"Metaphor operates through the juxtaposition of images (e.g. 'A is B'thethe organization is a machine'), where one element is understood in terms of another and provides a novel way of grasping, seeing and acting in any given situation in a manner that often ends up challenging taken-for-granted modes of understanding.
SCHOOL buses have long been taken for granted as a safe mode of transporting students.
In what has been described as a 'system of automobilty' (Sheller and Urry 2000), where motorised private transport is taken for granted as the privileged mode, the loss of the ability to drive can be a blow not only to mobility, but to one's identity as an independent adult: a 'major life event' (Ziegler and Schwanen 2011).
Granted, there's already plenty modes of transportation that allows city-dwellers to easily navigate the streets, from bicycles to public transportation (subways and the like) to, I don't know, a good pair of shoes.
At the same time, this procedure evokes the standard Gricean mode of explanation: granted the operation of the Cooperative Principle and, more broadly, the shared premise of rationality, we reinterpret apparent violations of valid principles or maxims so as to conserve the assumption that one's interlocutor is a rational and cooperative agent.
We note that in the RecA/SSB competition experiment, we observe RecA filaments forming only once the SSB transitions to the (SSB 35 mode, granting access to >14 nt of ssDNA.
It had adopted the popular emerging standard for such networks, known as 802.11b or Wi-Fi; the hospital's network, apparently set to the most welcoming mode of operation, automatically granted access to Mr. Rubin's machine.
In the third phase, which lasted until the last decades of the 20th century, it was recognized that empirical knowledge was fallible, but it was still granted a special status due to its distinctive mode of production.
I don't completely -- I don't take any of society's current mode of high frequency operations for granted.
Dr Gama de Abreu was granted a patent on the variable pressure support ventilation mode of assisted ventilation (noisy PSV), which has been licensed to Dräger Medical AG (Lübeck, Germany).
The selected modes of compensation, and the exonerations that are granted reveal different and complex philosophies.
