The Oxford English Dictionary records the first use of the phrase " conspiracy theory " to a 1909 article in The American Historical Review .< ref >" conspiracy ", Oxford English Dictionary, Second edition, 1989 ; online version March 2012.

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.

Trevize and Pelorat discuss Pelorat's interest in Earth and its legends, and Trevize realizes that Seldon's phrase " at the other end of the Galaxy " ( the phrase he used to describe the Second Foundation's location ) could mean Earth.

Second, if well chosen, they will not be found in any phrase or quote dictionary, so such dictionary attacks will be almost impossible.

For a time, he was described as belonging to the Manchester School, a phrase invented as a parallel to the Second Viennese School to refer to Birtwistle, Goehr and Maxwell Davies.

The term " Second World " was a phrase used to describe the communist states within the Soviet Union's sphere of influence or those countries that had centrally-planned economies.

There is a difference between this phrase and World War II or the Second World War, as the Russian term denotes only the war between Germany and its European allies, and the Soviet Union.

The phrase " right of the people to keep and bear Arms " was first used in the text of the United States Bill of Rights ( coming into law as the Second Amendment to the Constitution of the United States ).

Despite early attempts to use an equivalent phrase in English, the term was uncommon until William Temple popularized it during the Second World War, contrasting wartime Britain's welfare state with the " warfare state " of Nazi Germany.

Son of perdition is a phrase that appears in the New Testament in the Gospel of John and in the Second Epistle to the Thessalonians.

The journalistic popularity of this phrase owes something to the unrelated novels The Third Man and The Tenth Man, both written by Graham Greene-who, coincidentally, knew and worked alongside Philby during the Second World War.

-Justice Scalia's majority opinion in District of Columbia v. Heller, rejecting the notion that the phrase " bear arms " was used as an idiom in the Second Amendment to the United States Constitution. 554 U. S. ____ ( 2008 ), slip op.

The phrase used in this connection (" hakamim debaruhu ", " the scholars directed him ") is the stereotyped phrase used also in connection with the fictitious exilarchs of the century of the Second Temple ; in the latter case, however, it occurs without the specific mention of names — a fact in favor of the historicalness of those names that are given for the succeeding centuries.

The phrase Thames Valley Region should not be confused with the term M4 Corridor which denotes the route of the M4 motorway which provides East / West travel on a more southerly route extending from Hammersmith through Berkshire, Buckinghamshire and Wiltshire and over the River Severn via the Second Severn Crossing Toll Bridge into South Wales.

A counter-argument says that the word " a " in the phrase " a second language " means there is no presumption that English is the second acquired language ( see also Second language ).

In the early drafts of the poem, Yeats used the phrase " the Second Birth ", but substituted the phrase " Second Coming " while revising.

The 1990 Code of Canons of the Eastern Churches, which is instead concerned principally with what the Second Vatican Council called " particular Churches or rites ", has shortened this phrase to " autonomous Church " ( in Latin, Ecclesia sui iuris ), as in its canon 27: " A group of Christ ’ s faithful hierarchically linked in accordance with law and given express or tacit recognition by the supreme authority of the Church is in this Code called an autonomous Church.

Following the end of the Second World War, the phrase Sicherheitspolizei appeared in East Germany as a title for some components of the East German secret police forces.

" A similar collect to the one appointed in the BCP 1979 appears in the recent book authorized for use in the Church of England, Common Worship, appointed for the Second Sunday of Advent, but the phrase " raise up " is used instead.

In English the word peace is occasionally used as a farewell, especially for the dead, as in the phrase ' Rest In Peace ' RIP.

From biblical to medieval Christian traditions, tensions between self-affirmation and other-regard were sometimes discussed under the heading of " disinterested love ," as in the Pauline phrase " love seeks not its own interests.

The literal translation of " Im Westen nichts Neues " is " Nothing New in the West ," with " West " being the Western Front ; the phrase refers to the content of an official communiqué at the end of the novel.

Today I have begotten you ," a phrase that shows adoptionist tendencies.

In his 1534 translation, William Tyndale translated the phrase in Jonah 2: 1 as " greate fyshe ," and he translated the word ketos ( Greek ) or cetus ( Latin ) in as " whale ".

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

The original phrase " the common-wealth " or " the common weal " ( echoed in the modern synonym " public weal ") comes from the old meaning of " wealth ," which is " well-being ", and is itself a loose translation of the Latin res publica ( republic ).

For example, he coined the programming phrase " two or more, use a for ," alluding to the rule of thumb that when you find yourself processing more than one instance of a data structure, it is time to consider encapsulating that logic inside a loop.

While Coupland's book helped to popularize the phrase " Generation X ," in a 1989 magazine article he erroneously attributed the term to English musician Billy Idol.

Beginning with the now-iconic phrase " Four score and seven years ago ," referring to the Declaration of Independence during the American Revolution in 1776, Lincoln examined the founding principles of the United States in the context of the Civil War, and memorialized the sacrifices of those who gave their lives at Gettysburg and extolled virtues for the listeners ( and the nation ) to ensure the survival of America's representative democracy, that the " government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.

The Scholar's Version of the gospel, developed by the Jesus Seminar, loosely translates the phrase as " The Logos was what God was ," offered as a better representation of the original meaning of the evangelist.

Genesis appears to be structured around the recurring phrase elleh toledot, meaning " these are the generations ," with the first use of the phrase referring to the " generations of heaven and earth " and the remainder marking individuals — Noah, the " sons of Noah ", Shem, etc., down to Jacob.

The warning printed on most cards intended for circulation as documents ( checks, for example ), " Do not fold, spindle or mutilate ," became a catch phrase for the post-World War II era.

* Thompson's poem is also the source of the phrase, " with all deliberate speed ," used by the Supreme Court in Brown II, the remedy phase of the famous decision on school desegregation.

Josiah Warren termed the phrase " Cost the limit of price ," with " cost " here referring not to monetary price paid but the labor one exerted to produce an item.

And instead of " he was Christ ," the Syriac version has the phrase " he was believed to be Christ ".

Another example of the textual arguments against the Testimonium is that it uses the Greek term poietes to mean " doer " ( as part of the phrase " doer of wonderful works ") but elsewhere in his works, Josephus only uses the term poietes to mean " poet ," whereas this use of " poietes " seems consistent with the Greek of Eusebius.

A loya jirga () is a type of jirga regarded as " grand assembly ," a phrase in the Pashto language meaning " grand council.

* The Descartes line, " I drink therefore I am ", is a twist on his well known phrase " Cogito, ergo sum ," or " I think therefore I am ".

The phrase " methodological individualism ," which has come into common usage in modern debates about the connection between microeconomics and macroeconomics, was coined by the Austrian-American economist Joseph Schumpeter in 1908 as a way of referring to the views of Weber.

The phrase " the Old Religion ," used by Wiccans and Neopagans to describe an ancestral pagan religion, derives from Murrayite theory.

St. Germain informs his readers that English lawyers generally don't use the phrase " law of nature ," but rather use " reason " as the preferred synonym.

In his own words, Hobbes ' reflection began with the idea of " giving to every man his own ," a phrase he drew from the writings of Cicero.

The concept of the prayer wheel is a physical manifestation of the phrase " turning the wheel of Dharma ," which describes the way in which the Buddha taught.

As well as translating " Et cum spiritu tuo " as " And with your spirit ", which some scholars suggest refers to the gift of the spirit the priest received at ordination, in the Niceno-Constantinopolitan Creed " consubstantial with the Father " was used as a translation of " consubstantialem Patri " ( in Greek " ὁμοούσιον τῷ Πατρί "), instead of " of one Being with the Father " ( or, in the United States only, " one in Being with the Father "), and the phrase, formerly translated as " It will be shed for you and for all so that sins may be forgiven ," was translated literally as " which will be poured out for you and for many for the forgiveness of sins " ( see Pro multis ).