Specifying

Specifying the design of a wine cooler for his claret and port, the founding father said the bottles had to sit upright rather than at angles, the neck of the decanters needed to rise above the cooler rim and there had to be room at the bottom of the bowl so the bottles would sit above the ice.

Washington Chilled Here: A Wine Cooler's Tale Ellen Gamerman 2011

Specifying a model where preferences are homogeneous across people, with every person having preferences on one dimension that are deemed antisocial, variance in behavior then is exclusively a function of heterogeneity in repression technologies.

Reduction to Banality, Bryan Caplan | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009

Specifying which groups are down there in the intelligence basement might be galling to any members of such groups who might be able to read and who might be surfing the web, which is why I haven't identified them.

What a Bunch of Apes! « L.E. Modesitt, Jr. – The Official Website 2009

Specifying that the stones used should "Not be large enough to kill the person by one or two strikes, nor should they be so small that they could not be defined as stones."

Archive 2008-02-01 Not a sheep 2008

Specifying the mechanisms through which institutions shape the parameters of choice is important to an adequate sociological understanding of economic action.

Archive 2009-02-01 Daniel Little 2009

The National Preservation Office (UK) has announced the publication of Specifying library and archive storage, the latest title in its Preservation in practice series of guidance leaflets.

June 2007 2007

Specifying the mechanisms through which institutions shape the parameters of choice is important to an adequate sociological understanding of economic action.

The new institutionalism Daniel Little 2009

Specifying that physics and biochemistry in any detail is practically impossible, however.

Behe challenges Miller 2007

Complex Specifying Information, which causes the system that it specifies to come into being and to function as the Specifier wanted, but in the final analysis bay come from we-know-not-where without affecting its various virtues.

Stephen Meyer on Bad Biological Designs - The Panda's Thumb 2009

Complex Specified Information (CSI(1)), and complex Specifying Information (CSI(2)).

Stephen Meyer on Bad Biological Designs - The Panda's Thumb 2009