Sentence examples for usage conventions from inspiring English sources

Each case illustrates the challenge of maintaining a consistent style in a changing world, where some people read political motives into simple usage conventions, where words once thought acceptable become objectionable, and where other words once objectionable become part of everyday language.

Below, we first describe what we provide you with in terms of a network device and how you need to interact with it, (as with real networking cards, there are some elaborate constraints on when the card can be initialized), then what you need to implement in the minimsgs interface, and finally describe the miniport usage conventions you need to implement to facilitate uniform applications.

The truck drivers, for their part, pointed out that, in addition to the missing comma, the law as written flouts "the parallel usage convention".

Early cartographers recognized that common usages and conventions would minimize confusion and to some extent simplify compilation and engraving.

A panel in Denver passed a resolution encouraging the Denver Police to overlook marijuana usage for the convention - again, let's keep our eye on the ball of the story.

Students learn how logic can explain those conventions of usage and punctuation that seemed arbitrary when reduced to rules.

For conventions of usage, certain discourse patterns can reliably convey communicative functions (hereafter Dis).

This result was consistent with previous research findings (Taguchi 2008; Taguchi et al. 2013) and demonstrated the facilitative effects of conventions of usage (Morgan 1978) on interpreting implied meaning.

The reason that's possible is that "what a sentence means depends not on the whim of the individual, and his mental vagaries, but upon public conventions of usage that are tied up with habit patterns in the whole speaking community".

This means that MegaMIMO 2.0 could dramatically improve the speed and strength of wireless networks, particularly at high-usage events like concerts, conventions and football games.

Combing Goodreads, she found 530 titles with this naming convention, with usage really starting to take off around 2004.