He can coin a neat phrase: `` a street spattered with an invigoration of people '' ; ;

Syntactic ambiguity arises when a phrase can be parsed in only one way.

An anagram is a type of word play, the result of rearranging the letters of a word or phrase to produce a new word or phrase, using all the original letters exactly once ; for example orchestra can be rearranged into carthorse.

The essence of Deuteronomistic theology is that Israel has entered into a covenant ( a treaty, a binding agreement ) with the god Yahweh, under which they agree to accept Yahweh as their god ( hence the phrase " god of Israel ") and Yahweh promises them a land where they can live in peace and prosperity.

This was advocated by Auguste Comte, who coined the term " altruism ," and whose ethics can be summed up in the phrase: Live for others.

Almost half of the Psalms are headed " A Psalm of David ", although the phrase can also be translated as " to David " or " for David ", but no psalm can be attributed to David with certainty.

Brentano argued that we can join the concept represented by a noun phrase " an A " to the concept represented by an adjective " B " to give the concept represented by the noun phrase " a B-A ".

The nominalist approach is to argue that certain noun phrases can be " eliminated " by rewriting a sentence in a form that has the same meaning, but does not contain the noun phrase.

Thus Ockham argued that " Socrates has wisdom ", which apparently asserts the existence of a reference for " wisdom ", can be rewritten as " Socrates is wise ", which contains only the referring phrase " Socrates ".

Although it was Sartre who explicitly coined the phrase, similar notions can be found in the thought of existentialist philosophers such as Kierkegaard and Heidegger.

Critics of foundationalism often argue that for a belief to be justified it must be supported by other beliefs ; in Donald Davidson's phrase, " only a belief can be a reason for another belief ".

< li > Never use a foreign phrase, a scientific word or a jargon word if you can think of an everyday English equivalent .</ li >

The distinctive 6 beats to the phrase can still be heard today in songs such as " God Save the Queen ".

But instead of this too many of the younger Germans simply make use of the phrase historical materialism ( and everything can be turned into a phrase ) only in order to get their own relatively scanty historical knowledge — for economic history is still in its swaddling clothes!

And after that a Barth can come along and attack the thing itself, which in his circle has indeed been degraded to a mere phrase.

In Hebrew, the word Shabbat () can also mean "( Talmudic ) week ", so that in ritual liturgy a phrase like " Yom Reviʻi bəShabbat " means " the fourth day in the week ".

Habeas corpus is a Latin phrase, which can be literally translated as “( we command ) that you have the body ” or " you should arrest " the conventional incipit of medieval arrest warrants in England.

Today, they are also known as the Western Isles although this phrase can also be used to refer to the Hebrides in general.

Another notable ( and defiant ) phrase in the speech was also spoken in German, " Lass ' sie nach Berlin kommen " (" Let them come to Berlin ")-- addressed at those who claimed " we can work with the Communists ", a remark which Nikita Khrushchev scoffed at only days later.

* ambiguity-when two or more different meanings can be interpreted equally well from a certain word or phrase

The phrase ignoratio elenchi is from Latin, and can be roughly translated as " ignorance of refutation ", that is, ignorance of what a refutation could logically be.

But it is characteristic of him, we are told, `` his little artifice '', to be able to introduce `` into a fairly vulgar and humorous piece of hackwork a sudden phrase of genuine creative art ''.

It is true of the rhythmic pattern in which the beat shifts continuously, or at least is continuously sprung, so that it becomes ambiguous enough to allow the pattern to be dominated by the long pulsations of the phrase or strophe.

) `` Quoting Mr. Kennan's phrase that anything would be better than a policy which led inevitably to nuclear war, he ( Toynbee ) says that anything is better than a policy which allows for the possibility of nuclear war ''.

Note that this premise uses the phrase " is not ", a form of " to be "; this and many other examples show that he did not intend to abandon " to be " as such.

In a perfect anagram, every letter must be used, with exactly the same number of occurrences as in the anagrammed word or phrase ; any result that falls short is called an imperfect anagram.

Rendering aion to indicate eternality in this verse would result in the contradictory phrase “ end of eternity ”, so the question arises whether it should ever be so.

It was at this time that ` Abdu ' l-Bahá, in order to provide proof of the falsity of the accusations leveled against him, in tablets to the West, stated that he was to be known as "` Abdu ' l-Bahá " an Arabic phrase meaning the Servant of Bahá to make it clear that he was not a Manifestation of God, and that his station was only servitude.

In the poem the prisoner is suffering " for the colour of his hair ", a natural, given attribute which, in a clearly coded reference to homosexuality, is reviled as " nameless and abominable " ( recalling the legal phrase peccatum horribile, inter christianos non nominandum, " the horrible sin, not to be named amongst Christians ").

The phrase is often used in a less serious manner in relation to someone or something that is out of control and causing trouble ( e. g., a dog tearing up the living room furniture might be said to be running amok ).

The phrase began to be used in response to the blending of sounds between these international genres and frequent misrepresentations of genre by casual fans.

Note that just because a player is described as being " at bat " in this sense, he will not necessarily be given an at bat in his statistics ; the phrase actually signifies a plate appearance ( assuming it is eventually completed ).

Ironically, it was Hoyle who coined the phrase that came to be applied to Lemaître's theory, referring to it as " this big bang idea " during a BBC Radio broadcast in March 1949.

The original posters showed Bennett himself ; a kindly looking old man offering guidance and support to would-be students with the phrase " Let me be your father " attached.

Some writers, such as James-Charles Noonan, hold that, in the case of cardinals, the form used for signatures should be used also when referring to them, even in English ; and this is the usual but not the only way of referring to cardinals in Latin .< ref > An Internet search will uncover some hundreds of examples of " Cardinalis Ioannes < surname >", examples modern and centuries-old ( such as this from 1620 ), and the phrase " dominus cardinalis Petrus Caputius " is found in a document of 1250.

The literal translation of the phrase ex nihilo is " from nothing " but in many creation myths the line is blurred whether the creative act would be better classified as a creation ex nihilo or creation from chaos.

He suggested a more appropriate phrase would be " it thinks.

Note that the concept of an indirect object may be rendered by a prepositional phrase.

Others writing on Faulkner have found the phrase `` traditional moralist '' either inadequate or misleading.

The first occurrence of the phrase blue law so far found is in the New-York Mercury of March 3, 1755, where the writer imagines a future newspaper praising the revival of " our Connecticut's old Blue Laws ".

The phrase " riding shotgun " ( not found before 1905 ) was applied later to print and especially film depiction of stagecoaches and wagons in the Old West in danger of being robbed or attacked by bandits.

The first mention of a diaspora created as a result of exile is found in the Septuagint in the phrase " esē diaspora en pasais basileias tēs gēs " translated to mean " thou shalt be a dispersion in all kingdoms of the earth ".

Much as in a sunset, the atmosphere tends to more strongly scatter light with shorter wavelengths, so the illumination of the Moon by refracted light has a red hue, thus the phrase ' Blood Moon ' is often found in descriptions of such lunar events as far back as eclipses are recorded.

Filioque (), Latin for " and ( from ) the Son ", is a phrase found in the form of Nicene Creed in use in most of the Western Christian churches.

However, for his part, Hayek found this term " singularly unattractive " and offered the term " Old Whig " ( a phrase borrowed from Edmund Burke ) instead.

John Ernest Grabe found an otherwise unreported saying of Jesus, attributed to the Apostle Barnabas, amongst the Greek manuscripts in the Baroccian collection in the Bodleian Library ; which he speculated might be a quotation from this lost gospel ; and John Toland claimed to have identified a corresponding phrase when he examined the surviving Italian manuscript of the Gospel of Barnabas in Amsterdam before 1709.

Although the phrase All Hallows is found in Old English ( ealra hālgena mæssedæg, mass-day of all saints ), All-Hallows-Even is itself not seen until 1556.

Answers cannot be found by appeal to an external truth, but only within the confines of the norms and forms that phrase the question.

A couple jumping the broom. Jumping the broom is a phrase and custom relating to wedding ceremonies in different cultural traditions, found in " many diverse cultures, those of Africa − Europe including Scotland, Hungary and Gypsy culture ", all of which " include brooms at wedding rituals.

The Latin phrase falsum in uno, falsum in omnibus which, roughly translated, means " false in one thing, false in everything ", is fallacious in so far as someone found to be wrong about one thing, is presumed to be wrong about some other thing entirely.

Philosopher and encyclopedist Mortimer Adler includes all such second-order questions about various fields of study, which are often found under various branches of philosophy beginning with the phrase " philosophy of ....", in his taxonomy.

) -- a phrase also found in East Midlands British English.

Although Plato does not have an explicit theory of natural law ( he almost never uses the phrase natural law except in Gorgias 484 and Timaeus 83e ), his concept of nature, according to John Wild, contains some of the elements found in many natural law theories.

Early usages of the phrase " politically correct " have been found in various contexts, which may not relate to the current terminology.

They found that passwords based on thinking of a phrase and taking the first letter of each word are just as memorable as naively selected passwords, and just as hard to crack as randomly generated passwords.

The first published use of the phrase " retroactive continuity " is found in Elgin Frank Tupper's 1974 book The theology of Wolfhart Pannenberg.

The humor in the punch line may be due to the sudden, unexpected recognition of a familiar saying, since the story has nothing to do with the usual context in which the phrase is normally found, yet the listener is surprised to discover it makes sense in both situations.

John 7: 38, speaks of " living water ," using the language for spiritual life found in places like Jeremiah 17: 13, Jeremiah 2: 13, and Zechariah 14: 8, but the phrase is also used poetically in Song 4: 15.

In Walton v. Arizona,, the Court found that the phrase " especially heinous, cruel, or depraved " was not vague in a murder case, because the state supreme court had expounded on its meaning.

This definition is also found in the common pseudo-archaic, alliterating right-wing phrase, " Verräter verfallen der Feme!

US civic activist Ralph Nader coined the phrase in the early 1970s to avoid the negative connotations found in other words such as " informers " and " snitches ".