Sentence examples for the accepted convention from inspiring English sources

For example, if you're taking a poll on how people plan to vote in an election, the accepted convention is that two standard deviations above or below the average, which gives a 95percentt confidence level, is reasonable.

It is like the theatre where you know the name of the playwright, but when the curtain rises the accepted convention is that the audience doesn't take all the actions or opinions on the stage as the author's.

I worry, too, about the accepted convention that 'ship' = SS, as the last launch of one to be powered by steam must predate the birth of the majority of our solvers.

It shows Mr. Duncan's endearing ungainly handling of the Classic style — the rustication of the stone rises three stories, whereas the accepted convention is to confine it to the first floor, and the severe, planar fourth and fifth floors seem out of balance with the lower three.

The scores of the SF-36 do not follow a normal distribution, yet the accepted convention among authors is to use means, standard deviations and ANOVA in statistical analyses.

But it is the accepted convention that Special Forces don't count as major ground combat operations.

And yet his own art rarely questions the accepted conventions of his time.

He showed what could be done within the accepted conventions of the constitution; he never attempted to change them.

Gaga has previously claimed she places hidden messages in her music videos, which have seen her frequently collaborate with Swedish director Jonas Akerlund and typically stretched the accepted conventions of the medium - with her video for song 'Telephone' running to nine and a half minutes.

According to the generally accepted convention for earthquake source modeling, we used the same seismic moment for all subsources.

The generally accepted convention is to attribute seven vertebrae to the cervical and 12 vertebrae to the thoracic spine [10, 11, 13].