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• Thank you for you well thought out and considered reply, I have taken in most of the posts here and elsewhere and the only conclusion I can come to as a layman is “shrug” Replace Police With Spin Doctors « POLICE INSPECTOR BLOG
• On the afternoon of the Saturday in Easter week, say these writers, the priests of the eighteen principal 'deaconries' -- an ecclesiastical division of the city long ago abolished and now somewhat obscure -- caused the bells to be rung, and the people assembled at their parish churches, where they were received by a 'mansionarius,' -- probably meaning here 'a visitor of houses, '-- and a layman, who was arrayed in a tunic, and crowned with the flowers of the cornel cherry. Ave Roma Immortalis, Vol. 1 Studies from the Chronicles of Rome
• On the other hand, he is fond of the kind of design analysis that leaves the uninitiated wishing he would speak in plain English, in terms the layman can understand.
• I wonder if the experts are truly cognizant of the unnecessary chasm that separates the layman from the cultured.
• A leading layman in the Presbyterian Church, he held for years the post of honorary director of the Union Theological Seminary.
• We've all heard of the term guru, and while it's gotten misconstrued and possibly watered down into a layman's term lately, the original meaning of guru was simple -- one who helped to remove darkness in order to reveal the light. Alanna Kaivalya: 3 Qualifications of a Yoga Teacher
• The subject matter was so technical as to be beyond the ken of the average layman.
• I mean, everything that I found in the library was written, you know, was not in layman's terms, but in medical terms.
• He battled the issues as an involved layman. Christianity Today
• This, if I have understood it aright, is not the purpose of the Nobel Lecture either, for it should serve far more to give the lay public a glimpse into the world of thought and work of the research scientist, just as the distinguished founder of this prize was a layman himself. Robert Bárány - Nobel Lecture