work in this instance. Times, Sunday Times
Out of these ad hoc sessions came a bold plan to drill a hole into the earth.
Earlier this month the assurer was voted Scotland's best company to work for, with an annual budget of £5 a head for ad hoc gifts.
Rather than respond to Vikings with ad hoc levies of his local noblemen which were disbanded when the crisis had passed, the West Saxons would now always have a force in the field.
At present, we are still using the traditional way: ad hoc volume of water equipment, water gauge, velocity meter etc.
At times it must be bridged on an ad hoc basis, as when the party occulted its advocacy of gun control laws. Stromata Blog:
Thus, from an ad hoc analysis of the mtDNA of mammalian representatives, we cannot gain conclusive evidence for a sister group relationship of dermopterans and primates.
He is part of an ad hoc committee struck by city hall to develop regulations governing raves and all-night dance parties.
The Council meets on an ad hoc basis to discuss problems.
Points of policy are decided ad hoc.
In contrast to the Lisa approach, the Macintosh team implemented its interface issues on an ad hoc basis.
What appealed to them in Copernicus™ model was its ability to do away with ad hoc devices in Ptolemy's system (such as the equant), to explain key phenomena in a pleasing fashion (the observed retrograde motion of the planets), and to explain away otherwise inexplicable coincidences in Ptolemy's system (such as the alignment of the Sun and the centres of the epicycles of the inferior planets). Thomas Kuhn
As in Ad hoc network, route is an important part in wireless Mesh network.
Several times, he resorts to ad hoc and speculative etymologies to bolster his detailed points. The Times Literary Supplement
Ad hocery and incrementalism will not stem decline. Globe and Mail
Scindunt enim minutatim in scutella cum sale et aqua, aliam enim salsam non faciunt, et tunc cum puncto cultelli vel furcinula, quas proprias faciunt ad hoc, cum qua solemus comedere pira et poma cocta in vino, porrigunt cuilibet circumstantium buccellam vnam vel duas, secundum multitudinem comedentium. The iournal of frier William de Rubruquis a French man of the order of the minorite friers, vnto the East parts of the worlde. An. Dom. 1253.
Ad hoc [142] collegam suum Antonium pactione provinciae [143] perpulerat, ne contra rem publicam sentiret; circum se praesidia amicorum atque clientium occulte habebat. C. Sallusti Crispi De Bello Catilinario Et Jugurthino
They can do so by ad hoc international agreements, involving two or more parties.
Inasmuch as rock music of the period was powerful, revolutionary, urgently appealing to the conscience-stricken generation of 1968, and of lasting significance therefore in the cultural life of the nation, and indeed the globe, I was struck by how far the creators of these mostly cheap, vertically-oriented small-scale ad hoc posters and handbills were content to borrow every conceivable form of artistic idea from other people. Psychedelic Denver
The development of our terrestrial civilization has always been very ad hoc and kind of blundering forward. Why Space? Why Now? - NASA Watch
Most ‘policy directions’ seem to be from-the-hip, ad hoc pronouncements from the handful of semi-pro party leaders who have some particular axe to grind.
Having suffered grievously from biological weapons attacks in the past, China supports work that helps comprehensively to strengthen the effectiveness of the convention. It has actively participated in the work of drawing up a Protocol of the Ad Hoc Group of States Parties to the BWC established in 1994, and has made contributions to the progress of the negotiations on the Protocol.
It received the report of an ad hoc inter-agency task force on tobacco control, which consisted of 19 international organisations.
Gradually, the truth emerges: we are watching a bit of ad hoc therapy. Times, Sunday Times
Equipped to float with impermeable canvas skirts, these tanks were to propel themselves to the beach with an ad hoc propellor and then resume normal operation.
Dr Fundanga said all that was needed was a comprehensive framework for enforcement rather than on an ad hoc basis because this would end up punishing some members unfairly.
THE House of Representatives 'Ad Hoc Committee reviewing activities in the Oil and Gas sectors from 1999 - 2008 has indicted former President Olusegun Obasanjo, while recommending stiff penalties against ministry officials responsible for what it described as racketeering in oil blocks' awards during the period under review. AllAfrica News: Latest
This is an ad hoc committee specially established to deal with a particular subject.
So in the absence of a planned design, attempts to democratize the international system have been ad hoc, as citizen organizations and economic elites create their own mechanisms of influence.
they were appointed ad hoc
So I was dismayed by the comments made by the conservative councillor chairing the meeting, who said this would be the last one and they would be replaced by ad hoc meetings when councillors feel they have something to tell us.
The coffee can inverse planter is less ad hoc that it might seem -- I cut out the base hole and glued in plastic sheeting a while ago, so today's work consisted of inserting cup hooks (there are nuts threaded on the inside to stop them pulling free), screwing in the anchor (I drilled a hole a few days back), and roping it up. From Twitter 07-18-2009
What this paradox reveals is that Hegel's position on women is neither a product of contingency nor an effect of ad hoc prejudice.
OSHA is authorized to appoint ad hoc advisory committees in developing specific workplace regulations.
On the other hand, if the ad hoc network doesn't come with clever enough encryption, even Google's demonstrated how easy it is to "overhear" a seemingly private Wi-Fi network at long range. Fast Company
Note 14: Moneta, 4.1.4: Ad hoc dico quod in illis verbis Qui crediderit &c. intelligitur de illo, qui potest credere praedicationi quam audit: & quod ita sit patet per hoc quod praecedit v. 15. A Tender Age: Cultural Anxieties over the Child in the Twelfth and Thirteenth Centuries
But their attempts to improve on these conventional metrics are ad hoc.
Bailey, a member of the ad hoc "PhonyBusters" team, said one of the problems in prosecution is that there are so many swindles. Tim Webster
Problems were solved on an ad hoc basis.
I also will try to contribute an article now and then myself, on an ad hoc basis.
Being the managing partner means that all the unsolved and ad hoc problems land on my desk.
G & L Bonfante were no doubt aware of the grave problem when they abandoned the expected value of *'honeys' based on their very own grammatical sketch for the ad hoc ammendment 'full of inebriating drink'. Archive 2010-03-01
This immediately smells like false parsing to me since one could equally come up with other ad hoc 'toponymic formants' like *-asia and find examples like Ocrasia and Planasia to serve as 'evidence' with far too much ease to suit my skeptical nature. The origin of Perugia
A cross-layer neighborhood reservation mechanism with in-band signaling system(called NR-INSIGNIA) for Ad Hoc networks was proposed, considering the impact of channel contention at MAC layer.
Though slightly ad hoc, the bunting is at least cheerful, and appears to be strung between ground-floor window-frames. Archive 2009-03-01
After dabbling in an ad hoc errand service, she spent $ 200 in 1989 to start her cleaning business.
Young girls and boys (the pupils) were being interviewed in a police station with ad hoc interpreters.
A contract of marriage may be made through agents acting ad hoc on behalf of the bride and bridegroom themselves, or of their guardians.
Anyone who's ever played road hockey has encountered the kid who bellyaches about not getting the ball enough and threatens to depart with his net if things don't go his way.
He advocated the immediate establishment of an ad hoc reform committee.
Twedam ad terminos Pentecostis et Sancti Martini in hyeme pro equali portione vel de nova Custuma nostra Burgi predicti si firme nostre predicte ad dictam summam pecunie sufficere non poterunt vel de nova Custuma nostra Burgorum nostrorum de Edenburg et de Hadington Si firme nostre et Custuma nostra ville Berwici aliquo casu contingente ad hoc forte non sufficiant. The Monastery
The suburb is more of an ad hoc social development, a forerunner of the gated community, built around the principle of exclusion.
The meetings will be held on an ad hoc basis.
Calling him a "Foreigner or AyyRab Lover," they are screeching out domino and post ad hoc conclusions hoping that he will put on a thobe, tagiyah, ghutra, and agal (Arab male garb) to prove their point. Yvonne R. Davis: So What If Obama Bowed? HALAS!
In fact, their vertically oriented organizational structures, retrofitted with ad hoc and matrix overlays, nearly always make professional work more complex and inefficient.
The Council meets on an ad hoc basis to discuss problems.
He has recently been named judge ad hoc of the International Court of Justice in a maritime delimitation case between Romania and Ukraine. Discourse.net: Congratulations to Bernie Oxman
Businesses may choose other collaborative software, or groupware that covers more informal, or ad hoc, processes that this cannot cover.
Again, this seems reasonable and not unduly ad hoc, inasmuch as it incorporates the strong pre-theoretical intuition that substances are continuants rather than events.
It describes the ad hoc management approach as 'adhocracy'. Times, Sunday Times
The Court instituted a constitutional rule that is party-blind and that disfavors systems with ad hoc recount standards.
a coordinated policy instead of ad hoc decisions
Trying to do things on a well-meaning ad hoc basis is also likely to lead to trouble, including a high risk of missing systemic problems. Times, Sunday Times
Assemble file system features—what GlusterFS calls translators—in an ad hoc fashion to build customized storage solutions.
As well as being part of a web of activist organizations, the ghost bikes can be seen in the context of the ad hoc accumulation of street art generally, from loutish graffiti litter to Banksy's ironic--now ironically iconic and commodified--stencils, to community-based murals. Geoff Dyer: What Will Survive of Us?
Princess took the keys from the Wazir whom she had hocussed. The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
The interface can be used for anything from ad hoc reporting to a reusable data bridge.
In contrast to the Lisa approach, the Macintosh team implemented its interface issues on an ad hoc basis.
Romani milites, improviso metu incerti ignarique, quid potissimum facerent, trepidare; ad arcem oppidi, ubi signa et scuta erant, praesidium hostium; portae ante clausae fugam prohibebant; ad hoc mulieres puerique pro tectis aedificiorum [361] saxa et alia, quae locus praebebat, certatim mittere. C. Sallusti Crispi De Bello Catilinario Et Jugurthino
And it's going to have involve ad hoc solutions and fudge and mudge and muddling through. In Europe, Obstacles To A More Perfect Union
Of course, there were more than ten admirals serving at one time on most occasions, but all those beneath the rank of rear admiral of the blue had commands that were officially ad hoc.
This is an ad hoc committee specially established to deal with a particular subject.
Having suffered grievously from biological weapons attacks in the past, China supports work that helps comprehensively to strengthen the effectiveness of the convention. It has actively participated in the work of drawing up a Protocol of the Ad Hoc Group of States Parties to the BWC established in 1994, and has made contributions to the progress of the negotiations on the Protocol.
Ad hoc guidelines developed in response to an epidemic in the United Kingdom more than a decade ago have been implemented holus-bolus against Canadian beef in international markets.
Shouldn't that be incentive enough for him to stick around in an ad hoc ambassadorial role? Times, Sunday Times
Costly ad hoc measures should be replaced by rule-based, medium- to long-term oriented "Ordnungspolitik. Cut the Deficits
Notice, reader, how Proto-Japanese *mi 'three' is claimed to come from *ñi and that the attachment of *[ñ] to the Proto-Manchu-Tungus etymon is unexplained and ad hoc, together with the fact that a change of [ɲ] to [m] neighbouring a front high vowel is absurd and completely unmotivated from the perspective of rational notions of phonology. How to make a mockery of Proto-Japanese
But those designs had been for ad hoc, one-of-a-kind products. No one had done the serious engineering required to design a mobile data center as a mass- producible commodity.
Having suffered grievously from biological weapons attacks in the past, China supports work that helps comprehensively to strengthen the effectiveness of the convention. It has actively participated in the work of drawing up a Protocol of the Ad Hoc Group of States Parties to the BWC established in 1994, and has made contributions to the progress of the negotiations on the Protocol.
Having suffered grievously from biological weapons attacks in the past, China supports work that helps comprehensively to strengthen the effectiveness of the convention. It has actively participated in the work of drawing up a Protocol of the Ad Hoc Group of States Parties to the BWC established in 1994, and has made contributions to the progress of the negotiations on the Protocol.
The perspective shifts could be caused by the altered magnification that took place when refocusing lenses or by the ad hoc methods of projecting different still-life images onto a primed canvas.

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