Sentence examples for serious definition from inspiring English sources

Did he "coach" the winning 2010 European Ryder Cup team in any way that might fit any serious definition of coaching?

Diana Mandell Bellevue, Wash., Sept. 27, 2009 • To the Editor: Re "Fed Up With War" (column, Sept. 26): If Bob Herbert thinks Americans are tired of the war in Afghanistan — a "long, hard, tragic and expensive campaign... with no promise of ultimate victory, or even a serious definition of what would constitute victory" — they should know that the troops are fed up, too.

President Obama may be reconsidering his idea of substantially increasing the number of American troops, but no one at the higher echelons of government is suggesting that anything other than a long, hard, tragic and expensive campaign lies ahead — with no promise of ultimate victory, or even a serious definition of what would constitute victory.

Henry Sidgwick rejected simple relational accounts of pleasure as "a feeling we seek to bring into consciousness and retain there" or the "motive power" toward this as incapable of giving the correct 'quantitative', or (at least) ordinally comparative, answers demanded of any serious definition.

The nation finds serious definition in this moment.

The pundits, hacks and shills who dismiss these calls for investigation and prosecution -- integral to any serious definition of accountability -- disgrace themselves and their country.

Of all the IT threats facing consumers and organizations today, zero-day attacks are some of the most serious: by definition, security teams do not have patches in place for zero-day vulnerabilities; and that means zero-day attacks can take, on average, 10 months to bring under control.

Of the two cohort studies, one study, that included all diagnoses of stroke from general practitioners' medical records, found a significantly increased risk [ 33], while the other, investigating the more serious outcome definition of hospitalization for stroke, found no association with atypical antipsychotics compared to non-use [ 34].

Over half (52%) were recorded as non-serious incidents; the definition of non-serious incidents being – and no, you cannot make this up – "incidents of singing or playing".

But several international-law experts and a judge at the court have questioned whether the violence of 2007, while serious, fits that definition.

The Home Office is particularly worried by a section of the judgment that says access to retained data should only be permitted in "precisely defined serious offences", a definition it believes will prove too restrictive.