What it means now is a first response to things seen that a person does not like or passionately believes in.
Where borders fall is as much a matter of how things are seen as how they really are.
He was talking about faith, the belief in things not seen, the belief that if you persevere a better day lies ahead.
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When Mayor Nagin brought that up last week, a lot of controversy surrounding that, but that really does personify the notion of how different things are seen, doesn't it?
"Some of the most extraordinary things that I've seen are things you don't need a telescope to see, " O'Gara said.
Things that have seen better days and have, for the most part, faded away into obscurity.
But the authors nevertheless argue that they have never seen things this bad.
They were even hailed by judge Simon Cowell as being "one of the best things I have seen in my life".
Alan Mulally, chief executive of Boeing's commercial aeroplane business, says he has never seen things so bad in his 33 years in the business.
No country has achieved such broad-based prosperity as has America, or invented as many useful things, or seen as many people achieve personal promise.
"One of the things we have seen is a dramatic increase in the divide between those who have and those who have not, " he said.
New York police officer, Philip Chland, 29, committed suicide Tuesday morning after arguing with his girlfriend about things he had seen on her Facebook page.
And I think that one of the things you have seen in recent days is the international community, including important voices in the region, adding to that pressure.
One level is the short term--what should we be doing immediately so that some of the really bad things we have seen won't be as easy to pull off or as likely to occur, such as the Madoff case.
Bad timing, bad pick-up lines, a wrong glare, or in the right place at the wrong time not knowing how to handle it are just a few things I have seen that people do to mess up a good time.
"We now have a feeling that here we are as a company, we have a huge amount of experience with this business model, we can point to the things we have seen don't work ... we have a positive feeling that we can take the leadership here, " he said.
"One of the things we've seen is a dramatic decrease in purebreds, " Herzog said.
Of course, many other products were things you've seen before, if you're an Apple fan.
I've seen most things but I am yet to see anyone put their socks on after their boots.
And I think it coalesced a lot of things that he had seen into, you know, one word.
All those things remain to be seen, but you know, again, if it's there in high amounts, that's going to be a problem.
Mr Kaikumba said he has watched "similar channels" to Faith World TV and "been appalled by some of the things I've seen faith leaders do".
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The "scale is so much bolder than things we've seen, " said Paul Ginsburg, president of the Center for Studying Health System Change, a Washington nonprofit group.
If I had 5, 000 instead of 500 words for this blog, I could disturb you at great length with the terrible things I've seen over the years in this regard.
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"This is one of the brightest and whitest things we've seen with the Mastcam at the Gale Crater site, " said Melissa Rice, from the California Institute of Technology (Caltech), in Pasadena.
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If the measure of a new visual technology is not that it looks cool but that it allows viewers to see things they have never seen before, sport is the clear winner.
But oh, the things she's seen on my end: the excuse-making, the nightgown under the trench coat to drive the car pool, the panic every time I see a gray hair--and that's just the small stuff.
We'd like to say we're a little more surprised by some news from Asus today concerning a handful of new products they've got coming to American shores, but from the looks of things we've seen almost all of them.
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