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The term and metaphor were first used by E. F. Schumacher in his book Small Is Beautiful and are closely identified with Herman Daly, Robert Costanza, the Biosphere 2 project, and the Natural Capitalism economic model of Paul Hawken, Amory Lovins, and Hunter Lovins until recently, when it began to be used by politicians, notably Ralph Nader, Paul Martin Jr., and agencies of the UK government including the London Health Observatory.
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The computer term bootstrap began as a metaphor in the 1950s.
The term " the Goddess " may also be understood to include a multiplicity of ways to view deity personified as female, or as a metaphor, or as a process.
The term ' family ' comes from the tree model of language origination in historical linguistics, which makes use of a metaphor comparing languages to people in a biological family tree or in a subsequent modification to species in a phylogenetic tree of evolutionary taxonomy.
The term metaphor is also used for the following terms that are not a part of rhetoric:
However, the term " mouse " is commonly used as a metaphor for devices that move the cursor.
The metaphor has been extended by coining the term syntactic salt, which indicates a feature designed to make it harder to write bad code.
In this context, " almost surely " is a mathematical term with a precise meaning, and the " monkey " is not an actual monkey, but a metaphor for an abstract device that produces a random sequence of letters and symbols ad infinitum.
* Touchstone ( metaphor ) for metaphorical and literary uses of the term
The term " witch-hunt " since the 1930s has also been in use as a metaphor to refer to moral panics in general ( frantic persecution of perceived enemies ).
In English, the term guinea pig is commonly used as a metaphor for a subject of scientific experimentation, or any experiment or test in modern times.
The term is a metaphor which compares a government to a puppet controlled by strings by an outside puppeteer.
Both historians ’ interpretations of the prophecy of Haggai appear to understand the term of the “ signet ring ” as being a metaphor for Zerubbabel attaining God ’ s authority on earth.
A primary tenet of this theory is that metaphors are matter of thought and not merely of language: hence, the term conceptual metaphor.
The term broadcast was first adopted by early radio engineers from the Midwestern United States, treating broadcast sowing as a metaphor for the dispersal inherent in omnidirectional radio signals. Broadcasting is a very large and significant segment of the mass media.
In classical antiquity, the sea shell was a metaphor for a woman's vulva ( perhaps still perpetuated by the slang term " clam ").
The term " good Samaritan " is used as a common metaphor: " The word now applies to any charitable person, especially one who, like the man in the parable, rescues or helps out a needy stranger.
He developed an extensive use of therapeutic metaphor and story as well as hypnosis and coined the term brief therapy for his approach of addressing therapeutic changes in relatively few sessions.
Irwin, Jones, McGovern ( 2008 ) believe that the term ' scab ' is part of a larger metaphor involving strikes.
: A figure of speech in which a term or phrase is applied to something to which it is not literally applicable in order to suggest a resemblance, as in “ A mighty fortress is our God .” Compare mixed metaphor, simile def.
Cohen maintains that " panic " is a suitable term when used as an extended metaphor.
Recent literary critics have used the term to mean simply the style of extended and heightened metaphor common in the Renaissance and particularly in the 17th century, without any particular indication of value.
Some have characterized this metaphor as one for laissez-faire, but Smith never actually used the term himself.
In the popular 1863 story " The Children of the Public ", Edward Everett Hale used the term pork barrel as a homely metaphor for any form of public spending to the citizenry .< ref > The story first appeared in Frank Leslie's Illustrated Newspaper, Jan. 24 and Jan. 31, 1863.
White people, rather than being a straightforward description of skin color, is a term denoting a specific set of ethnic groups and functions as a color metaphor for race.
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His political opponent and lifetime friend, Thomas Jefferson, achieved immortality through his authorship of the Declaration of Independence, but equally notable were the legal and constitutional reforms he instituted in his native Virginia, his role as father of our territorial system, and his acquisition of the Louisiana Territory during his first term as President.
Of one thing we can be sure: they were not sketched out by the revolutionary theorists of the eighteenth century who formulated the political principles and originally shaped the political institutions of what we term the `` free society ''.
His teacher and his school principal were conferred with and everyone agreed that, if he kept up with a certain amount of work at home, there was little danger of his losing a term.
These became `` strays '', the term bein' restricted to cattle, however, as hosses, under like circumstances, were spoken of as `` stray hosses '', not merely `` strays ''.
When the crowd was asked whether it wanted to wait one more term to make the race, it voted no -- and there were no dissents.
The Unitarian clergy were an exclusive club of cultivated gentlemen -- as the term was then understood in the Back Bay -- and Parker was definitely not a gentleman, either in theology or in manners.
Abugidas were long considered to be syllabaries or intermediate between syllabaries and alphabets, and the term " syllabics " is retained in the name of Canadian Aboriginal Syllabics.
In the 1950s, many of them were retrospectively patched together into novels, or " fixups " as he called them, a term which entered the vocabulary of science fiction criticism.
Modern Armenia term means Republic of Armenia which occupies part of historical Armenia, whose ancient centers were in the valley of the Araks River and the region around Lake Van in Turkey.
The term became popular again in Australia first, when George Giffen, in his memoirs ( With Bat and Ball, 1899 ), used the term as if it were well known.
When an election was held at the conclusion of Mackenzie's five-year term, the Conservatives were swept back into office in a landslide victory.
In 1881 Alfonso refused to sanction a law by which the ministers were to remain in office for a fixed term of 18 months.
The term " antibacterial " derives from Greek ἀντί ( anti ), " against " + βακτήριον ( baktērion ), diminutive of βακτηρία ( baktēria ), " staff, cane ", because the first ones to be discovered were rod-shaped, and the term " antibiotic " derives from anti + βιωτικός ( biōtikos ), " fil for life, lively ", which comes from βίωσις ( biōsis ), " way of life ", and that from βίος ( bios ), " life ".
The study concluded that one-on-one lessons in the Alexander Technique from registered teachers have long term benefits for patients with chronic back pain, and that six lessons followed by exercise prescription were nearly as effective as 24 lessons.
The term Assyria can also refer to the geographic region or heartland where Assyria, its empires and the Assyrian people were centred.
Similar viewpoints have been expressed by Stanley Crouch in a New York Daily News piece, Charles Steele, Jr. of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference and African-American columnist David Ehrenstein of the LA Times who accused white liberals of flocking to blacks who were " Magic Negros ", a term that refers to a black person with no past who simply appears to assist the mainstream white ( as cultural protagonists / drivers ) agenda.
The term " fictional autobiography " has been coined to define novels about a fictional character written as though the character were writing their own biography, of which Daniel Defoe's Moll Flanders, is an early example.
These were not ' armored cars ' in the sense implied by the modern term, as they provided no real protection for their crews against any kind of opposing fire.
In the 19th century a renewed interest in Renaissance polyphony coupled with an ignorance of the fact that vocal parts were often doubled by instrumentalists led to the term coming to mean unaccompanied vocal music.
Later, many AMPS networks were partially converted to D-AMPS, often referred to as TDMA ( though TDMA is a generic term that applies to many cellular systems ).
This broad use of the term is likely to have come about because alkalis were the first bases known to obey the Arrhenius definition of a base and are still among the more common bases.
In 2007, total SO < sub > 2 </ sub > emissions were 8. 9 million tons, achieving the program's long term goal ahead of the 2010 statutory deadline.
In particular, the term refers to a strict monophysite sect that separated itself, in the end of the 5th century, from the rule of Peter Mongus, Patriarch of Alexandria, and remained " without king or bishop " until they were reconciled by Mark II ( 799-819 ).
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