He can coin a neat phrase: `` a street spattered with an invigoration of people '' ; ;

Syntactic ambiguity arises when a phrase can be parsed in only one way.

An anagram is a type of word play, the result of rearranging the letters of a word or phrase to produce a new word or phrase, using all the original letters exactly once ; for example orchestra can be rearranged into carthorse.

The essence of Deuteronomistic theology is that Israel has entered into a covenant ( a treaty, a binding agreement ) with the god Yahweh, under which they agree to accept Yahweh as their god ( hence the phrase " god of Israel ") and Yahweh promises them a land where they can live in peace and prosperity.

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

Almost half of the Psalms are headed " A Psalm of David ", although the phrase can also be translated as " to David " or " for David ", but no psalm can be attributed to David with certainty.

Brentano argued that we can join the concept represented by a noun phrase " an A " to the concept represented by an adjective " B " to give the concept represented by the noun phrase " a B-A ".

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.

Thus Ockham argued that " Socrates has wisdom ", which apparently asserts the existence of a reference for " wisdom ", can be rewritten as " Socrates is wise ", which contains only the referring phrase " Socrates ".

Although it was Sartre who explicitly coined the phrase, similar notions can be found in the thought of existentialist philosophers such as Kierkegaard and Heidegger.

Critics of foundationalism often argue that for a belief to be justified it must be supported by other beliefs ; in Donald Davidson's phrase, " only a belief can be a reason for another belief ".

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The distinctive 6 beats to the phrase can still be heard today in songs such as " God Save the Queen ".

But instead of this too many of the younger Germans simply make use of the phrase historical materialism ( and everything can be turned into a phrase ) only in order to get their own relatively scanty historical knowledge — for economic history is still in its swaddling clothes!

And after that a Barth can come along and attack the thing itself, which in his circle has indeed been degraded to a mere phrase.

In Hebrew, the word Shabbat () can also mean "( Talmudic ) week ", so that in ritual liturgy a phrase like " Yom Reviʻi bəShabbat " means " the fourth day in the week ".

Habeas corpus is a Latin phrase, which can be literally translated as “( we command ) that you have the body ” or " you should arrest " the conventional incipit of medieval arrest warrants in England.

Today, they are also known as the Western Isles although this phrase can also be used to refer to the Hebrides in general.

Another notable ( and defiant ) phrase in the speech was also spoken in German, " Lass ' sie nach Berlin kommen " (" Let them come to Berlin ")-- addressed at those who claimed " we can work with the Communists ", a remark which Nikita Khrushchev scoffed at only days later.

* ambiguity-when two or more different meanings can be interpreted equally well from a certain word or phrase

The phrase ignoratio elenchi is from Latin, and can be roughly translated as " ignorance of refutation ", that is, ignorance of what a refutation could logically be.

But it is characteristic of him, we are told, `` his little artifice '', to be able to introduce `` into a fairly vulgar and humorous piece of hackwork a sudden phrase of genuine creative art ''.

It is true of the rhythmic pattern in which the beat shifts continuously, or at least is continuously sprung, so that it becomes ambiguous enough to allow the pattern to be dominated by the long pulsations of the phrase or strophe.

) `` Quoting Mr. Kennan's phrase that anything would be better than a policy which led inevitably to nuclear war, he ( Toynbee ) says that anything is better than a policy which allows for the possibility of nuclear war ''.

Note that this premise uses the phrase " is not ", a form of " to be "; this and many other examples show that he did not intend to abandon " to be " as such.

In a perfect anagram, every letter must be used, with exactly the same number of occurrences as in the anagrammed word or phrase ; any result that falls short is called an imperfect anagram.

Rendering aion to indicate eternality in this verse would result in the contradictory phrase “ end of eternity ”, so the question arises whether it should ever be so.

It was at this time that ` Abdu ' l-Bahá, in order to provide proof of the falsity of the accusations leveled against him, in tablets to the West, stated that he was to be known as "` Abdu ' l-Bahá " an Arabic phrase meaning the Servant of Bahá to make it clear that he was not a Manifestation of God, and that his station was only servitude.

In the poem the prisoner is suffering " for the colour of his hair ", a natural, given attribute which, in a clearly coded reference to homosexuality, is reviled as " nameless and abominable " ( recalling the legal phrase peccatum horribile, inter christianos non nominandum, " the horrible sin, not to be named amongst Christians ").

The phrase is often used in a less serious manner in relation to someone or something that is out of control and causing trouble ( e. g., a dog tearing up the living room furniture might be said to be running amok ).

The phrase began to be used in response to the blending of sounds between these international genres and frequent misrepresentations of genre by casual fans.

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 ).

Ironically, it was Hoyle who coined the phrase that came to be applied to Lemaître's theory, referring to it as " this big bang idea " during a BBC Radio broadcast in March 1949.

The original posters showed Bennett himself ; a kindly looking old man offering guidance and support to would-be students with the phrase " Let me be your father " attached.

Some writers, such as James-Charles Noonan, hold that, in the case of cardinals, the form used for signatures should be used also when referring to them, even in English ; and this is the usual but not the only way of referring to cardinals in Latin .< ref > An Internet search will uncover some hundreds of examples of " Cardinalis Ioannes < surname >", examples modern and centuries-old ( such as this from 1620 ), and the phrase " dominus cardinalis Petrus Caputius " is found in a document of 1250.

The literal translation of the phrase ex nihilo is " from nothing " but in many creation myths the line is blurred whether the creative act would be better classified as a creation ex nihilo or creation from chaos.

He suggested a more appropriate phrase would be " it thinks.

Note that the concept of an indirect object may be rendered by a prepositional phrase.

He derived the phrase spontaneous order from Gestalt psychology, and it was adopted by the classical liberal economist Frederick Hayek, although the concept can be traced back to at least Adam Smith.

However, the story may well be apocryphal, as it can only be traced to the 16th century, and, in the time of Edward I, the English aristocracy spoke Norman French, not English ( some versions of the legend include lack of knowledge in both languages as a requirement, and one reported version has the very specific phrase " born on Welsh soil and speaking no other language ").

The application of the term to specifically nuclear and radiological weapons is traced by William Safire to the Russian phrase " Оружие массового поражения " – oruzhiye massovogo porazheniya ( weapons of mass destruction ).

The revival of garage rock can be traced to the release of the two disk Nuggets compilation in 1972 by future Patti Smith guitarist Lenny Kaye, which drew together both commercially successful and relatively obscure tracks from the mid-1960s and whose sleeve notes helped coin the phrase " punk rock " to describe the phenomenon.

While military units have long built defensive structures to protect against various kinds of hostile bombardment, the use of the phrase " bomb shelter " can be traced at least as far back as 1833.

The origins of the phrase in English, however, can be traced back to the early 20th century.

He was rescued from obscurity in the twentieth century after the famous phrase " Manifest Destiny " was traced back to him.

In 2005, research by Victoria Coren and others for the Wordhunt project in conjunction with the first series of Balderdash and Piffle on the BBC ( first broadcast at the beginning of 2006 ) traced the origin of the phrase to 1960.

Rather than being of ancient origin as usually assumed, the specific expression, and its even more distinctive associated Latin phrase, has been traced back to an attribution to Thomas Sydenham ( 1624 – 1689 ) in a book by Thomas Inman ( 1860 ).

The first reference to the phrase soccer mom in the US national media has been traced to 1982.

" The phrase " separation of church and state ," which does not appear in the Constitution itself, is generally traced to an 1802 letter by Thomas Jefferson to the Danbury Baptists, where Jefferson spoke of the combined effect of the Establishment Clause and the Free Exercise Clause of the First Amendment.

Consultative Status is a phrase whose use can be traced to the founding of the United Nations and is used within the UN community to refer to " Non-governmental organizations ( NGOs ) in Consultative Status with the United Nations Economic and Social Council.

" The modern concept of a wholly secular government is sometimes credited to the writings of English philosopher John Locke, but the phrase " separation of church and state " in this context is generally traced to a January 1, 1802 letter by Thomas Jefferson, addressed to the Danbury Baptist Association in Connecticut, and published in a Massachusetts newspaper.

The use of the phrase as a reference to demagoguery and hypocrisy is traced to a Russian political joke, about a dispute between an American and a Soviet man.

It should be noted, however, that Rhyming Slang can be traced only as early as the 1840s, whereas the phrase " green room " predates this by several centuries, making such an etymology unlikely.

The phrase may be traced to its emphatic use by nineteenth-century classical liberal thinker Herbert Spencer.

His " Grenadier de Waterloo ", 1817, with the motto " La Garde meurt et ne se rend pas " ( a famous phrase frequently attributed to Cambronne, but which he never uttered, and which cannot, perhaps, be traced farther than to this lithograph by Charlet ), was particularly popular.

Mr. Knight thought the labels would be the perfect symbol for his trade name, Fruit of the Loom — a name that bears resemblance to the phrase " fruit of the womb ", an expression meaning " children ", which can be traced back to use in the Bible ( Psalm 127: 3 ).

The phrase can be traced back as far as 1561, when it was given as one of The Fraternity of Vagabonds, by John Awdeley.

This phrase is generally traced back to a comment by Thomas Jefferson, referring to the " despotic behaviour " of Federalist federal judges, in particular, John Marshall.

Safire traced that usage in U. S. presidential politics to a passage in the 1990 political memoir What I Saw at the Revolution by Peggy Noonan, where she used it to characterize Ronald Reagan's " wistfulness about connection "; Richard Ben Cramer used the phrase two years later in What It Takes: The Way to the White House with reference to George H. W. Bush and how he had been " cosseted and cocooned in comfort by 400 people devoted to his security " and " never s one person who was not a friend or someone whose sole purpose it was to serve or protect him.