In 2004, the Supreme Court heard Elk Grove Unified School District v. Newdow, an appeal of the ruling, and rejected Newdow's claim on the grounds that he was not the custodial parent, and therefore lacked standing, thus avoiding ruling on the merits of whether the phrase was constitutional in a school-sponsored recitation.

Although the Panama Canal Zone was legally an unincorporated US territory until the implementation of the Torrijos-Carter Treaties in 1979, questions arose almost from its inception as to whether the Zone was considered part of the United States for constitutional purposes, or, in the phrase of the day, whether the Constitution followed the flag.

However, the use of the phrase as the national motto has been challenged by three lawsuits and has repeatedly been found to be constitutional.

This phrase has become the label of choice for this constitutional clause, and it was universally adopted by the courts, and it received Congress's imprimatur in Title 50 of the United States Code, section 1541 ( b ) ( 1994 ), in the purpose and policy of the War Powers Resolution.

" The Atlas Society also reviewed the book, writing " Despite its occasional lack of focus, Restoring the Lost Constitution is a succinct and accurate distillation of libertarian constitutional theory — and it convincingly shows that this phrase is largely redundant.

During the German occupation of France in World War II, this motto was replaced by the reactionary phrase " Travail, famille, patrie " ( Work, family, fatherland ) by Marshal Pétain, who became the leader of the new Vichy French government through a constitutional coup in 1940.

This phrase is used to describe the official constitutional status of the British Prime Minister within his Cabinet.

This is considered the benchmark case in issues of student free speech and contains the famous phrase “ students do not shed their constitutional rights at the schoolhouse gate.

The lack of any official, government-established Shari ' a courts in Iraq, and the use of the phrase " a principal source of legislation " rather than " the principal source of legislation " in the Iraqi constitution, has been understood to mean that Iraq is not a constitutional theocracy, at least according to Hirschl's definition.

The phrase " constitutional act " may have several different meanings:

The phrase expresses the belief that constitutional restrictions on governmental power must be balanced against the need for survival of the state and its people.

Advice and consent is an English phrase frequently used in enacting formulae of bills and in other legal or constitutional contexts, describing a situation in which the executive branch of a government enacts something previously approved of by the legislative branch.

Ezekiel's phrase “ glory of YHWH ” ( glory of Yahweh ) describes the presence of the God of Israel which filled the Temple.

The Talmud describes the blind as having " much light " ( Aramaic סגי נהור ) and this phrase — sagee nahor — is the Modern Hebrew for euphemism.

He says that he has acquired shida we-shidot, an ambiguous phrase that may refer to a harem ( shdh or " breasts "); he describes how he could not find a virtuous woman ; and he exhorts the reader to enjoy ( re ' a ) life with his wife.

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.

A standard joking phrase, common today in Northern England, is possibly first recorded in Varney, where a comical character twice describes himself as having " never been backward in coming forward.

The term laconic phrase describes a very terse and concise way of speaking that was characteristic of the Spartans.

To " bite one's tongue " is a phrase which describes holding back an opinion to avoid causing offence.

Where the Masoretic describes Yahweh as a " man of war " (), the Samaritan has " hero of war ", a phrase applied to spiritual beings, and in, the Samaritan reading " The Angel of God found Balaam " replaces the Masoretic " And God met Balaam.

, sometimes shortened to, is a Japanese slang portmanteau of the phrase and describes an attraction to young boys, or an individual with such an attraction.

He based the phrase on a concept in anthropology, the cargo cult, which describes how some pre-scientific cultures interpreted technologically advanced visitors as religious or supernatural figures who brought boons of cargo.

In 1949 the phrase appeared in an article by Walter Morrow in the San Francisco News ( published on 1 June ) and in Pierre Dos Utt's monograph, " TANSTAAFL: a plan for a new economic world order ", which describes an oligarchic political system based on his conclusions from " no free lunch " principles.

Tovey describes it as " a phrase so haunting that though Beethoven does not repeat the entire sections of this variation he marks the last four bars to be repeated ".

She describes these as " sensitive periods ", a phrase coined by de Vries during his studies on animals.

Then the Hebrew phrase ʼnāshîm midyanîm sōĥrîm in verse 28 describes Midianite traders.

Brown has argued that John is using a phrase that actually describes the linen as lying on a shelf within the tomb.

Brand equity is a phrase used in the marketing industry which describes the value of having a well-known brand name, based on the idea that the owner of a well-known brand name can generate more money from products with that brand name than from products with a less well known name, as consumers believe that a product with a well-known name is better than products with less well known names.

The word " resistance ", though decidedly less dramatic, retains the alliterative character of the earlier phrase and is generally preferred by the majority of contemporary academic historians, as it more accurately describes the particulars of the political situation at the time.

The term Welfare state is used to describe a state in which the government provides the majority of Welfare services ; the phrase also describes those services collectively.

However, it is likely apocryphal, as The Churchill Centre describes the attribution as " an invented phrase put in Churchill's mouth.

Recalling the Story of Daruma-san in the introduction of his book, Dr. Gettis describes the phrase as " a call to never give up.

* Et in Arcadia Ego is also the title of Book One of Evelyn Waugh's Brideshead Revisited in which the narrator, Charles Ryder, describes his room decorated with a skull bearing the phrase.

The term " The Law of the Jungle " is also used in a similar context, drawn from Rudyard Kipling's The Jungle Book ( 1894 )-though in the society of jungle animals portrayed in that book and obviously meant as a metaphor for human society, that phrase referred to an intricate code of laws which Kipling describes in detail, and not at all to a lawless chaos.

In Lee Iacocca's autobiography, he describes the origins of the phrase " Whiz Kids ".

The phrase also describes the effects of failing to update out-of-date web pages that clutter search engine results.

In Billy Joel's " You May Be Right ( I May Be Crazy )", the in-song narrator describes his dangerous past with the phrase " I was stranded in the Combat Zone ".

Without agreeing with every phrase in this statement, we must certainly assert the great difference between Christian love and any form of resistance, and then go on beyond the Mennonite position and affirm that Christian love-in-action must first justify and then determine the moral principles limiting resistance.

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.

An abbreviation ( from Latin brevis, meaning short ) is a shortened form of a word or phrase.

The form used in the Roman Rite included anointing of seven parts of the body while saying ( in Latin ): " Through this holy unction and His own most tender mercy may the Lord pardon thee whatever sins or faults thou hast committed deliquisti by sight hearing, smell, taste, touch, walking, carnal delectation ", the last phrase corresponding to the part of the body that was touched ; however, in the words of the 1913 Catholic Encyclopedia, " the unction of the loins is generally, if not universally, omitted in English-speaking countries, and it is of course everywhere forbidden in case of women ".

A code is a rule for converting a piece of information ( for example, a letter, word, phrase, or gesture ) into another form or representation ( one sign into another sign ), not necessarily of the same type.

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.

Rhyming slang is a form of phrase construction in the English language and is especially prevalent in dialectal English from the East End of London ; hence the alternative name, Cockney rhyming slang ( or CRS ).

The phrase became a fundamental element of Western philosophy, as it was perceived to form a foundation for all knowledge.

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.

Haeckel advanced a version of the earlier " recapitulation theory ", previously set out by Étienne Serres in the 1820s and supported by followers of Geoffroy including Robert Edmond Grant, which proposed a link between ontogeny ( development of form ) and phylogeny ( evolutionary descent ), summed up by Haeckel in the phrase " ontogeny recapitulates phylogeny ".

Filioque (), Latin for " and ( from ) the Son ", is a phrase found in the form of Nicene Creed in use in most of the Western Christian churches.

Such activities are sometimes known as " fan labor " or " fanac ", an abbreviated form of the phrase " fan activity.

Qui tam is an abbreviated form of the Latin legal phrase qui tam pro domino rege quam pro se ipso in hac parte sequitur (" he who brings a case on behalf of our lord the King, as well as for himself ") In a qui tam action, the citizen filing suit is called a " relator ".

In grammar, the case of a noun or pronoun is an inflectional form that indicates its grammatical function in a phrase, clause, or sentence.

The term is used as a shortened form of the phrase 変態性欲 ( hentai seiyoku ) meaning " sexual perversion ".

Old Norse kennings take the form of a genitive phrase ( báru fákr " wave ’ s steed " = “ ship ” ( Þorbjörn hornklofi: Glymdrápa 3 )) or a compound word ( gjálfr-marr " sea-steed " = “ ship ” ( Anon.

Merriam-Webster notes, " Recent criticism of the use of myriad as a noun, both in the plural form myriads and in the phrase a myriad of, seems to reflect a mistaken belief that the word was originally and is still properly only an adjective .... however, the noun is in fact the older form, dating to the 16th century.

In English translations of the New Testament, the phrase " Jesus of Nazareth " appears seventeen times whereas the Greek has the form " Jesus the Nazarēnos " or " Jesus the Nazōraios.

Some people use the phrase " naturalistic fallacy " or " appeal to nature " to characterize inferences of the form " This behaviour is natural ; therefore, this behaviour is morally acceptable " or " This property is unnatural ; therefore, this property is undesireable.

In linguistics and grammar, a pronoun is a word or form that substitutes for a noun or noun phrase.

The phrase is traditionally placed in its abbreviated form at the end of a mathematical proof or philosophical argument when what was specified in the enunciation — and in the setting-out — has been exactly restated as the conclusion of the demonstration.

" Shia " is the short form of the historic phrase Shīʻatu ʻAlī (), meaning " followers ", " faction ", or " party " of Muhammad's son-in-law Ali, whom the Shia believe to be Muhammad's successor.

The word Shia ( Classical Arabic: ) means follower and is the short form of the historic phrase ( ), meaning " followers of Ali ", " faction of Ali ", or " party of Ali ".

* Ferdinand de Saussure ( 1857 – 1913 ), the " father " of modern linguistics, proposed a dualistic notion of signs, relating the signifier as the form of the word or phrase uttered, to the signified as the mental concept.