It would be more useful, perhaps, to simply describe certain of their key features and establish a working definition from there.
Well, if you want a working definition, just rent Brooks' earlier movies, comic treatises of social embarrassment and compounding irritation like "Modern Romance" (1981) or "Lost in America" (1985).
The signals that indicate where the copying machinery should start and stop, which is a good working definition of where on a chromosome a gene begins and ends, are imperfectly understood.
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In his review of the murder of Pat Finucane, Sir Christopher de Silva said he had adopted a "working definition" of collusion less broad than that of Judge Cory and more in line with that of the Billy wright inquiry panel.
While nothing she does is exaggerated, she somehow gives the impression of standing in an invisible spotlight, which is a pretty fair working definition of star quality.
Working out the legal definition of a tree in the Kyoto Protocol took years.
An international standards body is working to develop a consensus agreement on the definition of Do Not Track by June.
This would include people like overweight New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie, who appears to be the very definition of a smart, hard-working guy no matter what side of the aisle you view him from.
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And after a year's discussion within a small working group, it's clear that as yet there is still no agreed definition.
Musgrove said Cisco's video-link products allowed employees to talk lag-free in high definition, but he said there was a need to strike a balance between "appropriate" home working and office-based interaction in genuinely collaborative work spaces such as Cisco's main campus in San Jose, California.
We definitely cannot attest to the reliability of Mac OS Rumors as a, um, rumor site, but they're reporting that Apple is working on some sort of high-definition satellite TV network.
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