Sentence examples for generally accepted meaning from inspiring English sources

The Bureau of Internal Revenue, the Board of Tax Appeals, and the federal courts have from time to time, however, narrowed the generally accepted meaning of the language used in Section 23(a) in order that tax deduction consequences might not frustrate sharply defined national or state policies proscribing particular types of conduct.

There is no generally accepted meaning of the term and there are no established practices (see for example [3, 4, 5]).

The terms "electronic patient record" and "nursing information system" were defined in the questionnaire because they do not have a generally accepted meaning.

One is hard pressed to find a definition of adaptation in the literature but the generally accepted meaning of the term is "a trait that enhances the ability of an organism to survive or reproduce".

It is generally accepted that "meaning" is a suffusing characteristic of all language by definition, and the attempt to slice meaning into "senses" must be done arbitrarily by the person analyzing the language.

That would be unprecedented, and it would be cynical, and it would be arrogant, and it would be (in the generally accepted, commonsense meaning of the word) undemocratic.

According to Ofcom's code, broadcasters must apply "generally accepted standards" meaning that any material they air which might be offensive or explicit must be able to be justified by context, such as whether children are likely to see it.

E1: But it just might be more effective if you used the words according to their generally and widely accepted meanings?

While the margin-for-error principle discussed in Williamson (1994) might serve to explain how we could be ignorant of the postulated sharp boundaries were they to exist, it might be thought that since our use of vague terms does not draw sharp boundaries they could not possess them given the generally accepted connection between meaning and use.

It is this which is generally accepted as the meaning of Kali standing on the chest of Shiva.

It's a discrete and combinable written element that conveys semantic (and, arguably, syntactical) meaning; the generally accepted linguistic definition is pretty much fulfilled.