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Scientists broadcast the phrase to outer space, but are mystified by the response: a seemingly meaningless series of numbers repeated over and over, until Laughlin recognizes it as a set of geographical coordinates pointing to Devils Tower near Moorcroft, Wyoming.
Contemporary reports stated that in opening the building, Chamberlain referred to it as " this magnificent erection ", although this phrase is also attributed by tradition to George V. The fictional " Dark Tower " in the novel of that name ( attributed to C. S. Lewis ) was a replica of this building.
Taim has begun to style himself " the M ' Hael ", leader of the Tower, although his true intentions have yet to be revealed ; it is speculated he is a Darkfriend ( this is supported by his using of the phrase, " Let the Lord of Chaos rule ," which is a command from the Dark One ), although it has been stated by the author that he is not Demandred ( a favorite theory among many readers ).
The phrase has therefore generally been accepted as referring to the Newport Tower, and is evidence the tower was once used as a windmill.
At the time, Blanding was employed by the Honolulu Star Bulletin, and he shared his idea with columnist Grace Tower Warren, who came up the phrase, " May Day is Lei Day ".
During their hearing in the High Council Tower, Orion rigorously defended their ideals, even reviving the ancient philosophical phrase " Autobots " to describe the autonomy his brethren sought.
( This phrase has been used as an epigraph to numerous works, most notably Watchmen and the Tower Commission Report.
Wodehouse's novel The Mating Season: Jeeves uses the phrase ' Childe Roland to the Dark Tower came ' to describe Bertie Wooster's arrival at Deverill Hall.
Station manager Roger LeGrand then coined the phrase " Milwaukee's Tower of Light ".

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The phrase does not come from association with Black's Law Dictionary, which was first published in 1891.
We deliberately use the phrase " with the addition of other means " because we also want to make it clear that war in itself does not suspend political intercourse or change it into something entirely different.
The phrase " Cogito ergo sum " ( I think, therefore I am ) is also commonly associated with Descartes ' theory, because in his own methodological doubt, doubting everything he previously knew in order to start from a blank slate, the first thing that he could not logically bring himself to doubt was his own existence: " I do not exist " would be a contradiction in terms ; the act of saying that one does not exist assumes that someone must be making the statement in the first place.
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.
The terms geab and geabaire are certainly Irish words but the phrase " geab ar ais " does not exist, and the word gibberish exists as a loan-word in Irish as gibiris, defined by Ó Dónaill as " Gibberish.
The phrase olam ha-ba, ( עולם הבא ) " world to come ", does not occur in the Hebrew Bible.
The jumping of the broom does not constitute taking a " leap of faith " because the practice of jumping the broom pre-dates the phrase coined by Søren Aabye Kierkegaard by one hundred years, if not more.
However, the phrase 功夫武術 ( kung fu wu shu ) does exist in Chinese and could be ( loosely ) translated as ' the skills of the martial arts '.
The phrase is not a term of art in the law ; it has no exact meaning, nor does it have a legal definition.
* Nicene Creed or the Creed of Nicaea is used to refer to the original version adopted at the First Council of Nicaea ( 325 ), to the revised version adopted by the First Council of Constantinople ( 381 ), to the Latin version that includes the phrase " Deum de Deo " and " Filioque ", and to the Armenian version, which does not include " and from the Son ", but does include " God from God " and many other phrases.
The phrase " what does it matter " or such variants is often spoken by several characters in response to events ; the significance of some of these events suggests a subscription to nihilism by said characters as a type of coping strategy.
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.
" The simple meaning of the phrase is that if one is sceptical of existence, that is in and of itself proof that he does exist.
Unlike other commentators, Rashi does not paraphrase or exclude any part of the text, but elucidates phrase by phrase.
Many parties, including the government of Israel, hold that this phrase does not mean that Israel should withdraw from all such territories, else the Security Council would have said " from the territories occupied ".
Opponents of Harrison have argued that a phrase in Pope Pius XII's legislation " Cardinals who have been deposed or who have resigned, however, are barred and may not be reinstated even for the purpose of voting ", though it speaks of someone deposed or resigned from the cardinalate, not of someone who may have incurred automatic excommunication but has not been officially declared excommunicated, means that, even if someone is permitted to attend, that does not automatically translate into electability.
Another variety also begins suddenly with frequent word and phrase repetition, and does not develop secondary stuttering behaviours.
This phrase means that the head of state's role in government is generally ceremonial and as a result does not directly institute executive powers.
The term Westminster Village, sometimes used in the context of British politics, does not refer to a geographical area at all ; employed especially in the phrase Westminster Village gossip, it denotes a supposedly close social circle of Members of Parliament, political journalists, so-called spin doctors and others connected to events in the Palace of Westminster.
An adverb is a word that changes or qualifies the meaning of a verb, adjective, other adverb, clause, sentence or any other word or phrase, except that it does not include the adjectives and determiners that directly modify nouns.
In other words, if a person does not understand a certain word or phrase, another person may substitute a synonym or symbol in order to get the meaning of the original word or phrase across.

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It is natural that he should turn for his major support to a select and dedicated few from the organization which actually owns the university and whose goals are, in their opinion, identified with its highest good and ( to use that oft-repeated phrase ) ' the attainment of excellence ' ''.
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 ).
Although prior to the catastrophic collapse of the towers, the phrase " a good day to bury bad news " ( not actually used by Moore ) has since been used to refer to other instances of attempting to hide one item of news behind a more publicised issue.
The phrase " death of one man is a tragedy, death of a million is a statistic " is sometimes attributed to Stalin, but was actually made by the German writer and pacifist Erich Maria Remarque.
In A Moveable Feast, which was published after both Hemingway and Stein were dead and after a literary feud that lasted much of their life, Hemingway reveals that the phrase was actually originated by the garage owner who serviced Stein's car.
Pronouns and determiners are closely related, and some linguists think pronouns are actually determiners without a noun or a noun phrase.
As an aside, the above is actually a contraction of the phrase eat shit and die !.
The word carne may also be translated as flesh, so suggesting carne vale as " a farewell to the flesh ", a phrase actually embraced by certain Carnival celebrants who encourage letting go of your former ( or everyday ) self and embracing the carefree nature of the festival.
" This phrase actually means " I'm pregnant " in Spanish.
An example is the phrase " Cwm fjord bank glyphs vext quiz ", although " cwm " is actually a Welsh word, meaning valley.
David John Oates, for example, almost always tells the listener in advance what he should expect to hear, thereby planting a suggestion that would make the listener more likely to actually " hear " that phrase.
Alexander's proverbial phrase ( actually, paraphrased Math. 26: 52 ) " Whoever will come to us with a sword, from a sword will perish ," has become a slogan of Russian patriots.
Cassidy asserts that this is a misreading of the source, which actually begins " Oh, ki, massa ...", where ki is a phrase by itself:
Will Wright has stated in an interview that the game does not actually reticulate splines when generating terrain, and he just inserted the phrase because it " sounded cool ".
It was on this album that the phrase Dirty South was actually coined, featured as a song title.
While that phrase may be used practically, it helps to understand that any particular time is actually an instant.
The album's first single, " Sexcrime ( Nineteen Eighty-Four )", was a top 5 hit in the UK, Australia and across Europe, and a major dance success in the United States, but its supposedly suggestive title ( actually taken from the newspeak phrase used in Orwell's book ) resulted in many U. S. pop radio stations refusing to play the track.
" Elenore " is the only Hot 100 single which ever rhymed the phrase et cetera in its lyrics, though with an AACBBC rhyming pattern it doesn't actually rhyme very well with the word " better " in the sixth line.
The exact Latin ( lex talionis ) to English translation of this phrase is actually " The law of retaliation.
In 1811 a man named Captain William Lynch claimed that the phrase, by then famous, actually came from a 1780 compact signed by him and his neighbors in Pittsylvania County, Virginia, to uphold their own brand of law independent of legal authority.
Brown has argued that John is using a phrase that actually describes the linen as lying on a shelf within the tomb.
He actually remarked that " Everywhere in Germany you hear the same phrase, ' The Jews are our misfortune.
While that phrase may be used practically, it helps to understand that any particular time is actually an instant.
The " last mile " or " last kilometer " is a phrase used by the telecommunications and cable television and internet industries to refer to the final leg of the telecommunications networks delivering communications connectivity to retail customers ; the part that actually reaches the customer.

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