Sentence examples for an apt saying from inspiring English sources

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Once bitten twice shy is probably an apt saying for many investors looking at technology shares.

It has become a magnet for immigrants looking for new opportunities, and the mix of good and bad, local and international, has led to an apt saying: If you haven't seen Johannesburg, you haven't seen South Africa.

An apt saying that appears in the subversive cross stitch Flickr group is 'Book lovers never go to bed alone'.

There's an apt saying: capitalism without failure is like religion without sin.

There's an apt saying: "It's the thought that counts". In Nadella's case it's the thoughtfulness the thinking that counts.

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When it comes to describing the emerging music streaming industry, a more apt saying might be "less money, mo problems". And as if Jay-Z's struggling music streaming platform Tidal didn't have enough of them already, rapper Kanye West, one of its most prominent and influential original members, is reportedly jumping ship.

The coach, a devotee of Che Guevara, has his apt saying "one must toughen oneself without ever losing tenderness" hanging in his house.

Moreover, few Israelis imagine that he has not, in fact, talked to his Arab interlocutors about how they envisage pushing forward on peace once a truce has been achieved.Mr Peres's own description of how he manoeuvred another prime minister, the late Yitzhak Rabin, to stay sweet on peace-making is now very apt, says an Israeli columnist, Nahum Barnea.

The impending demolition "couldn't be more apt," said Sidney Plotkin, a professor of political science at Vassar and president of the International Thorstein Veblen Association, a scholarly group whose mission includes analyzing the implications of Veblen's work for the contemporary political economy.

"The parallels to anti-Semitism are very powerful and very apt," said Mauro De Lorenzo, a leading scholar of the Banyamulenge, who was in Burundi in 2004 when about 1,500 people fled to the Gatumba camp.

It's a comparison that is poignantly apt, says Raymond, because after carnival the costumes that took weeks to make are simply thrown away: "That's how most Trinis regard the buildings as well: they were wonderful in their own era but their day is done".

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