Sentence examples for elastic concepts from inspiring English sources

Time and distance become elastic concepts.

But demanding a trial in these circumstances, where someone like Mr. Padilla would almost surely be found guilty, carries a high cost for civil liberties: it would stretch the meaning of already elastic concepts like criminal conspiracy to the point of creating what would amount to thought crimes.

Such measures will only prove that "red lines are actually elastic concepts", the commentary adds.

So much so that home is an elastic concept now.

Most of the time, I don't mind this rather elastic concept of my role.

Valuation has always been an elastic concept in anything touching Bernard Madoff.

She contends that middle age is a "cultural fiction," an elastic concept reinterpreted by every generation.

Dr Gwinn has the computers and, once again, infinity is an elastic concept.

It was a place where anything could be bought and where the law was a very elastic concept.

Falk would not wish to see his elastic concept of international law and global governance stretched very far, given his suspicion of American motives.

Happily for those of us who have taken it upon ourselves to cook clean, processing seems a pretty elastic concept for all concerned.