Sentence examples for narrower meaning from inspiring English sources

In that narrower meaning, meteoroid is usually linked with the terms meteor, meteorite, or both.

Andersen prefers a narrower meaning: to persuade another by corruption or bribery.

In excising this phrase, the Senate gave "militia" a narrower meaning than it otherwise had, thereby making the Ashcroft interpretation harder to sustain.

Politically, "Syria" henceforth acquired a narrower meaning; it referred to what was left of geographical Syria once Transjordan, Lebanon, and Palestine had been detached from it.

In her article, Ms. Kagan addressed an earlier and narrower meaning of the phrase, one made popular during the Reagan administration, concerning the scope of the president's power to control the executive branch itself.

The high court found that Icac's legislation gave rise to a narrower meaning of the word "corruption" than had been traditionally applied, and narrower than it was believed parliament intended.

Both include narrower meanings like "the place in a nuclear reactor where fission occurs," but Oxford, worried about blurring, has half as many.

"Design for Innovation" means considering that design cannot simply focus on a narrow meaning of "product use", because this could severely limit the diffusion of innovative products.

"Rural" has a very narrow meaning to the Census Bureau.

Already we might suspect that "romance" implies more than our habitual, narrowed meaning: a love story.

It shouldn't have a specialized, absurdly narrow meaning only for top executives, such as conviction of a felony.