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The 1996 Democratic fund-raising scandals introduced the notorious phrase "soft money" into everyday political discourse.
And her private office files show that her press secretary, Bernard Ingham, had expected the now notorious phrase to be made public.
He failed to protest their atrocities, even when Roman Jews were rounded up, in the now notorious phrase, under his very windows.
When they turn out to be subjective or perceiver-dependent ("in the mind", in Berkeley's notorious phrase), we have the beginnings of a slippery slope argument leading to idealism.
Finally, Ahmadinejad's own call for regime change in Israel - "the occupying Zionist regime of Jerusalem should cease to exist in the page of time" - has been mistranslated and distorted into the notorious phrase, "Israel should be wiped off the map" by the western media.
Or, rather, it is not new – it is the revival of an old strand of Tory isolationism, encapsulated by Neville Chamberlain's notorious phrase describing Hitler's threat to Czechoslovakia as being "a quarrel in a far away country between people of whom we know nothing".
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There is a notorious and baffling phrase of Donne's, in "The Second Anniversary," when he is commemorating "the Religious death of Mistress Elizabeth Drury," who was, he says, "richly and largely hous'd": Her pure, and eloquent blood Spoke in her cheeks, and so distinctly wrought, That one might almost say, her body thought.
Among ordinary Argentines, Mr. Barrionuevo, a former official of the restaurant workers' union, is notorious for cynical phrases like "Nobody in Argentina gets rich by working," and "If we just stopped stealing for two years, this country could solve its problems".
His use of a phrase made notorious during Vietnam (and revived, often without irony, in more recent wars) may sound a bit anachronistic and overly pointed, but it also reinforces a disconcerting parallel.
Ayu is notorious for her catch phrase,, which she mutters as an expression of various negative emotions such as frustration, anger, and fear.
Trump was criticised for using the phrase, which became notorious in US politics in 2003 after then president George W Bush appeared in front of a banner decorated with those words soon after the start of the war in Iraq.
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