Sentence examples for customary us from inspiring English sources

Irrespective of which will win, four of them can be categorised, as austere arthouse (Amour), the higher whimsy (Beasts of the Southern Wild and The Life of Pi), and customary US family angst (Silver Linings Playbook).

Its competitors have meanwhile steadily improved their technology, eroding the customary US technological edge.

It is customary for us pedants to denounce "losing out" as an American waste of space.

Haymitch Abernathy (Woody Harrelson, left), Peeta Mellark Josh Hutchersonn, center), Katniss Everdeen (Jennifer Lawrence, right), in "The Hunger Games". It's customary for us ink-stained (and now, of course, pixel-stained) wretches to look back on the year's films and pluck out 10 titles that we ordain collectively as top 10 lists.

They include, but are not limited to, Big Food which profits from causing the problem; Big Pharma, which profits from treating the problem; Big Tech, which profits both from causing and combating the problem; and Big Media/Publishing, which profit from telling us about the problem in the customary manner: afflicting us when comfortable, comforting us when afflicted.

The root cause of the loss in 1999 of NASA's US$125 million Mars Climate Orbiter which crashed into Mars was a mismatch of units – the spacecraft engineers calculated the thrust forces required for velocity changes using US customary units (lbf·s) whereas the team who built the thrusters were expecting a value in metric units (N·s) as per the agreed specification.

Even though Congress set up a framework for the use of the metric system in the nineteenth century, the United States continues to use US customary units, based on English measure passed by parliament under the reign of Queen Anne in 1706, for most purposes apart from science and medicine, though as a result of their Spanish heritage, metric units are used widely in Puerto Rico.

Her customary precision leads us through the stages.

"It is beyond parody," he wrote, with his customary journalistic sloth; save us from journalists with catch-phrases.

During our ride, we talked to the fellow who gave us a customary Lyft-esque fist-pound when we got into his car.

Data from precolonial warfare, 501 recent wars, and 129 customary court sessions allow us to consider (i) the principles and values behind customary institutions for peace, (ii) their effectiveness, (iii) how they interact with and compare to state institutions of today, and (iv) how such institutions might have shaped our human behavioral repertoire to make life in state societies possible.