So, what a bank actually does is borrow short and lend long: Brad Delong has used this as a definition of a bank.
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The report offers this as a definition to be used when the police and local authorities are logging reports of alleged racist incidents, either as a prelude to investigating them or to collect statistics on the incidence of racism.
Leslie Caron offers as pure a definition of grande dame as you are likely to find.
For winter visitors, its comprehensive infrastructure includes such unusual luxuries as a high definition cinema, an outdoor skating-rink, Christmas sleigh rides and half a dozen places to eat, including fine-dining.
Atypical depression has a specific definition as a diagnosable condition.
As a principled entrepreneur, it is important that you create a definition of loyalty to serve as a basis of agreement any time you enter into a business relationship with a friend, family member, or someone who has done you a favor.
For example, a newer edition of an e-book would fetch more instead of an older version as will a high definition movie print compared to a low definition.
The exchange's function as a securities marketplace fits this definition, but what of its duty as a self-regulatory organization (SRO) to regulate its members and listed companies?
The focus of the workshop goes beyond the traditional role of the museum and includes the concept of the entire historic city as a living museum, getting away from the definition of a museum as a physical structure with four walls and a door and includes the cultural spaces, traditional skills, community and other tangible and intangible cultural heritage.
And, as a matter of definition, when central banks expand their respective balance sheets they create liquid assets for commercial banks.
In Economics 101, students learn that net investment equals net saving as an identity (that is, as a matter of definition).
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This strikes me as a pretty wide definition and covers pretty much everything that one imagines detectives might be gathering if they were serious about moving swiftly to a charge or release.
However, HDTVs will become more prevalent, high-definition titles will continue to roll out in both formats, and the prices for high-definition disc technologies will fall to a point where they can compete with standard-definition DVD as a replacement device.
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The trouble is, while the definition of a recession as two consecutive quarters of negative growth is widely accepted, there is no popular definition of a depression, which means there is nowhere to go once recessions stop being relevant.
Recognizing that workplace standards for harassment were inappropriate for educational institutions, in Davis the court offered a clear, narrow, workable definition of harassment as a targeted pattern of serious and ongoing discriminatory behavior.
This is not meant in the typical IT vernacular, i.e. as a solution loses competitiveness and value, but in the true definition: Cloud will be understood as a commodity analogous to coal, and a unit for that commodity and a futures market will be defined and created.
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But now virtually everyone is walking around with a smartphone that doubles as a capable high-definition video camera.
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The military said 43 prisoners were classified as hunger strikers under a definition that includes missing nine consecutive meals.
Emphasis on mild--Cheney's episode qualified as a heart attack only under a stringent new definition adopted by the American Heart Association about a year ago.
"Prior to the introduction of this bill, it has been increasingly difficult for the Charity Commission to make full determinations on whether an organisation is a charity as the definition within the 2008 act could not be applied until the public benefit issue was resolved, " he said.
Since the concept of IW emerged in the mid-1990s as a topic of heated debate, its definition remains in a state of continual flux.
The United States had become majority urban as recently as 1920, and then only by the U.S. Census definition of urban as a settlement of more than 2, 500 persons.
He seems to regard a less patent-centric economy as a less innovative economy by definition.
But definition as either a utility or monopoly would hamper efforts to move into certain fields.
Having looked at all the information, they calculated that "6.8% of the UK's land area is now classified as urban" (a definition that includes rural development and roads, by the way).
It sports a resolution of 1920 by 1080 pixels, as much as you'd find on a high-definition TV set.
The U.S. model of the XPS One also includes a television tuner, allowing it to double as a 20-inch high-definition TV.
"If courts create their own arbitrary definition of marriage as a mere legal contract and cut marriage off from its cultural, religious and natural roots, then the meaning of marriage is lost, and the institution is weakened, " he said.
"We basically will be ready with very high-quality, high-definition content as soon as a higher-resolution iPad comes out, " he said.
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