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ordinary and usage
" The Cadillac court was willing to acknowledge that the case law supported exceptions for " an article dangerous in its nature or likely to become so in the course of the ordinary usage to be contemplated by the vendor.
" It is implied that this was different from his ordinary usage, which was simply to write the concluding salutation with his own hand, indicating that the rest of the epistle was written by another hand.
An ordinary English-language usage predating guided weapons is simply any thrown object, for example objects thrown by rowdy football spectators at players.
In this latter usage, a militia is a body of private persons who respond to an emergency threat to public safety, usually one that requires an armed response, but which can also include ordinary law enforcement or disaster responses.
About the late twenty-first dynasty ( tenth century BC ), however, instead of being used alone as before, it began to be added to the other titles before the ruler's name, and from the twenty-fifth dynasty ( eighth to seventh centuries BC ) it was, at least in ordinary usage, the only epithet prefixed to the royal appellative.
The principle is most helpful in cases where there is not an established or standard name of the universal in ordinary English usage: What is the name of the universal distinctive of chairs?
Movements in the vocal cords are rapid, fundamental frequencies are usually between 80 and 300 Hz, thus preventing usage of ordinary video.
This usage extends to ordinary parentheses as well.
Presbyter ( Greek πρεσβύτερος, presbuteros: " elder ", or " priest " in Christian usage ) in the New Testament refers to a leader in local Christian congregations, then often not clearly distinguished from episkopos, presbyter referring to ordinary priests or elders and episkopos referring exclusively to the full order or office of bishop.
Writing about the usage of the term " ethnic " in the ordinary language of Great Britain and the United States, in 1977 Wallman noted that
What separates Filipino Martial Arts from other weapon-based martial arts like Japanese Kendo & Kenjutsu, European Fencing and traditional Chinese Martial arts that teach the usage of classical Chinese weapons is that FMA teaches weapon use that is practical today: how to use and deal with weapons that one can actually encounter in the streets and how to turn ordinary items into improvised weapons.
In ordinary usage, the civil day is reckoned by the midnight epoch, that is, the civil day begins at midnight.
In ordinary usage, price is the quantity of payment or compensation given by one party to another in return for goods or services.
Silica gel is non-toxic, non-flammable, and non-reactive and stable with ordinary usage.
In ordinary usage it denotes respect and status, and it is often used to suggest that someone is not receiving a proper degree of respect, or even that they are failing to treat themselves with proper self-respect.
Austin warns us to take care when removing words from their ordinary usage, giving numerous examples of how this can lead to error.
The usage derives from " Navvy Jack ", by ordinary name Jack Thomas, a former navvy who used a rowboat to mine good-quality gravel from beaches in West Vancouver and infrequently ran a rowboat-ferry for settlers on Burrard Inlet and English Bay.
Sometimes in ordinary usage, nonsense is synonymous with absurdity or the ridiculous.
Mapfumo was born in 1945 in Marondera, Mashonaland East, a town southeast of Harare, the capital of Zimbabwe, though at the time the capital was called Salisbury and the country was a colony of Great Britain called Southern Rhodesia ( becoming Rhodesia in ordinary usage after Northern Rhodesia gained independence as Zambia ).
Often, this usage expresses the sentiment of " ordinary citizens " who see all politicians as serving the same special interests and make little distinction between the two parties.
Thus, King rejects " these present-day views signs from symptoms based on patient-subjective versus clinician-objective, however widely accepted, as quite faulty, at variance not only with ordinary usage but with the entire history of medicine.
As a name for a country, Kvenland seems to have gone out of ordinary usage around the beginning of the second millennium, unrecognized by scholars by the 14th century.
The creation of XML Signatures is substantially more complex than the creation of an ordinary digital signature because a given XML Document ( an " Infoset ", in common usage among XML developers ) may have more than one legal serialized representation.
In modern usage, the term " skeleton key " is often misapplied to ordinary bit keys and barrel keys, rather than the correct definition: a key, usually with minimal features, which can open all or most of a type of early designed lock.

ordinary and skepticism
Takes ordinary language approaches to issues of skepticism, but also makes those approaches a subject of scrutiny.
Contains a large section on ordinary language philosophy, and a chapter on Austin's treatment of skepticism and perception in Sense and Sensibilia.
Beside a frequent note that only God knows whether a particular statement is true or not ( p. xix ), Guillaume suggests that Ibn Isḥāq deliberately substitute the ordinary term " ḥaddathanī " by a word of suspicion " zaʿama " (" he alleged ") to show his skepticism about certain traditions ( p. xx ).

ordinary and US
Organizations known to use ALE for Emergency management, disaster relief, ordinary communication or extraordinary situation response include: Red Cross, FEMA, Disaster Medical Assistance Teams, NATO, Federal Bureau of Investigation, United Nations, AT & T, Civil Air Patrol, SHARES, State of California Emergency Management Agency ( CalEMA ), other US States ' Offices of Emergency Services or Emergency Management Agencies, and Amateur Radio Emergency Service ( ARES ).
In these cases, scammers use TRS, a US federally funded relay service where an operator or a text / speech translation program acts as an intermediary between someone using an ordinary telephone and a deaf caller using TDD or other teleprinter device.
Subsequently, the early Delta blues ( as well as other genres ) were extensively recorded by John Lomax and his son Alan Lomax, who criss-crossed the Southern US recording music played and sung by ordinary people helping establish the canon of genres we know today as American folk music.
After all, according to US Internal Revenue Service statistics, the money paid out to corporate officers is equal to about one-third of that paid out to ordinary employees.
Founded in 2005, its Iran program has drawn on FOR's legacy of sending delegations to nations that are labeled as enemies by the US government, and is working to prevent war and create peace-centered connections between ordinary citizens of both countries.
* St or StA, symbol meaning Common stock ( US ) or ordinary shares ( British ) on the German Stock Exchange
Adlai Stevenson II | Adlai Stevenson was called an " egghead " by Richard Nixon during the U. S. presidential election, 1952 | 1952 US presidential race. In the slang of the United States, egghead is an anti-intellectual epithet, directed at people considered too out-of-touch with ordinary people and too lacking in realism, common sense, virility, etc.
Vogue records retailed for US $ 1. 05, about fifty percent more than ordinary ten-inch 78 rpm records.
Most Americans are under the impression that most people can sue for any type of negligence, but it is untrue in most US jurisdictions ( partly because negligence is one of the few torts for which ordinary people can and do obtain liability insurance.
Interstate 71 fully supplanted US 42 as an interurban highway in the early 1960s, relegating US 42 to its current role as if an ordinary town-to-town surface road.
Indeed it was not clear to many that the vaccine was an American one, financed by US dollars, but not available to ordinary Americans.
A special plane was chartered by the Australian government ( for approximately $ 500, 000 ) to fly Habib home because the US would not allow him to travel on an ordinary commercial flight.
Scourge's appearances in the US Marvel Comics Transformers series were minimal-in their first appearance during the Headmasters mini-series, he and Cyclonus were presented as being ordinary, present-day Transformers under Scorponok's command, who then became Targetmasters along with the others on Nebulos.

ordinary and UK
The UK based ebay. co. uk takes from GBP £ 0. 15 to a maximum rate of GBP £ 3 per £ 100 for an ordinary listing and from 0. 75 percent to 10 % ( writing as of June 2009 ) of the final price.
As there is no technical difference between ordinary statutes and " constitutional law ," the UK Parliament can perform " constitutional reform " simply by passing Acts of Parliament and thus has the political power to change or abolish almost any written or unwritten element of the constitution.
* In the UK, until 1992, holders of ordinary car driving licences were allowed to drive buses and coaches of any size, provided that the use was not commercial and that there was no element of " hire or reward " in the vehicles ' use ; in other words, no one was paying to be carried.
Unlike preferred stock, there is no stipulated dividend for common stock (" ordinary shares " in the UK ).
* As a result of the novel's popularity, the name " Manderley " became extremely popular as a name for ordinary houses, and at one time was the most common house name in the UK.
Because Buckingham's degrees take only two years to complete, the university views its courses as cost-effective compared to ordinary UK university courses, once living expenses and the income from an extra year's employment are taken into account.
Pretexting, also known in the UK as blagging or bohoing, is the act of creating and using an invented scenario ( the pretext ) to engage a targeted victim in a manner that increases the chance the victim will divulge information or perform actions that would be unlikely in ordinary circumstances.
Fuel is heavily taxed and therefore relatively costly in most first-world markets outside North America ; fuel is about two and a half times the price in the UK than the U. S. Fuel costs are also a much higher proportion of income, due to generally higher wages and lower living costs in the U. S. Only during occasional fuel price spikes such as those of 1973, 1979 – 81, and 2008-9 have North American drivers been motivated to seek levels of fuel economy considered ordinary outside North America.
In the UK and Australia the term " hoover " ( properly spelled in all lower case like any ordinary word ) has long been colloquially synonymous with " vacuum cleaner " and the verb " to vacuum " ( e. g., " you were hoovering the carpet "), owing to the Hoover Company's dominance there in the first half of the 20th century.
Apart from the ordinary bus operations and no-frills services, the UK bus division has the following brands that extend across operating divisions.
Another lasting consequence of the experiment is that the CR9 district has only ever been allocated to large users in Croydon – the only UK post town to have all its ordinary and high-volume addresses segregated non-geographically.
Nicolette Jones of The Times UK said ' Pratchett ’ s one-liners, the comic dialogue of the Feegles, the satire about teenagers and the credulousness of ordinary folk, and the reworking of the Orpheus myth, make for a characteristically entertaining mix.
In the case of the Ceefax and ORACLE systems and their successors in the UK, the teletext signal is transmitted as part of the ordinary analogue TV signal but concealed from view in the Vertical Blanking Interval ( VBI ) television lines which do not carry picture information.

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