With entrepreneurial vigour of the Chinese sort, every problem in the Chinese economy can plausibly be redefined as an opportunity.
He could scarcely have imagined then that, long before the end of that season, he would be redefined as yesterday's man.
It's about learning that your freakishness — the damage that has made society reject you — can be redefined as a special power.
Cervical cancer is now prevented with an anti-viral vaccine; five previously discrete mental illnesses may be redefined as related genetic variations.
The word marriage needs to be redefined as a union between two consenting adults, no matter what the genders of the couple.
Rather than directly fighting them, I believe it is time for HIV and other blood-borne viruses, such as hepatitis C, to be redefined as the responsibility of the NHS.
The moment in history we are all attempting to identify is when sport became so commercialised that it could be redefined as a form of consumerism, an offshoot of showbiz.
Dr. C. Everett Koop, the former Surgeon General, and Dr. George Lundberg, the editor of the AMA journal propose that intentional violence and particularly gunshot deaths, be redefined as a public-health emergency.
The term "high-risk sex" that was defined as sex with someone who is not a regular partner is to be redefined as sex with anyone whose HIV status is not known, for example.
Thus, demons according to this reinterpretation might well be redefined as projections of the unregulated drives of man that force him to act only according to his own selfish desires, taking no account of their effects on other persons.
Moreover, even in a good year five million Ethiopians need food aid, and Georgia Shaver, head of the World Food Program in Ethiopia, says that "normal" may need to be redefined as 10 million in need.
