Sentence examples for use in a context from inspiring English sources

The ruling seems predicated on an inverse logic: that because some people don't know the word's origins, its continued use in a context where there are no explicit racial overtones is acceptable.

Combined hydro-economic models of river basins are fundamental tools for assessing management and infrastructure strategies to improve the economic efficiency of water use in a context of competition over scarce water resources.

The meaning of the word, expressed by its use in a context is called lexicon.

Arqueros said: "Languages must be used in a context.

Fixin' to can be used in a context with negation; however, it often gets a special emphatic meaning, in a way similar to not about to (Collins 2009).

At the same time, these warnings were often used in a context where people fleeing were unable to identify a safe place to go owing to the unpredictability of many attacks over a lengthy period of time".

But media regulator Ofcom has cleared the BBC show of any wrongdoing, saying the word was used in a context that "minimised offence".

In both countries qualitative methods were used in a context of heightened politicisation and cross-cultural research in a variety of diverse political and geographical landscapes.

A previously developed kinetic metabolic model for plant metabolism was used in a context of identification and control of intracellular phosphate (Pi) dynamics.

For example, 'is a tall building' as used in a context by an individual x expresses the property of being significantly taller for x than an average building.

This is the point with respect to which a sentence, used in a context of utterance, has its truth value (cf. Kaplan 1989: 522).