It was often referred to as " the material of 1000 uses ", a phrase originated by Baekeland himself.

* Squidgygate, the covert leaking of a bugged phone call between the Princess of Wales and James Hewitt, although the phrase originally referred to the exposure of the Princess's extramarital affair ( 1992 )

Citizenship granted in this fashion is referred to by the Latin phrase jus sanguinis meaning " right of blood " and means that citizenship is granted based on ancestry or ethnicity, and is related to the concept of a nation state common in Europe.

Citizenship granted in this fashion is referred to by the Latin phrase jus soli meaning " right of soil ".

Class actions are commonly referred to as class action suits ; however, this phrase is redundant as the historical distinction between " actions " at law and " suits " in equity is no longer recognized.

Freed is commonly referred to as the " father of rock and roll " due to his promotion of the music and his introduction of the phrase " rock and roll " on radio in the early 1950s.

They claim that the phrase " ever-living " rarely, if ever, referred to a living person, but instead was used to refer to the eternal soul of the deceased.

A study by Donald Wayne Foster determined that the phrase " ever-living " in fact rarely referred to human beings, living or dead, but rather to God or other supernatural beings, suggesting that the dedication calls upon God to bless the living begetter of the sonnets.

Old Irish tuath ( plural tuatha ) means " people, tribe, nation "; and dé is the genitive case of día, " god, goddess, supernatural being, object of worship " ( they are often referred to simply as the Tuatha Dé, a phrase also used to refer to the Israelites in early Irish Christian texts ).

On 25th July 1864 the standing warrant officers were divided into two grades: warrant officers and chief warrant officers ( or " commissioned warrant officers ", a phrase that was replaced in 1920 with " commissioned officers from warrant rank ", although they were still usually referred to as " commissioned warrant officers ", even in official documents ).

He referred to his Liverpudlian son-in-law as " Shirley Temple " or a " randy Scouse git " ( Randy Scouse Git as a phrase caught the ear of Micky Dolenz of The Monkees who heard it while on tour in the UK-and who co-opted it as the title of the group's next single-though their record label renamed it " Alternate Title " in the UK market to avoid controversy ) and to his wife as a " silly moo " ( a substitute for " cow " which was vetoed by the BBC's head of comedy Frank Muir ).

In early 19th century Britain, the phrase " civil rights " most commonly referred to the problem of legal discrimination against Catholics.

The phrase " think tank " in wartime American slang referred to rooms where strategists discussed war planning.

For example, in Germany the totality of the complex German Democratic Republic border regime is commonly referred to with the short phrase " Mauer und Stacheldraht " ( that is, " wall and barbed wire "), and Amnesty International has a barbed wire in their symbol.

Some sources incorrectly refer to the June 1982 speech before the British House of Commons as the " Evil Empire " speech, but while Reagan referred twice to totalitarianism in his London speech, the exact phrase " evil empire " did not appear in any speech until later in his Presidency.

This same period is sometimes referred to as " mid-school " or a " middle school " in hip hop, the phrase covering acts like Gang Starr, The UMC's, Main Source, Lord Finesse, EPMD, Just Ice, Stetsasonic, True Mathematics, and Mantronix.

The phrase referred to " a licene granted by a sovereign to a subject, authorizing him to make reprisals on the subjects of a hostile state for injuries alleged to have been done to him by the enemy's army.

The traditional progression in the size of syntactic units is word < phrase < clause, and in this approach a single word ( such as a noun or pronoun ) would not be referred to as a phrase.

( In some accounts that take this approach, the constituent lacking the determiner – that called N-bar above – may be referred to as a noun phrase.

In use since the 1990s, the term LGBT is an adaptation of the initialism " LGB ", which itself started replacing the phrase gay community beginning in the mid-to-late 1980s, which many within the community in question felt did not accurately represent all those to whom it referred.

Although that phrase, itself depicted in a type of still life, vanitas, originally referred not to obsession with one's appearance, but to the ultimate fruitlessness of man's efforts in this world, the phrase summarizes the complete preoccupation of the subject of the picture.

Astraea's hoped-for return was referred to in a phrase from Virgil's Eclogue IV: " Iam redit et virgo, redeunt Saturnia Regna " ( The Virgin and the Days of Old return ).

There are brain-wracking searches for the right word, the best phrase, the most helpful idea.

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 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.

In his own words, Hobbes ' reflection began with the idea of " giving to every man his own ," a phrase he drew from the writings of Cicero.

A common misunderstanding of the phrase " reduced instruction set computer " is the mistaken idea that instructions are simply eliminated, resulting in a smaller set of instructions.

The phrase was coined by Larry Sinclair, an engineer at Triple I ( Information International, Inc .), to express the idea that what the user sees on the screen is what the user gets on the printer while using the " page layout system ", a pre-press typesetting system first shown at ANPS in Las Vegas.

* Redundancy ( linguistics ), the construction of a phrase that presents some idea using more information, often via multiple means, than is necessary for one to be able to understand the idea

The phrase " to fish pearls " uses metonymy, drawing from " fishing " the idea of taking things from the ocean.

Alfred Müller-Armack coined the phrase “ social market economy ” to emphasize the egalitarian and humanistic bent of the idea.

While the idea of American football as an origin for the phrase is possible, it is also absurd: to achieve a first down in football -- at least from a first-and-ten position -- one must gain the whole ten yards.

Arnold must also be credited with the first idea of a great trunk line traversing the entire African continent, for in 1874 he first employed the phrase " Cape to Cairo railway " subsequently popularized by Cecil Rhodes.

The free-market economist Milton Friedman also popularized the phrase by using it as the title of a 1975 book, and it often appears in economics textbooks ; Campbell McConnell writes that the idea is " at the core of economics ".

The repeated phrase " it's gonna be alright " in " Revolution " came directly from Lennon's Transcendental Meditation experiences in India, conveying the idea that God would take care of the human race no matter what happened politically.

Al-Jahiz described early natural history ideas such as the " struggle for existence " ( Malthus ' phrase ), and the idea of a food chain.

The name fancy rat derives from the idea of animal fancy or the phrase " to fancy " ( to like, or appreciate ).

Locke's phrase " association of ideas " is employed throughout, " idea " being taken as including every mental state but sensation.

A slogan is a memorable motto or phrase used in a political, commercial, religious, and other context as a repetitive expression of an idea or purpose.

Physicist John Archibald Wheeler expressed this idea with the phrase " black holes have no hair " which was the origin of the name.

is turned almost wholly on his freeness with the startling idea or phrase, as glibly tossed off ( for the most part ) by a young lady who appears a wide-eyed child.

Although Fowler retains a mention of human emotion, an essential aspect in Ruskin, “ ordinary modern use pathos and pathetic are limited to the idea of painful emotion ; but in this phrase, now common though little recognized in dictionaries, the original wider sense of emotion in general is reverted to, and ... fallacy means the tendency to credit nature with human emotions .”

The phrase was popularized by Peter Drucker as the title of Chapter 12 in his book The Age of Discontinuity, And, with a footnote in the text, Drucker attributes the phrase to economist Fritz Machlup and its origins to the idea of " scientific management " developed by Frederick Winslow Taylor.

Bach makes extensive use of choral fugues and imitative polyphony, often shifting the tempo and character of the music within movements very quickly to accommodate a new musical idea with each successive phrase of text.