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there was no Martian concept to match it -- unless one took `` church '' and `` worship '' and `` God '' and `` congregation '' and many other words and equated them to the totality of the only world he had known during growing-waiting then forced the concept back into English in that phrase which had been rejected ( by each differently ) by Jubal, by Mahmoud, by Digby.
The phrase evil empire was applied to the Soviet Union especially by U. S. President Ronald Reagan, who took an aggressive, hard-line stance that favored matching and exceeding the Soviet Union's strategic and global military capabilities, in calling for a rollback strategy that would, in his words, write the final pages of the history of the Soviet Union.
* The phrase " took me to a Leafs game " was used as a euphemism for an attempted male-on-male sexual encounter.
Certain influential foreign conflicts such as the 1991 Soviet coup d ' état attempt which took place as part of the initial stages of the Dissolution of the USSR and the Fall of Communism ; the First and Second Chechen Wars, the Persian Gulf War and the Yugoslav Wars failed to dampen economic enthusiasm surrounding the ongoing Information Age and the " Irrational Exuberance " ( a phrase coined by Alan Greenspan ) of the Internet Boom.
" In his broadcast after the 1967 devaluation of the pound, Wilson said: " This does not mean that the pound here in Britain – in your pocket or purse – is worth any less ....", and the phrase " the pound in your pocket " subsequently took on a life of its own.
Howitt took Bligh's side and invented the phrase Rum Rebellion, and it has stuck ever since.
Liberté tower took its name either from a protest in 1380, when Parisians shouted the phrase outside the castle, or because it was used to house prisoners who had more freedom to walk around the castle than the typical prisoner.
In 1976 Norman acquiesced and recorded Something New under the Son, a blues-rock concept album that some regard as his tour de force, and as " one of the roughest, bluesiest, and best rock and roll albums of his career or the whole industry ", that took its title from " an ironic inversion of a phrase in Ecclesiastes ", namely: " there is nothing new under the sun " ( Ecclesiastes 1: 9b ).
However, later stories and flashbacks that took place when Ben was still alive retroactively made the phrase one of Ben's many homilies he would lecture Peter with.
The selection took the political world by surprise and possibly led to the British phrase " Bob's your uncle !".
Early in life, he took the style name " Shengtan ", a phrase from the Analects meaning " the sage sighed ".
The album's title references the signature phrase of the Dickens character Uriah Heep (" very ' umble ") from the novel David Copperfield from which the band took its name.
Byrne took the phrase " Luaka Bop " for his record label from the inner packaging of a specialty tea which is sold in England.
The Baal Shem Tov took the Talmudic phrase that " God desires the heart " to the centre of his mysticism.
The 3rd century translators who produced the Greek Septuagint rendered the phrase " God took him " with the Greek verb metatithemi ( μετατίθημι ) meaning moving from one place to another.
It took as its motto the phrase, Liberté, égalité, fraternité.
The example given by Huseman took the sentence “ I would like to help you ” and simply by placing the emphases on the words I, Like, Help, You in four different sentences changes the meaning of the phrase.
They took their name from a " Mission of Burma " plaque Conley saw on a New York City diplomatic building ; he thought the phrase had a " sort of murky and disturbing " quality.
Afterwards, servicemen began placing the slogan on different places and especially in newly captured areas or landings, and the phrase took on connotations of the presence or protection of the US armed forces.
The phrase booby trap originally applied to schoolboy pranks, but took on its more sinister connotation during World War I.
The trees of the forest were so tall and dense that little light reached the floor ( thus the phrase " darkest Africa "), food was scarcely to be found, and the local Pygmies took the expedition for an Arab raiding party, shooting at them with poisoned arrows.
Modern historian Suren Yeremyan disputes this assertion, arguing that ancient Armenian tradition placed Nakhichevan's founding to the year 3669 BC and, in ascribing its establishment to Noah, that it took its present name after the Armenian phrase " Nakhnakan Ichevan " ( Նախնական Իջևան ), or " first landing.
The phrase took on a new lease of life from the introduction of the Third Home Rule Bill in April 1912.
The phrase " Super Tuesday " was next used to describe the primary elections that took place on March 8, 1988, in the Southern states of Texas, Florida, Tennessee, Louisiana, Oklahoma, Mississippi, Kentucky, Alabama, and Georgia leading up to the 1988 November election.
Some commentators believe that James Jesus Angleton took the phrase from this poem when he described the confusion and strange loops of espionage and counter-intelligence, such as the Double Cross System, as a " wilderness of mirrors ".

took and Mojo
In the early 1990s he settled in London, and took roles in Dogboy, the Royal Court Theatre's production of Mojo, Bill Sykes in Oliver Twist, and Wilson Milam's 1997 production of Hurlyburly at the Queen's Theatre, Shaftesbury Avenue, opposite Rupert Graves and David Tennant.

took and from
Dean turned from Susan and took Julia Fortune in his arms.
Mike took the bayonet from Dean's hand and slashed the picket line.
Then, with a shrug of pretended indifference, she took a compact from her purse and went through the motions of fixing her make-up.
He lifted the skirt of Macklin's coat, took his gun from its holster, tossed it onto the desk.
He lurched drunkenly to his feet, lowered his head, and took one step away from the wall.
A weapons carrier took Greg, Todman, Belton, Banjo Ferguson, and Walters and the others the two miles from the bivouac area to the strip.
Bryn Mawr Drive is only two or three miles from the Spartan, and it took me less than five minutes to get there.
Mary Jane took the page from him and began reading it, moving her lips with the words.
She softly let herself into the bed, and took her regular side, away from the door, where she slept better because Keith was between her and the invader.
And, as the others began to crawl out from beneath the desks and tend to those wounded, and mark the several killed, he climbed across the debris to Penny and took her hand in his.
He took his mask from his forehead and threw it, unexpectedly, across the deck.
Folding between his hands the cross that hung from his neck, he took his appeal direct to Headquarters.
Matsuo took the small knife from its scabbard and laid it on the ground, out of the marine's reach and away from their shadows.
In the course of its inquiry, it took testimony from only seven witnesses.
It generally took well into the autumn for the firm to recover from the summer's help.
To exonerate the legislature and thereby extricate himself from a sticky situation, Pike took another course and made it appear that the legislature had been bilked.
In late December, the American army moved from Whitemarsh to Valley Forge, and although the distance was only 13 miles, the journey took more than a week because of the bad weather, the barefooted and almost naked men.
Finally, colleges and clubs took the line that speakers from England were not wanted any longer, even speakers like S.K., so unlike the novelists and poets who had patronized the Americans for many years.
The revolution in jazz that took place around 1949, the evolution from the `` bebop '' school of Dizzy Gillespie to the `` cool '' sound of Miles Davis and Lennie Tristano, Lee Konitz, and the whole legend of Charlie Parker, had made an impression on many academic and literary men.
The whole thing, from the moment when they jumped heavily off the trucks, spread out and moved into position just behind the cover of that slight rise of ground and then jumped off, took maybe between twenty and thirty minutes.
Smiling at Warren's protestations, the old monk took his grip from him and led him down a corridor to a small parlor.
And then the Amen corner took hold, re-enacting a form of group participation in worship that stemmed from years before the Greek chorus, spreading down through the African forest, overseas to the West Indies, and then here in Alabama.
Stroked him, snaked all through him, the lyrics lifted him, took him from one magic isle to another, stopping briefly at each Brandon.
From the saddlebags, hung on a Hitchcock chair, David took out a good English razor, a present from John Hunter.

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