A spokesperson for Oxford University Press said: "All our dictionaries are designed to reflect language as it is used, rather than seeking to prescribe certain words or word usages.
While a performance of the anthem may include only music, only words, or a combination of both, the anthem must be performed using the official music and words prescribed by law.
But in "Eh Joe" the visuals are as precisely prescribed as the words.
It feels, sometimes, as if we must arrive fully formed to the world of activism, the perfect agents of change, somehow entirely cognisant of the ever shifting morass of rules and prescribed or proscribed words, phrases, argot, and thought.
In numerous religions, spiritual purification may be sought through the verbal or mental repetition of a prescribed efficacious syllable, word, or text (e.g., the Hindu and Buddhist mantra, the Islamic dhikr, and the Eastern Christian Jesus Prayer).
The first approach is to associate emotions to labels denoting discrete categories, i.e., human judges choose from a prescribed list of word labels, such as anger, disgust, fear, joy, sadness, and surprise.
Fearing my own eventual Lucy Jordan moment, the worst fate I could imagine — a structured, sterile, prescribed existence guided by words like "appropriate" — I decided to get a new tattoo.
The noise level was held constant at 65 dB SPL and the presentation level of the test sentences was varied adaptively according to the number of correctly repeated words, as prescribed by the predefined OLSA test paradigm [ 19].
The wording is prescribed by the Constitution (Article II, Section 1, Clause 8), as follows: I do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will faithfully execute the Office of President of the United States, and will to the best of my Ability, preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States.
The stories refer to the five times of day prescribed for Muslim prayer, the words as impressionistic as the images themselves.
