He doesn't look like an American linebacker in the National Football League to me. (Laughter.) But his persistence exceeds any linebacker that ever hit me. (Laughter.) But I want you all to know what you may not know and that is the origin of the nickname.
The first mention of Abu Ahmed al-Kuwaiti the nickname of the al-Qaeda courier who ultimately led us to bin Laden as well as a description of him as an important member of al-Qaeda, came from a detainee held in another country, who we believe was not tortured.
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You need plenty of bjorks (the nickname of their currency, no?).
And then there's the goal celebration that has earned him the nickname of the Little Aeroplane, an idiosyncrasy first launched at Genoa after a spell on the sidelines.
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The Serious Fraud Office (SFO) acquired the nickname of the Serious Flawed Office in its early years of operation as a unit fighting big financial crime in the 1990s.
Poet Alan Gilbert brought up another potential calendar conflict, interrupting himself during his own poem to ask the crowd about the relationship between the phrase "midnight madness, " used in his poem, and the nickname of the NCAA basketball tournament, March Madness.
Xi was a Party loyalist with pro-market sensibilities, whose building of a successful theme park had earned him the nickname the God of Wealth.
Frederick Hopkins, a medical doctor who had entered the Novitiate with Gerard in 1868, and whose suave manner had earned him the nickname of "the genteel Hop, " sat on the sofa cushion next to his and glanced at the page.
Following the scandal, gay rights group Stonewall voted her the UK Bigot of the Year 2008 while the gay news service Pink News landed her with the nickname "wicked witch of the north".
Actress Jane Fonda earned the enmity of many veterans and the nickname "Hanoi Jane" when she traveled to Vietnam for two weeks in June 1972 and made propaganda statements for the North Vietnamese.
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The boom that earned Ireland the nickname of "Celtic Tiger" faltered when the country fell into recession in the wake of the global financial crisis of 2008.
Similarly, he is also open about the relationships with five "mistresses" exposed by the tabloids during the "back to basics" era which earned him the nickname of "Shagger", although he insisted the affairs stretched over 25 years.
Their favourite refrain is "The Lion will rise again", referring to the party symbol of the RUFP and nickname of Foday Sankoh.
"Chinese people put quite a lot of value on 'face, ' " says 23 year-old winner Cheng Pei Quan, who earned the nickname "The King of Collars" because he can sew 95 collars an hour, a third more than average.
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Diluting his words were those of his rather successful predecessor Eisuke Sakakibara, whose legendary jawboning earned him the nickname of Mr. Yen.
It took them 56 pages to say "TigerDirect, you're craaaaaazy, " but a U.S. District Court for the District of Florida has denied TigerDirect's request for injunction against Apple over the use of the "Tiger" nickname.
Blister figure is the miniaturized form of quilted figure and "Quittle" is the nickname bestowed upon wood that has a blend of both quilted and curly figure.
Abundance is often a surprise especially in the dismal science of economics, which gets its nickname from its ostensible definition: the study of the distribution of scarce resources.
That goes for people who work in the Glass House, too the local nickname for the headquarters of Ford Motor just outside Detroit.
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The hometown of the late President Gerald Ford drew its nickname Furniture City from its headquarters for some of the world's leading office-furniture companies.
Jonsi is the nickname of Jon Thor Birgisson, the enigmatic Sigur Ros singer.
He is an ultra-confident player who goes by the nickname of the Machine.
"This was a bipartisan idea, in fact this was a Republican idea, " Mr Obama said, adding he was now proud of the once-derisive nickname "Obamacare".
He was a strict Puritan and acquired the nickname of "Strickland the Stinger" for the ferocity of his debating style in the House of Commons.
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Chavez then stayed in Colombia for six months, adopting the nickname of Commander Centeno, while establishing contacts with the Colombian Marxist narco-guerrilla group, the National Liberation Army (ELN).
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Mr Martelly's shows were patronised by some leading figures in the violent military dictatorship that ousted Mr Aristide later that year, which is when he acquired the nickname of "Sweet Micky".
The American Meat Institute, meanwhile, has created www.meatsafety.org to answer questions about BSE and beef safety, as well as facts about lean finely textured beef, which of course, earned the nickname pink slime.
That said, it hasn't deterred the Pretty Youngish Things Tinsley Mortimer, Ivanka Trump, Aerin Lauder from laying claim to their own scene, all regularly making appearances in the party pages of "The Shiny Sheet, " the nickname for the Palm Beach Daily News.
After news of the attack, Usoyan's nickname became a top trending name among Russian users of Twitter.
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