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A vast complex of ideas, policies, and actions is comprehended under the phrase ' Manifest Destiny '.
A vast number of explanations for this phrase have been suggested.
An AP story in 1995 also used the phrase, relating an official's guess that the Oklahoma City bombing was the work of " maybe five malcontents " and not " some kind of vast right-wing conspiracy.
In some of his books, Krugman has used the phrase (" Yes, Virginia, there is a vast right-wing conspiracy ") to refer not to a conservative Republican-leaning campaign against anti-Clinton ( or Obama ), but more generally to " an interlocking set of institutions ultimately answering to a small group of people that collectively reward loyalists and punish dissenters " in the service of " movement conservatism.
The Pax Mongolica ( less often known as Pax Tatarica ) is a Latin phrase meaning " Mongol Peace " coined by Western scholars to describe the stabilizing effects of the conquests of the Mongol Empire on the social, cultural, and economic life of the inhabitants of the vast Eurasian territory that the Mongols conquered in the 13th and 14th centuries.
" Minow called TV a " vast wasteland "; the phrase was picked up by the press and resulted in bad publicity for the networks and for the television industry as a whole.
His phrase, " vast wasteland ", is remembered years after the speech after he said,
The result was a major improvement in the safety of operations in low visibility, and as the concept clearly incorporates vast elements of what is now known as Crew Resource Management ( although predating this phrase by some three decades ) it was expanded to encompass a far broader spectrum of operations than just low visibility.

phrase and wasteland
This is a parody of the phrase " teenage wasteland " which is a line from ( and is often mistaken to be the title of ) the The Who song " Baba O ' Riley ".

phrase and was
But `` after the war '' was a luxury of a phrase he did not permit himself.
A particularly galling phrase was `` O.K., Panyotis, we have time at our disposal ''.
I use the phrase advisedly because there was something positively indecent about our relationship.
She was a living doll and no mistake -- the blue-black bang, the wide cheekbones, olive-flushed, that betrayed the Cherokee strain in her Midwestern lineage, and the mouth whose only fault, in the novelist's carping phrase, was that the lower lip was a trifle too voluptuous.
In Senator Joseph McCarthy's phrase, it was the most unheard-of thing ever heard of.
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.
It was an automatic phrase ; ;
there was no Martian concept to match it -- unless one took `` church '' and `` worship '' and `` God '' and `` congregation '' and many other words and equated them to the totality of the only world he had known during growing-waiting then forced the concept back into English in that phrase which had been rejected ( by each differently ) by Jubal, by Mahmoud, by Digby.
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 ".
In the United States, farmland was typically divided as such, and the phrase " the back 40 " would refer to the 40 acre parcel to the back of the farm.
Brian Murdoch's 1993 translation would render the phrase as " there was nothing new to report on the Western Front " within the narrative.
During its design stages the name Victorie Stadion was frequently used, referring to the Dutch War of Independence, the phrase " n Alkmaar begint de victorie " ( Victory begins in Alkmaar ) in particular.
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 ".
When he discovered that the original Desiree, Glynis Johns, was able to sing ( she had a " small, silvery voice ") but could not " sustain a phrase ", he devised the song " Send in the Clowns " for her in a way that would work around her vocal weakness, e. g., by ending lines with consonants that made for a short cut-off.
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.
It was at this time that ` Abdu ' l-Bahá, in order to provide proof of the falsity of the accusations leveled against him, in tablets to the West, stated that he was to be known as "` Abdu ' l-Bahá " an Arabic phrase meaning the Servant of Bahá to make it clear that he was not a Manifestation of God, and that his station was only servitude.
The phrase does not come from association with Black's Law Dictionary, which was first published in 1891.
The phrase " black-letter law " was used in the Pennsylvania Supreme Court case Naglee v. Ingersoll, 7 Pa. 185 ( 1847 ), almost 50 years before the first publication of Black's.
Before controversy erupted ( see below ) he exhibited an obsession with fire and his trademark phrase was " FIRE!

phrase and suggested
Although he is usually credited with coining the phrase, he always insisted that it was suggested to him by somebody else.
He suggested a more appropriate phrase would be " it thinks.
The earliest use of the phrase is a quote from the Westminster Magazine of 1774: " He had no inclination for a Broomstick-marriage ", the person in question simply stating that he did not want to go through a ceremony that had no legal validity, it having been suggested to him that he would pretend to be marrying by having a French sexton read the marriage service to him and his young bride.
The name " Virginia " may have been suggested then by Raleigh or Elizabeth, perhaps noting her status as the " Virgin Queen ", and may also be related to a native phrase, " Wingandacoa ", or name, " Wingina ".
It is suggested, perhaps apocryphally, that the phrase " It's getting better " in the track " Getting Better " ( on the Sgt.
Other commentators have suggested that truly generic uses of the word " man " would be perceived as " false, funny, or insulting ", citing as an example the phrase " Some men are female.
Session tapes from the initial 1 March 1967 recording of this song reveal that Lennon originally sang the line " Cellophane flowers of yellow and green " as a broken phrase, but McCartney suggested that he sing it more fluidly to improve the song.
One story has it that it was coined by the popular novelist Santō Kyōden ( 1761 – 1816 ) in response to a better name for his product, Kyōden suggested tempura or tenfura, which was an abbreviation for the phrase " a homeless samurai rōnin who suddenly appears to " and sells something ( Rath 2010 ).
Buchanan coined the phrase " Silent Majority " and helped shape the strategy that drew millions of Democrats to Nixon ; in a 1972 memo he suggested the White House " should move to re-capture the anti-Establishment tradition or theme in American politics.
In 1984 Cohen uses the phrase " computer virus " – as suggested by his teacher Leonard Adleman – to describe the operation of such programs in terms of " infection ".
As a joke-but just as factually possible as other attempts-the phrase " Tiny ElectroMagnetic Particles Emitting Secret Things " has been suggested.
Auseil is not a true French word, but it has been suggested that Lovecraft derived it from the phrase au seuil, meaning at the threshold.
It has been suggested that this derives " crambe " or " crambo ", derived from a Latin phrase meaning " reheated cabbage ", implying " a boring old man " who spouts trite rehashed ideas.
The most recent complaint of this nature was leveled by Maya-Mestizo born correspondent Clinton Luna, who suggested that the phrase " sons of the Belizean soil " should replace " sons ' of the Baymen's clan " in the chorus in recent issues of the Amandala weekly newspaper.
The Faculty Advisory Committee suggested changing the name to " Texas State University ", feeling the phrase " Technological College " was insufficient to define the scope of the institution.
The phrase which is suggested by the fake Google page, ahmadinejad is NOT president of Iran, is linked to a video explaining events happening in Iran after Iranian presidential election, 2009.
Using the phrase " Chinese whispers " suggested a belief that the Chinese language itself is not understandable.
Several commentators suggested the gnomes in South Park could be a reference to the phrase Gnomes of Zürich, a disparaging term for Swiss bankers.
The Senator suggested a phrase to be translated, " Out of sight, out of mind ".
In software development, Small Matter of Programming ( SMOP ) or Simple Matter of Programming is a phrase used to ironically indicate that a suggested feature or design change would in fact require a great deal of effort ; it often implies that the person proposing the feature underestimates its cost.
It has been suggested that the phrase was originally used by Julius Caesar as he was attacked by the Roman Senate.
" Over time the phrase memento mori also came to be associated with penitence, as suggested in many vanitas paintings.
Initially, Pride Toronto agreed not to allow the phrase " Israeli Apartheid " as part of a deal with the City of Toronto ( which had suggested that funding would be reviewed if the group was included ).

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