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phrase and itself
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 original phrase " the common-wealth " or " the common weal " ( echoed in the modern synonym " public weal ") comes from the old meaning of " wealth ," which is " well-being ", and is itself a loose translation of the Latin res publica ( republic ).
The simple meaning of the phrase is that someone wondering whether or not he or she exists is, in and of itself, proof that something, an " I ", exists to do the thinking.
Possession is shown by the clitic -' s attached to a possessive noun phrase, rather than by declension of the noun itself.
Gematria or gimatria ( ) is a system of assigning numerical value to a word or phrase, in the belief that words or phrases with identical numerical values bear some relation to each other, or bear some relation to the number itself as it may apply to a person's age, the calendar year, or the like.
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.
Although the phrase All Hallows is found in Old English ( ealra hālgena mæssedæg, mass-day of all saints ), All-Hallows-Even is itself not seen until 1556.
in the book, Masters of Doom, it is said that the group was identified itself as " ideas from the deep " in the early days of Softdisk, but in the end the name ' id ' came from the phrase, " in demand.
While puns are often simple wordplay for comedic or rhetorical effect, a double entendre alludes to a second meaning which is not contained within the statement or phrase itself, often one which purposefully disguises the second meaning.
" 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.
The phrase has itself been a source of surprise, as novice users may take it to mean that Ruby's behaviors try to closely match behaviors familiar from other languages.
For example, rather than asserting that sentences are constructed by a rule that combines a noun phrase ( NP ) and a verb phrase ( VP ) ( e. g. the phrase structure rule S → NP VP ), in categorial grammar, such principles are embedded in the category of the head word itself.
The name itself comes from a famous phrase of Disraeli.
This phrase can also refer to the early pre-archipelagoan worship of the sun itself.
The member organization in a particular country may name itself Friends of the Earth or an equivalent translated phrase in the national language, e. g., Friends of the Earth ( US ), Friends of the Earth ( EWNI ) ( England Wales and Northern Ireland ), Amigos de la Tierra ( Spain and Argentina ).
The phrase itself was earlier used by Bernard Lewis in an article in the September 1990 issue of The Atlantic Monthly titled " The Roots of Muslim Rage ".
He was a pioneer in eugenics, coining the term itself and the phrase " nature versus nurture ".
It may alternatively refer to the phrase used by a caller to cue the dancers so they dance the specified movement, or to the dance movement itself.
The phrase " mainland China " emerged as a politically neutral term to refer to the area under control of the Communist Party of China, and later to the administration of the PRC itself.
Speaking in tongues is a common phrase used to describe glossolalia, which is to make smooth, language-resembling sounds that is no true spoken language itself.
The word ampersand is a conflation of the phrase " and per se and ", meaning " and symbol which by itself and ".
The phrase is used both for the physical seal itself ( which is kept by the United States Secretary of State ), and more generally for the design impressed upon it.
The noun itself is not inflected ; rather, grammatical markers attach to the noun phrase as a whole, in a certain order.

phrase and is
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 ''.
A fourth view is the transformation of emotion, as in Housman's fine phrase on the arts: they `` transform and beautify our inner nature ''.
And although Schnabel's pianism bristles with excitement, it is meticulously faithful to Schubert's dynamic markings and phrase indications.
Dominant stress is of course more than extended duration, and normally centers on syllables that would have primary stress or phrase stress if the words or longer units they are parts of were spoken alone: a dominant stress given to glorify would normally center on its first syllable rather than its last.
Kent and Story, the great early American scholars, repeatedly made use of this phrase, or of `` Christian nations '', which is a substantial equivalent.
It is a phrase as arresting as a magician's gesture, with a piquant turn of harmony giving an effect of strangeness.
there is no phrase or image that sounds like Hardy or that is striking enough to give individuality to the poem.
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.
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 ' ''.
) `` 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 ''.
What was lacking was a real sense of phrase, the kind of legato singing that would have added a dimension of smoothness to what is, after all, a very oily character.
His interpretation of the Pauline phrase is that we should seek the common good more than the private good, but this is because the common good is a more desirable good for the individual.
In English writing, the phrase " a modest proposal " is now conventionally an allusion to this style of straight-faced satire.
" Heath comments that " The last phrase is curious, but the meaning of it is obvious enough, as also the meaning of the phrase about ending " at one and the same number "( Heath 1908: 300 ).
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.
" American shot " is a translation of a phrase from French film criticism, " plan américain " and refers to a medium-long (" knee ") film shot of a group of characters, who are arranged so that all are visible to the camera.
The phrase " mad Arab ", sometimes with both words capitalized in Lovecraft's stories, is used so commonly before Alhazred's name that it almost constitutes a title.
An abbreviation ( from Latin brevis, meaning short ) is a shortened form of a word or phrase.

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