" Taking the Mick " or " taking the Mickey " is thought to be a rhyming slang form of " taking the piss ", where " Mick " came from " Mickey Bliss ".

Taking account of the fact that such a move on our part would be unpopular in world opinion, he argued that the responsibility of the United States is `` to do, confidently and firmly, not what is popular, but what is right ''.

Taking the streetcar back to Kaiser's Fountain, I walked ahead, then left down the street opposite St. Sophia and just beyond the corner came to a small, one-story building with a red-tile roof, which is the entrance to the Sunken Palace.

Taking alienation as a dependent variable, with what socio-structural factors is it most highly associated??

Taking of abalone is not permitted south of the mouth of the San Francisco Bay.

Taking from the fact that amongst this community this is known as the romantic orientation, the prefixes of homo -, hetero -, bi -, pan -, poly -, demi-and a-have been used to form terms such as heteroromantic, biromantic and so on.

::: Taking the first or even the second strike without swinging is not unusual.

Thus, for instance, the Taking Children Seriously movement has criticised pedagogic coercion by adults, including parents, on children, holding that it is possible and desirable to act with a child in such a way that all activities are consensual.

The Islamic creed is the Shahadah, the proclamation لا اله الا الله محمد رسول الله ( lā ʾilāha ʾillà-llāh, muḥammadun rasūlu-llāh ) – “ There is no god but Allah ; Muhammad is Allah's messenger .” Taking this creed is one of the five pillars of Islam.

Taking thirty to forty-five minutes each way, the round trip is slightly more than long and the Arch is completely hidden from view on most of this trail.

: Taking the Principle of the Excluded Middle from the mathematician ... is the same as ... prohibiting the boxer the use of his fists.

Chase describes music from this period, “ Taking the guitar as his instrumental model, and drawing his inspiration largely from the peculiar traits of Andalusian folk music – but without using actual folk themes – Albéniz achieves a stylization of Spanish traditional idioms that while thoroughly artistic, gives a captivating impression of spontaneous improvisation ... Cordoba is the piece that best represents the style of Albéniz in this period, with its hauntingly beautiful melody, set against the acrid dissonances of the plucked accompaniment imitating the notes of the Moorish guslas.

Taking into account its structure, flow of subject matter and emphases, one interpretation of the Lord's Prayer is as a guideline on how to pray rather than something to be learned and repeated by rote.

Taking the study of perception as his point of departure, Merleau-Ponty was led to recognize that one's own body ( le corps propre ) is not only a thing, a potential object of study for science, but is also a permanent condition of experience, a constituent of the perceptual openness to the world.

Moncton is briefly mentioned in the movie " Taking Lives " ( 2004 ) starring Angelina Jolie, when the killer boards a train from Montreal to Moncton.

Taking many of his achievements into consideration, Mehmed is widely known as the " second founder " of the Ottoman Empire.

Taking a year to be of this 6940-day cycle gives a year length of 365 + + days ( the unrounded cycle is much more accurate ), which is slightly more than 12 synodic months.

The British rock band IQ also mentioned Slovik in their song " For the Taking ".

Taking their new name from a fictional pop group mentioned in Anthony Burgess's novel, A Clockwork Orange, ( where The Heaven Seventeen are at number 4 in the charts with " Inside "), they became Heaven 17 and formed the production company British Electric Foundation ( BEF ).

Taking a wider view, John Buckley believes that while Wittmann showed great audacity in his attack, the roots of the British defeat were broader.

Taking advantage of this exposure, the Russian General Liprandi, with some 25, 000 men, prepared to attack the defences in and around Balaclava, hoping to disrupt the supply chain between the British base and their siege lines.

Taking control of Martinique in September, he faced the threats of slave-uprisings, yellow fever and British invasion.

Taking the risk of being very unpopular for a certain moment, he condemned the systematic burning of farms and the imprisonment of old people, women and children in British concentration camps.

The 1990s saw a renewed focus on scoring, starting with I Come in Peace ( a. k. a. " Dark Angel ", composed in 1989 but released in 1990 ), Curiosity Kills and all twenty episodes of the British television series, Chancer, several episodes of HBO's Tales from the Crypt ; a television spot for Amnesty International, featuring Czech president Václav Havel, two pilots for NBC, Knight Rider 2000 and News at 12, The Taking of Beverly Hills ( Columbia Pictures ) and New Line Cinema's Sunset Heat.

* Taking a view of Irish history which highlights perceived positive aspects of British influence in Ireland, or criticizing Irish nationalist rebellions

While her movie appearances have been sporadic, she made an auspicious film debut in Milos Forman's first English language movie Taking Off for which she was nominated for a British Academy Award for best supporting actress.

Taking advantage of a British decision to allow companies to claim North Sea drilling rights with little money down, Metcalfe creates Prospecta Oil, a paper company designed to look good and bring in investors to be left when the bottom drops out.

Taking advantage of the withdrawal of the British blockade, Emperor Napoleon ordered two squadrons to put to sea with orders to raid the British trade routes that crossed the Atlantic.

His work focusing on this period includes the films Operation Daybreak ( covering the assassination by the Czechoslovakian Resistance of Nazi leader Reinhard Heydrich ), The Statement ( a fictionalized account of the post-War life-on-the-run of French collaborator Paul Touvier ), The Pianist ( an adaptation of the autobiography of the Jewish-Polish musician Władysław Szpilman covering his survival during the Nazi occupation of Poland ), the play later adapted to film Taking Sides ( focused on the post-War " de-Nazification " investigation of the German conductor Wilhelm Furtwängler ), the play Collaboration ( about the composer Richard Strauss and his partnership with the Jewish writer Stefan Zweig ), and the play An English Tragedy ( dealing with the British fascist John Amery ).

* BBC article on recruitment in the British Army, including information on " Taking the King's Shilling "

Taking advantage of the situation, British General James Wolfe adopted a strategy of psychological intimidation.

Taking place during the early twentieth century, it follows the collision between a British archeologist's family and a resurrected mummy.

Taking the opposing view, it is argued by many U. S. Senators and legal scholars that, since for any treaty to be enforceable in the United States, it must strictly conform to the terms of ratification issued by the Senate ; and, that no term of any treaty which is subject to the Senate's reservation ( s ) can be interpreted to have been confirmed, lawful or enforceable in the United States, according to the sovereign operation of the Constitution.

Taking the second half of the six year term, he entered office on September 1, 2002.

Taking a simple example, the perfect square binomial can be found by squaring the first term, adding twice the product of the first and second terms and finally adding the square of the second term, to give.

Taking philosophical and theological traditions into consideration, the term was used by the ancient Greeks to refer to the act of experiencing or observing and then comprehending through consciousness, which is called the nous or " eye of the soul " ( Matthew 6: 22 – 34 ).

Taking office in 1945, Caldwell's term is noted for his segregationist beliefs, as well as his support for road construction projects and the establishment of the Educational Minimum Foundation Program, which gave education funds to rural counties.

Taking Loans on UL will affect the long term viability of the plan.

Taking seat in a special election in 1992 to the United States House of Representatives, she is the first African American to serve as Representative from the state since George Henry White was elected to his second and last term in 1898.

Taking both languages together until the end of the nineteenth century, and taking into account all the monastic documents, literature in the widest sense of the term, and texts in " near-Chinese " ( hentai-kanbun ), it is entirely possible that the sheer volume of texts written in Chinese in Japan slightly exceed what was written in Japanese.

Taking up the whole area in and around the college, it is normally held on the final Thursday of the Summer term and has several rooms of music, bars and food, and open air activities.

Taking place in the Lent term, it consists of numerous activities whereby students raise money for a variety of charities.

Taking a lead from Brecht's twin attack on bourgeois and socialist humanism, Marxist philosopher Louis Althusser coined the term " antihumanism " in an attack against Marxist humanists, whose position he considered a revisionist movement.

The school have published Taking Stock, a short glossy newsletter rounding up recent news and photographs, every term since 1996.

Taking all this into account, the term " Aegean Art " is thought of as contrived among many art historians because it includes the widely varying art of very different cultures that happened to be in the same area around the same period.

Taking the Mickey ( Mickey Bliss, Cockney rhyming slang ) or taking the Michael is another term for making fun of someone.