The phrase comes from a film adaptation of Margaret Mitchell's successful 1936 novelGone With the Wind. It's set in the American South and tells the story of a strong heroine, Scarlett O' Hara, who struggles to find love during the Civil War and, afterwards, of her strength in surviving...
C#: The big buzz phrase is ‘building risk weighted asset tools.’ In the risk and analytics team, and possibly partnering with offshore developers C# programmers who can assist banks to devise tools to calculate RWAs are in high demand. ...
For example,不入虎穴, 安得虎子, If not entering a tiger’s lair, how can it be to get its cub? Another translation is, “… whence its cub can be gotten?”. Functions the same as焉. In modern usage, 衛生 it is a noun phrase meaning “hygiene”, “hygienic” or “sanitation”. ...
Lack of control over her own life is one of the most striking features of the book. Her hair is cut short (more than once) even though she wants to grow it long. Her name keeps changing –“They stole my name,” she says, “They took me- away from me.” The phrase ‘a new so...
Even after he spent three years teaching us how to be like him, how to show the world what God wanted of us, performing miracles and finally sacrificing himself so that we might, with the help of redeeming grace, become in the truest sense of the phrase…God’s chosen people. ...
11. His Majesty Sir Theo of Agnew’s usage of the vile phrase ‘cunning ways’ in reference to the Machiavellian machinations of Dame Rachel. (For sauce, see the Guardian article in no.1.) (Apologies, I meant source. Of course.) ...
This became a repeated catch phrase, but the crew soon let it go. We had four days to get to Homps, reachable in a day and a half if we pushed it. Time was not an issue. Albeit frustrating, the delay had given us a chance to meet with other crews, many displaying their national...
“We are concerned that the use of the phrase ‘Chi’chil Bildagoteel Historic District’ and a lack of geographic information is an attempt by these opponents to limit transparency and public comments from constituents that disagree with this nomination, and an attempt to undermine our bipartisan...
There is one particular phrase that I picked up as a theme for ministry which I managed to capture in this photograph later in the day: Christian vocation is always to keep open the door of love Lunch followed and we were then taken on a fascinating tour of the city centre parish of St...
(I wonder if a reader familiar with the phrase “pink tea fight” might send a definition.) Feeling very much at sea “among these grandees,” Hayes allows his name to be hyphenated: “I am now Mr. Hayes-Perkins. This adds infinitely more tone than to be just common Hayes Perkins, ...