Sentences with phrase «earlier uses of the phrase»

The Oxford English Dictionary cites earlier uses of the phrase in literature and in nursery lore; for example, a sullen child was said to «have the black dog on his back.»

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The phrase was used by a former Shell CEO to describe the company's experimental strategy in an earlier round of investments in renewable energy.

That was the mantra of Facebook in the early days, and many entrepreneurs in their zeal to emulate the Zuck used that phrase to justify a culture that was more attuned to creating chaos and hoping for...

We may question the use of this stylized phrase «the Word of Yahweh» with this specific, implicit content before, at the earliest, the time of Elijah.

According to sources close to the Archbishop, Justin Welby also used the phrase «moment of opportunity» when speaking to the Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu earlier today.

The way in which this was done in an earlier day certainly can not be ours in this time; but the vision, insight, intuition, conviction — call it what you will — that Jesus Christ establishes with the transcendent a «new relation» into which «in rite, celebration, meditation, way of life» (to use Miss Emmet's phrases) we are permitted to enter and to have it made our own — notice I did not say «make our own», which would deny the divine priority in this event — is Christianity.

It is significant that the earliest Gospel, Mark, uses the term «after three days» consistently in the prediction passages, but where these are quoted in Matthew or Luke the phrase has been changed to «on the third day».23 The change can be explained by saying that between the writing of the first and the later Gospels the story of the empty tomb had become more widely known, and the phrase «after three days», as a dating of the resurrection event, fell out of use.

The use of the phrase «teachers of the early church,»

He probably used the title with both meanings — that is, to designate both man and the Son of Man — but because the eschatological seemed the more important to the early church (especially since it was soon believed that Jesus was alluding to himself when he used the term), it was inevitable that all of Jesus» uses of the phrase should be interpreted in that sense and, if necessary, conformed to it.

The use of the phrase «teachers of the early church,» [13] is itself symptomatic of a reassessment of the role of those whose views came to prevail and those who were to be treated as deviants or heretics.

and all the accounts of his teaching in the Synoptic Gospels are so filled with the phrase that we can not question its importance for Jesus — the more so as the infrequency of its appearance in the Epistles would indicate that it was not used especially often in the early church.

This concept of God as «powerful Goodness,» to use Benjamin Franklin's phrase, far from solving the problem of suffering, restated it in a much more difficult form than it had had in earlier days.

Was this author equally appalled about the prayer breakfast earlier this month, when President Obama tried to use biblical phrases like «for unto whom much is given, much shall be required» and «love thy neighbor as thyself» out of context as justification for his tax and economic policies?

But perhaps one of the most significant early instances of its use — at least for understanding what the phrase originally meant — comes just over a decade earlier.

Actually, we used the phrase «best of all» too early because what makes this a must - have is the fact you can throw it on with almost anything — jeans, skirt, little dresses, suit trousers, anything.

«Early and often,» is a phrase that is frequently used to describe the optimal practice of breastfeeding.

(ref earlier, I know AV isn't technically PR, but didn't want to use the phrase «electoral reform» as I'm in favour of early voting, mobile voting etc and not everyone might understand electoral reform in the narrow technical sense)

This comes after Christine Quinn, the former speaker of the New York City Council and a supporter of incumbent Democratic Gov. Andrew Cuomo, used the phrase to criticize Nixon earlier this month.

(Unless, of course, he encountered the phrase from someone who used it earlier but left no trace in the annals of history or records accessible by Google.)

, scientists at the University of The English phrase common Era appears at least as early as 1708, and in a 1715 book on astronomy is used interchangeably with Christian Era and Vulgar Era.

«Do you remember the phrase they used back in the early»90s to make people aware of AIDS?

Kevin credits me with coming up with the phrase, «Dare to be Bad» but it was a catch phrase that Nina Kiriki Hoffman and I used in our early years of our short - story - per - week challenge (1982 - 1985).

Baldessari's early works were painted phrases derived from contemporary art theory, painted by sign painters in a standard font often used on signs, thereby changing the «accessibilty» of these texts.

The title of Broomberg and Chanarin's exhibition was originally the coded phrase used by Kodak to describe the capabilities of a new film stock developed in the early»80s to address the inability of their earlier films to accurately render dark skin.

The exhibition title To Photograph the Details of a Dark Horse in Low Light appropriated by Broomberg and Chanarin, is in fact the coded phrase used by Kodak to describe the capabilities of a new film stock developed in the early 80s to address the inability of their earlier films to accurately render dark skin.

Throughout the early 1970s Nauman created several more luminous signs that used a combination of witty word games and bold colour to disturb the meaning of everyday phrases and expressions.

No less a figure than the artist Hans Haacke — whose long - standing commitment to rendering transparent economic, social, and aesthetic structures throughout culture has led him to be immanently associated with the paradigm — used the phrase «consciousness industry» as early as the mid-1980s to describe the sophisticated networks of institutional support necessary to make visible ostensibly adversarial avant - garde artistic gestures.4 Works seeking to emphasize the moral, political, and intellectual forces that determine and enforce culture, he observed, were nevertheless dependent on a museum or gallery platform designed to privilege aesthetic experience.

In one early Charter decision, Re B.C. Motor Vehicles Act, 28 a unanimous Supreme Court used the living tree doctrine to expand the ordinary meaning of the phrase «principles of fundamental justice.»

I sometimes use as an example, it's two paragraphs that open a memorandum, and it's the real thing, I pull these in and we edit these two paragraphs and we see how much better they could be, but one day I was teaching to a group and there was a partner and in fact there were several partners, but one of the partners raised his hand and he said, you know, this reads like a first - year associate who is unsure of herself, and I was agreeing that I hadn't seen that earlier and expressed it that way because when put all this stuff into our writing, the vis - à - vis type phrases and a lot of overblown ways of expressing ourselves, all we are doing is showing that we are insecure that we really don't believe in what we're saying.

Bitstamp's Reddit page features numerous complaints from users, who quote official correspondence that is worded very similarly to the screenshot cited earlier, including the use of phrases such as «kindly ask».

The last of the tribe is a phrase that was commonly used in the 19th century and the early part of the 20th century.

The possible sexual abuse origins of this «source code» may be at the generational level of the narcissistic / (borderline) parent, representing the possible childhood sexual abuse victimization of this parent, or the «source code» may have entered the trans - generational transmission of attachment patterns a generation earlier, with the parent of the current narcissistic / (borderline) parent whose distorted parenting practices then produced the narcissistic / (borderline) personality organization of the current parent, so that this particular «phrase» of the «source code» (i.e., a role - reversal relationship in which the parent uses the child to meet the emotional and psychological needs of the parent) is being passed on inter-generationally through several generations following the incest victimization trauma.