Sentence examples for ordinary meaning from inspiring English sources

Hamish Hansford, a first assistant secretary of the department, said the term in the bill had its "ordinary meaning" but would "mean different things" depending on the product and company.

Greed, in the ordinary meaning of the word, is not rational or calculating.

3. Contrary to its ordinary meaning, a "catastrophe" in the mathematical sense is value-neutral.

The ordinary meaning of "interest" surely encompasses a right to profits or proceeds.

Not without a considerable stretch to the ordinary meaning of the words.

It continued: "Kindness, as far as its ordinary meaning is concerned, is free and anonymous.

"Interpreters" isn't defined in the statute, so the Supreme Court is supposed to give the term its ordinary meaning.

Madge vs Malawi: Statements Joyce Banda "Kindness, as far as its ordinary meaning is concerned, is free and anonymous.

Given our rule that ordinary meaning governs, and given the ordinary meaning of "uses a firearm," it seems to me inconsequential that "the words 'as a weapon' appear nowhere in the statute," ante, at 5; they are reasonably implicit.

It hardly strains congressional intention to give the word 'pursuant' its ordinary meaning in the English language.

But that says nothing about whether the ordinary meaning of the phrase "uses a firearm" embraces such extraordinary employments.