Sentence examples for peculiar definition from inspiring English sources

Benoist's peculiar definition of "diversity" has allowed him to take some unexpected positions.

This is made most vivid in Mr. Bobbitt's account of the nation-state, which, in his peculiar definition, appeared late in the 19th century, when states began to justify themselves as representations of nations or peoples.

The pair of them tussled, like Tweedledum and Tweedledee, and Carroll gave a peculiar definition of himself: One who, having been unlucky enough to perpetrate two small books for children, has been bullied ever since by the herd of lion-hunters who seek to drag him out of the privacy he hoped an "anonym" would give him.

A peculiar definition of the saw-tooth approximation of the softening branch is presented, which allows for a straightforward discretization of the softening branch in the case of snap-back on a constitutive level.

Meanwhile a controversy has raged over a peculiar definition usually used by astronomers.

As far as I can tell, the effects of this peculiar definition currently may be canceling out the other effects and keeping our calendar in almost perfect agreement with the tropical year, at least for the coming millennia.

Aristotle sometimes treats genus, peculiar property, definition, and accident as including all possible predications (e.g. Topics I).

That grants too much credence to her particular, peculiar and highly selective definition of piety.

At least within the system of the book Topics, every given problem must be analyzed in terms of some formal criteria: Does the predicate of the sentence in question ascribe a genus or a definition or peculiar or accidental properties to the subject?

For instance, he cites the political philosopher Michael Walzer's definition of the "peculiar evil of terrorism," which, according to Walzer, is "not only the killing of innocent people but also the intrusion of fear into everyday life, the violation of private purposes, the insecurity of public spaces, the endless coerciveness of precaution".

Green Street Advisors, the Newport Beach, Calif .research firm, came up with the price/earnings ratios using a definition of earnings peculiar to the real estate industry.