The laurea was then the terminal degree – how that phrase haunts the young researcher – at Italian universities, and involved a thesis which took the student several months, at worst years, of extra labour.
Phrases like "terminal illness" are vague at a time when new treatments and drugs can keep patients with a terminal disease alive for months or years.
The phrase was visible everywhere, from terminal restrooms to briefing rooms etc, but the second line of the Motto contained a sting in the tail - "if we don't, someone else will".
"How did you make this big blunder?" "When I used to speak about corporate governance back when I was, you know, the Attorney General and stuff, there was a phrase that I used that was "Hubris is terminal".
The children were being treated by a trauma specialist named Louise Abitbol, and when I went to see her at a child-advocacy center, near the ferry terminal, she described the Staten Islanders' response to the children with the phrase "vicarious trauma".
So commonly do they scuttle into university health services with self-made diagnoses of terminal illness (usually the one they are reading about at the time) that the phrase "medical student syndrome" was coined several decades ago to describe their behavior.
I was in a crowded airport terminal when he made his farewell address, and if I had to pick a single phrase to characterize the response of people who looked up at the monitor, it would be "snorts of derision".
For let the meanings of complex expressions be interpreted logical forms, i.e., phrase structure trees with the meanings of the constituent lexical items assigned to their terminal nodes.
Retouching by pen, he tightened the phrasing and also inserted an inspired pun: "The sensation chills him, above and beyond the terminal air-conditioning".
This may be due to HIV now being a chronic rather than terminal condition, but also other factors; for example, a cultural reticence to talk about death could make agreement with the phrase 'prepared to leave this life' problematic.
If "modern travel" was the buzz phrase for the arrivals building in the 50's, then "customer service" is the rallying cry for the new Terminal 4, Mr. Levin said.
