Sentence examples for the existing definition from inspiring English sources

But California's measure is the first to ask voters to define marriage when no legislation or court case is pending that might alter the existing definition.

"The Defense of Marriage Act and the existing definition of 'dependent' in some laws prohibit extension of many military benefits to same-sex couples," she said.

Therefore, the committee considers that the existing definition of computer in the Asio Act, and in particular the term "computer system", may not be sufficient to include a multiplicity of computers operating together as a network," it said.

Like this, the existing definition of 'IT convergence' is a conceptual definition.

The proposed access density was then compared with the existing definition by analyzing their correlations with crash rates on one suburban street in Temple Terrace, Florida.

Note that we assume here a stronger definition of recurrence than the existing definition for the case of iterations of a single holomorphic endomorphism of (mathbb C^k).

But the existing definitions of level of detail of information are not easily usable.

We discuss the existing definitions of cognitive networks and, with respect to those, position our understanding of the concept.

The existing definitions and approaches for checking diagnosability apply to faults or sets of faults, and comparison shows that the new definition generalizes the existing ones.

Khayyam's achievement in this topic was not to invent a new definition, but rather to demonstrate that each of the existing definitions logically implies the other.

This paper explores the current nanogrid research, it collates the existing definitions and uses the knowledge to give a concise definition of a nanogrid.