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The term Arian ” bestowed by Athanasius upon his opponents in the Christological debate was polemical.
The term amber ” is loosely used to describe a scent that is warm, musky, rich and honey-like, and also somewhat oriental and earthy.
How best to define the term art ” is a subject of constant contention ; many books and journal articles have been published arguing over even the basics of what we mean by the term art ”.
Although the term biochemistry ” seems to have been first used in 1882, it is generally accepted that the formal coinage of biochemistry occurred in 1903 by Carl Neuberg, a German chemist.
* The Heading ( 1: 1 ): As is typical of prophetic books, an anonymous editor has supplied the name of the prophet, an indication of his time of activity, and an identification of his speech as the word of Yahweh ”, a generic term carrying a claim to prophetic legitimacy and authority.
In the ancient world, at the Alexandrian Library, scholars coined the Greek term Hoi enkrithentes (“ the admitted ”, the included ”) to identify the writers in the canon.
Laissez-faire advocates criticize the term as an ideologically motivated attempt to cast what is in their view the fundamental problem of government intervention or investments ” as an avoidable aberration ; free-market advocates refer to governmental favoritism as " crony socialism ", " venture socialism " or " corporatism, a modern form of mercantilism " to emphasize that the only way to run a profitable business in such systems is to have help from corrupt government officials.
One of the earliest articulations of the anthropological meaning of the term " culture " came from Sir Edward Tylor who writes on the first page of his 1897 book: Culture, or civilization, taken in its broad, ethnographic sense, is that complex whole which includes knowledge, belief, art, morals, law, custom, and any other capabilities and habits acquired by man as a member of society .” The term " civilization " later gave way to definitions by V. Gordon Childe, with culture forming an umbrella term and civilization becoming a particular kind of culture.
In the diagram, the working body ” ( system ), a term introduced by Clausius in 1850, can be any fluid or vapor body through which heat Q can be introduced or transmitted to produce work.
The more correct term is plate armour ”.
The term clone is derived from the Ancient Greek word κλών ( klōn, twig ”), referring to the process whereby a new plant can be created from a twig.
Compare the ingredients listed ( spirits, sugar, water, and bitters ) with the ingredients of an Old Fashioned, which originated as a term used by late 19th century bar patrons to distinguish cocktails made the old-fashioned ” way from newer, more complex cocktails.
Toxicologists use the term alcohol intoxication ” to discriminate between alcohol and other toxins.
Terms invented by Adams in relation to the strip, and sometimes used by fans in describing their own office environments, include Induhvidual .” This term is based on the American English slang expression duh !” The conscious misspelling of individual as induhvidual is a pejorative term for people who are not in the DNRC ( Dogbert's New Ruling Class ).
During his term as Vice President, George H. W. Bush was first depicted as completely invisible, his words emanating from a little voice box ” in the air.
On the contrary, advertisers cannot market their products as better ” as it is a comparative term, and a claim of superiority.
Also, considering the evidence from the time, Evangeliou thought the definition of the term Gnostics ” was unclear.

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Acropolis is also the term used by archaeologists and historians to the urban Castro culture settlements located in Northwestern Iberian hilltops.
The Outback is the vast, remote, arid area of Australia ; the term colloquially can refer to any lands outside the main urban areas.
In Iran, SYSTRA has done a " Tehran long term urban rail study ".
The City of Dublin is the area administered by Dublin City Council, but the term " Dublin " normally refers to the contiguous urban area which includes parts of the adjacent local authority areas of Dún Laoghaire – Rathdown, Fingal and South Dublin.
The term nowadays applies more to youth sports like skateboarding, snowboarding, aggressive inline skating, FMX and BMX and is closely associated with marketing aimed at the younger generation, and their favored styles of clothing and music, such as the urban baggy look associated with skateboarders and loud, fast alternative rock.
The German word Land is the exact cognate of English land but it carries many political, constitutional, and historical meanings absent from the English term ( among other things a constituent state of the German Federal Republic, historically a principality of the Holy Roman Empire, but also " rural " as opposed to " urban ", etc .— the Swedish lantis equating to " country bumpkin " or " hick "— most of these meanings are borne by the Anglo-Norman word country in English ).
In the post-Apostolic church, bishops emerged as overseers of urban Christian populations, and a hierarchy of clergy gradually took on the form of episkopos ( overseers ; and the origin of the term bishop ) and presbyters ( elders ; and the origin of the term priest ), and then deacons ( servants ).
In January 1995, Kemp's stated reason for not entering the 1996 Republican Party presidential primaries was that his personal beliefs were out of balance with the contemporary Republican political landscape: Kemp opposed term limits, he always preferred tax cuts to anything resembling a balanced budget amendment and, unlike most Republicans, favored federal incentives to combat urban poverty.
In recent years the term " urban regional " was coined to refer to Spanish rap performed over beats infused with the sounds and melodies from popular Mexican music styles such as banda, cumbia, norteño and others.
The term was originally used by record companies to describe recordings marketed predominantly to urban African Americans, at a time when " urbane, rocking, jazz based music with a heavy, insistent beat " was becoming more popular.
During Reagan's first term, critics pointed to homelessness as a visible problem in America's urban centers.
When the term emerged within the Anglo-American tradition during the 1960s, it was basically applied as a synonym for the search for patterns in the distribution of social groups, thus being closely connected to urban geography and urban sociology.
The earliest term by which these narratives were known, urban belief tales ,” highlights what was then thought to be a key property: they were held, by their tellers, to be true accounts, and the device of the FOAF was a spurious but significant effort at authentication.
The term urban myth is also used.
The term urban myth is preferred in some languages such as Mexican Spanish, where conventional coinage is " mito urbano " rather than " leyenda urbana.
" In French, urban legends are usually called légendes urbaines ; the term légendes contemporaines is still preferable because " légendes urbaines " is an improper and meaningless verbatim translation, though used by some French sociologists or journalists.
The party was formed by Alexander Hamilton, who, during George Washington's first term, built a network of supporters, largely urban bankers and businessmen, to support his fiscal policies.
In Japan, ruins are known as, ( literally " abandoned place ") but the term is synonymous with the practice of urban exploration.
Asbestos is a long term health risk for urban explorers, along with breathing in contaminants from dried bird feces, otherwise known as pigeon lung, a form of hypersensitivity pneumonitis.
Slang lexicographer Jonathon Green said that " 404 " as a slang term had been driven by the " influence of technology " and young people, but at the time, such usage was relatively confined to London and other urban areas.
The term Swamp Yankee is sometimes used in rural Rhode Island, Connecticut, and southeastern Massachusetts to refer to Protestant farmers of moderate means and their descendants ( in contrast to richer or urban Yankees ); " swamp Yankee " is often regarded as a derogatory term.

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Although the origins of the term are not referred to in the text, the title served ( along with the general hype created in Australia ) to revive public interest in the legend.
The stab-in-the-back myth ( German: )< ref > Despite the similarity of the German word Legende and the English word " legend ", " stab-in-the-back < u > myth </ u >" is the preferred term in English .</ ref > is the notion, widely believed in right-wing circles in Germany after 1918, that the German Army did not lose World War I but was instead betrayed by the civilians on the home front, especially the republicans who overthrew the monarchy.
Rather, the term is used to differentiate modern legend from traditional folklore in pre-industrial times.
For this reason, sociologists and folklorists prefer the term contemporary legend.
Some scholars prefer the term contemporary legend to highlight those tales with relatively recent or modern origins.
The term undead describes beings in mythology, legend or fiction that are deceased yet behave as if alive.
A male voyeur is commonly labeled " Peeping Tom ", a term which originates from the Lady Godiva legend.
The Aurora legend started in March 1990, when Aviation Week & Space Technology magazine broke the news that the term " Aurora " had been inadvertently included in the 1985 U. S. budget, as an allocation of $ 455 million for " black aircraft production " in FY 1987.
Valkenburg is no longer a fortified city but retained its importance nevertheless. The rulers lineage has long been lost in the sands of time, but a long term legend of the Valkenburg residents is that each male of royal blood has a birth mark on his chest.
A longstanding legend holds that Elmsford is the birthplace of the term " cocktail ".
There is a popular legend that " hooker " as a slang term for a prostitute is derived from his last name because of parties and a lack of military discipline at his headquarters.
The prevalence of the Hooker legend may have been at least partly responsible for the popularity of the term.
Therefore, despite urban legend to the contrary, the term Pennsylvania Dutch is not so much a misnomer as it is an anachronism.
According to later legend, the term Scotti comes from Queen Scotia daughter of an Egyptian Pharaoh who was Queen of the Milesians.
Deriving from the Spanish example, the term " black legend " is sometimes used in a general way to describe any form of unjustified demonization of a historical person, people or sequence of events.
The term " White Legend " refers to a counter narrative to the black legend that depicts Spanish colonial history in an idealized way as enlightened and benevolent, minimizing any negative consequences of Spanish colonialism and denying any oppression against minorities in medieaval Spain.
The term " Zhongxing " ( 中興 ) is from the Chinese legend " 少康中興 " Shàokāng Zhōngxīng, referring to the restoration of the Xia Dynasty by king Shaokang, an allusion to the ROC government taking back mainland China.
While the Cherokee legend tells of a treeless mountain top, the term " bald " is common mountain terminology describing mountaintops that have 360-degree unobstructed views.
Evola states " the Christian legend of the three magi is an attempt to claim for Christianity a traditional character in the superior sense I give to the term " ( The Mystery of the Grail, p. 45 ).
His name is the origin of the term candaulism, for a sexual practice attributed to him by legend.
In the United States, the term " prescription drug " is most commonly used, but they are also called Rx-only drugs or legend drugs, after the Federal and State laws which mandate that all such drugs bear a " legend " prohibiting sale without a prescription ; though more complex legends have been used, on most original drug packaging today the legend simply says " Rx only ".
It was Paul Vixie who wrote this introduction to the JATO urban legend that first included the term " Darwin Award ".

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