Sentence examples for Good usage from inspiring English sources

I gave Scientology to the world with hopes of good usage.

Vaugelas was sensible enough to realize that good usage changed with changes of interest in society.

Arbiters of good usage resigned to being called "word police" have been denounced as wordinistas, just as nosy reporters have been derogated as scandalistas.

It became fashionable to publish manuals of "good usage" in which the Attic equivalents of Koine innovations were recommended as models for the student's imitation.

The power in this new medium may indeed lie in the striking potential of its immediacy, but any written communication (as ever) depends for its clarity and facility on good usage and communicable style -- however inventive (or playful) the construction.

First, a minority is a group, not an individual; you can say, "I am a member of a minority," but you strain the bounds of good usage when you say, "I am a minority".

Maybe I sound like Baldrick but I found it a bit too compelling, following the arrows with my eyes, going "good energy usage; bad energy usage", and I didn't always watch the road.

Anne Soukhanov, executive editor of A.H.D.'s third edition, said that even after Newman stepped down, the dictionary's editorial policy continued to reflect his views of good English usage: "the need to encourage accuracy, precision, concision, coherence and grace in written and oral use of our language".

First of all, knowledge is in certain way a public good; its usage is non-rivalrous and the marginal cost of another person enjoying knowledge is zero.

While the Internet is here to stay, the question to be asked is: How can Internet-based consulting work synergistically with personal consultation so that knowledge can be used as an effective tool to supplant prevalent general opinions (which may be in great need of being corrected/changed), and inculcate good energy usage practices in the minds of people?

The prevalence of Acinetobacter infections can be reduced by taking strict isolation measures as well as by implementing good antibiotics usage policy.