Sentence examples for recognized definition from inspiring English sources

It does not meet the generally recognized definition of torture".

Structural health monitoring is a relatively new idea in civil engineering applications and a single widely recognized definition has yet to be standardized.

Judge Kimba M. Wood of Federal District Court in Manhattan had allowed the case to go to trial in a ruling last September that expanded the constitutionally recognized definition of family.

The summit also offers an opportunity to produce an internationally recognized definition of terrorism that would make it harder for Arab governments to pretend that people who blow up civilians may be viewed as freedom fighters.

There are many ideas and concepts of the "middle class", but no final, widely recognized definition in a sociological sense.

In that regard the most widely recognized definition of mercenary is the found in Article 47, Additional Protocol 1 of the Geneva Accords.

He called for "sustained, sober, and systematic data collection" based on generally recognized definitions.

Due to these limitations, we attempted to choose indicators with objective or widely recognized definitions.

Considering fisheries from a global or a regional perspective requires national fisheries statistical programmes to be coherent and consistent, and demands a common set of regional or interregional statistical standards which apply internationally recognized definitions, classifications and codes.

The same applies for diagnosis of pregnancy complications as obstetric pathologies of each pregnancy based on both domestic criteria adopting internationally recognized definitions [ 16], and presented as incidence rates using numbers of total births as denominator.

The phrase "what it is to be" and its variants are crucial: giving a definition is saying, of some existent thing, what it is, not simply specifying the meaning of a word (Aristotle does recognize definitions of the latter sort, but he has little interest in them).