Sentence examples for of common usage from inspiring English sources
For example, a trademark application for the term "purple grapes" would be considered too precise and already part of common usage.
Friends and teachers describe him as caring, gregarious and self-confident before he — in the vague metaphor of common usage — apparently "snapped".
But the center did not hold much past 1980, when Sotheby's — by that time the Parke-Bernet had dropped out of common usage — started moving into its present building at York Avenue and 72nd Street.
"A trade mark can be anything that identifies the goods and services of a business or distinguishes them from those of another – so you can trade mark a single word of common usage," explains Alex Tutty of law firm Sheridans, which represents a range of games companies.
The Minnesota Supreme Court, while acknowledging that the state's law made no reference to gender in describing marriage, concluded that the law "employs that term as one of common usage, meaning the state of union between persons of the opposite sex," an implied definition "as old as the Book of Genesis".
Again these "all rights are claims" statements are better interpreted as stipulative, rather than as analyses of common usage.
It involves, of necessity, some degree of idealization in relation to common usage of the term "science".
The PARiHS framework was selected because of its common usage in the KT field, thereby increasing the transferability of our study findings, and because of its unique focus on facilitation in implementation efforts.
We all may have enjoyed snowfalls, or contemplated the enchantment of a world whitened by frost, but the saying "A perfect winter's day" just isn't part of our common usage.
Here we focused only on the NCI, NPD, and MLSMR databases because of their common usage in screening for kinase targets (Figure 2).
The shoebox was selected as a referent because of its common usage in many cognitive tasks, in particular semantic categorization tasks (e.g., Dobbins, Schnyer, Verfaellie, & Schacter, 2004; Schacter, Wig, & Stevens, 2007; Uncapher, Otten, & Rugg, 2006).
