Sentence examples for indefinite if from inspiring English sources

In Nautilus, the Supreme Court held that a patent claim is indefinite if, when "read in light of the specification delineating the patent, and the prosecution history, [the claim] fail[s] to inform, with reasonable certainty, those skilled in the art about the scope of the invention". The Federal Circuit framed the question in BASF as whether the "composition..

A linear manifold or a subspace ℒ in K is called indefinite if it contains both positive and negative elements.

This can be seen by the fact that ψ Θ becomes indefinite if the conductivity section is 1-D (Θ= 0) and for a 2-D conductivity structure ψ Θ reduces to zero.

A symmetric n×n-matrix is called positive-definite (respectively negative-definite; indefinite), if for all nonzero vectors 'x' ∈ Rn the associated quadratic form given by Q('x') = 'x'TAx takes only positive values (respectively only negative values; both some negative and some positive values).

While Verizon Wireless has not announced a dividend policy for the indefinite future, if the current scenario continues, Vodafone can expect other payouts to follow.

The shelf life of slivovitz is indefinite, but if you keep the stuff on ice, it won't last long at all.

Last summer, the United States Supreme Court, in Zadvydas v. Davis, said it was a violation of the due process clause of the Fifth Amendment to keep immigrants who had been ordered deported in indefinite detention, if no country would accept them.

Abu Khattala had spent 10 years as a political prisoner under Libyan dictator Moammar Gaddafi's regime and could have feared a return to harsher or indefinite detention if he failed to cooperate, a defense expert testified.

We also grasp the number of considerations on which those refutations depend, that are merely apparent-apparent, I mean, not to everybody, but to people of a certain stamp; for it is an indefinite task if one is to inquire how many are the considerations that make them apparent to the man in the street.

As many as 130 detainees have been deemed dangerous but are unlikely to ever face criminal charges, according to prosecutors, and now government officials could have to argue for indefinite detention even if the evidence is flimsy or nonexistent.

But this point is also the locus for the opposite movement, in which the other goes from indefinite to definite and if there is an ethics of the novel, then it is here, in the zone that lies between the one and the all, that it comes into force and takes its basis.