Word: phrase
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...cosmic assumptions of his own; seeing them in your bluebook, he can only applaud your uncommon perception. For example, while most graders are politically unconcerned, not all are agnostic. This is an older generation, recall. Some may be tired of St. Augustine flattened by a phrase or reading about the “Xian myth...
...guess more nostalgic. More, you know, that phrase that [aide Mark Salter] wrote for me--give me a chance to "serve [America] a little while longer." We all know that I would never do this again...
Comparing your feelings last night to your feelings on the night you won on 2000, how are they different? What was your reaction? I guess more nostalgia, you know. More, you know, that phrase that [speechwriter] Mark [Salter] wrote for me, you know, give me a chance to serve a little while longer, I think is the right way to put it. We all know that I would never do this again. [Laughs...
...promising to boost the capital's stock of affordable housing. Johnson has not yet revealed a detailed manifesto but speaks of increased "financial rigor" and an admiration for the education policies of New York City mayor Michael Bloomberg. He sums up his political philosophy in a pithy phrase, "Less bossiness, more incentives," explaining "I'm a libertarian. I think people should get on and run their lives as far as possible independently of bossiness and intrusion of all kinds...
...centerpiece of the U.S. political arena. From Ronald Reagan opening his 1980 presidential campaign by invoking John Winthrop's characterization of America as a chosen nation, a "shining city on a hill," to Bill Clinton's description of his 1992 Democratic convention acceptance speech as "the New Covenant" - a phrase drawn from the words of Jesus at the Last Supper - to George W. Bush's naming of Jesus as his favorite philosopher in a 1999 G.O.P. primary debate, public displays of faith are now de rigueur in U.S. presidential politics...