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Quotes About Term

Do you defend free markets, or do you reform them? It's the same issue that Labour had in the mid-Seventies, and it's the same issue the Tories had after 1945. How do you interact with this new ideological term?
~ Ed Miliband
I've said I'll stand for a full second term, but I think after that it will be time for new leadership. Terms are like Shredded Wheat - two are wonderful but three might just be too many.
~ David Cameron
Medvedev's term ran out in 2012.
~ Masha Gessen
The evolutionary biologist Richard Dawkins in 1976 coined the term 'meme' for a unit of cultural imitation.
~ Matt Ridley
what does that mean, that word "mavourneen"?
~ Barbara Taylor Bradford
Reloader was a term he'd picked up from Dox. It meant someone so formidable you'd empty the whole magazine into him, eject, reload, and empty the second magazine, too, just to be sure.
~ Barry Eisler
This is the only verse in the entire Old Testament that uses the term "everlasting life.
~ Bart D. Ehrman
which is a common term for the Lord God but is also a term that could be used, for example, by a slave for his master.
~ Bart D. Ehrman
Nearly every president had wanted a second term, despite the fact that history clearly taught the last four years would be nothing like the first. Either the president became overly aggressive, knowing he had nothing to lose, which alienated both supporters and detractors. Or he became cautious, placid, and docile, not wanting to do anything that might affect his legacy.
~ Steve Berry
Like most gunters, I voted to reelect Cory Doctorow and Wil Wheaton (again). There were no term limits, and those two geezers had been doing a kick-ass job of protecting user rights for over a decade.
~ Ernest Cline
everyone began to call them "sharters
~ Ernest Cline
Decadence is a difficult word to use since it has become little more than a term of abuse applied by critics to anything they do not yet understand or which seems to differ from their moral concepts.
~ Ernest Hemingway
Black Friday is not another bad hair day in Wall Street. It's the term used by American retailers to describe the day after the Thanksgiving Holiday, seen as the semi-official start of Christmas shopping season.
~ Evan Davis
If ever there was a show that could be termed a mascot for people who ride Harleys, it's 'Renegade,' and I'm real proud of that.
~ Lorenzo Lamas
It's still funny for me to think of myself as someone who writes historical fiction because it seems like a really fusty, musty term, and yet it clearly applies.
~ Susan Choi
NBC had a show called 'The Toughest Bouncer in America' that I did. But I told them I didn't like that term, 'bouncer.' To me, it's offensive. A bouncer likes to get physical, likes to put his hands on people.
~ Mr. T
Do you mind if I ask you a question, darlin'?" "Only if you stop calling me darlin'." "Now where I come from that's a term of endearment." "Really? Well, where I come from motherfucker is a term of endearment. Want me to start calling you that?
~ Shelly Laurenston
And God, the Master Builder. This is the meaning behind Joseph's words God meant it for good in order to bring about... The Hebrew word translated here as bring about is a construction term
~ Max Lucado
Especially if he called me querida again.
~ Meg Cabot
The misuse of the term matriarch has led many people to identify any woman present in a household where no male resides a matriarch. Although anthropologists disagree about whether or not matriarchal societies ever really existed, an examination of available information about the supposed social structure of matriarchies proves without any doubt that the social status of the matriarch was in no way similar to that of black women in the United States.
~ bell hooks
CORV: Honour! tut, a breath: There's no such thing, in nature: a mere term Invented to awe fools.
~ Ben Jonson
We shall dismiss these with the observation that their work does not concern "investors" as the term is used in this book.
~ Benjamin Graham
The notion that a term can be modified arises from neglect to observe the eternal self-identity of all terms and all logical concepts, which alone form the constituents of propositions.* What is called modification consists merely in having at one time, but not at another, some specific relation to some other specific term; but the term which sometimes has and sometimes has not the relation in question must be unchanged, otherwise it would not be that term which had ceased to have the relation.
~ Bertrand Russell
It remains to define successor. Given any number n, let ? be a class which has n members, and let x be a term which is not a member of ?. Then the class consisting of ? with x added on will have n+1 members.
~ Bertrand Russell