Sentence examples for ordinarily mean from inspiring English sources

For him, Wilson's notion of altruism, involving the evolutionarily optimal functioning of groups, scarcely overlaps with what we ordinarily mean by altruism, namely selfless behaviour that benefits others and involves personal sacrifice.

There are no possible or conceivable conditions in which this proposition is not true (on the assumption, of course, that the words "husband" and "married" are taken to mean what they ordinarily mean).

With 48-hour declarations, the timeframe might ordinarily mean Dettori misses the two-day meeting, which culminates with the Derby on Saturday.

In this context, tolerance does not ordinarily mean indifference or absence of disapproval: It means having a policy of not interfering with the actions of persons that are based on moral judgments we reject, when the disagreement is not or cannot be rationally resolved.

Not what we ordinarily mean, now is it?

The Court of Appeal clarified in Manjit Singh s/o Kirpal Singh v. Attorney-General (2013) that if the power exercised by a body has a legislative source, this will "ordinarily mean that it is amenable to judicial review in the absence of compelling reasons to the contrary".

But the style and tone of "The Passion" are far from what is ordinarily meant by realism.

They argue, first, that when Americans used the word militia, they ordinarily meant the entire adult male population capable of bearing arms.

Mr. Reinschmidt said code orange ordinarily meant that people should avoid large gatherings, but officials were encouraging attendance at a variety of memorial services scheduled around the state.

Calling ahead, Mr. Beaver advised, ordinarily meant that a person could come to the shop and stand in a separate line, a shorter and faster one.

"Sharing a small amount of marijuana for no remuneration, let alone possession with intent to do so, does not fit easily into the everyday understanding of trafficking, which ordinarily means some sort of commercial dealing," Justice Sonia Sotomayor wrote for a seven-justice majority, partly quoting from an earlier case.