Inequalities and privileges can be defended, but only by reference to a legitimate principle.
The amount of liability may also be determined by reference to a statute.
Relative magnetometers must be calibrated by reference to a known, accurately measured magnetic field.
Instead, the violent eruption of the Parisian banlieues was anatomised by reference to a body politic sickening with pathological metaphors.
It is impossible to describe the architecture of a Caracas barrio by reference to a poor neighbourhood in London, Paris or New York.
The genetic information itself gives relative ages, which are translated into real time by reference to a timescale established by early ape and monkey fossils.
The spoken elements in a ritual setting do often reveal the meaning of a ritual by reference to a belief system or mythology, but not always.
The diversity of uses exceeds any attempt to offer a comprehensive account of governance by reference to a list of its properties.
For example, ad hominem reasoning literally means reasoning by reference to a person rather than by reference to the argument itself.
Mr Medvedev, a senior Georgian government spokesperson added, continues to justify "ethnic cleansing and occupation" by reference to "a western conspiracy .Time is supposed to heal.
The trends obtained are explained by reference to a macrostructural and microstructural characterization of the joints.
