"Modern English Usage" belongs to this trend toward a single national standard, which is, despite the destruction of the local and idiosyncratic along the way, the democratic trend.
As my colleagues and I emphasize in our note, that new stage differs from the previous one in that a local and idiosyncratic process of skill acquisition is essential.
We report the feasibility of mapping high priority data from local, independent, idiosyncratic data schemas to common shared concepts as implemented in web-accessible ontologies.
They reckoned without complicated distribution systems, feisty local competitors and idiosyncratic local habits.
Obama's advantage in the state can be explained, to some extent, by idiosyncratic local factors.
At home in Edinburgh we remained true to the terroir and sluiced the idiosyncratic local "sauce" over our fish and chips, and nowadays I think ketchup can be a perfect accompaniment.
The northern Spanish region of Asturias, under the radar for far too long, is finally taking its rightful place in British hearts thanks to its unspoiled beaches, its mountain landscapes, its gastronomy and idiosyncratic local culture.
"If you have an idiosyncratic local legal environment, then market participants will find it safer just to play on their home turf because of the legal uncertainty that goes with international activities, and we'll lose the benefit of international financial integration," he says.Such changes have undermined the case for global banks.
The Chicago Tribune, still ensconced in its lacy neo-Gothic tower on Michigan Avenue, is in almost every respect a different animal from the wacky, pugnaciously conservative, isolationist sheet full of local puffery and idiosyncratic spelling that Col. Robert R. McCormick oversaw in the 1940's and 50's.
This study, thus, assesses the role of the state and other factors in neoliberal urbanization operating beyond and intersecting with idiosyncratic local practice.
