The flaws of the Consumer Price Index as a measure of the cost of living are well understood, at least in conceptual terms.

The simplest learning rule known is Hebb's rule, which states in conceptual terms that neurons that fire together, wire together.

Often, plans are filled with conceptual terms which don't tie into day-to-day realities for the staff expected to carry out the plan.

"It is rare here to discuss things in conceptual or philosophical terms," she said.

It was impossible to know God in conceptual terms, as though he were just an-other being about which we could form ideas.

'Aggregate income' in economics is a broad conceptual term.

In conceptual terms, the rest would be mopping up, but with the best of all particular stories still to be told (Act 5).

When Gerson discusses Burnett, he talks in sweeping, conceptual terms, not tactical ones.

He speaks in conceptual terms.

But there was no common conceptual term to describe, interpret or analyze civic religious faith in America.