The financial writer Jim Grant once described liquidity as the expectation that everything will go right.
Mr Cameron once described UKIP as a party of "fruitcakes, loonies and closet racists".
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Shockley was once described as having reverse - oh, missed on a word, but...
Its boss is Steve Remp, an adventurous American once described as the Indiana Jones of oil.
Brazilians, once described as clinging to the coast like crabs, have scurried westwards and northwards.
The geography of Nepal was once described to me as a large staircase.
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She once described him as "one of the nicest, most wonderful people" she had ever worked for.
During his playing days, John Elway once described his existence in Denver as living in a fish bowl.
Which means the issue once described by the foreign secretary as a ticking bomb is ticking rather louder.
Whereas the GOP was once described as a big tent, today the party is more like a private club.
The great Pablo Casals once described himself as a human being first, a musician second, and a cellist third.
Labour MP and ex-minister Gerald Kaufman once described the tales of double-dealing Whitehall mandarins and hapless politicians as "chillingly accurate".
The Regal Cinema, in Melton Mowbray, was once described by Made in Dagenham writer William Ivory as the "finest cinema in England".
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One of Achebe's most fervent admirers has been Nelson Mandela, who once described the sense of hope he derived from reading Achebe in prison.
Anyone who's ever walked in to a hospital must have experienced that classic smell, once described to me as spit and polish with disinfectant.
Rolling Stone magazine once described them as "the biggest band of the 70s" and "unquestionably one of the most enduring bands in rock history".
Stevens once described himself as a "mean, miserable SOB" and is known to don an "Incredible Hulk" tie when he is bruising for a fight.
Someone once described the joy and anxiety of parenthood as the equivalent of having your heart outside of your body all the time, walking around.
Peter Drucker once described the difference between productivity and innovation this way: when we apply technology to existing processes, he said, the result is productivity.
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Lord Dear was once described by the political reporter and interviewer Robin Day as the best known and most respected police officer of his generation.
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The dream of Camelot -- as Jackie Kennedy once described her husband's brief presidency -- was over the night Kennedy conceded the primaries to President Jimmy Carter.
Harry Truman -- President Truman once described the end of a war as "a solemn but glorious honor -- excuse me -- "a solemn but glorious hour.
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Set in the steampunk (or whale punk, as Harvey Smith once described it) world of Dunwall, gamers assumed the role of Corvo Attano, legendary bodyguard to the Empress.
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Egypt's president, Hosni Mubarak, once described the Egyptian army as an example of democracy, on the ground that a commander weighs opinions from his officers before making a decision.
David Shanks, the CEO of Penguin Group (USA), who once described Apple "the facilitator and go between" for the publishing companies, is also expected to take the stand this week.
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The taciturn and inscrutable Mr Singh - an "antidote to the comedic stereotype of the brash and irate Sikh", as historian Patrick French once described him - hardly gives interviews.
American soldiers in Ghazni once described scanning a dead insurgent, then two days later getting a call from the CIA to say that his record matched someone first scanned in Iraq.
The saxophonist once described performing as his natural environment.
The daily deal market has been the focus of huge excitement and investment, typified by the rapid growth of Groupon which was once described by Forbes as the "fastest growing company ever".
You might say that it marked a peculiar moment in the evolution of Gawker, which was once described to Denton at a dinner party as the place where losers talk about winners a venue for punching upward, with hive-mind tendencies of its own.
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