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same and metaphors
Most refer to the same small set of topics, and do so using a relatively small set of traditional metaphors.
Liberals must support linguistic think tanks in the same way that conservatives do if they are going to succeed in appealing to those in the country who share their metaphors.
The regularity with which different languages employ the same metaphors, which often appear to be perceptually based, has led to the hypothesis that the mapping between conceptual domains corresponds to neural mappings in the brain.
In the same way, sangomas will interpret metaphors present in dreams, either their own or their patients.
At the same time, this expanded space heightens the symbolic force of the work ; the wind and the sea are suggested as metaphors of struggle, destiny and divine help or grace.
Hunt made the comment when he trailed off while saying " Neon Leon hasn't lit up tonight ; he's as black as a dog's guts in the night ", to describe Davis ' poor form in that match in terms of a neon lights metaphor ; other members of the commentary team had been using different neon lights metaphors in the same context.

same and swift
Soon afterwards the cavalry tactics employed by the State of Zhao forced their enemies in the other Warring States to adopt the same techniques in order to mount any effective attack against their swift movements on the battlefield.
The Scottish acceptance of Magnus III as King of the Isles came after the Norwegian king had conquered Orkney, the Hebrides and the Isle of Man in a swift campaign earlier the same year, directed against the local Norwegian leaders of the various island petty kingdoms.
Crassus ' legions were mainly infantry men and were not prepared for the type of swift, cavalry-and-arrow attack that the Parthian troops were particularly adept at ; the same type of attack that Genghis Khan later utilised to great effect.
Japanese military superiority over a weak and demoralized Chinese Republican army allowed for swift advances down the eastern coast, leading to the fall of Shanghai and Nanjing ( Nanking, then capital of the Republic of China ) the same year.
Traditional taxonomies place the hummingbird family ( Trochilidae ) in the same order as the swifts and treeswifts ( and no other birds ); the Sibley-Ahlquist taxonomy treated this group as a superorder in which the swift order was called Trochiliformes.
An example of this could be performing a swift slap or eye strike after throwing a jab with the same hand in a standard jab-cross-hook combination ; the eye strike both disrupts the defense against and masks the incoming cross.
A swift will return to the same site year after year, rebuilding its nest when necessary.
A swift will return to the same site year after year, rebuilding its nest when necessary.
A swift will return to the same site year after year, rebuilding its nest when necessary.
On the same day, Hitler met with Chamberlain and demanded the swift takeover of the Sudetenland by the Third Reich under threat of war.
It is stated that " spirits in the shape of hawks and eagles " brought news from Middle-earth to his halls upon Taniquetil, the highest mountain in the Blessed Realm of Valinor, although later in the book the same is said of birds in general, and in the Valaquenta of " all swift birds, strong of wing ".
The two have historically been regarded as the same species for reasons basically related to size: the kit fox is slightly smaller than the swift fox, and the former has a narrower snout.
One of the Unseen University bedlows who, by sheer coincidence, shared the same last name as Nobby was incredibly swift to denounce any potential ties of family.
The response to the closure from the local community was swift, and the Castlemaine and Maldon Railway Preservation Society was founded in the same month, with the intention of reopening the line as a tourist railway.
The same year, McKim, Mead & White designed the nearby Farley Post Office Building with its famous inscription adapted from Herodotus: " Neither snow nor rain nor heat nor gloom of night stays these couriers from the swift completion of their appointed rounds.
At the same time, the canal had already begun its diversification into the leisure market, which would form such a large part of its future, with swift packet boats carrying leisure traffic from the ( now closed ) Dukinfield railway station, close to Dukinfield Junction on the Peak Forest Canal to Disley, Lyme Park and Macclesfield at fares of 1-1½d per mile.
While the culture industry promises consumers new experiences and adventures, people in fact are fed the same repeating pattern of swift but temporary fulfillment of needs.

same and ascent
Throughout the postwar period, economic progress also was assisted substantially by a level of internal and external political stability unseen in other East European countries during the same period, that was also a change in Bulgarian political scene was a lot of turbulence preceded the ascent to power of the BCP.
Most ascents of the eastern peak follow the same southern route as that taken in the first ascent.
After Chalet Reynard ( where the " lunar landscape " of the summit starts ), the climb is the same as the Bédoin ascent.
It appears, though, that those who recognise emotions in animals are in the ascent: many ethologists, for example Marc Bekoff, are prepared to draw the conclusion that animals do experience emotions, though these are not necessarily the same as human emotions.
He actively encouraged climbers, including George Mallory, to attempt the first ascent of Mount Everest, and they followed the same initial route as the earlier Tibet Mission.
Hargrave claimed that " The particular steps gained are the demonstration that an extremely simple apparatus can be made, carried about, and flown by one man ; and that a safe means of making an ascent with a flying machine, of trying the same without any risk of accident, and descending, is now at the service of any experimenter who wishes to use it.
It is not clear how the ascent of from Hinchwick to the Down was made, but on the Down a lane northwards from Springhill takes nearly the same line for to near the Evesham road, from which a parish boundary over Saintbury Hill seems to mark the course down the north side.
He wrote: " The constant example before their eyes, and constant emulation to attain the same results, would naturally lead the inferior race, by an easy ascent, to a capacity for acquiring the knowledge, habits, desires and comforts of their civilised neighbours.
On the same expedition, Marcus Schmuck and Fritz Wintersteller made a flash first ascent of Skil Brum peak ( 7, 360 m ) on June 19, 1957 in pure Alpine style in 53 hours.
legislature created the park in 1913, the same year as the first ascent of Mount Robson by a party led by Conrad Kain.
Other soldiers use the staircases of the Notre-Dame ascent which climbs from the boulevard of the same name.
Koblmuller almost suffered the same fate as Buhl, as he also fell through a cornice on the ascent ; fortunately, he was roped and team members were able to pull him to safety.
The same runaway phenomenon, an example of positive feedback, can happen during ascent, resulting in uncontrolled ascent, until a diver prematurely surfaces without a safety ( decompression ) stop.
A partially filled bag will accelerate as it ascends because the air in the bag expands as the pressure reduces on the ascent, following Boyles law, increasing the bag's buoyancy, whereas a full bag will overflow or blow off excess volume and maintain the same volume and buoyancy providing is does not descend.
At that time, when the Union was done and personalities of fresh energies and cultured people were needed, people who were educated in Western Universities, Titu Maiorescu had an early ascent, from his youth, as he was a University professor at 22 years old ( in Iaşi ), a dean at 23 and a rector at the same age, then he became an academician ( member of the Romanian Academic Society ) at 27, a deputy at 30, then a minister at age 34.
The expedition was notable for the highest ascent ever made by Indian women up to that point in time, a descent complicated by retinal edema and vision loss in the climbing leader and a subsequent failed claim of a solo ascent by a later member of the same expedition.
The Eskdale spur may provide a slightly easier option up to the summit of Bogong if you have a 4wd, although if you walk up from Mountain Creek, it is just a longer way to do the same ascent.
The ascent normally takes 3 to 4 hours while the descent along the same path takes 2 to 3 hours.
The project hoped to shed light on some fundamental questions in volcanology, such as why magma repeatedly travels in the same conduits despite the solidification of magma in them at the end of each eruption, and how it can lose enough gas on its ascent to erupt effusively rather than explosively.
From the YHA youth hostel at Black Sail at the head of the valley, it is a fairly short walk ( around 1. 5 km and 300 m of ascent ) to the summit of Black Sail Pass, from where the same routes can be followed as described above.
* 1983 The next ascent and also the first solo was made by Chilean climber Gino Casassa May 14, 1983 by the same route used by the Germans.
In the same month, Samuel Johnson, Jonathon Clearwater and Jeremy Frimer made the first ascent of the southwest ridge of Trango II, which they termed Severance Ridge.

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