Indeed, Mulroney made a number of unscripted gaffes regarding patronage, including the reference to Ambassador Bryce Mackasey as " there's no whore like an old whore ".

When Mackasey left office in 1984 Prime Minister John Turner appointed him Ambassador to Portugal ; this led to Conservative leader Brian Mulroney's famous comment about patronage, " There's no whore like an old whore ".

" The fifteen lessons of the old whore were based on Cipriano Suarez's De arte rhetorica, the manual used in Jesuit schools.

When he finds Mary and Joseph, Mary turns out to be little more than a whore, and Joseph, a bitter old man, sneers openly at her claim to have been impregnated by an angel.

It's the old story, war or no war, and more than one viewer may recall Hollywood's `` Titanic '', several seasons back, when the paramount concern was for the marital discord of a society dilettante.

Remnants of the old society were abolished and religion, particularly Buddhism and Catholicism, was suppressed.

The 1952 film Umberto D. showed a poor old man with his little dog, who must beg for alms against his dignity in the loneliness of the new society.

The blow of World War I hit the Finnish people and the nation, which, at the beginning of the 20th century, stood at the crossroads between the old regime of the estates and the evolution of a modern, democratic society.

" Though Zeus is often called Zeus Heraios ' Zeus, ( consort ) of Hera ', Homer's treatment of Hera is less than respectful, and in late anecdotal versions of the myths ( see below ) she appeared to spend most of her time plotting revenge on the nymphs seduced by her Consort, for Hera upheld all the old right rules of Hellene society and sorority.

Economic and social changes, such as land reform and industrialization, combined with the effects of foreign domination, altered the centuries old social structure of the Polish society.

The basis of Indian society at that time was unthinking obedience to the authority of sacred books, old customs, and outdated habits.

Marxist-Leninist cultural policy focuses upon modernization and distancing society from: the past, the bourgeoisie, and the old intelligentsia.

This is a notable success, even considering the fact that Polish society only possesses about half of the " old EU "' s purchasing power, hence not everybody can afford to own a car.

Phrenology was introduced at a time when the old theological and philosophical understanding of the mind was being questioned and no longer seemed adequate in a society that was experiencing rapid social and demographic changes.

Police harassment and brutality directed at black men, women, and children are as old as American society, dating back to the days of slavery and Jim Crow segregation.

In place of the old system, Nick has designed the worm to enforce a kind of utilitarian socialism, with people's worth being defined by their roles in society, not their connections in high places.

It was instead the French Revolution, by destroying the old cultural and economic restraints of patronage and corporatism ( guilds ), that opened French society to female participation, particularly in the literary sphere.

By organizing industrially we are forming the structure of the new society within the shell of the old.

According to other social contract theorists, citizens can withdraw their obligation to obey or change the leadership, through elections or other means including, when necessary, violence, when the government fails to secure their natural rights ( Locke ) or satisfy the best interest of society ( called the " general will " in Rousseau, who is more concerned with forming new governments than in overthrowing old ones ).

Howie, a devout and celibate Christian, travels to the island and is profoundly disturbed to find a society that worships the old pagan, Celtic gods of their ancestors.

Such a set of theories became dominant in the last centuries, but many thinkers questioned the complicated relationship between ' modern society ' and the importance of ' old institutions ', in particular family and traditional communities ( Ferragina, 2010: 75 ).

The modern emergence of social capital concept renewed the academic interest for an old debate in social science: the relationship between trust, social networks and the development of modern industrial society.

This was born out of a blending of two motives: the new goal of curing the mad away from the family who could not afford the necessary care at home, and the old purpose of confining undesirables for the protection of society.

During the first two decades of the 20th century, musical society as a whole ( and Holst's friend Vaughan Williams in particular ) became interested in old English folksongs, madrigal singers, and Tudor composers.

Leo XII's domestic policy was one of extreme conservatism: " He was determined to change the condition of society, bringing it back to the utmost of his power to the old usages and ordinances, which he deemed to be admirable ; and he pursued that object with never flagging zeal.

" In short, laying the foundations of the new society " within the shell of the old.

The first was the marriage of his aunt, Lady Katherine Neville, over 60 years old, to Elizabeth's 20-year-old brother, John Woodville, a pairing considered extreme by society.

Such ideas get first trivialized and sterilized, and then they are safely incorporated back within mainstream society, where they can be exploited to add new flavors to old dominant ideas.

Or else the North really believes that all Southerners except a few quaint old characters have come around to realizing the errors of their past, and are now at heart sharers of the American Dream, like everybody else.

He thought how this dainty, fragile older woman threading her way through the streets of Westminster on a day in June, enjoying the flowers in the shops, the greetings from old friends, but never really drawing a deep, passionate breath, was so like himself.

Producer Fellini should have looked at some of the old silent films where they really had parties!!

Writing to his colleague George Herbert Palmer -- `` Glorious old Palmer '', as he addresses him -- James says that if only the students at Harvard could really understand Royce, Santayana, Palmer, and himself and see that their varying systems are `` so many religions, ways of fronting life, and worth fighting for '', then Harvard would have a genuine philosophic universe.

Paul states, " Get rid of the old yeast that you may be a new batch without yeast — as you really are.

The Malmad, which was completed when its author was fifty-five years old, but was first published by the Meḳiẓe Nirdamim Society at Lyck in the year 1866, is really nothing but a volume of sermons, by which the author intended to stimulate study and to dispel intellectual blindness.

After Kant, the problem of universals becomes a problem of human psychology and questions about conceptual models we use to understand universals, rather than the same old metaphysical arguments about what universals “ really ” are.

states, " Get rid of the old yeast that you may be a new batch without yeast — as you really are.

Before the playoffs, the 33-year old Riggins told coach Joe Gibbs " I'm really getting down the road.

Although we will never know if Boccaccio really did hear the story from an old woman or not ( it is possible ), the story is certainly not true.

In her early novel Dawn O ' Hara, the title character's aunt is said to have remarked, " Being an old maid was a great deal like death by drowning-a really delightful sensation when you ceased struggling.

On the other hand, however, there started rising at the same time cries in defence of Cockney as, for example the following one: " The London dialect is really, especially on the South side of the Thames, a perfectly legitimate and responsible child of the old kentish tongue the dialect of London North of the Thames has been shown to be one of the many varieties of the Midland or Mercian dialect, flavoured by the East Anglian variety of the same speech ".

( Traces of boron have been found in some old stars, giving rise to the question whether some boron, not really predicted by the theory, might have been produced in the Big Bang.

While it would generally be assumed the hunch-backed position may be one of an elderly old man, it is really for the protection of his money bag that generates his apparent frailty.

Following this comes the film's only title card, which says: " Here the story should really end, for, in real life, the forlorn old man would have little to look forward to but death.

I know that we are all becoming more broadminded nowadays, but really old chap what could you have been thinking of?

In the words of Grand Duchess Augusta of Mecklenburg-Strelitz, " We must give credit to old Charlotte for really saving life.

* When asked why he seemed so incredibly cheerful all the time: " Well, old bean, life is really so bloody awful that I feel it ’ s my absolute duty to be chirpy and try and make everybody else happy too.

Adams admitted that while he originally planned on writing a third Dirk Gently book, the ideas which he had for it would have fit better into another Hitchhiker's book: " A lot of the stuff which was originally in The Salmon of Doubt really wasn't working ", and he planned on " salvaging some of the ideas that I couldn't make work in a Dirk Gently framework and putting them in a Hitchhiker framework ... and for old time's sake I may call it The Salmon of Doubt.

: He's a really amazing old bear,

In interviews that can be found in The Salmon of Doubt, Adams admitted that while he was planning on writing a third Dirk Gently book, the ideas he was having for it would have fit better into another Hitchhiker's book: " A lot of the stuff which was originally in The Salmon of Doubt really wasn't working ", and he planned on " salvaging some of the ideas that I couldn't make work in a Dirk Gently framework and putting them in a Hitchhiker framework ... and for old time's sake I may call it The Salmon of Doubt.

Matt Groening, creator of The Simpsons, wanted to have a character that was " really cranky " and old, and who complained a lot and invented stories to tell to children, so he created Grampa.

Astaire remained a male fashion icon even into his later years, eschewing his trademark top hat, white tie and tails ( for which he never really cared ) in favor of a breezy casual style of tailored sports jackets, colored shirts, cravats and slacks — the latter usually held up by the idiosyncratic use of an old tie in place of a belt.

Very popular with all the residents — both young and old — of Vere Street, Lambeth, she cannot really make up her mind as far as her love life is concerned.