While at the time the process was openly referred to as colonization (" takushoku " 拓殖 ), the notion was later reframed by Japanese elites to the currently common usage " kaitaku "( 開拓 ), which instead conveys a sense of opening up or reclamation of the Ainu lands.

The success of a written speech, in contrast to the spoken speech, hinges on the notion that " we are willing to tolerate a great deal of improper and even careless usage " in oral rhetoric than written rhetoric.

" Likewise, certain types of ethical theories, especially deontological ethics, sometimes distinguish between ' ethics ' and ' morals ': " Although the morality of people and their ethics amounts to the same thing, there is a usage that restricts morality to systems such as that of Kant, based on notions such as duty, obligation, and principles of conduct, reserving ethics for the more Aristotelian approach to practical reasoning, based on the notion of a virtue, and generally avoiding the separation of ' moral ' considerations from other practical considerations.

There are two distinct meanings in current mathematical usage for the notion of the domain of a partial function from X to Y, i. e. a function from a subset X < nowiki >'</ nowiki > of X to Y.

One key idea within the The Limits to Growth is the notion that if the rate of resource use is increasing, the amount of reserves cannot be calculated by simply taking the current known reserves and dividing by the current yearly usage, as is typically done to obtain a static index.

From its Romanticist usage, the notion of the bard as a minstrel with qualities of a priest, magician or seer also entered the fantasy genre in the 1960s to 1980s, for example as the " Bard " class in Dungeons & Dragons, Bard by Keith Taylor ( 1981 ), Bard: The Odyssey of the Irish by Morgan Llywelyn ( 1984 ), and in video games in fantasy settings such as The Bard's Tale ( 1985 ).

This definition of curve captures our intuitive notion of a curve as a connected, continuous geometric figure that is " like " a line, without thickness and drawn without interruption, although it also includes figures that can hardly be called curves in common usage.

However, this usage is now uncommon, as the notion of " just plain ASCII " ( though very attractive at first glance ), has turned out to have difficulties.

In English the term " intellectual " conveys the general notion of a " literate thinker "; its earlier usage, as in the title of The Evolution of an Intellectual ( 1920 ) by John Middleton Murry, connotes little in the way of " public " rather than " literary " activity.

The popular notion in England of his day painted him as privy to the inner thoughts of James I and VI, a fiendish schemer for Popery for whom " Machiavellian " was brought into common English usage and the head of a " Spanish " faction at the English court.

Unique morphemes are examples of the linguistic notion of fossilization: loss of productivity or usage of grammar units: words, phrases, parts of words.

This usage of " subsidiarity " encompasses the notion that the responsibility to address a social need should lie exclusively at the level of social organization with the greatest competence regarding that issue, to the exclusion of higher levels of social organization.

By contrast, the more common usage of the term, as found in Catholic social teaching and in European Unioin law and social policy, encompasses the notion that " higher " or more remote levels of social organization have a duty to render assistance to the most immediate, competent level of organization, while respecting the primary jurisdiction of that more immediate level, and, ultimately, the dignity and freedoms of individuals participating in society.

The notion of a " perfect ten " came into common usage as a result of this film.

The usage primarily comes to us from translations of Euclid's Elements, in which two line segments a and b are called commensurable precisely if there is some third segment c that can be laid end-to-end a whole number of times to produce a segment congruent to a, and also, with a different whole number, a segment congruent to b. Euclid did not use any concept of real number, but he used a notion of congruence of line segments, and of one such segment being longer or shorter than another.

This usage is usually derived from the notion that the oldest members of any given group are the wisest, and are thus the most qualified to rule, provide counsel or serve the said group in some other capacity.

Though never a majority view, the notion that tetrapods had evolved twice, together with the usage of the term batrachomorpha, lingered until genetic analysis started confirming the monophyly of living amphibians in the 1990s.

This usage of the term " signal " is different than the typical operating system's notion of signals ( except on Lisp machines where this variant usage of the term evolved ); the operating system notion of signaling was out of scope for this committee, and consequently was not addressed in the ANSI Common Lisp standard.

Although the notion and title of an emperor is largely alien to Islamic tradition, the Ottoman dynasty which, employed the title of " Sultan of Sultans " in its official full style had perhaps the best claim to usage, due to its territorial extent and great length.

Its usage is originated from the notion " a point on the map ".

Criticism of the usage of the term by managers began already in its emergence in the early 80s.

The recent emergence of liturgical choirs including girls has led in these traditions to both a more inclusive definition of treble that includes the higher voices of children of either sex and to the qualified expression " girl treble ", though such usage has met with opposition.

Two men at the Rally to Restore Sanity and / or Fear indicate their identity with the word " gay " in the context of same-sex orientation, and protest its usage in the sense of " stupidity | stupid " or " uncool ". The terminology of homosexuality has been a contentious issue since the emergence of LGBT social movements in the mid-19th century.

It was the first commercial usage of PostScript, which began the emergence of graphics applications dominance by Adobe.

But by comparison with the railroad, the motor car is a relatively new object of popular worship, so it is too much to hope that it may be brought within the bounds of civilized usage quickly and easily.

Extreme caution should be used, however, to avoid the conflicting usage of an index word or electronic switch which may result from the assignment of more than one name or function to the same address.

The resultant conflicting usage of index words or electronic switches may be avoided by reducing the number of symbolic names used, e.g., through the proper use of the EQU, XRELEASE, or SRELEASE statements.

The alphorn's exact origins remain indeterminate, and the ubiquity of horn-like signal instruments in valleys throughout Europe may indicate a long history of cross influences regarding their construction and usage.

Although the term aeon may be used in reference to a period of a billion years ( especially in geology, cosmology or astronomy ), its more common usage is for any long, indefinite, period.

There is a risk of a benzodiazepine withdrawal and rebound syndrome after continuous usage for longer than two weeks, and tolerance and dependence may occur if patients stay under this treatment for longer.

In the case of persons that common usage has called saints from " time immemorial " ( in practice, since before 1500 or so ), the Church may carry out a " confirmation of cultus ", which is much simpler.

" The word " mathematics " may have originally been plural in concept, referring to mathematic endeavors, but metonymic shift — that is, the shift in concept from " the endeavors " to " the whole set of endeavors "— produced the usage of " mathematics " as a singular entity taking singular verb forms.

It is not incorrect to use the fully punctuated " Ph. D .", though if this pattern is used, it should be used consistently ; practice in particular situations may vary, and it is always more elegant to be consistent with local patterns of usage than to deviate from them.

The expression The Lord's Supper, derived from St. Paul's usage in, may have originally referred to the Agape feast, the shared communal meal with which the Eucharist was originally associated.

Modern Esperanto usage may in fact depart from that originally described in the Fundamento, though the differences are largely semantic ( involving changed meaning of words ) rather than grammatical or phonological.

While colloquially, a person may term a law suit to be frivolous if he or she personally finds a claim to be absurd, in legal usage " frivolous litigation " consists of a claim or defense that is presented where the party ( or the party's legal counsel ) had reason to know that the claim or defense was manifestly insufficient or futile.

In the popular usage, hallitus ( with the president ) may also refer to valtioneuvosto ( without the president ).

Depending on usage, the term may refer specifically to a single frequently asked question, or to an assembled list of many questions and their answers.

Linguists do not normally use the term to refer to orthographical rules, although usage books and style guides that call themselves grammars may also refer to spelling and punctuation.

Linguists tend to view prescriptive grammars as having little justification beyond their authors ' aesthetic tastes, although style guides may give useful advice about standard language employment, based on descriptions of usage in contemporary writings of the same language.

The mainstream media's current usage of the term may be traced back to the early 1980s.

The total population of Inuit speaking their traditional language is difficult to assess with precision, since most counts rely on self-reported census data that may not accurately reflect usage or competence.

The coining of the term " joystick " may actually be credited to Loraine, as his is the earliest known usage of the term, although he most certainly did not invent the device.

The Kattegat is a continuation of the Skagerrak and may be seen as either a bay of the Baltic Sea, a bay of the North Sea, or, in traditional Scandinavian usage, neither of these.

Top to bottom viewing angles may still be restrictive, by design, as looking at an LCD from an extreme up or down angle is not a common usage model and these photons are wasted.

In everyday usage, mass is referred to as " weight ", the units of which may be pounds or kilograms ( for instance, a person's weight may be stated as 75 kg ).

Because the folkloristic meaning of " myth " is often confused with this more pejorative usage, the original unambiguous term " mythos " may be a better word to distinguish the positive definition from the negative.

Nevertheless periodizing terms often have negative or positive connotations that may affect their usage.