Sentence examples for definite term from inspiring English sources

Appointments are for a definite term and carry no expectation of tenure or promotion.

If they are in Leavenworth because they have been sentenced to a definite term after a real trial, the Kansas Tourism Board can probably rest easy.

In Toussaint v Blue Cross & Blue Shield of Michigan, 408 Mich 579; 292 NW2d 880 (1980), this Court held that an employment contract providing that an employee would not be terminated except for cause was enforceable although no definite term of employment was stated.

Bottomry, a maritime contract (now almost obsolete) by which the owner of a ship borrows money for equipping or repairing the vessel and, for a definite term, pledges the ship as security it being stipulated that if the ship be lost in the specified voyage or period, by any of the perils enumerated, the lender shall lose his money.

Last I heard, there was a definite term sheet for $25 million from Institutional Venture Partners, but it's not clear if OMGPOP is going to move forward with investors.

Munro, 82, told the Canada's National Post in definite terms earlier this year that she wanted to retire, saying that she had "very much" come to terms with the decision.

Greek proslepsis can mean "something taken in addition," and Theophrastus claimed that propositions like these implicitly contain a third, indefinite term, in addition to the two definite terms ("α" and "γ" in the example).

There may not have been definite terms proffered, but the rumors flew fast that Vice Presidential nominations and other forms of preferment in return for aid in time of trouble were at least suggested in conferences.

Robots compute in definite terms: yes or no, it's all '0's and '1's to them.

The piper diagram is useful in bringing out chemical relationships among water in more definite terms (Walton 1970).