Quotes About Term

As the term of my relief from this place [Washington, D.C.] approaches, it's drudgery becomes more nauseating and intolerable, and my impatience to be with you at Monticello increases daily.

cahoots being a legal term in Wyoming, see cahooting in the first degree, intent to cahoot, and so on.

John McCarthy, a Santa Claus lookalike who coined the term artificial intelligence

Google, playing off googol, the term for the number 1 followed by a hundred zeros.

about one-fifth of the cardiac output goes through the uterus at term increasing the risk from postpartum hemorrhage substantially.

For a member to say, 'I'm a lame duck' violates political science 101.

If modern civilization should disappear today, but leave libraries untouched, survivors could open almost any book and perceive immediately that persons living south of the Sahara are called "Blacks." The term "Black Africa" would suffice to indicate the habitat of the Black race. Nothing similar is found in Egyptian texts. Whenever the Egyptians use the word "Black" (khem), it is to designate themselves or their country: Kemit, land of the Blacks.

El término «tercer mundo» se había acuñado en Francia a principios de los cincuenta para describir a los países que estaban económicamente subdesarrollados y políticamente no alineados, de manera que guardaban las distancias con respecto al capitalismo liberal del primer mundo y a los estados socialistas del segundo mundo.

Morality is an utterly meaningless term unless defined as the good one does to others, the fulfilling of one's function in the sociopolitical whole.

They use the term 'ripped from the headlines' for their stories because it sounds a lot better than 'plagiarized from the New York Times because we have no imagination.

Mob psychology," Sunny said, remembering a term Klaus had taught her shortly before she took her first steps.

I did three or four weeks of work on 'Godzilla' it wasn't a page-one rewrite or anything like that. The term is 'script doctoring,' is what I did on it.

The noun "entheogen," meaning "generating the divine within," has become a popular alternative to the term "psychedelic.

I think that 'Judaizing the Galilee' is not an offensive term. We used to talk like that.

The term "pattern" is preferable to "model" because a pattern is a metaphor suggesting looseness and a tendency to become unraveled.

Terrorism," said the rental. "We prefer not to use that term," said Lowbeer, studying her candle flame with something that looked to Netherton to be regret, "if only because terror should remain the sole prerogative of the state." She

The use of explosives is unusual, and we prefer to keep it so. Too much like asymmetric warfare." "Terrorism," said the rental. "We prefer not to use that term," said Lowbeer, studying her candle flame with something that looked to Netherton to be regret, "if only because terror should remain the sole prerogative of the state.

If 'myth' is a slippery term, so is 'classical'. It is common shorthand for 'ancient Greek and Roman'. But this shorthand has a history, and a bias.

I want to enrich medical science with a new term: Arbeitskur.

I think the term poet is a very exalted term and should be applied to a man at the end of his work. When he looks back over the body of his work and he's written poetry then let the verdict be that he's a poet.

The term clinical depression finds its way into too many conversations these days. One has a sense that a catastrophe has occurred in the psychic landscape.

The term "statelessness" is getting at the fact that the server doesn't care what state the client is in.

I think the danger with using the term 'trilogy' is that it sets up particular expectations in the reader's mind.

People often misuse the term 'Regency' to describe art or antiques dating from a vague period between the 1790s and the 1830s, but technically the period only lasted between 1811 and 1820.