In mathematics, the phrase " almost all " has a number of specialised uses.

Agathon's extraordinary physical beauty is brought up repeatedly in the sources ; the historian W. Rhys Roberts observes that " ὁ καλός Ἀγάθων ( ho kalos Agathon ) has become almost a stereotyped phrase.

The phrase " all quiet on the Western Front " has become a colloquial expression meaning stagnation, or lack of visible change, in any context.

His comment on Numbers 23: 19 has a still more polemical tone: “ God is not a man that he should lie ; neither the son of man, that he should repent ; < font face =" times new roman " size = 3 > if a man says: ‘ I am a god ’ he is a liar ; if he says: ‘ I am a son of man ’ he will have cause to regret it ; and if he says, ‘ I will go up to heaven ’ he has said but will not keep his word ” last phrase is borrowed from B ' midbar 23: 19 ( Yer.

The anthropic principle has given rise to some confusion and controversy, partly because the phrase has been applied to several distinct ideas.

However, it has been strongly argued that this was a point made out of mis-translation, as pointed out by Amin Malouf, and that the origin of the term in Middle Eastern culture comes from phrase Asasiyun, meaning those who follow the Asas ; believers in the foundation of faith.

Since the publication of Nineteen Eighty-Four the phrase " Big Brother " has come into common use to describe any prying or overly-controlling authority figure, and attempts by government to increase surveillance.

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.

The phrase Great White Way has been attributed to Shep Friedman, columnist for the New York Morning Telegraph in 1901, who lifted the term from the title of a book about the Arctic by Albert Paine.

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 quotation from the Gospel of John has raised some questions about the meaning and authenticity of the phrase " born again ".

Occasionally a code word achieves an independent existence ( and meaning ) while the original equivalent phrase is forgotten or at least no longer has the precise meaning attributed to the code word.

The phrase has been used to mean giving actual or figurative support or aid to someone in a situation or project, i. e. to " watch their back ".

One detail has been added to the inside of the collar: the phrase " Keep Pounding ", in honor of the late Panthers player and coach Sam Mills.

Libertarianism has been used in modern times as a substitute for the phrase " neo-classical liberalism ", leading to some confusion.

In morphology and syntax, a clitic is a morpheme that has syntactic characteristics of a word, but depends phonologically on another word or phrase.

Due to the possibility of confusion between the use of the word " cytosol " to refer to both extracts of cells and the soluble part of the cytoplasm in intact cells, the phrase " aqueous cytoplasm " has been used to describe the liquid contents of the cytoplasm of living cells.

The phrase pariter cum Scottis in the Latin text of the Chronicle has been translated in several ways.

Controversy in matters of theology has traditionally been particularly heated, giving rise to the phrase odium theologicum.

The US Army has published military phrase books in Esperanto, to be used in war games by mock enemy forces.

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 ".

Mainstream Christianity professes belief in the Nicene Creed, and English versions of the Nicene Creed in current use include the phrase: " We look for the resurrection of the dead, and the life of the world to come ".

The army report that day contains only one phrase: “ All quiet on the Western Front .” As Paul dies, his face is calm, “ as though almost glad the end had come .”

The phrase does not come from association with Black's Law Dictionary, which was first published in 1891.

* The etymology of the term " blade runner " is revealed to come from the German phrase bleib ruhig, meaning " remain calm.

Hold come what may is a phrase popularized by logician Willard Van Orman Quine.

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.

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.

* 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 ".

The phrase olam ha-ba, ( עולם הבא ) " world to come ", does not occur in the Hebrew Bible.

' I have to come back to it here, however, for the particular flavor of Kubla Khan, with its air of mystery, is describable in part through that convenient phrase.

In a modern translation from the original Hebrew, the passage in which the phrase " Lucifer " or " morning star " occurs begins with the statement: " On the day the Lord gives you relief from your suffering and turmoil and from the harsh labour forced on you, you will take up this taunt against the king of Babylon: How the oppressor has come to an end!

Because the whole meaning of that phrase is much different from the meaning of words included alone, phraseology examines how and why such meanings come in everyday use, and what possibly are the laws governing these word combinations.

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.

A borrowing from the Pomeranian language which has been used in everyday German language and has appeared in dictionaries is a phrase “ dalli, dalli ” ( it means: come on, come on ).

As a jocular reference, the phrase “ not ready for prime time ” has come to mean “ not quite perfected ”.

He has said that he had not applied the principle of least surprise to the design of Ruby, but nevertheless the phrase has come to be closely associated with the Ruby programming language.

The signs come true ( though the text skips the first two, suggesting that a portion of the text has been lost, or edited out for some reason ), and Saul joins the ecstatic prophets, hence the phrase.

As in the past, the appeal lies in the vitality of the character, a hero who can go into a brawl and come out with his hair combed and who, faced with death, lights a cigarette and taunts his enemy with the signature phrase " As the actress said to the bishop ...."

Bryan's speeches evolved over time ; in December 1894, in a speech in Congress, he first used a phrase from which would come the conclusion to his most famous address: as originally stated, it was " I will not help to crucify mankind upon a cross of gold.

He would, according to courtiers, try to frame sentences to put in the phrase " my son the Dauphin " in the weeks to come.

After the September 11 attacks, the phrase, especially in the United States, has come to symbolize heroism, self-sacrifice and initiative in a tough situation.

On many operating systems, a fatal error in a program automatically triggers a core dump ; by extension the phrase " to dump core " has come to mean, in many cases, any fatal error, regardless of whether a record of the program memory results.