Sentence examples for usual understanding from inspiring English sources

Contrary to the usual understanding, the baby boomers didn't create the culture of the sixties; they didn't even inspire it.

To get to that result, judges had to ignore the usual understanding of "obscene" — most people probably think that if "cunt" isn't obscene, what is? — and invent a new definition for constitutional purposes.

She goes beyond the usual understanding about the primacy of the playwright to suggest that British theatre is in thrall to the idea of the individual, whether that person is writer, director or star actor.

The usual understanding of what came next is that Wallace, overwhelmed by the admiration Infinite Jest had received, was nearly paralysed by the fear he could not write as good a book again.

In The Sublime Object of Ideology, Žižek rejects the notion of a substantial individual subject, the usual understanding of the "I" of René Descartes's dictum "Cogito, ergo sum" (Latin: "I think, therefore I am").

However, the vast majority of card solitaires, reflecting the most usual understanding of the word, denote an activity whereby the player starts with a shuffled pack and attempts, by following a more-or-less complicated series of maneuvers specified by the rules, to get all the cards arranged in numerical order, often also separated into their component suits.

The problem here is that the purpose the secessionists can invoke to justify a course of action seems not to fit well with the usual understandings of just cause.

However, to exclude vision from a generic instrument would violate the usual understandings of HRQoL, and, consequently, it is included in the model.

For example, on one usual way of understanding the extension of "and" over a domain, this is the function that assigns, to each pair $\langle S_1 , S_2 \rangle$ where $S_1 $and $S_2 $are sets of infinite sequences of objects drawn from $D$, the intersection of $S_1 $and $S_2$; and this function is permutation invariant).

Understanding usual handwashing practices in rural Bangladesh is an important baseline assessment for the program.

This variability in practice underscores the importance of carefully defining and understanding usual care prior to undertaking any interventional studies to evaluate the efficacy and safety of EM in different jurisdictions.