Nine states make the first tier, "countries of particular concern," in State Department parlance: Burma, China, Eritrea, Iran, North Korea, Saudi Arabia, Sudan, Turkmenistan, and Uzbekistan.
These aren't states; they're "para-states" — or, in one common parlance, "special economic zones".
As it stands, Canadian CF-18 Hornets have dropped a series of precision-guided munitions on Islamic State targets in over 412 sorties military parlance for a plane attack or dispatch.
While reiterate took hold in common parlance with the meaning "to state something (over and over) again," iterate and iteration retreated to more scholarly corners of the language.
However, in terms of spoken language, Italians were slow to adopt the parlance of the new nation-state, identifying much more strongly with their regional dialects.
Any player has the means to underhand serve in tennis, but doing so is out in the open -- "transparent", in business parlance -- and not against stated requirements.
Apart from the varieties of disorder subsumed under the term in the psychiatric lexicon it is used in everyday parlance for a variety of states of distress: demoralisation from prolonged suffering, reaction to loss [grief], a tendency to undervalue oneself [loss of self-esteem], a pessimistic outlook and so on.
Dr Cirac and Dr Romero-Isart therefore propose putting the virus inside a microscopic cavity and cooling it down to its state of lowest energy (ground state, in physics parlance) using a piece of apparatus known as a laser trap.
It is the issue of voiding the contract -- or recision in legal parlance -- that particularly troubles the state bar association.
To the contrary, they preach that only the Wali al-Amr -- Islamic legal parlance for a Muslim head of state -- has the right to declare war, and God alone decides who is a heretic.
