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Quotes About Terms

Yes, there is some evidence that migration can slightly depress wages at the bottom end of the labour market, but that's an argument for a genuine living wage, for ensuring all workers are employed on the same terms and conditions, and for extending unionisation.
~ Owen Jones
I find this in all these places I've been travelling - from India to China, to Japan and Europe and to Brazil - there is a frustration with the terms of public discourse, with a kind of absence of discussion of questions of justice and ethics and of values.
~ Michael Sandel
Search engines generally treat personal names as search terms like any others: Data is data.
~ Jonathan Zittrain
What I've found is that there is a tremendous interest in these issues, across the political spectrum, sort of left-right terms we used to describe people don't really hold here exactly.
~ Robert McChesney
But I can tell that once, and if, and when this issue gets to be, under real terms, investigated, you will be seeing certain people that we know from this country standing trial; and they will be prosecuted criminally.
~ Sibel Edmonds
Freedom does not come withterms and conditionsDon't let anyone eversell you that.
~ Anjum Choudhary
God's plan is defined by him alone. He sets up the terms; we don't. God is not a power we can just use for our benefit. If we want to come to God, we must come on his terms and enter his Kingdom his way. As the one who created us and loves us, God knows how we ought to live. If we try to do things our own way, we are only asking for trouble.
~ Stephen Arterburn
Lincoln had good reason to speak of slavery strictly in terms of preserving the Union: they were the only terms the white public was likely to accept.
~ Stephen B. Oates
In mystical terms, the law of attraction specifies that you will attract to yourself those experiences that match your beliefs.
~ Stephen Richards
Certainly that thought did not enter into McClellan's calculations. He continued thinking only in terms of how much he might salvage from defeat.
~ Stephen W. Sears
Abolishing "welfare as we have known it," as the Clinton administration managed to do, was a way of enlarging the pool of vulnerable, low-wage workers with no other option but to become, if they were able, employees at will, no matter the terms and conditions of their work. What
~ Steve Fraser
One Domain Vocabulary A class that uses terms from multiple domains might be violating context independence, unless it's part of a bridging layer.
~ Steve Freeman
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~ Steve Weber
I suggested that my patron goddess should take sensual pleasure, though I didn't put it quite in those terms.
~ Steven Brust
I was 28 before I started putting on productions. I got in the back door by doing fringe shows and a lot of assisting, and I learned on the job. There weren't many female directors when I was starting out. I slowly gained confidence and understanding of the theater, but on my own terms.
~ Marianne Elliott
Yet I wonder if it doesn't make more sense to speak in terms of an American paradox—that is, a notably unhealthy people obsessed by the idea of eating healthily.
~ Michael Pollan
We must cease once and for all to describe the effects of power in negative terms, it 'excludes', it 'represses'... in fact power produces, it produces reality, it produces domains of objects and rituals of truth.
~ Michel Foucault
This last point is a request to the English-speaking reader. In France, certain half-witted 'commentators' persist in labelling me a 'structuralist'. I have been unable to get it into their tiny minds that I have used none of the methods, concepts, or key terms that characterize structural analysis. I should be grateful if a more serious public would free me from a connection that certainly does me honour, but that I have not deserved.
~ Michel Foucault
She never called her son by any name but John; 'love' and 'dear', and such like terms, were reserved for Fanny.
~ Elizabeth Gaskell
I've written that there are some workplaces where the best thing you could have for achieving the best terms and conditions of employment will be a labor union. They play an important role.
~ Eugene Scalia
What are you smiling at, Sir Archie? The hound and you seem on wondrous friendly terms;
~ G. A. HENTY
The chief merit of language is clearness, and we know that nothing detracts so much from this as do unfamiliar terms.
~ Galen
What turns an opportunity into a deal is that the property meets your Criteria and the seller is willing to meet your Terms.
~ Gary Keller
If we want to understand how the ancient Jews understood the terms they used, we should look at how they themselves interpreted the texts. If one uses only Scripture to interpret Scripture without its cultural context, then one is not actually using Scripture to interpret Scripture, but conforming Scripture to one's own cultural bias and preconceived ideas.
~ Brian Godawa