But, in a first blow to his plan, the OBR said it would be for parliament to devise a definition, while its boss Robert Chote described the plan as "ambitious".
One strategy for devising a definition for chaos is to begin with discrete maps and then generalize to the continuous case.
As there is no universal definition of radioresistant cancer, we have devised a strict definition.
And anyway, legal scholars say, it is exceedingly difficult to devise a universal definition of hate speech.
Mr. Geithner vowed to devise a "broad definition" of standardized instruments, adding that regulators would be required to carefully police any attempts at "spurious customization".
Inevitably, the drafters' first task would be to devise a workable definition of "peaceful protest" so it can be protected and, as important, so we can consign "direct action" to the realms of unprotection.
When astronomers arrived at IAU meeting in Prague that year, they were surprised to hear that a group had been working in secret to devise a formal definition for planet — something that had never been done before.
The Institute of Medicine (IOM), under contract by the Department of Health and Human Services, is assembling a panel of clinicians and researchers to devise a new definition for the disease.
