Sentence examples for meaning of terms from inspiring English sources

Two primary components were tested: (1) the intent of the question (what the respondent believes the question is asking), and (2) the meaning of terms (what specific words and phrases in the question mean to the respondent).

First, about the meaning of terms: When economists talk about rising "structural" unemployment, what they actually mean is something quite specific — it's not vague hand-waving, it's the assertion that the "full-employment" rate of unemployment, the level of unemployment at which prices and wages start to rise and you risk a wage-price spiral, has increased.

Arguing over the meaning of terms such as "could" and "might" is a useful delaying tactic, too.

Instead they sought to explain to the uninitiated the meaning of terms like desticate (to cry like a rat) and antipelargy (the reciprocal love children have for their parents).

In discussion with Ms Husain afterwards, the atheist minister took the opportunity to question the BBC's procedures on Thought for the Day as he suggested that the meaning of "terms such as religion and faith" were increasingly unclear.

Though curiously familiar with the tropes and conventions of the despised genre, they so blithely ignore the meaning of terms, they reinvent the wheel with such cries of self-admiration, that their endeavours seem a doomed effort to prove that one can write a novel without learning how.

"Under any common meaning of the term, CIA detainees were tortured".

While lawyers will quibble over the meanings of terms both parties are likely to support these changes.

To determine the meaning of "individual," Justice Sotomayor consulted dictionaries, as the court often does in trying to pin down the ordinary meanings of terms.

To achieve this required the formalization of grammatical structures, the conventionalization of meanings of terms, and the invention of standard punctuation.

All logics derive from the meanings of terms in sentences.