That city planning mantra, reflecting the conventional wisdom of recent years, has dominated thinking about the World Trade Center site.
India's and Pakistan's claims on Kashmir, based on conflicting narratives of a complicated shared history, have been repeated so often that they have become a kind of mantra and reflect the two countries' divergent conceptions of nationhood.
In turn, this simple mantra -- "reflect, reboot, reject" -- when put into practice, helps us live and work with more meaning.
Comfort is her mantra which is reflected in the way she looks and dresses (read homely).
Half of the participants in our study believed that spiritual healing, the use of holy water, and reciting a Buddhist mantra strengthen the psychological domain, which reflects the concept that body and mind affect each other.
All the while they chant their conscience-easing mantra: We are only reflecting society's norms.
"It's Palm Beach, stupid," has emerged as the Democrats' postelection mantra, a slogan that reflected the strong sentiment that a countywide manual recount here could deliver enough votes to secure a victory in Florida for Mr. Gore.
Proponents of the state-religion clause argue, however, that the persecution of their co-religionists in the south is precisely why their campaign to safeguard the faith is vital.Some Buddhist intellectuals disagree with both the campaign's ends and its means, which do not exactly reflect the mantra of non-attachment to worldly affairs.
One damaging economic mantra of the last two decades has been that when America buys much more from abroad than it sells, it merely reflects the nation's economic strength.
Apple's recently-announced "spaceship" reflects its focus on clean details and sophisticated simplicity, while Google's new buildings further it's "do no evil" sustainability mantra.
