Sentence examples for commonly understood terms from inspiring English sources

The Obama administration, it seems, is stricken with the same peculiar penchant as its predecessor for self-servingly redefining commonly understood terms.

The survey was conducted using an interviewer-administered questionnaire in the native language of the respondent using local, commonly understood terms.

Changes in behavioural risk factors over generations are commonly understood in terms of differences in acculturation and perceived ethnic identity between first and second generation migrants [ 15– 17].

The distinction between essential versus accidental properties has been characterized in various ways, but it is currently most commonly understood in modal terms: an essential property of an object is a property that it must have while an accidental property of an object is one that it happens to have but that it could lack.

Iraq probably has no weapons of mass destruction in the commonly understood sense of that term - namely, a credible device capable of being delivered against strategic city targets.

Last night Mr Cook said he did not believe that Saddam Hussein had "weapons of mass destruction in the commonly understood sense of that term, namely a credible device cap-able of being delivered against strategic city targets".

And then there those who were not listened to, such as former UN chief weapons inspector Scott Ritter, who warned in 2002 that "since 1998 Iraq has been fundamentally disarmed"; or Robin Cook, who told a hushed House of Commons as he resigned that "Iraq probably has no weapons of mass destruction in the commonly understood sense of the term".

The threats of everything from Iranian meddling to al-Qaida activity "were each explicitly identified before the invasion".When Robin Cook resigned from the cabinet before the invasion, he declared that "Iraq probably has no weapons of mass destruction in the commonly understood sense of the term".

MPs broke with tradition to applaud the 12-minute address after he predicted: "Iraq probably has no weapons of mass destruction in the commonly understood sense of the term – namely a credible device capable of being delivered against a strategic city target".

Perhaps the most commonly understood meaning of the term is as a description of the sophisticated urban music that had been developing since the 1930s, when Louis Jordan's small combo started making blues-based records with humorous lyrics and upbeat rhythms that owed as much to boogie-woogie as to classic blues forms.

The MC Mojave case did not involve litigation finance, as that term is commonly understood.