Sentence examples for upon a wording from inspiring English sources

A consensus meeting finally agreed upon a wording that was compatible in both cultures and also in different social classes.

First, the instructor could have acknowledged the tension between PTs' and elementary children's learning, but still explicitly emphasized the importance of reasoning upon a word problem situation from the perspective of children.

Signifying by convention is the result of an original (voluntary) imposition of a significatum upon a word, primarily conceived of as a spoken word (vox) – a modulated sound (DOS 488; see also QLIVS 42, 224).[25] A word signifies the passio mentis and the thing outside the soul (QLIVS 11, 47).

When some word has acquired a signification by an impositor (= someone who bestows a meaning upon a word), then it connotes a univeral nature or essence, and acquires a natural capacity to stand for all the actual and possible individuals that share in this common nature; it owes this capacity to its significatio.

Speakers can use language to communicate because they are familiar with the kinds of similar things that words refer to, and thus upon hearing a word know what the thing referred to "is like".

Upon reading a word, participants were asked to press one of two buttons indicating whether the word was "old" or "new".

His life and works were founded upon faith in "A word wakened by lips that perish".

Once upon a time, word-of-mouth was credited as the driving force behind most of the biggest hits to come out of Hollywood.

Tells how Dr. Vizetelly and his assistants seize upon a new word, trace its history, definition, and origin before it is inserted... Discusses several of the so-called modern words such as whoopee which may be found in Shakespeare's works; flapper which was used by Elizabetheans in the Seventeenth century.

Yet Maimonides had urged readers of the Guide "not to comment upon a single word of it and not to explain to another anything in it".

I have recently come upon a better word to describe the result of the CNN and MSNBC attempts to be "objective".