Admittedly, Buridan explicitly restricts appellation to appellative terms, that is, "every term connoting something other than what it supposits for" (Summulae de Dialiectica: Treatise on Suppositions, tr. Klima, p. 291), and it "appellates that which it connotes as pertaining to that which it supposits for".
Brčko District, an appellation lifted straight from US constitutional jargon, was born, overseen by an international supervisor.
Such a nondescript appellation will never win popular approval.
Since it is highly unlikely that 20-30% of the A-rated bonds will go bust, the rating agencies will give such securities the highest AAA appellation.
Tintas Robbialac, a Portuguese paint-maker, axed its Vermelho Estaline ("Red Stalin") appellation following online protest in 2010.
In many official contexts, it is known by the clumsy appellation of Derry-Londonderry because residents cannot agree on what to call it.
Mr Kapuscinski tells it as it felt, rather than as it was, describing sometimes, it seems, distastefully relishing whatever is bizarre, humiliating, disgusting, exotic.In his foreword he observes: "In reality, except as a geographical appellation, Africa does not exist".
Might geographical indicators, like the appellation contrôlée system in French wine, have been a better option?
Starbucks favours a system of regional certification, much like the appellation contrôlée system in French wine, which would allow beans to be branded consistently without creating legal problems.
French people began questioning nuclear power (winemakers who fall under the appellation Coteaux du Tricastin are campaigning to change the name) with an intensity they had not previously shown.The industry freely admits there is a chronic shortage of nuclear engineers in the world, which is not reassuring.
But for the foreseeable future, America's Department of Defence says, America's biggest worry will be small messy wars, fought with messy alliances with messy outcomes; more Iraqs, Afghanistans and campaigns against the likes of al-Qaeda.The Pentagon now calls this the "Long War against violent extremist movements" (dropping the old appellation of the "Global War on Terrorism").
