We do not, however, need the phrase "that which is" (ea que est): "a stone is a being" (lapis est ens), or the equivalent phrase into which it can be resolved, "a stone is a thing which is" (lapis est res que est), are unclear, awkward, and absurd ways of saying simply that "a stone is a thing" (lapis est res).
Q.E.D. takes its name from an abbreviation for a Latin phrase that means "which was to be demonstrated" and is found at the end of mathematical proofs.
"You don't hear any other trumpet phrases or anything like that, which is kind of odd because it's like, well, what made him pick up a trumpet?" Speaking by phone from Amsterdam between stops on a European tour, Akinmusire sounded puzzled when asked about his sound.
On Sept. 12, newspapers began referring to the World Trade Center site with a phrase that would endure: "ground zero," which is technically the area on the earth's surface that is directly below or above the detonation point of a nuclear bomb.
The following requirements are of paramount importance: (a) a quiet environment; (b) a word or phrase that is repeated and on which the person focuses attention; (c) a passive attitude; and (d) a comfortable posture.
Some articles suggested women needing abortions might be pitied, with one labelling them 'poor, frantic females' (The Sun, May 22, 2010): a phrase that undermines the rationality with which women might decide to abort.
And obviously, the appropriating of the phrase "girl power", which at that point overrode any notion of feminism, and which was a phrase that meant absolutely nothing apart from being friends with your girlfriends.
"I had to understand battered-wife syndrome, which was a phrase that wasn't even around, a diagnosis that wasn't even around" at the time.
Several participants described their role as 'first aider', a phrase that may aptly describe their function, which has been previously ascribed to medicine sellers elsewhere (Rutebemberwa et al. 2009).
If anyone is aghast at your choice of words, say the celebrated director Peter Hall coined that phrase, which perfectly fits "shows and films like this", that have "the glibbest, and most suspect way of endowing second-rate art with an air of moral significance".
"I don't know what movie it was, but I remembered that phrase which I thought was really poignant - when you are under pressure that's really what people see.
