A common phrase even today in Russian is na khalyavu, "for free", from the Hebrew khalav, "milk", because "milk money" was the name of donations for the Jewish community in Palestine.The second kind of slang, mat, is like a much more sophisticated version of the Chilean huevón words (see Tuesday)—an entire language derived chiefly from a handful of sexual swear-words.
Well, chiefly from a writer's own experiences – the fictional author Peter Van Houten in Green's The Fault in Our Stars reads like a clever nod to this fact.
Knowledge of Baal's personality and functions derives chiefly from a number of tablets uncovered from 1929 onward at Ugarit (modern Ras Shamra), in northern Syria, and dating to the middle of the 2nd millennium bce.
Democrats respond that the budget shortfall results chiefly from a severe drop in revenue from taxes on capital gains and stock options from the market run-up of the late 1990's and that those lost revenues must be replaced with new taxes.
The question now is whether China, South Korea and Taiwan could do to Japan what Japan did to America.Worries about the sustainability of Japan's lead stem chiefly from a belief among some executives and officials that Japanese firms are not doing as much as they could to realise the value of their technology.
The savings are expected to come chiefly from spending cuts, a ceiling on pensions and reductions in welfare benefits.
From the 1st century ad onward the word in its Syriac form (magusai) was applied to magicians and soothsayers, chiefly from Babylonia, with a reputation for the most varied forms of wisdom.
Government revenue is derived chiefly from mining concessions, a value-added tax, import and export duties, excise taxes, a petroleum products tax, and taxes on commercial transactions and production.
Put off for now are the angry denunciations and millions of dollars of advertisements, chiefly from hospitals and a health care union, that have traditionally begun haunting governors in early February.
In response, the government slapped a dusk-to-dawn curfew on a third of the country.In this section After Menem Colombia in the long shadow of war A plot of our own ReprintsIn a bitter twist for the government, the guerrillas launched their attacks chiefly from the safety of a haven that President Andres Pastrana had cleared of government soldiers last November in order to get peace talks going.
