Later, in response to widespread demand to clarify the meaning of his scale in more usual terms, Wedgwood made a translation of his scale into Fahrenheit degrees, by means of an intermediate standard (thermal expansion of silver) which overlapped with the high end of the mercury scale and the low end of the clay scale.
The prizefight has been presented, entertainingly, in the usual terms – of highbrow versus lowbrow culture, of pompous literary elites against good, old-fashioned readers.
Further, the capacity for vapour and the effect of temperature can now be presented in the usual terms of saturation vapour pressure.
The European Union is not expected to withhold regulatory approval, since it agreed to a similar deal in 2004 between Air France and KLM, the national carriers of France and the Netherlands.Willie Walsh, the head of BA, explained the deal in the usual terms:The aviation landscape is changing and airline consolidation is long overdue.
Mr. Trintignant appears to have realized early on that he was, in the usual terms of movie stardom, only an average specimen of homo cinematicus: of modest height, medium good looking, possessed of a pleasant, expressive, but not terribly memorable voice.
Here Jim reverses the usual terms in which suicide is usually seen — as a cowardly act.
With the exception of the budget -- at $35,000, there was none, in the decorator's usual terms -- Father Gerth, with his high-ceilinged, 11-room home, was not an untypical client for Mr. Jayne.
If fewer repeated area measures are needed to explain more of the variation in usual long-term exposures as compared with personal measures, this could have far-reaching impacts on costs, participation, and other logistical concerns of long-term intervention studies.
The usual term in Christian usage for this sort of ultimate hubris is "the sin of Lucifer".
Though according to Wikipedia (and when is that ever wrong?) it's also the usual term in French-speaking Canada for a running shoe or sneaker.
