Lacombe uses Curwen hand signs that correspond to the five note alien tonal phrase.
Latino, Asian and black Democratic House members are fighting Republican efforts to force the Library of Congress to use the term "illegal alien," a phrase many consider to be pejorative and that library leaders chose to stop using.
I'd eat the free Dominos my employer provided, slowly erode my insides with Red Bull, and slip into a fugue state while transcribing the alien-sounding phrases spat out by the MBAs on the other end of the line.
"We the people" is a phrase alien to these capitals.
He is pro-life, anti-gay marriage, supports a full repeal of Obamacare and uses the phrase "illegal alien amnesty" to describe those undocumented immigrants hoping for a pathway to citizenship.
And then with deep sarcasm, he said, "What's up, dude?" a phrase as alien to his culture as blue jeans and, now, as common in his city as blue jeans.
Nielsen insists on calling these children "criminal aliens," a dehumanizing phrase she used repeatedly in a speech to the National Sheriff's Association.
Many years ago, when flat-packs were becoming ubiquitous, my brother wrote a comedy sketch where a two-dimensional alien greeted earthlings with the phrase: "I am from the planet Ikea.
That is the central phrase in the Alien Tort Statute, which authorizes suits "for a tort only committed in violation of the law of nations or a treaty of the United States".
