Sentence examples for previous definition from inspiring English sources

Opponents of the bill criticised its previous definition as too narrow.

This prior assay permits a previous definition of the different titrant amounts to be further added.

(The previous definition — "the carnal knowledge of a female, forcibly and against her will" — had been in place since 1927).

This improved upon the previous definition of a species as a population whose members share similar traits and characteristics.

A dynamic analysis of a structure requires the previous definition of the accelerograms and the structure characteristics.

In 1980, the Supreme Court decided a case called City of Mobile v. Bolden, which considerably narrowed the previous definition of a constitutional violation of voting rights.

The previous definition failed to account for some applicants for Peekskill's 28 new artists' lofts and was therefore deemed outmoded, said Blanche Alter, a city planning official.

That's so genius to me – that that totemic thing can be stripped of previous definition and rendered as a basic measuring stick, a humble domestic tool".

What I'm doing is tidying up the previous definition so we can apply it to the more interesting games we're going to look at from now on.

On the other hand, should the previous definition be a different procedure of the same name, you will not be warned, and the old procedure will be lost.

This was a reaction to the previous definition which effectively left it to the Member States to define "waste" on their territory.