Sentence examples for classifying something as from inspiring English sources

Classifying something as a wall, they don't bump into it.

One worry raised by this interconnectedness across spheres of social life and policy is that classifying something as a public health matter could be an effective way of taking it out of the realm of legitimate discussion.

In this way, participants were discouraged from repeating scale ratings between items and responded in a more nuanced way (i.e., by not forcing participants to classify something as large or small, we tested the extent of sound symbolic effects).

Det Supt Hatton: "In order to classify something as 'no crime' there must be some credible evidence - rather than we just believe it didn't happen - to suggest to the contrary".

But most significant to me is the question raised by Judge Kozinski at the oral argument as to whether it is the government or the courts that have the authority to classify something as a "state secret".

That's why casually classifying something that scares you or labeling something you distaste as a phobia outside of a scientific context can be so damaging.

That is, while it will mistakenly classify something innocent as a terrorist plot one in a hundred times, it will only miss a real terrorist plot one in a thousand times.

On the question of payroll taxes, he said the IRS might want to classify something like the New York proposal as a disguised withholding of state income tax, which would need to be included in workers' federal taxable wages.

After all, the effort to classify and categorise disorders of something as complex as the human mind especially when that categorisation is done by committee is unlikely to please everybody.

But neither the police nor the New York City Housing Authority track hallway shootings in which people were not the target, and they are sometimes classified as something as minor as vandalism.

To be sure, in this early work, Pfänder still classifies meaning something as a kind of presentation (Vorstellung): roughly, to mean something is to present a (representing) content that symbolically refers to another (represented) content that itself is not present in sensation, whereby the two contents are in a similarity or depictive relation (1900, 25ff, cf. also Fischer 1905).