He no longer spoke, for instance, of cradling Dr. King's head but of "reaching out" for him.
She often spoke, for instance, about the problems she faced as a divorced working mother after her marriage to Dennis Dunn ended in 1977.
I spoke, for instance, to Phyllis Molchatsky, who lost $1.7 million with Mr. Madoff — and is now suing the S.E.C. to recoup her losses, on the grounds the agency was so negligent it should be forced to pony up.
He speaks, for instance, of how his parents met and came to America and the struggles they endured.
The Greek Catholic Father Vasily, who sees himself as a missionary for his faith in western Ukraine, and the Orthodox Father Kurpita never speak, for instance.
When the government speaks, for instance to promote its own policies or to advance a particular idea, it is, in the end, accountable to the electorate and the political process for its advocacy.
The Xiang languages, spoken only in Hunan, are divided into New Xiang, which is under heavy influence from Mandarin and includes the language of the capital Changsha, and Old Xiang, more similar to the Wu languages, as spoken for instance in Shuangfeng.
We speak, for instance, of a power to lift a hundred talents or walk a hundred stades-though a power to effect the maximum is also a power to effect any part of the maximum-since we feel obliged in defining the power to give the limit or maximum.
Another somewhat obscure, but again very different use of the term 'abstract', is that of David Lewis, who speaks for instance of 'the particular pain of a given person at a particular time' as an "abstract entity which… we might identify with a pair of a universal and a single concrete particular instance thereof" (Lewis 1966).
"I think if you're looking at who's making concrete plans, say who's spoken for instance to a recruitment consultancy or who has a firm job offer, I think yes the sample sizes there are a bit small to say specifically who are the numbers who are coming," Peter Flade, director of Gallup UK, told BBC Newsnight.
It compares each word to every other word in the sentence to see if any of them will affect one another in some key way — to see whether "he" or "she" is speaking, for instance, or whether a word like "bank" is meant in a particular way.
