Sentence examples for often-repeated phrase from inspiring English sources

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Indeed, this man with the battered face and tiny, defiant ponytail is a hero to many Vietnamese refugees for whom Vietnam really has remained — in a reversal of an often-repeated phrase — a war, not a country.

This man with the battered face and tiny, defiant ponytail is a hero to many Vietnamese refugees for whom Vietnam really has remained - in a reversal of an often-repeated phrase - a war, not a country.

More of a misunderstanding than a mistranslation, one often-repeated phrase might have been reinforced by racial stereotypes.

My most often-repeated phrase those first few days: "Now that's an excellent question for Richard". Things did improve, however.

Well known for his wit and sense of humor, one of Marshall's most enduring jokes came during a Senate debate in which, in response to Senator Joseph Bristow's catalog of the nation's needs, Marshall quipped the often-repeated phrase, "What this country needs is a really good five-cent cigar", provoking laughter.

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(I mean the stock of often-repeated descriptive phrases, such as the "wine-dark" sea and Achilles "of the swift feet", which were probably used as metrically prefabricated units by the early oral bards who improvised these stories).

From this we get the often repeated phrase "substantial non-infringing uses".

"You have to do well in order to do good" is an often repeated phrase at The Washington Post but it has never been more relevant to our newsroom or the U.S. media industry than it is in 2011.

She said, without a moment's hesitation, "It was his eyes". In the 1950s, British psychoanalyst D.W. Winnicott described the process of the mother gazing at the baby in her arms, and the baby gazing back at the mother's face and "finding himself therein" (an often repeated phrase in psychoanalytic circles).

But the foot traffic was not much heavier than on any other day, the sellers said, and the phrase "Black Friday" was an often-repeated sales pitch to reassure shoppers they were getting the best deals.

"Nigeria needs strong institutions, not strong men," is an oft-repeated phrase and rightly so.

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