How To Use Terms In A Sentence

Forbes: In terms of scale, the size of a bank for lending, is there a point where being bigger does not make you more efficient in lending? Transcript: Richard Bove
It may be a little early but I was just wondering if you could characterize the impact of the label amendment in terms of the new patient starts in to the new year? SeekingAlpha.com: Home Page
If we got into Ceram (and got out again), the doctor would reduce the whole affair to a few tables of anthropological measurements, a few more hampers of birds, beasts, and native rubbish in the hold, and a score of paragraphs couched in the evaporated, millimetric terms of science. The Spinner's Book of Fiction
So in terms of home furnishing it is expected to have curtain, bedspreads, cushion covers etc.
The food fares well in terms of freshness, quantity and effort, and there's a made-to-order pasta bar and a station where roast beef is carved before your eyes.

It also discusses the harm in detail according to the comparison of acid gases between different. the research provides selection of fire-extinguishing agents in terms of harms.
Searle wants to deny that collective intentions are analyzable in terms of singular intentions, but he also wants (and in my view with better reasons) to deny that there are collective spirits or other mysterious creations.
The court say that, "to be a citizen it is necessary that he should be entitled to the enjoyment of these privileges and immunities, upon the same terms upon which they are conferred upon other citizens; and unless he is so entitled, _he cannot, in the proper sense of the term, be a citizen_. An Account of the Proceedings on the Trial of Susan B. Anthony, on the Charge of Illegal Voting
Politicians, academics and campaigners today routinely frame public issues in emotional terms.
The director organised two-day hippy schools for his extras, in which they were shown news clips from 1969 and instructed in hippy speak until such antiquated terms as 'crashpad', 'dig' and 'groovy' came naturally. Latest articles - Radio Prague
Brief introduction of the quality manual for terms related to the exclusions and compliance, process description conformity, whether the reference program file.
We tend to use these terms as if they were freely interchangeable forms of energy.
In terms of structure, an attempt should have been made to sectionize the book according to themes. Undefined
I must admit to being a biased Observor here, as I do relatively poorly with the math elements of Economics, and I have attempted a writing career of expressing Economics in nonmathematical terms. Math and Economics, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty
In terms of its careful emphasis on surprise, artillery concentration, and methodical planning, Amiens pointed the way ahead to Alamein.
From multinational corporations to pushcarts, there is a wide variety to choose from in terms of foodstuffs.
The terms of the agreement were deliberately vague.
Syngenta, which competes with companies such as U.S.-based Monsanto and Dupont Co., is one of the world's largest agrochemicals companies in terms of sales, wielding a market share of some 15%, which it wants to broaden by another 2% over the next five years. Syngenta Sales Soar
Many theories purport to explain growth in terms of a single cause.
We must think of ourselves, not in terms of the satisfaction we get, from what we eat, or enjoy as pleasure, or entertainment today.
He may have misspoke, or thinking in Fahrenheit terms multiplied by the compression to get the geothermal energy available with current technology. Newsvine - Get Smarter Here
She knows I need the work so she's got me over a barrel in terms of what she pays me.
By convention, the terms \'aseptic\ 'or \'avascular\' necrosis have been applied to areas of juxtaarticular involvement and the term bone infarct is usually applied to metaphyseal or diaphyseal involvement. Recently Uploaded Slideshows
These calories are used to: replenish your glycogen (the way you store fuel in your muscles and liver) and oxygen stores. resynthesize phosphagen (ATP-PC). remove lactate. repair the wear and tear on your muscles caused by exercise (and these patch kits are made up of protein, which is costly in terms of calories). return your increased ventilation, blood circulation and body temperature to pre-exercise levels. hormones exercise induces (which also require protein). Chicagotribune.com -
We so little to change in terms of forward players so we had change the system and, thankfully, worked. The Sun
Still, on watching the movie a good couple of decades since I last read the book, as much as I found it enjoyable enough, I couldn’t help but start to think through just what Lewis is saying here, in allegorical terms, just how it all turns on the idea that, by the rules of Deep Magic, Edmund must die. Thoughts on Narnia
Here was a man seemingly prepared to bankroll them on the sweetest of terms. Times, Sunday Times
We are the best Scandinavian restaurant outside Denmark, both in terms of food, service and Danish 'hygge'. Scand News for S.E.A - Scandinavian News Portal for Southeast Asia
When terms which signify mixed perfections are predicated of God, the analogy becomes so faint that the locution is a mere metaphor. The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 2: Assizes-Browne
The Other in Being and Nothingness alienates or objectifies us (in this work Sartre seems to use these terms equivalently) and the third party is simply this Other writ large. Jean-Paul Sartre
When you hear the terms imam and ayatollah, these refer to Shiite religious leaders. CNN Transcript Nov 24, 2006
It is easy to see religious motivations here in terms of imperatives to care for the unfortunate; 'almsgiving' is undoubtedly a strong theme in most faith traditions. New Perspectives on Faith and Development
The obscurity of the pleading which is, if I may so with respect to the drafter of it, exceedingly clever, because the pleading is in terms always of a duty of care to do something and it is there the elision of two very separate ideas.
The Response did however deny the terms of the agreements alleged by the claimants.
Did the record-company people have designs for you, or were they ready to hear you on your own terms?
This is very much in line with the contemporary need to have everything explained in cerebral, rather than emotional terms.
As a devotional photographer a very tough man in terms of the handicraft of photo making.
In October, the retailer said it would shut 21% of its namesake North American stores over the next two years, coming to terms with the overextension of its store network before the recession and predictions that U.S. growth will be slow. Gap's Profit Falls 36%
Developers, well those that meet Apple's firm and unfriendly terms and conditions, have helped this by creating 5,000 new applications for the handheld gogglebox, meaning that it's big numbers all round at Apple - particularly we imagine in the App Store and Ibook store accounting departments. The Inquirer
While the lenders reserved all other rights and remedies that might be available under the credit agreement, but "did not by its terms purport to accelerate the maturity of the obligations outstanding. SiliconBeat
No, y’all are using terms legal terms that have established meanings in haphazard and sloppy fashion. Balloon Juice » Blog Archive » 3/4
One outstanding feature of this ecoregion is the presence of coral reefs, one of the largest and best preserved in the western Caribbean Sea, considered a part or an extension of the great belicean reef, very outstanding in terms of marine biodiversity. Cayos Miskitos-San Andrés and Providencia moist forests
In Math Man's terms: you can write an injective relationship, but not a surjective one. Cardinal Virtues
Mining can be costly in terms of lives .
As for prominence, some of that is luck, some is skill, and some is being on good terms ideologically or acquaintance-wise with a big-hitter like Instapundit. Marcotte blames sexism for her troubles.
In practical terms, it becomes akin to the line about owing a bank a billion dollars, though recent events may have given the lie to that apothegm. Matthew Yglesias » Climate Migration
The answer is that he was beguiled into thinking about language and the world in terms of a particular model.
It's a mistake to think of Florida only in terms of its tourist attractions.
Closed in terms of things being able to go on under the radar and away from the public glare. Times, Sunday Times
Nevertheless, in terms of the rights which attach, redeemable preference shares are more akin to debt than shares.
All credit to the winner, however, whose form with Goldikova last time out was franked in no uncertain terms yesterday. Talking Horses special: Royal Ascot, day two live!
But marketing alone cannot explain why "onanism" and related terms began to show up in the great eighteenth-century encyclopedias or why one of the most influential physicians in France, the celebrated Samuel Auguste David Tissot, took up the idea of masturbation as a dangerous illness or why Tissot's 1760 work, L'Onanisme, became an instant European literary sensation. Me, Myself, and I
Heddle's argument is more sound since it involves, in practical terms, one single probability, while Collins's use of the word "improbability" implies multiple values of probabilities that can be used and thus a means to calculate them. David Heddle's take on the Fine-Tuning Argument
John is on equal terms with Dick, either in ability or in character.
Those who held bookland were territorial lords with local interests, and were thus far more likely to seek terms with the Danish invaders, if they could save all or part of their inheritance.
It's certainly not the notes and coins that bother me as we would be able to retain the monarchs head, as have Spain, Netherlands and Belgium, because it's no different in those terms from when we converted to decimal currency.
This paper extends the particular conclusions on the symmetry of the space figures in terms of the coordinate zero dot, coordinate plane and coordinate axis in Analytic Geomtry.
To return to the Kantian terms with which we began, heil is linguistic self-affection. Patriot Acts: The Political Language of Henrich von Kleist
There are also scenes of prisoners attacking guards, shanking each other, and discussing their murders, assaults, and mutilations in graphic terms.
In a language that invents descriptive terms with drunken abandon, all food writers suffer from the meagre cupboard of gastronomic terms. Times, Sunday Times
But they admit individual agents only on the terms on which a natural scientist admits individual and particular objects.
Only a feat of brilliant decipherment by Jean-François Champollion, working in the 1820s, allowed us to understand ancient Egypt again in its own terms. Beyond the Pharaohs
The Heskeths were on intimate terms with Henry Stanley, 4th Earl of Derby, whose country seat was Knowsley Hall (six miles east of Liverpool).
Under the terms of the lease, you have to pay maintenance charges.
In addition, kudzu ranked second-highest in terms of its potential impact on natural systems, because it is capable of overgrowing and decimating mature stands of trees.
Terms of more than ninety days are not unusual. SHOPPED: The Shocking Power of British Supermarkets
He would soon be of age, and it was necessary to make some terms to prevent the loss the estate would suffer by raising money on post-obit bonds. Biographical Sketch
In phone calls you make in various states of undress interchange the word scrip, script, equity, stock, pscyhed, cash and stock, earnout, and synergy but minimise use of terms cash and upfront. Archive 2006-06-01
While the Magnum definitely brought the real deal in terms of power and increased utility over a traditional sedan, some were not sold on the style of the vehicle which adopted Dodge's characteristic "crosshair" inspired front grille that permeates the entire lineup. Ride Lust - Motion + Mobility
We can now evaluate the effects of this change in terms of the alteration in surplus.
The scanner takes more than 90 measurements of the hand in terms of length, width, thickness and surface area in the span of one second.
If any of the two terms of an affirmative categorical is "empty", then the term in question refers to nothing.
Though I was on friendlier, more relaxed and affectionate terms with my fellow western-New Yorker John Gardner, who'd published an early short story of mine titled "The Death of Mrs. Sheer" in his literary magazine "MSS" -- and who regarded me, somewhat embarrassingly, as a "major American writer" -- like himself -- it can't be said that John Gardner was a mentor of mine either. Joyce Carol Oates's 'In the Absence of Mentors/Monsters': Narrative Magazine
The intricate, filigree footwork - very occasionally embellished with a few ballet steps such as an entrechat - is, on its own terms, both fascinating and exciting.
In some ways, the self-taught writer could be called the Southern godmother of feminism, an autodidactic intellectual who carved out her singular role as a woman to be reckoned with on her on terms, in her own idiosyncratic ways, in the most hallowed and male-dominated coven in the country--the Halls of Congress--a generation before Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton emerged on the national stage. Jeff Biggers: "Office Holders Are Desperate": 180 Years Before HuffPo, Anne Royall's Wicked Blogs Held DC Accountable
Mr Kehoe concluded by saying that every farmer should enquire regarding the payment terms and insist on payment on the day.
Thus terms such as "information processing" and "information retrieval" are really "data processing" and " data retrieval". Computers Basic Facts
The web of life, the biocenose, the biotic community, the ecosystem — all terms relating to the same kinds of concept — have broadened and deepened the opportunities for studying the relation of nature and culture, particularly changes in the natu - ral order. ENVIRONMENT AND CULTURE
The national broadcaster said Pahad "rebuked Washington for pursuing what he terms a discredited neo-conservative ideology". ANC Daily News Briefing
Oaths were taken on the terms aforesaid, and the citizens dismissed their adversaries. Hellenica
Such completely general terms as ‘thing’ ‘entity’ or ‘object’, on Dummett's view, are not genuine sortal terms, since they fail to provide any criteria of identity.
One of the more interesting paths Donoghue sets out to traverse is what she terms the borderline territory of "murkily criminal" lesbian sex as found in mystery and detective fiction. Edmonton Sun
Most of you probably know that "formularies" are lists of drugs approved by health insurance companies for partial or full payment "under the terms and conditions of the coverage. Formulary Time: Parody of Auld Lang Syne and Invitation
On Sunday they did not do themselves justice tactically or in terms of conviction, but they are extremely lucky to have a chance of making amends so quickly.
His mood was darkly apocalyptic, seeing everything in life-and-death terms.
In general terms, what we're talking about here is a situation where A and B have a contract or agreement to which C is not a party, whereafter B and C engage in activitity forbidden to B by their contract ot agrement with A, giving rise to the question of whether A has any claim against C. "An act of adultery between the defendant and the spouse of the plaintiff..."
In acquiescing, the government was well aware that the final terms would provoke peasant hostility, and took suitable precautions.
Hemingbrough are struggling to come to terms with life in the top division although the signs are that they are improving despite their reversal at Stockton and Hopgrove.
But it cannot be denied that, in his endeavors to harmonize universal grace with the fact that not all, but some only, are saved, Melanchthon repudiated the monergism of Luther, espoused and defended the powers of free will in spiritual matters, and thought, argued, spoke, and wrote in terms of synergism. Historical Introductions to the Symbolical Books of the Evangelical Lutheran Church
We suspected that most people would not spontaneously think in terms of this curvilinearity and would, in fact, think that fuel consumption decreases as a linear function of MPG. The Miles Per Gallon Illusion | clusterflock
What began in 1968 as a Beltway junkie's labor of love has turned into an authoritative collection of whistle-stopping campaign slogans and vicious slings and arrows of partisan attacks that stretches all the way back to the Founding Fathers (who came up with terms like "electioneer" and the party "ticket"). How to Sound Presidential
Hyperimmune responses, either at the initial immunisation challenge or in the amplification of immune response, can be observed in cellular mechanisms such as basophil degranulation, or at a molecular level, with changes in the levels of messengers such as leukotrienes; reduction of the intensity of these mechanisms are described in terms of molecular pharmacology, such as selective or nonselective inhibition of lipoxygenases. Citizendium, the Citizens' Compendium - Recent changes [en]
The elegy is one of our necessary forms as we try to come to terms with the fact that people around us die, that we, too, will die. Día de los Muertos
Like most of these discussions, it was framed in terms of heteros vs. homos.
By signing the application form you acknowledge that you accept all of the terms and conditions of this offer. The Sun
Here you have in very simplified terms the antecedents of modern Greece. Giorgos Seferis - Nobel Lecture
Mugabe is the best living African on the continent, with a real programme to decolonise Africa in real terms. Mugabe Loses Honorary Degree From UMass - The Lede Blog - NYTimes.com
This gives you something definite with which to come to terms. 23 Steps to Successful Achievement
Nine years on, let's look at what the authors of the plan had in mind for Sligo after the road is built, particularly in terms of traffic flow and pedestrianisation.
A purported acceptance which introduces different terms is not in law an acceptance but a counter - offer.
The issue with judicial activism is whether the Constitution should in its own terms be recognized as the will of the people. The Times Literary Supplement
Irish Toryism was the dominant political creed down to 1859, at least in terms of Westminster seats.
Therefore the rational expectations hypothesis suggests a valid method of incorporating additional information when estimating macroeconomic models which contain expectation terms.
The 10-year T-note and 30-year Treasury bond are down 8.58 percent and 24 percent, respectively, in terms of price for the year to date.
The word compromise had no place in her vocabulary - she lived on her terms and when she could no longer do so, she preferred to die rather than become an appendage to someone else's life.
Terms that have both are called appellative terms and should be distinguished from substance terms or natural kind terms, which have signification by imposition. Mental Representation in Medieval Philosophy
The story was nicely timed in public relations terms to swing media coverage away from his risible performance at the tribunal last week, when he was unable to recall matters of facts on a large number of occasions.
Lactose intolerance can be defined as a gastrointestinal disturbance, but the two terms are not synonyms. Lactose Intolerance Doesn't Cause Bad Breath
So looking at whether something makes people happy is largely futile. In statisticians' terms, you are looking for variance in something that is invariant.
However, tactical considerations may dictate that some conditions and definition terms are omitted from the vendors' draft of the heads.
In etymological terms, the word Maremma derives from the Latin mare, or sea, and is related to the French marais.
Many such terms bombard the English language continually: some are stopped at the barriers of honesty and common sense; many invade the lexicon like novae, only VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol 1 No 2
Use the formula for the Lucas numbers given in terms of the Fibonacci numbers.
What difference, one might ask, is there between a turnip crisp and a potato crisp in terms of its "junkiness" or otherwise? Lex Ferenda
It just feeds the religious right's feeling of righteous besiegement while gaining almost nothing in practical terms.
The traveller may thereafter accept the terms of the offer, or reject them and seek accommodation elsewhere.
Save for the line from Shakespeare and the terms from the episode, I guess the rest of the verse is a series original (is it?). Eden of the East – What mystery dost thou holdeth? « Undercover
In addition to the expected terms, keywords targeted to the TV ads like "shoe circus," "conquistador" and SearchViews
Although still a tiddler in publishing terms, it stresses that it is not a one-author wonder and is building up a stable of big - sellers.
The terms of Halliburton's contract with BP indemnifies the Houston company from liability for spill damages, unless it is found to have been grossly negligent, Weiss and Oppenheimer & Co. analyst Scott Burk said. Halliburton: BP Contract Offers Gulf Oil Spill Liability Protection, Analysts Say
Google Inc is lifting restrictions on the use of trademarked terms in its U.S. online advertising system, a move that could increase friction between the Internet giant and brand owners. P2pnet World Headlines – May 19, 2009
I stand here today humbled works on antithesis, a putting of terms into opposition with each other, whereby stand, apart from connoting the witness stand and stealing some of its sincerity, erects an uprightness to contrast with the lowness of humbled, from the Latin humus, meaning earth. BREAKFAST WITH SOCRATES
They argue that grades artificialize the learning process and teach the kids to think in terms of a desired grade instead of in terms of what they might be learning, and that grades also artificialize the nature of the relationship between the teacher and the student, encouraging the student to see the teacher as the dispenser of grades rather than a mentor or interlocutor. Gradewise
Then, once they became what he terms pathological gamers, their grades were more likely to drop, and their relationships with their parents deteriorated. NYT > Home Page
As Mrs Varden distinctly heard, and was intended to hear, all that Miggs said, and as these words appeared to convey in metaphorical terms a presage or foreboding that she would at some early period droop beneath her trials and take an easy flight towards the stars, she immediately began to languish, and taking a volume of the Manual from a neighbouring table, leant her arm upon it as though she were Hope and that her Barnaby Rudge: a tale of the Riots of 'eighty
Therefore, the wear rate of rhino teeth, in terms of crown height, may decrease exponentially with age.
In terms of plant species selection, plant configuration, and plant landscape artistic conception creating, religious garden landscape specially showed its uniqueness in religion space organization.
In particular we heard no evidence to satisfy us that the alleged subcontractors had agreed with the labourers or their gangmasters, in advance, as to the terms and conditions on which they were hired.
But crucial to the Apprendi analysis, and what distinguishes this from parole, is the additional imprisonment term is not authorized unless and until the judge finds a violation of the terms of release. The Volokh Conspiracy » Extending Probation Sentence Without Proof Beyond a Reasonable Doubt?
The book thus seeks to explain the application of these colorants in terms of their organic chemistry.
You'll have to accept the terms to continue at which point it will appear to be installing, but in actual fact the files are just being copied to the location you specified.
In terms of biological evolution, complex adaptive systems seek patterns and learn from their interactions with the environment.
This globalization has also worsened the conditions for new institutions to arise as the expanding number of people who must come to terms geometrically increases the cost of coming to a new agreement. An Introduction to Ecological Economics~ Chapter 3
Despite the favorable trade surplus, China has continuously suffered from a huge "deficit" in terms of cultural products, which doesn't match the extensiveness and intensiveness of Chinese culture.
Q: What is the kind of topline increase in percentage terms? Moneycontrol Top Headlines
We will run on the principal areas of concern to ordinary Australians, both in terms of the international agenda and the domestic agenda.
Credit terms and price charged for goods were set based upon this analysis.
However, the actual and potential role of the state requires consideration in different terms.
I liked her best when she was mispronouncing French terms.
Our goods compete in terms of product quality, reliability and above all variety.
On average, we consumed more fruit and less vegetables last year, with the potato seeing the biggest plunge in terms of demand.
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.
The main characters are all glorified psychopaths, with little to choose between hero or villain in terms of basic humanity.
For the reason why the definition is rendered is to make known the term stated, and we make things known by taking not any random terms, but such as are prior and more intelligible, as is done in demonstrations (for so it is with all teaching and learning); accordingly, it is clear that a man who does not define through terms of this kind has not defined at all. Topics
The name of the organization created to further Basic, the Orthological Institute, echoes such terms as orthodoxy, orthography, and orthoepy.
The place was only half full and it was still dark outside but it was way past bedtime on a Saturday night and midterms were just a dim, horrific memory.
In this paper, we characterize the power set of a group G in terms of properties of normal subsemigroups, and get concepts of unit groups and dual hypergroups.
Sometimes they are approached in terms of affect: there is a painful negative hunger, or a more tender affirmatory yearning, and these modes of will oppose and supplant each other, articulating a dynamic basis to material reality (Ages 170). Psychology in Search of Psyches: Friedrich Schelling, Gotthilf Schubert and the Obscurities of the Romantic Soul
In fact there are fascinating glimpses of the Babylonians coming to terms with the fact that division by 7 would lead to an infinite sexagesimal fraction.
Yet when it happens there is a mad scramble to see what is possible in terms of rescue and then what needs to be put in place to avert marine ecological disaster, prior to rescuing or salvaging the vessel.
Analysts continue to mull over how and what the BoJ can deploy in terms monetary policy to calm the Yen's rise of late.
But will the two sides be able to stick to the hazy and vague terms of the agreement?
In medieval terms, the Platonic approach locates music in the quadrivium, as a branch of mathematics, while the Aristotelian locates it with the practical arts of the trivium, grammar, rhetoric, and logic.
Nations. yep, it's pretty quaint stuff, couched in terms of newness and normalcy, of foreigness and familiarity. it describes the music as modern and "swingy" and yet timeless, as being of universal appeal - they belong to everyone - and yet "from a single nationality." i wonder whether the universalist rhetoric was meant to appeal to non-jews or simply to jews ambivalent about their jewishness? or am i simply being naive about midcentury, metropolitan jewishness? it is interesting to me also that, apparently, zionist discourse had not yet divorced the term palestinian from any association with jewish heritage. Wayneandwax.com
However, whilst he believes that in terms of a stereotypical male job such as bricklaying, women should not be paid the same as men (obviously showing his sexist conception of what women should really be doing – kitchen and bedroom) that men however, SHOULD get the same amount of money as women for working in a cantine. In reply to ‘Angry Harry’ – Because the strive for gender equality is worth the effort… « My Liberal Democrat Political Ramblings…
The terms management chain puts two nouns next to each other, why not use the term management? Site Home
But they're also – judging by the other "what is?" search terms – puzzled by sauteed shrimp "what is scampi? Google crowns royal wedding as fastest-rising UK search of 2011
These options are more expensive than brick and blockwork but the construction industry believes the savings in terms of time, labour and productivity make them cost effective.
During that period, Catholic schools have steadily become assimilated to the non-denominational schools in terms of curriculum, teaching methods, assessment and examinations.
The group stage, the most hotly contested part of the negotiations, was once again rather thin in terms of surprises. Times, Sunday Times
Terms of cash on delivery or advance payment should be instituted for future sales to consistently delinquent accounts.
In studying English Lexicology, the terms about the morphological structure and word - formation often confuse us.
The differences may be in features, price, functionality, or anything else human ingenuity can devise. The goal in economic terms is to make a set of similar goods less substitutable for each other.
In terms of scheming... there is a full court press going on right now to bring back the heroization of Chiang Ching-Kuo. Daily Links, April 10, 2009
Brunswick and Maine to regulate their future proceedings according to the terms hereinbefore set forth until the final settlement of the territorial dispute or until the Governments of the United States and A Compilation of the Messages and Papers of the Presidents Volume 3, part 2: Martin Van Buren
It can be seen immediately that, in library terms, the 48K microcomputer could not replace the library catalogue.
In terms of nightlife, São Paulo has no rivals - not London, not New York, not Ibiza in August.
The National Football League and city of Los Angeles officials have reached a preliminary agreement on terms to bring a pro gridiron team back to the Los Angeles Coliseum.
In symbolic terms, a national currency is felt by some to be part of the very idea of nationhood.
In linguistic terms, these two poles are aligned with the constative and the performative, the latter being not quite identical with the expressive, since that category assumes a certain interiority which is not requisite for the performative. Subjecticity (On Kant and the Texture of Romanticism)
So the risk is now significantly lower in real terms. Times, Sunday Times
This is largely because doctors avoid using the terms hermaphroditism or intersexuality around intersexuals and their parents.
HOWE: Before I wrote this book I had never really grasped how often improvements in material terms fostered improvements in moral terms. National Review Online
These terms were agreeable to the Magyar aristocracy, but could not satisfy the revolutionaries or moderates among the lesser nobility.
The year would be split into six rather than three terms, with two before Christmas and none longer than 38 days.
Otley had the advantage of a strong wind in the first-half and not surprisingly had the better of the game in terms of territory.
Like most of the terms that refer to major conceptual anchors of the western intellectual tradition, its origins may be traced to classical antiquity.
If the world is thought of in terms of anarchy then power politics will be seen as the solution to the problem of insecurity.
If we are to treat with you, it must be on equal terms.
In terms of the analysis of the previous section, the imperfect industry shares become free to vary.
In terms of complying with the legislation in respect of recovery of payments, their way will be a brick through the window, or sending the heavies around to deal with a debtor.
In technical terms, the new chief executive is entitled to be granted an option to buy ordinary shares.
Marked terms show a polarity, like one pole of the magnet or one side of the coin.
In evolutionary terms, human beings are clearly dispensable.
It is possible to be underweight or overweight in BMI terms and still have a healthy percentage of body fat. The Sun
We will soon describe storage in new terms such as zettabytes (1021 or 1,000 exabytes), and yottabytes (1024 or 1,000 zettabytes).
The clauses also provide for jail terms for violations of labor rulings.
Yet one cannot be too strict in policing the boundaries between these two levels, for in drawing attention to the poetics of articulation, "Mont Blanc" suggests that philosophical argument inevitably relies on representations of an embodied "I," narrative exempla, privileged metaphors, and repeated terms. Rhyming Sensation in 'Mont Blanc'
Working-class and middle-class mothers of Cuban heritage were questioned about their modes of accommodation to America in terms of language proficiencies.
these terms were used with a vagueness that suggested little or no thought about what each might convey
It is to our benefit to understand the actions of Israel in terms of 'ponerology' or, the study of evil. Corrente
The size of the room you're in is probably best measured in terms of its area.
So we would like to wait and see whether the assurances that he's now held out in recent days are actually concretized in terms of action on the ground.
We learned, Ruby and I, that this was a way of being theatrical as well as the other way, and we learned, from Carnovsky and Da Silva, that there was no difference in terms of professional standards and requirements between the actor who merely stood in front of a lectern and the actor who has the benefit of makeup and props and all of the other things. Life Lit by Some Large Vision
In real terms, the deterioration has been somewhat less, but still significant. Times, Sunday Times
It is these terms and conditions in conjunction with the Partnership Act which will regulate the running of the enterprise.
Nahuatl terms written in alphabetical characters accompany the multitude of indigenous persons, places, and things listed and depicted in the codex.
In terms of longevity, Dvorak is right: Computers built within the last five years do last longer. Why The PC Is Not Dead
And in terms of the last point that you made which is the possibility of fees for transactions that we want to discourage, that is one of the ideas that is going to be working its way through the process. CNN Transcript Jul 22, 2009
Even some of the century's most notable achievements were presented in theological terms.

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