One such person is an Ohio man who wanted to go by the name of Michael Taylor for this story.

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These adaptive chips go officially by the name of field programmable gate arrays.

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Stories sometimes go by the code name of the headline they carry.

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The incidence of the ultimate burden of more regulation is similar to the incidence of the ultimate burden of taxes that go by that name.

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Sporting a thick American accent he also chooses not to go by the legal French spelling of his name, Olivier.

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He said other than the risk of attacks it could also cause the offender to go to ground by changing his name, moving around, or opting out of probation supervision, "thereby increasing risk to children".

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In the old days the faster growing part of the company (which in this case will continue to go by the name Abbott) might have redirected that dividend cash to fuel growth.

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Another odd feature typical of the French far left is that most of the staff - cartoonists and writers alike - go by single-name noms de plume.

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Our server, Michel-Angelo, (ask for him by name if you go) has just delivered our second course and his poetic description of the dish has every diner in our radius rapt with attention.

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