I wouldn't like to go on and write the whole conversation in detail because I believe I've given the gist of it.
But claims that such technological marvels will spell the end of old-fashioned translation businesses are premature.Software can give the gist of a foreign tongue, but for business use (if executives are sensible), rough is not enough.
I shall give the gist of them in the words of Peter Bamm, a German Army physician who had served at the Russian front, and whose book "Die Unsichtbare Flagge," published in Munich in 1952, is among the very few subjectively sincere memoirs of its kind.
Given that, "I'll just give you the gist of it," is the sort of thing that's barely acceptable to say to your boss if you haven't read an email properly, the idea that the government thinks this is an ok way to refer to court mandated legal documents is a tiny bit terrifying.
I'll give you the gist of it: Announcers love to refer to white players are "gritty" when they try really hard, even if they kinda suck, while foreign-born and African American players don't get praised for their intangibles or baseball IQ.
In 2009 the European court of human rights and the House of Lords ruled that an individual must be given the gist of the information used against them, thus allowing an appropriate defence.
By Janet Flanner The New Yorker, January 26 , 1952P. 84 LETTER FROM PARIS gives the gist of what the Paris papers have to say about the Eisenhower-for-President movement.
With this information Bannerman concluded his report to Sharp, and Sharp then sent to Washington a rather pointed memorandum addressed to Mr. Bliss, which gave the gist of Bannerman's report and said, among other things, "I call your special attention to the fact that the officials of the State Department made no preliminary inquiries as to the rights of this criminal to represent Princess Fatima.
At a procedural hearing at the court of session in Edinburgh on Tuesday, Judge Lord Pentland said lawyers for the Scottish government would attack the relevance of Salmond's case, arguing that he had been given "the gist" of the complaints against him.
Enticing back cover copy gives the gist of the book in just a few sentences.
They gave me the gist of it.
