Semantic Network Each concept in the Metathesaurus is assigned one or more semantic types (categories), which are linked with one another through semantic relationships .

The information about a semantic type includes an identifier, definition, examples, hierarchical information about the encompassing semantic type(s), and associative relationships.

Sanctions must have clear objectives and precise time frames.

You have to be careful with language when discussing Israeli actions.

The Irrawaddy, an independent news website, published an editorial on the topic. Instead of fighting over a terminology, it urged dialogue between Buddhists and Muslims

On the issue of the manipulation of ethnicity, the speaker said it occurred in the subregion but was also attributable to the lack of a democratic culture on the one hand, and to the poverty of households on the other.

In both of those cases, the racist expressions had been directed specifically at the petitioners in question, and had involved adverse effects on their substantive rights under article 5.

Why argue about semantics? Well, imagine you have pneumonia, but you think it is only a bad cold.

The OED etymology ignores the non English origins of the term, which can be found in the inventive linguistic terminology of continental European student radicalism.

I have called the report In Larger Freedom , because I believe that those words from the Charter convey the idea that development, security and human rights go hand in hand.

The use of nationalities, such as Turkish, Macedonian or Roma, in the names of private associations posed no threat and certainly did not constitute an attempt to wrest power from the Greek authorities.

In its report the Special Committee dealt in the strongest terms with the issue of sexual exploitation and abuse. The Special Committee would address the issue further at the resumed session to be held after the Secretary General issued his report on the matter.

When referring to a third person, honorifics are used except when referring to one's family members while talking to a non family member, or when referring to a member of one's company while talking to a customer or someone from another company this is the uchi soto (in out) distinction.

Written submission of the United Kingdom, supra note 215, at para. 3.88 3.89 (citing McNair, The Law of Treaties 463 (1961) ( Treaties are not to be understood as altering or restraining the Practice generally received, unless the Words do fully and necessarily infer an Alteration or Restriction .

Well, imagine you have pneumonia, but you think it is only a bad cold. You could easily fail to take the right medicine, and you would certainly expect your life to return to normal much faster than is realistic.