• She was African music's first world star blending different styles long before the phrase "world music" was coined.

    BBC: Mandela mourns icon Miriam Makeba

  • "She told me she had used the phrase before but that she would not be using it again, " said Sen.

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  • It has been the standard approach for decades but now a High Court judge has interpreted the legislation as saying that once four days have passed, including the period on bail, detectives must have new evidence (key phrase) before they can force Suspect Sam back to the station.

    BBC: Police bail in the dock

  • And Alan, I guess, it's not too many weeks away before we hear that magic phrase, pitchers and catchers report.

    NPR: Ripken Enters MLB Hall of Fame, McGwire Snubbed

  • He simply decided he'd lead off with a phrase he'd used before.

    BBC: Captain Terence O'Neill: Visionary or failure?

  • For many, the phrase will unite them like never before and allow them to speak for themselves instead of listening to others define them.

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  • Long before financial traders adopted the term, futures traders used the phrase "Texas hedge" to denote a doubling-down of bets by cattlemen trading futures.

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  • Outside the SOEs, I see little evidence of the wasted investment I saw in Thailand at the time the phrase "golf course capitalism" was coined--before the Asian crisis back in 1997.

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  • Government and private enterprise alike will have to confront this new dilemma before the long-heralded "war on cancer"--a phrase first proffered by President Nixon in 1971--can embark on a new phase of breakthroughs.

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  • And long before the Great Recession delivered a hammer blow, to use a recently used phrase, to the middle class, the middle class was suffering already.

    WHITEHOUSE: Press Briefing by Press Secretary Jay Carney,

  • As in so many cases before the court, the Justices were charged with interpreting a single, vague phrase in a law passed by Congress years ago--not whether the law itself is legal.

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  • Roger Moore has told how one of his first decisions before taking over the role of James Bond was not to use Sean Connery's famous phrase "shaken not stirred".

    BBC: Highlands & Islands

  • There is another phrase, used as the title of a song by the young Bob Dylan in the years before his name became known all over the world.

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  • This reminds of another conversation from a meeting in the week before with Ben Edwards, the VP of Digital Strategy at IBM, where he said that same exact phrase: the power to mobilize.

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