Sentence examples for is so elastic from inspiring English sources

The geography is so elastic.

At times, Snyder's thesis is so elastic that it stretches into formlessness: democratic transitions can, in various instances, exhibit all the attributes of his theory.

This stipulation is so elastic as to be meaningless, but it works a hardship on an author who was just trying to tell a story as best he or she could.

Wonderful as it is to see the films of Len Lye screening in the Royal Academy, it is not clear why they count as sculpture, even when the definition is so elastic as to include anything (such as a happening, a performance or a Richard Long walk) that exists, or once existed, in three dimensions.

But London will continue to be an easy and pleasant city to live in, given that one has a job, because it is so elastic: if people find it impossible to afford to live in one part of it, they shift to another.

This is impossible, if only because the definition of income is so elastic.

State election laws are so elastic as to rule out their use as bungee cords.

In practice they are so elastic that they have been used to deny pasta to besieged Gazans.

"It's so elastic, you can compress it to 10% of its size, and it will pop back to 98%.

There should be a caveat there: when and if he gets an authorization, its wording should not be so elastic that it can be used for just about anything.

The court's definition of what was "relevant" to a terrorism investigation, for example, was so elastic that it allowed the spy agency to hoover up nearly every domestic call record under the 2001 Patriot Act -- to the professed surprise of the bill's author.