Sentence examples for connotations by from inspiring English sources

The name Mesopotamia has been used with varying connotations by ancient writers.

The word saloon, originally meant to lend tone to drinking places, had acquired unsavory connotations by the time of Prohibition.

While recognising that "girl" can have negative connotations when used to describe a woman, we don't want to compound those connotations by recoiling at its use.

As such, the widespread appeal of risk matrices is fundamentally constituted through their symbolic connotations by means of which complex and potentially not well understood processes come to appear simple, imaginable and 'manageable'manageable

The term sacred has been used from a wide variety of perspectives and given varying descriptive and evaluative connotations by scholars seeking to interpret the materials provided by anthropology and the history of religions.

The Washington Post and MTV originally created religious connotations by incorrectly labeling Chan's characters as Muslims; they issued corrected stories after Chan complained.

A more useful classification provides a genetic connotation by categorizing terraces as either erosional or depositional.

In political and journalistic use, the phrase's connotation is accusatory: today's question, "Where is your exit strategy?" connotes "How do you plan to get us out of this mess at a date certain?" In his answer, Rumsfeld chose to counter that polemical connotation by defining the mission not as exit but as success.

Always questioned the phrase's negative connotation by depicting girls fighting, running and throwing like capable athletes.

For instance, the term control can be substituted with a "good" connotation by organize, or with a "bad" connotation as curb.

Asked about this later, experts on Javanese culture were puzzled by the references, which they said did not usually have the connotations applied by Mr. Wahid.