"Rape myths are used as a convenient label to explain away low conviction rates.
'Teenager' may be a convenient label – but choosing an item by its label is no guarantee that it fits.
This word is a convenient label that has been dreamed up by some governments, political analysts and the media to describe the major "Islamic threat" facing western civilisation.
It provided doctors, in the pre-EEG late 19th century, with a convenient label to apply to everything from schizophrenia to ordinary obnoxiousness.
Whether this number is higher because of "real" learning needs or if it's just a convenient label for the effects of poverty on children, the fact remains that needs are higher when poverty is higher.
The big, loud, brash guys who swagger and dominate and bully have been part of our society for as long as it's existed, so it's nice to have a convenient label for them if nothing else.
The big four, after all, is a convenient label which fluctuates, with even the official Open programme having a stab at chronicling their prospects and with the now struggling Rickie Fowler the fourth man rather than Johnson, the US Open champion.
Although it remains a convenient label for languages of a certain type and geographic area, the term Indonesian language does not appear to refer to any definable subgroup within the Austronesian family.
Pamela Spengler-Jaffee, a HarperCollins publicist who works with William Morrow, an adult division that has been signing new-adult authors at a frenetic pace, admits, "It is a convenient label because it allows parents and bookstores and interested readers to know what is inside".
The Punjabi word lahnda, literally meaning "west," was first used in this sense by Irish linguist Sir George Grierson in the Linguistic Survey of India (1903 28) as a convenient label to distinguish these dialects, which he classified alongside Sindhi, from what he defined as the "Punjabi proper" of central and eastern Punjab, which he grouped with the neighbouring Western Hindi.
