For many Christians, frankincense is best known as one of the gifts along with gold and myrrh that the three wise men brought to Jesus and his parents shortly after he was born.
And this US refusal to understand the policy implications of popular rejection of the regime is what brings State Department wise men and women to the conclusion that the US has no dog in this fight.
The British government isn't keen on breaking up big firms even if that proves to be the recommendation of a committee of wise men it has asked to review banking reforms.
So the wise men have tried to elevate the tone by analysing the euro crisis as three interlocking problems: first, the national debts of member countries, next the bad debts of banks, and last the broader macroeconomic gloom.
Before the creation of Siac, the government relied on Whitehall officials - "Three Wise Men" - to review secret material and the home secretary's decision to deport.
The wise men are bringing gifts to ceramic baby Jesuses in manger scenes across the U.S. Sometimes, wiseasses make appearances as well, to take gifts from the scene.
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And a wise man asked these blind men to tell him what the elephant looked like.
The wise men expect the unemployment rate to drop from 7.1% in 2011 to 6.9% next year.
In the considered view of these wise men, for the US to emerge from Iraq with honor, it didn't actually have to defeat its enemies.
Just the same, it might be wise to prepare to batten down the hatches, as seafaring men used to say when a storm was looming.
Since the collapse of communism it has become increasingly hard (except in the Muslim part of the world, and maybe even there too) to persuade people that a small group of self-selected wise men can claim a special expertise about Important Things which entitles them to lay down the law for everybody else.
For one thing there are all those wise men, like Fed Chairman Benjamin Bernanke, telling us living on debt is the wise thing to do and things are okay.
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It's never wise to generalize, yet it is safe to say that, as a group, the men and women who endured the Depression and World War II played it straight when it came to putting their trust in financial institutions.
As the wise men secretly gathered in the White House and debated what to do, lining up as "hawks" and "doves, " Kennedy taped the meetings without telling them.
After what everyone has witnessed the past seven years or so, it's not wise, to put it kindly, to schedule three men's matches and two women's matches for an eight-hour period (11 a.m. to 7 p.m.) and expect to finish on time.
Any comment you'd like to make about what you heard from our three wise men here?
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Some may still hold out the hope that wise men in the old continent will present us with a road map to the future.
EU's wise men end up giving him a clean bill of democratic health and even help to lift him back up in the polls.
Sadly, handing the alleged wise men at the Fed control over prices is every bit as mistaken as allowing the central bank to manage unemployment.
Still one thing more, fellow citizens, a wise and frugal government, which shall restrain men from injuring one another, shall leave them otherwise free to regulate their own pursuits of industry and improvement, and shall not take from the mouth of labor the bread it has earned.
Or maybe Germany will sign up, after all, to some variation of the "Redemption Fund" proposal from Germany's own "wise men", which would involve guaranteeing only a proportion of each government's debt, for a finite period of time.
Had Russia been wise, it would have long since come to terms with him and helped him to fend off the wild men who have made his statelet ungovernable.
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