Sentence examples for elastic definition from inspiring English sources

Right now, what's hot are things that come under a more nonchalant, elastic definition of "food".

Given China's elastic definition of secret, however, he said it was possible he had used restricted material.

He noted that the Chinese government had floated a more elastic definition of "one China," to include both the mainland and Taiwan.

His assertion that he is the biggest real-estate developer in New York, however, presumes an elastic definition of that term.

Experts say nonprofits are skillfully exploiting the tax code's broad and elastic definition of what constitutes such a charity, making it difficult for the Internal Revenue Service, which must bless them, to say no.

Some of these are inextricably linked, and some quite naturally overlap, but almost no one is possessed of all seven. 2 As a term of description or abuse, "posh" has an incredibly elastic definition.

Some usefully elastic definitions allow them to claim that there are already 800,000 "green jobs" in Britain (2.8% of the total) in an industry worth £106 billion.Yet the money looks inadequate to the ambition.

Beginning with FDR, wily statists justified the massive expansion of federal power under ever more elastic definitions of the commerce clause.

That both these games are broadly defined as "cricket" attests to how elastic the definition has become.

And depending on how elastic your definition of midlife is, so too is Lauren, a friend's daughter in her early 20s who is overwhelmed and insecure as she scrambles for a medical career; and even Ernie, Lauren's ex-boyfriend turned drug dealer, who recognizes how bleak his future is.

"High maltose corn syrup and maltodextrin are highly processed, do not exist in nature and not even under the most elastic possible definition could they be considered 'natural,' " said Michael F. Jacobson, executive director of the Center for Science in the Public Interest, an advocacy group that works on public health issues and is serving as co-counsel in the lawsuit.