accepted usage

It has been described as "the product of generally accepted usage and practice.

In America this is not the accepted usage.

The phrase, foodways, she added, has come into accepted usage by historians.

'Le tout' is the accepted usage with a city.

This simple definition is the most widely accepted usage of the term Northern Utah.

The machinery for accomplishing this result represents another interesting and radical departure of Edison from accepted usage.

I think 'America' is pretty much accepted usage for the USA.

In customary law, the role of the judiciary is to look for evidence of what is "generally accepted usage and practice".

Instead of punishing deviations from accepted usage, listeners must prioritise imaginative mind-reading.

Dutch people in Pakistan (by analogy to "British Pakistani", though this is not a widely accepted usage)

Few contemporary writers share these qualms; it is now accepted usage to refer to transfinite cardinals and ordinals as "infinite".

Where the works of the commentators do not deal with situation, the Jersey courts look at factual evidence to work out is the "generally accepted usage and practice".

With contemporary development of typesetting software such as LaTeX, typesetting bars is considerably simpler; nevertheless, both prime and bar markups are accepted usages.

Contemporary typesetting software such as LaTeX has made typesetting overbars considerably simpler; both prime and overbar markers are accepted usages.

However, Donald Knuth argued that BNF should rather be read as Backus-Naur Form, and that has become the commonly accepted usage.

When her husband was knighted in the 1945 New Years Honours Isabella Frankau became known as "Lady Frankau" in accordance with accepted usage.

He complained that 'temporarily elected' meant merely nominated - they weren't elected at all - but this term had been the accepted usage since the club had been founded 130 years ago.

Where the government uses or attempts to regulate a particular medium, we have been informed by its accepted usage in determining whether a particular restriction on speech is necessary for the pro-gram's purposes and limitations.

Content filtering is practiced by AZNET, the education and research ISP, but is regulated by an accepted usage policy and is restricted to filtering out pornographic content.

Beginning in the early 20th century, "Albany" without the article again became the accepted usage, memorialised, for example, in the early 20th century novels of Dornford Yates, a careful observer of upper class manners.

Mostly concerned with catching fare-beaters, vagrants and other undesirables, those officers made few serious arrests: As recently as 1962, Police Commissioner Michael J. Murphy described the subway force as "not a police force in the generally accepted usage of that term."

In this instance, the accepted usage of the masculine pronoun as the generic form came to be understood as a linguistic symbol of patriarchal and male-dominated society, and the growing sentiment opposing these conditions motivated some speakers to stop using "he" as the generic pronoun in favor of the construction "he or she."