Despite the militant symbolism of the setting, known in Mr Hussein's time as the Mother-of-All-Battles mosque, the meeting's message was pragmatic.
So on behalf of Michelle and Malia and Sasha and my mother-in-law, Mama Robinson -- I want to wish all of you a very Merry Christmas.
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Sheridan accused his former colleagues of trying to engineer "the mother of all stitch-ups".
Man-made technology is great, but Mother Nature is the greatest inventor of them all -- and scientists are discovering new ways to take advantage of the tools found in nature.
To bend a term that comes to us courtesy of Iraq's Saddam Hussein (surely a candidate for the top 10 of any world list of the powerful and nasty), 1975 was the mother of all years -- the one that in a sense gave birth to modern Asia.
Despite defeat he declared himself the winner of the "mother of all battles" - and he remained in power.
As the language of instruction has a critical bearing on what literacy programmes can achieve, what do you think about the impact of mother tongue-based literacy programmes for achieving the goal of literacy for all in Nepal?
This, as I say, is the mother of all no-brainers.
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The youngest group, Grannis says, not only has fewer personal bills but more "mothers" to shop for: grandmothers, sisters, spouses, daughters and in-laws, all of whom may deserve Mother's Day well-wishes.
When a small team of hackers aligning themselves with Anonymous raided digital security firms HBGary Federal and HBGary Inc. last month, there followed the mother of all legal clean-up jobs.
Greaves song or the stern, all-knowing mother-figure of an assistant?
Director Ram Gopal Verma seems to agree with this contention - he has embarked on the mother of all remakes, a reversion of the 1975 blockbuster hit Sholay (Flames), a star studded curry-western which ran for years in the theatres and became the most iconic Bollywood film ever made.
And then she was a woman meeting dignitaries all over the globe, a mother-of-the-bride and a leader building more bridges than we knew we had lost.
Her mother, Carmen Navarro Pedrosa, wrote the tell-all Untold Story of Imelda Marcos.
These all-but-primal scenes of his mother unclothed and unhinged made an indelible mark on the boy.
Then, crossing over the George Washington Bridge into New Jersey, he hit the mother of all potholes and blew out the front left run-flat tire.
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They said that because I was darker than Father and Mother I was really the son of my great-grandfather, who was, by all accounts, nearly as dark as I am.
It is now a well-established tradition in Washington that any scandal, no matter how seemingly innocuous, soon is given the suffix "-gate, " establishing a lineal connection to the mother of all scandals, Watergate.
And so, it's in all of our best interests -- especially the mother and the child -- to keep the family together and to help the mother be the best mother that she could possibly be.
After all, a 22-year-old single mother of two in Petare, Chapeu Mangueira, Chimalhuacan or Ciudad Bolivar, doesn't care about macroeconomic policies or free market economies, but about a leader who will make it possible to feed her children tomorrow.
Having mortgaged all of his family's property--including his mother's house--just to pay satellite fees, Massie turned to his viewers to help sell the network.
He has helped use money to create micro-financing projects much like his mother worked on in different parts of the world, and all of those are certainly actively under consideration.
The lawsuit was filed by Seau's children -- sons Tyler, Jake and Hunter and daughter Sydney, all of California -- and Gina Seau, who is the mother of Jake and Hunter, both of whom are minors.
Then again, it is also said that necessity is the mother of all invention (and desperation its father?), so perhaps current-account-deficit nations will find the product innovations or the labor productivity gains that can lead to growing the market for their tradable products.
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Of course, if there were anyone who you could say would have appreciated breaking that taboo, it would probably be Hitchens- on the radio news this morning, they played a clip of him skewering Mother Theresa of all people.
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The mother of all bulb farms, though, has to be the Christopher Ranch in Gilroy (800-806-1766, www.christopher-ranch.com), where owner Don Christopher harvests some 60 million pounds a year.
Serious crimes committed by poor people including one recent well-known case of a mother kidnapping her own daughter are seized on as evidence that they are all, as a group, criminal and violent.
The strongest relationship of all appears to be the one Mr. Christie shared with his mother, a straight-talking Democrat who had no tolerance for complaints from her children about their modest circumstances.
The story, which takes place in Memphis, Tennessee, concerns the transformation of Michael Oher, a black teen-ager whose mother was a crack addict, from a street kid to an All-American college football player, thanks to the intervention of the wealthy white Tuohy family.
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