Sentence examples for term is understood from inspiring English sources

SOTOMAYOR:... then they are -- they have been deemed fundamental, as that term is understood legally.

As for jurisconsults, that curious term is understood to include distinguished academics and practitioners rather than a junior member of the bar who taught part-time.

Trump has repeatedly slammed "globalists" in his public rhetoric, despite warnings that the term is understood to mean Jews in anti-Semitic circles.

His preening, score-settling, foul-mouthed autobiography, The Kid Stays in the Picture, however, is less a demand for respectability than for 'respect' as that term is understood in Harlem and by the Mafia.

The American government held people without charge for almost a decade, engaged in torture as that term is understood in international law, and sent people abroad for questioning to countries known to engage in what everyone must agree is torture.

No provision is made for liability of the carrier in case of deviation, for a carrier's lien, or for stoppage in transit, as this term is understood at common law.

But we think it meant a selection by the state as that term was understood in the administrative practice.

The sense of a term be understood as that what determines its reference (cf. Church 1956, 6n).

Feminist standpoint theory is a type of critical theory, as this term was understood by the Frankfurt school of critical social theorists.

The second element is people's insecurity, the latter term being understood in its broad sense encompassing the systemic effects of violence on communities and health services, and quite distinct from national or international security issues.

This contention becomes relatively uncontroversial when the way in which Green uses his terms is understood.