How To Use Strictly speaking In A Sentence
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But ascetics, nuns, and unordained members of religious associations of men were not originally in the ranks of the clergy, and, strictly speaking, are not so even to-day, though, on account of their closer and more special dependence on ecclesiastical authority, they have long been included under the title clergy in its wider sense (see RELIGIOUS).
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 8: Infamy-Lapparent
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Strictly speaking, a grassplot should be all grass, grass and a little white clover.
Mary's Meadow; and Letters From a Little Garden
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Strictly speaking, the term elementary as applied to most of the particles in the nucleus is inaccurate, for scientists now believe that all the particles except electrons are made of still more elementary particles called quarks.
Elementary particles
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The passacaglia, strictly speaking, pits variations over a ground bass, although most composers from Brahms on, shift the bass material around to all the voices, which Lees does as well.
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Strictly speaking, it means commonplace, undistinguished, but has come to mean pertaining to the people.
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The word that lurks in the criticism of Webster et al is 'bibliolatry', but strictly speaking that is not something which orthodox believers have been guilty of.
Exiled Preacher
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These have also been coded as zero to denote missing data, though strictly speaking their failure to reply is more indicative of the question not being applicable to them.
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But the property rights system described here is not, strictly speaking, a commons.
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His position has been carefully isolated as his various Lieutenants have, at last, been subjected to searching cross-examination instead of the toothless gumming meted out by the MSM over the years, something which has demonstrated the high standards of advocacy that are produced by our adversarial system of litigation, though, strictly speaking, an inquest is inquisitorial in nature.
Archive 2008-02-10
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Where there is such an approved standard it is, strictly speaking not mandatory for the manufacturer to comply with it.
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Strictly speaking, in what ontological category of things are causes and other conditions, the things which comprise causal circumstances?
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Strictly speaking, Great Britain consists of Scotland, Wales and England, and the United Kingdom consists of Great Britain and Northern Ireland.
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Strictly speaking Hankow and Nanking lie just south of the Great Plain.
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Liberalism today is, strictly speaking, pretty pacifistic.
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Strictly speaking, a tomato is a fruit, not a vegetable.
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The following is the report of a case by Drewry, of double (or, more strictly speaking, quadruple) athetosis, associated with epilepsy and insanity: ` ` The patient was a negro woman, twenty-six years old when she was admitted into this, the Central State (Va.)
Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine
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Strictly speaking, he's not qualified for the job.
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Mezcal, or more usually (in English) mescal, is an alcoholic drink derived from various types of agave, as opposed to tequila which is, strictly speaking, made only from the blue agave.
The Oaxaca Valley: a week's adventures in a single day...
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Strictly speaking, the Torah refers to the first five books of the Bible (Five Books of Moses), but it can also mean the entire Bible or all of Jewish law, including the Talmud and the Midrash.
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Strictly speaking, these four species, traditionally placed in their own monotypic Linnaean families, are just some among many living species of turtles and consequently should receive no special nomenclatural attention.
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Strictly speaking, of course, there are no ends in animal life for a Darwinian.
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Where there is such an approved standard it is, strictly speaking not mandatory for the manufacturer to comply with it.
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Strictly speaking this process of inference cannot be completely deterministic.
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Strictly speaking, it is not possible to absorb gamma rays completely.
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Strictly speaking, in what ontological category of things are causes and other conditions, the things which comprise causal circumstances?
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It is becoming customary with some students to apply the term mushroom to the entire group of higher fungi to which the mushroom belongs (_Basidiomycetes_), and toadstool is regarded as a synonymous term, since there is, strictly speaking, no distinction between a mushroom and a toadstool.
Studies of American Fungi. Mushrooms, Edible, Poisonous, etc.
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Strictly speaking, it is wrong to call this attack a preemptive strike.
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Strictly speaking, the pudding, cut in squares, should be served with gravy before the meat, to take the edge off the appetite.
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The government, elected after all on a promise not to raise taxes, has, strictly speaking, kept its word.
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Fig. 2.], and belonging to the twelfth century before our era, is not perhaps, strictly speaking, a zodiac, but it is almost certainly an arrangement of constellations according to the forms assigned them in Babylonian uranography.
The Seven Great Monarchies Of The Ancient Eastern World, Vol 4. (of 7): Babylon The History, Geography, And Antiquities Of Chaldaea, Assyria, Babylon, Media, Persia, Parthia, And Sassanian or New Persian Empire; With Maps and Illustrations.
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“But that was the 23rd Psalm,” Signorelli said – not, strictly speaking, Christian, as it appears in the Old Testament.
To improve decorum, hospice chaplain is not allowed to use the word “God” « Anglican Samizdat
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Strictly speaking, the new Amistad is a reproduction or a recreation of the original, a Baltimore clipper built in Cuba around 1835 to carry general cargo.
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Strictly speaking, it's a cordyline, not a dracaena, but that's not important.
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Clearly, an unreflective or uncritical citizenry would be highly undesirable as well as, strictly speaking, a contradiction in terms.
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Strictly speaking, even to talk of adaptations being advantageous is to risk a false sense of teleology.
Convergence
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Strictly speaking, the child of one black and one white parent is a mulatto; the child of a mulatto and a white is a quadroon (one quarter black); the child of a quadroon and a white is a mustee (one eighth black).
Flash For Freedom
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Strictly speaking, missionaries are preachers of the gospel, dedicated and direct.
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Strictly speaking, Great Britain consists of Scotland, Wales and England, and the United Kingdom consists of Great Britain and Northern Ireland.
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But indeed it is only strictly speaking that something is amiss, only if the allegorical content of each personification must be taken seriously.
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In other words, strictly speaking, there are no irreversible processes.
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Here again Alter's version is more literary and, strictly speaking, more accurate.
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Strictly speaking, however, any trait which appears in a child at birth might be called inborn, and some writers, particularly medical men, thus refer to traits acquired in prenatal life.
Applied Eugenics
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With further lack of modesty she stretched out two rounded arms worthy of Juno, ending in finely molded hands -- when I say _hands_ I am not exact, for, strictly speaking, only one hand could be seen, and that held a richly embroidered handkerchief.
First Love (Little Blue Book #1195) And Other Fascinating Stories of Spanish Life
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Indeed, strictly speaking, no such information will ever logically entail that there is an external world, in anything like the way we normally imagine.
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Social psychology, strictly speaking, deals with the behavior of people in groups.
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Strictly speaking, Great Britain consists of Scotland, Wales and England, and the United Kingdom consists of Great Britain and Northern Ireland.
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[273-2] Strictly speaking, the interval between 11 Men and 13 Oc is fourteen days, but throughout this paper, by "_interval between_" two days, is to be understood the number of days to be counted _from_ one _to and including_ the other.
Aids to the Study of the Maya Codices Sixth Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1884-85, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1888, pages 253-372
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First, strictly speaking, Gale is objecting to this argument by objecting to premise 1; so, strictly speaking, his conclusion would not be that religious experience or belief is not cognitive, but only that this particular argument for its cognitivity fails.
Warranted Christian Belief
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Using the word in that context is not, strictly speaking, correct.
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Strictly speaking, it is not one house at all, but three houses joined together.
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Strictly speaking, a tomato is a fruit, not a vegetable.
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Strictly speaking, especially in the 18th century and in most of the rest of U.S. history, sodomy is synonymous for homosexuality.
Think Progress » Virginia attorney general instructs state colleges to stop protecting gay students from discrimination.
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They also embrace the negative implication of their high standards: conventional poleis do not, strictly speaking, deserve the name.
Cosmopolitanism
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Using the word in that context is not, strictly speaking, correct.
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We met farmers there who are trying to cultivate this wild capsicum, and while they have successfully raised some very tasty, very hot chiles, they are not - strictly speaking - chiltepin.
Kurt Michael Friese: Chasing Chiles: A Hot Pepper Primer (And a recipe for Iowa City Chili)
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Strictly speaking, the words ‘choice’, ‘chance’ and ‘destiny’ are antipodes of each other.
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Strictly speaking, there are no examples of materials in which singlet superconductivity and ferromagnetism co-exist.
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It is often pointed out that antisemitism (or anti-Semitism), meaning "anti-Jewish," is a misnomer since the word Semitic, strictly speaking, refers to a number of peoples, including Jews and
9/11, Antisemitism and Denial
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Monophony Strictly speaking, monophonic music is a single melodic line, without harmony or even octaves.
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Strictly speaking, the appearance of "inwardness" in the external world — that is, the appearance of forms incommensurable with the "laws" of the visible world — is an impossible event, a contradiction that produces the intrinsic obscurity of nightlife (its location, its language, its social composition).
Club Monad
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Where there is such an approved standard it is, strictly speaking not mandatory for the manufacturer to comply with it.
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The term exempt is, strictly speaking, not applied to an Abbot nullius, because his jurisdiction is entirely extraterritorial.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 1: Aachen-Assize
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Strictly speaking, a tomato is a fruit, not a vegetable.
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Strictly speaking, the chantry is the endowment, and in some cases it was attached to an existing chapel in which other Masses were commonly celebrated.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 3: Brownson-Clairvaux
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This particular hillside is locally referred to as Wet Rain Hill, though strictly speaking the name also applies to the entire hill on which the village is built.
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Strictly speaking we have more than enough time to practice but I'm not sure if I want to do it.
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It is, strictly speaking, conferred by the Constitution.
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Incidentally, Tennyson’s “samite” (inMorte d’Arthur, as worn by the disembodied arm that belongs to the Lady of the Lake) was a brilliantly contrived exercise in etymological archaeology, and strictly speakingmeant (via the Latin samitum and, in turn, the Greek hexamiton) a six-ply silk brocade incorporating gold and silver threads, much in vogue during the Middle Ages, but let us not be deflected.
Further Pavlova
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We affirm that inspiration, strictly speaking, applies only to the autographic text of Scripture, which in the providence of God can be ascertained from available manuscripts with great accuracy.
Chicago Statement on Biblical Inerrancy
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Strictly speaking, however, a fief was usually defined as immovable property whose usufruct perpetually conceded to another under the obligation of fealty and personal homage.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 14: Simony-Tournon
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The term "phyllomania," as ordinarily used, is applied to an unwonted development of leafy tissue, as in some begonias where the scales or ramenta are replaced by small leaflets, or as in some cabbage leaves, from the surface of which project, at right angles to the primary plane, other secondary leafy plates; but these are, strictly speaking, cases of hypertrophy (see Hypertrophy).
Vegetable Teratology An Account of the Principal Deviations from the Usual Construction of Plants
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Neither is an inflection of the other, so strictly speaking their differing linguistic origin should dictate separate indices.
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Strictly speaking, this should be used to refer to an auditory sensation experienced by the hearer.
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The term intaglio is used when the design is incised and sunk beneath the surface of the block and is moulded in reverse, which strictly speaking is not really a relief but the reverse of relief, and is often used for gemstone carvings.
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Women were, strictly speaking, not allowed to fulfill the highest ideal of filial piety, an ideal that was ironically grounded in the virtue attributed to ideal womanhood - the maternal instinct to care and be cared for.
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Although in strictly speaking, the term essential oil is in reference to the aromatic value of the oils alone.
Archive 2008-05-01
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In explaining the preceding appearances, to prevent confusion we called those parts which form the cone in the middle of the flower Antheræ, but strictly speaking they are not such, the true Antheræ being situated on the inside of their summits, where they will be found to be ten in number, making in fact the Apocynum a decandrous plant.
The Botanical Magazine Vol. 8 Or, Flower-Garden Displayed
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It is still possible to find real jewels in the Parisian countryside, private family chateaux which, while not strictly speaking hotels, are happy to accommodate guests.
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Strictly speaking, DVD is not an acronym but an initialism (though the distinction is not always made).
Plurals of acronyms, abbreviations, initialisms and single letters
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Strictly speaking, the call for a united front is not quite new.
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It was in this state of affairs that the police committed excesses which strictly speaking were impermissible in law.
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Judaism, and strictly speaking, the term Judaism excludes the prophetic element as an active force in Jewish life.
The Menorah Journal, Volume 1, 1915
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Strictly speaking, yes, it would tend to go blue ever so slightly.
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Strictly speaking, a quatrefoil is made up of four circles that intersect at the same point; more loosely, it is any four-petal vegetal motif.
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Strictly speaking, the term should be applied only to the tusks of elephants, although a wider definition includes the teeth of the hippo, narwhal whale and the walrus.
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Strictly speaking, that requires differential geometry, which is precisely the kinematic side of GR.
Are Changes Brewing and How Does the Mind Fit In?
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Neither the input nor the output of a Turing machine can, strictly speaking, be an infinite decimal.
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Strictly speaking, the book is not a novel, but a short story.
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Strictly speaking, If P then Q, ~P, therefore ~Q is invalid -- modus ponens is only valid if you affirm P; it's not if you deny it.
Refutation in verse
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Bolton Abbey is perhaps Wharfedale's most famous landmark, however, strictly speaking this name relates only to the attractive village adjacent to the ruins of Bolton Priory.
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Strictly speaking, these differed widely even within quite small regions: tenurial customs, after all, were legacies of the age before integrated markets.
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The no longer counts, strictly speaking, as a stopword.
Boing Boing: April 14, 2002 - April 20, 2002 Archives
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Strictly speaking, the E programming language is a dynamically typed functional programming language, not a framework.
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Since names and their signification are entirely arbitrary, such propositions are not, strictly speaking, susceptible of truth or falsity, but only of conformity or disconformity to usage or convention; and all the proof they are capable of, is proof of usage; proof that the words have been employed by others in the acceptation in which the speaker or writer desires to use them.
A System Of Logic, Ratiocinative And Inductive
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Sometimes, however, I already believe the defeater (or, strictly speaking, part of the defeater), but do not initially realize its bearing on the defeatee.
Warranted Christian Belief
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Strictly speaking, fencing refers not to duelling, but to a game that has developed from the non-lethal practice in the techniques and skills required to attack and defend with a blade.
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In French we have them all masculine, strictly speaking, le printemps, l'été, l'automne, l'hiver; but by one of the very few licenses permitted in French grammar, autumn occasionally becomes feminine, in a sense half poetical, half euphonical.
Rural Hours
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Because of the many etiological factors involved, multifactorial diseases are not, strictly speaking, the sole result of hereditary transmission.
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It was not, strictly speaking, as a professed depredator that Rob Roy now conducted his operations, but as a sort of contractor for the police; in Scottish phrase, a lifter of black-mail.
Rob Roy
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Strictly speaking, there is as yet no definitive evidence for declining sperm counts.
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Strictly speaking I do not think the Court of Appeal disposed of the application for judicial review on the merits, although it seems to me pretty clear what the decision would have been had it done so.
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Strictly speaking, the comparison is between an unclothed individual moving through calm air at a brisk walking pace and that same individual moving through wind.
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Strictly speaking we should add the various National Insurance contributions to the total for direct taxation.
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It wasn't, strictly speaking, a gazpacho, as the peppers were cooked, but a wonderful chilled starter and an inspired marriage with the crab, avocado and unadvertised prawns.
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As duty is a debt to some one other than ourselves, we cannot, strictly speaking, use the term duties to ourselves.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 5: Diocese-Fathers of Mercy
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The taboo, strictly speaking, only appears where the peltry is absent.
FALSE MERMAID
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Strictly speaking, the INEGI calculation is based on averaging the furthermost points of Mexico in the four cardinal directions, rather than on a true "center of mass" calculation or demonstration.
Did you know? Mexico has more than one geographic center
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Strictly speaking, only one of the three Schumann works Thomas Trotter plays here on the Ladegast organ of Merseburg Cathedral in Saxony Anhalt, the Six Fugues on BACH Op 60, was composed for organ.
Schumann: Organ works – review
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This is the force responsible for nuclear beta decay, which, for example, permits a neutron to decay into a proton, electron, and a third particle -- the neutrino which without extremely carefully designed experiments leaves no observable signatures of its own strictly speaking, it is the neutrino's antiparticle known as the antineutrino.
Lisa Randall: CERN or Einstein? Interpreting the Findings
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The term intaglio is used when the design is incised and sunk beneath the surface of the block and is moulded in reverse, which strictly speaking is not really a relief but the reverse of relief, and is often used for gemstone carvings.
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The term "phyllomania," as ordinarily used, is applied to an unwonted development of leafy tissue, as in some begonias where the scales or ramenta are replaced by small leaflets, or as in some cabbage leaves, from the surface of which project, at right angles to the primary plane, other secondary leafy plates; but these are, strictly speaking, cases of hypertrophy (see Hypertrophy).
Vegetable Teratology An Account of the Principal Deviations from the Usual Construction of Plants
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Strictly speaking, this transaction in the accounting is not recognized as hedging transactions.
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Strictly speaking, a null pointer, one of the most common errors in C programming, is a pointer with an uninitialised value.
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Strictly speaking, it's my money, not yours. I earned it.
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Strictly speaking, a codex is a book or manuscript in European-style format.
Primary sources
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The onus of proof remained with the claimant to show that the defendant's tortious conduct made a material contribution to the loss, but strictly speaking the defendants were liable only to the extent of that contribution.
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It is, strictly speaking, conferred by the Constitution.
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Well, OK, strictly speaking, I am a freakin pervert, if you listen to the Moral Moronity, but on a scale of 1 to 10, honestly, I hardly rate.
Archive 2004-09-01
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My understanding is that a letter has been written to the Court indicating that it will do it - strictly speaking, this application is an ex parte application.
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Strictly speaking, the 23-year-old was two steps off rock bottom.
Times, Sunday Times
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Strictly speaking, the club's crowd limit was around 50, but at least double that number usually crammed in.
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Again, what we call therapeutics, which has to do with the action of drugs and medicines on the living organism, is, strictly speaking, a branch of experimental physiology, and is daily receiving a greater and greater experimental development.
American Addresses, with a Lecture on the Study of Biology
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Strictly speaking, it is easier to test hypotheses through the use of quantitative rather than qualitative measures.
Sociology
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While I'm tetchy about misusing the term computational biologist, as "strictly speaking" it has other meanings, non science readers might relate to it better as the words are already familiar to them.
Discover Blogs
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For Lukacs, Dostoevsky was strictly speaking uninterpretable, an incomprehensible dead end within the modern world or a harbinger of something new that only ‘later artists will one day weave into a great unity’.
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So, strictly speaking, the only wines that need to be decanted are those with some sediment - older reds that were deeply colored when they were young: Cabernets and Merlots, for example, or vintage Ports.
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Although the organisation is, strictly speaking, a development and not an emergency relief agency, distinctions like that pale when faced with the scale of such a disaster.
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Strictly speaking, only the last of the following formulations is correct: non profit making organization non-profit making organization non profit-making organization non-profit-making organization
August « 2008 « Sentence first
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Using the word in that context is not, strictly speaking, correct.
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That was Quiller-Couch for you; the sort of gratuitous, extra-legal filigree that clients loved but which was, strictly speaking, obiter dicta, legal window-dressing.
Battle of the Bulging British Bridesmaids
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More strictly speaking, the word nebula should be reserved for gas and dust clouds and not for groups of stars.
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Strictly speaking, the sumo wrestler will make a slightly louder sound because of momentum conservation, but the difference will be small, in spite of the fact that his arm may be 20 times heavier.
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That is why he was not approached to give his opinion, as he, strictly speaking, is not a resident or property owner on Grave Lane.
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Strictly speaking, this seems more in the nature of an emphatic moral denunciation, or a religious curse, than a legal sanction capable of being formally applied in an individual case and after judicial trial, -- though the sentence of _atimy_, under the more elaborated Attic procedure, was both definite in its penal consequences and also judicially delivered.
The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 01
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The location below the center of a nuclear detonation is, strictly speaking, the hypocenter, with the Greek hypo- meaning “under”; that word was soon overtaken by epicenter the Greek prefix epi- means “on, over”, the outbreaking point on the earth’s surface above the focus of an earthquake.
The Right Word in the Right Place at the Right Time
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Strictly speaking, the book is not a novel, but a short story.
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Strictly speaking, our knowledge reaches only as far as the phenomena of inner and outer experience.
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They are as a rule persons of previous good behaviour, sanguine or nervous by temperament, of excessive sensibility, unlike born or habitual criminals, and they are often of a neurotic or epileptoid temperament, of which their crimes may be, strictly speaking, an unrecognised consequence.
Criminal Sociology
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In the case of homonymy it could be argued that we are dealing, strictly speaking, with two different words which happen to share the same phonological form.
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Strictly speaking, in what ontological category of things are causes and other conditions, the things which comprise causal circumstances?
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In this spirit of forthrightness, I feel I must tell you that, strictly speaking, I'm not supposed to leave the castle without my entourage.
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Some of the sniffier purists will argue that it wasn't, strictly speaking, jazz at all.
Times, Sunday Times
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So, yeah, strictly speaking, by the letter of the law, there's nothing at all wrong with a cut-up and fold-in rewrite of Revelation in which God is the bad guy, is there?
Get Yer Free Blasphemy Here
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While not, strictly speaking, a plant, several specimens of squid stinkhorn fungus Pseudocolus schellenbergiae attracted interest.
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Strictly speaking this is classed as clonus rather than tremor.
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Not all these are strictly speaking political blogs, but then again, politics isn't just what happens in Canberra or Washington D.C…
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Whether a reward conferred for obedience shall operate as a bribe, or rather as a price paid -- for a _bribe_, strictly speaking, is a price paid, not for doing right, but for doing wrong -- depends sometimes on very slight differences in the management of the particular case -- differences which an undiscriminating mother will not be very ready to appreciate.
Gentle Measures in the Management and Training of the Young Or, the Principles on Which a Firm Parental Authority May Be Established and Maintained, Without Violence or Anger, and the Right Development of the Moral and Mental Capacities Be Promoted by Met
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These have also been coded as zero to denote missing data, though strictly speaking their failure to reply is more indicative of the question not being applicable to them.
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Strictly speaking, it's my money, not yours. I earned it.
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The question of interest concerns whether, strictly speaking, these arcs form a circle.
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Non-cognitivist theories (Hare's prescriptivism, Ayer's emotivism, more recently Allan Gibbard's expressivism), which variously deny that moral statements can be true or false, render moral judgment so subjective and capricious that, strictly speaking, it might just as well extend to "the wrongness of running round trees right-handed or looking at hedgehogs in the light of the moon".
Philippa Foot obituary
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Strictly speaking, any male Christian who has reached the use of reason can be chosen -- not, however, a heretic, a schismatic, or a notorious simonist.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 4: Clandestinity-Diocesan Chancery
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Why did both card designers tag the architecture in this landscape with encryptions of Irishness that are not, strictly speaking, accurate?
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Strictly speaking, spiders are not insects.
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The map is not, strictly speaking, a cordiform projection, but rather the artist's creative design.
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Strictly speaking, this was against the rules.
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Strictly speaking, there is no gene for a sucking reflex, let alone for female coyness or Scottish thriftiness or cognizance of the concept of zero.
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Strictly speaking, we should erect a statue to a plumber in Trafalgar Square.
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Strictly speaking, class and caste are different social institutions, though castes are often assumed to fit into the four varnas.
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Strictly speaking this nowhere was situated in a hillock with moor.
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While that may be so, strictly speaking, Nijinska sought to escape literalism and instead to express deeper choreographic truths through the movement of her ensembles and the dynamism of their body language.
