Books 1 7 contain magical prayers for precise purposes: spells for a long life, cures, curses, love charms, prayers for prosperity, charms for kingship and Brahmanhood, and expiations for evil actions.
Likewise, they have been content to appeal to an intuitive notion of what it is to 'bear a name' rather than spelling out precise conditions for when it is that an object or individual can rightly be said to stand in this relation to a particular name.
Carey is too subtle a writer to spell out precise meanings through this passage of bravura writing, but his intentions are clear enough.
Right now, drug makers are largely prevented from offering price concessions based on how a drug is used unless all of those precise uses are explicitly spelled out in the drug's FDA approved label.
If you select a word from a thesaurus without knowing its precise meaning or allow a spell checker to correct spelling automatically, you may make wrong-word errors.
Vice President Dick Cheney and Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld have been pounding the war drums without ever spelling out the precise nature of the Iraqi threat or why "regime change" is mandatory now when it was not deemed necessary only a year or two ago -- and was ruled out by Mr. Bush's father in 1991.
Absent precise language in a contract spelling out contingencies, courts use such doctrines as force majeure to decide whether the contract is still valid.
In tomorrow's issue of Nature, a team of scientists from The Institute for Genomic Research TIGRR) in Rockville, Maryland, will publish the complete genetic sequence of the bacterium Helicobacter pylori, spelling out the precise molecular composition of the organism's genes.
In scanning the medication we avoided spelling mistakes, gathered precise information about the pharmaceutical and were able to develop various medication classes for future evaluation.
While Mr. Harvey did not spell out the precise roles played by each defendant, Mr. Ramsey and Mr. Walker apparently were present outside Mr. Brown's suburban Atlanta house along with Mr. Cuffy and Mr. Skyers.
