• In Spain they called themselves the "indignants" but no-one knows what this generation will do with their anger.

    BBC: Greece crisis: Revolution in the offing?

  • They called themselves Earth First or more jokingly The Strawberry Liberation Front or even Mindless Thugs Against Genetic Engineering.

    BBC: GM crops: A bitter harvest?

  • "We don't know who they were, we only know they were from St Austell and they called themselves a 'fast response unit' but they weren't employed by the council, " he said.

    BBC: Cornwall clean-up after 100 properties flooded

  • For a start, they have long called themselves a neutral country.

    ECONOMIST: Sweden's neutrality

  • Then they revealed themselves and called Mr Castro a killer, reportedly prompting a tirade of abuse before Mr Castro hung up.

    BBC: DJs catch 'Castro' in hoax

  • "I tell Israel they are contradicting themselves about their so-called democracy when they are deporting and detaining people who are coming to visit Palestinians, " said Amira Mussalam.

    CNN: Israel detains pro-Palestinian activists

  • They locked themselves in for six days and police were called to a stand-off between the gang and Mr Sherratt and his employees.

    BBC: Dandilion Avenue, Cheadle

  • Gun rights groups scoffed at what they called clumsy and obvious attempts by Biden and Obama to ingratiate themselves with firearm owners even while trying to limit their rights.

    NPR: US Arms Control Advocates Must Show They Like Guns

  • The TEDsters (as they also call themselves--while first-timers are called virgins--but please, nobody say "cult, " we're staying positive here) hope to turn into clear-eyed optimists, and possibly even the proprietors of large and profitable businesses.

    FORBES: What A Billionaire (Really) Wants

  • "Those who have called themselves fascists have had many different views, and they have often evolved over time, " said Passmore, Reader in History at Cardiff University in Wales and the author of "Fascism: a very short introduction".

    CNN: 'Fascist' Di Canio polarizes opinion

  • In a statement, Copenhagen police said a large group of protesters had organised themselves in a so-called "black bloc", in which they put on masks - an illegal action at a demonstration in Denmark.

    BBC: Climate activists condemn Copenhagen police tactics

  • But in my view the really abusive thing that has emerged in the revelations over the last week is this tendency for some MP's to so-called 'flip' where they go from one home to the other and they transform themselves from MP's into sharp-suited property speculators doing up homes, selling them for a personal profit and then going onto the next property.

    BBC: The Speaker must go

  • When we called them that evening, those who spent on themselves were just as happy as they were before getting the cash.

    CNN: How to buy happiness

  • His team is causing the self-assembly of inorganic compounds, so-called polyoxometalates, with the hope that they can develop useful traits and become superior versions of themselves.

    FORBES: Intelligent Design Comes To Inorganic Matter

  • Marco Iacoboni, a lab director at the UCLA Brain Mapping Center, says when people see a smile, so-called mirror neurons fire in their brain and evoke a similar neural response as if they were smiling themselves.

    WSJ: Stress-Busting Smiles

  • Believe it or not, many of our National Guard and Reserve members, the men and women who have been called to fight in Iraq and Afghanistan did not have health insurance for themselves or their families when they were activating.

    CNN: Clinton's September 17, 2007, speech on health care

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