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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.
By 1997, the phrase had entered the legal lexicon as seen in an opinion by Supreme Court of the United States Justice John Paul Stevens, ' An example of " junk science " that should be excluded under the Daubert standard as too unreliable would be the testimony of a phrenologist who would purport to prove a defendant ’ s future dangerousness based on the contours of the defendant ’ s skull.
" " The phrase ' Judeo-Christian ' entered the contemporary lexicon as the standard liberal term for the idea that Western values rest on a religious consensus that included Jews.
" This phrase ( meaning " one of this, one of the other ") entered the vernacular in Dublin as " one and one ", which is still a way of referring to fish and chips in the city.
A classic reference which has generally entered modern language is the concept that " Hope springs eternal " taken from Alexander Pope's Essay on Man, the phrase reading " Hope springs eternal in the human breast, Man never is, but always to be blest :" Another popular reference, " Hope is the thing with feathers ," is from a poem by Emily Dickinson.
The phrase " terror bombing " entered the English lexicon towards the end of World War II and many strategic bombing campaigns and individual raids have been described as terror bombing by commentators and historians although, because the term has pejorative connotations, others have preferred to use other terms such as " will to resist ( by which I mean morale )".
The phrase " Catch-22 ", " a problematic situation for which the only solution is denied by a circumstance inherent in the problem or by a rule ," has entered the English language.
A proper generic term is cold cathode neon readout tube, though the phrase Nixie tube quickly entered the vernacular as a generic name.
Because the authorities were required to read the proclamation that referred to the Riot Act before they could enforce it, the expression " to read the Riot Act " entered into common language as a phrase meaning " to reprimand severely ", with the added sense of a stern warning.
" Fibber McGee's closet " entered the American vernacular as a catch phrase synonymous with household clutter.
The roughly synonymous phrase a bene placito (" at good pleasure ") is less common but, in its Italian form a piacere, entered the musical lingua franca ( see below ).
" The impact of this phrase on Buechner was so great that he eventually entered the Union Theological Seminary in 1954, on a Rockefeller Brothers Theological Fellowship.
The phrase " Groundhog Day " has entered common use as a reference to an unpleasant situation that continually repeats, or seems to.
The phrase " slam dunk " has since entered popular usage in American English, meaning a " sure thing " – an action with a guaranteed outcome, or otherwise an impressive achievement, in the same way that the baseball-inspired phrases " it was a grand slam " or " he hit it out of the park " was more commonly used in previous years.
On 4 July 1917, shortly after the U. S. entered World War I, Colonel Charles E. Stanton visited the grave of Lafayette and uttered the famous phrase " Lafayette, we are here.
By 1979, this phrase had entered the third edition of the Oxford Dictionary of Quotations.
The Aztecs entered the valley in 1440 and named it “ Huaxyacac ,” a Nahuatl phrase meaning " among the huaje " ( Leucaena leucocephala ) trees.
For one series, Wallas Eaton portrayed an opinionated newspaper letter writer named Disgusted of Tunbridge Wells, another phrase that entered the language.
From 1745, when he considered himself to have entered a spiritual state, he tended to phrase his " experiences " in empirical terms, claiming to report accurately things he had experienced on his spiritual journeys.
The phrase was used during the Vietnam War era to describe the sort of major that many young men who would otherwise not have entered college undertook to escape the draft.
The phrase entered the American lexicon early in its history, in the Puritan John Winthrop's 1630 sermon " A Model of Christian Charity ".
The phrase is an ancient one in Chinese culture, but sources differ as to when it entered the English vocabulary.
Green's extreme respect for her own privacy aside, she entered the lexicon of turn-of-the-century America with the popular phrase, " I'm not Hetty if I do look green ;" this phrase is quoted in O. Henry's 1890s story " The Skylight Room " when a young woman, negotiating the rent on a room in a rooming house owned by an imperious old lady, wishes to make it clear she is neither as rich as she appears nor as naive.

phrase and political
But for even the most active citizen the formal basis of his political activity was the invitation issued to everyone ( every qualified free male Athenian citizen ) by the phrase " whoever wishes ".
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.
* Democrat Party ( phrase ), a political epithet used in the United States instead of the Democratic Party
" You have two cows " is the beginning phrase for a series of political joke definitions.
* 1920 – During the U. S. Republican National Convention in Chicago, U. S. Republican Party leaders gathered in a room at the Blackstone Hotel to come to a consensus on their candidate for the U. S. presidential election, leading the Associated Press to first coin the political phrase " smoke-filled room ".
Thus the popular phrase: there is only one political party, the incumbent party.
British comedian Stewart Lee also satirized the oft-used phrase of criticism for political correctness: " it's political correctness gone mad ".
In which Lee, himself, criticized people for overusing this phrase without even understanding the concept of political correctness ( including many people's confusion of it with Health & Safety laws ).
Grant's political opponents used the phrase Grantism, coined by Sen. Charles Sumner during the Presidential election of 1872, to describe the many corruption charges during the Grant Administration.
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.
Bryan's words gave rise to later economic and political philosophies, including Huey Long's 1930s Share Our Wealth program, with its trigger phrase, " Every Man a King " inspired by Bryan's speech.
In his book The Cold War Gaddis argues that, in their use of the phrase " evil empire ," Reagan and his anti-Communist political allies were effective in breaking the détente tradition, thus laying the ground for the ultimate collapse of the Soviet Union.
The phrase économie politique ( translated in English as political economy ) first appeared in France in 1615 with the well known book by Antoine de Montchrétien: Traité de l ’ economie politique.
This phrase, intended to evoke the ' primitive throwback ' qualities of anthropological discoveries such as Piltdown Man and Swanscombe Man, was part of a British political tradition of referring to political trends by suffixing ' man '.
And the phrase has retained its political power for six decades.
The phrase " silent majority " has also been used in the political campaigns of Ronald Reagan during the 1970s and 1980s, the Republican Revolution in the 1994 elections, and the victories of Rudy Giuliani and Michael Bloomberg, both of whom were at the time Republicans, in the New York City Mayoral races of the 1990s and 2000s ( decade ).
This speech was the origin of the phrase " To Limehouse ", or " Limehousing ", which meant an incendiary political speech.
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.
The selection took the political world by surprise and possibly led to the British phrase " Bob's your uncle !".
This " was a political phrase introduced into ITMA when post-war reconstruction was looming.
The phrase appears many hundreds of times in Roman political, legal and historical literature, including the speeches of Mārcus Tullius Cīcerō ( Tully ) and the Ab urbe condita libri (" Books from the Founding of the City ") of Titus Livius ( Livy ).
The phrase ' Beijing Spring ' was also used during a more recent period of political thaw in the PRC, September 1997 to mid November 1998.
Neue Slowenische Kunst ( a German phrase meaning " New Slovenian Art "), a. k. a. NSK, is a controversial political art collective that announced itself in Slovenia in 1984, when Slovenia was part of Yugoslavia.

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