For now, the strategic-partnership phrase has dropped out of sight.The captured Turks (freed a couple of days later) were members of a force deployed in the Kurdish enclave since 1996 to monitor a ceasefire between the two main Kurdish factions running northern Iraq.
Parenting partnerships, a new phrase that has gotten a lot of attention in the media recently, is defined as people not in a romantic relationship who come together to build a relationship that leads to having a child together and raising the child as co-parents.
A search was conducted in October 2012 and updated in October 2014 using Science Direct, Proquest, Sage, PubMed, Informit, Wiley Online (Journal), and Google Scholar and the key phrases: partnership assessment tools review, partnership tool applicability, partnership tool application, and Aboriginal-mainstream partnership.
Because under other Nebraska laws, the phrase "domestic partnership" also refers to business partnerships formed within the state, opponents of Initiative 416 claim it could be interpreted to end businesses like a father-son farming operation.
Congress should amend the Defense of Marriage Act to replace the sentence I quoted earlier with the following: "Wherever the word 'marriage' appears in any federal statute, replace that word with the phrase 'domestic partnership between two people valid under the laws of the state where it was obtained.' " I am not a lawyer, so I will not try to spell out all the details of how this would work.
This means, for a start, that President Obama's recent brave-faced pledge to move forward with his proposed Trans-Pacific Partnership (interestingly, the dread phrase "free trade agreement" has been carefully left out of the name) is, quite likely, dead on arrival.
I know there will be those whose fine, upper lips will curl at the phrase 'creative partnerships' but any detailed examination of what opportunities these will bring to people with such a minute sliver of our national cake should cure that.
Speaking to a lunch of 500 UK and China-based business leaders, he risked speaking a few words in Mandarin designed to sum up the foundations of that partnership - translated the key phrase was "in both sides' interests".
The new buzz phrase is a "modernisation partnership".
The Tripoli summit follows the 2007 meeting of European and African governments, which changed the tone of talks between the continents, introducing key phrases such as a "partnership of equals" and promises to move beyond the traditional "donor-recipient relationship".
Europe has officially sought a "strategic partnership" with Russia since 1999, when the phrase was coined in an EU policy paper.
