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    1. Walking with God is a common term used a lot among


    2. with God in a true sense of this term


    3. If you set unrealistic goals for yourself in the short term then you're not going to achieve them and that’s not going to keep you motivated


    4. The term fear of God in the Old Testament used as a


    5. Dealing with long term problems was not envisaged


    6. Conversely, something that seems like a short term benefit, may have long term implications


    7. This yields a large volume of unspoiled tomatoes in the short term


    8. But in the long term insects develop resistance to the super-tomatoes, leaving farmers scrambling to find ever newer strains of protective bacteria


    9. research for Him, and look for Him, in whatever term you


    10. Whenever we asked some senior citizens about the meaning of this term, they felt it was just a new term and nothing more

    11. she’d been involved in a long term relationship up in Bristol … it fell apart … she was considerably upset, partly because of that and partly because her sister had just got married … she was at the age when she could feel the clock ticking


    12. For long term control of fleas on your property, you must strive to constantly raise the energy level of your property


    13. "Serenity East, Long Term Care Facility


    14. Once the second decade went by with this, we figured it was here for long term storage


    15. Mae is a term of respect for the mother of friends and relatives in Thai


    16. more than a term


    17. and short term and the return on


    18. He had always met her in company and just missed engaging, somehow, for the whole 9 months of his study term


    19. He tells us we are two weeks over due and our debts, which had both been at around the €3000 mark are now over €13000 and weekly payments have been upped from just over €250 per week to over €1000 a week to get them paid off within term


    20. colloquial term, loved silence but with love comes an inevitable discontent

    21. Fell heavily for a stunning blonde in his first term


    22. another, as that is the very meaning of the term


    23. The old American term 'do-rag' was coined for the garment closest to it in appearance


    24. Every crew member had at least one embryo in stasis to be brought to term on the new world


    25. haven’t heard the term “resistance” in regards to being a


    26. Smith, using a modern colloquial term, loved silence but with love comes an inevitable discontent


    27. ” As mentioned in the last chapter, the term “first resurrection” seems to imply that there is a second


    28. An example would be for me to sit in watching the soaps every evening; this would be short term gain


    29. On the other hand, if I sit in studying every evening, this could be considered painful while I’m doing it, however in the long term I will have gained skills and knowledge and I could possibly go on and gain better employment


    30. Impatience takes away joy; it has you focusing on the long term instead of focusing on the current activity

    31. ’ Berndt put in, seeing my confusion at the use of the term


    32. ‘Lintze, I haven’t been sitting in here contemplating my navel for the past day or so … I don’t know what you understand by the term ‘retreat’, but here on Errd it is an in-depth soul-searching … there is no hiding from either Gotte or oneself … I should have done it years ago when I split up from Sanna … but I rejected the idea that I needed to … denied it completely


    33. ‘I’m not interested in a short term relationship


    34. My baggage … now there’s a term! It consists of what I can cram into the two satchel-like bags which will hang over Sefir’s shoulders


    35. Nothing, however, on her curriculum vitae included the term ‘industrialised’


    36. ” That was the correct term for deleted with all backups


    37. interest in you is a potential date that could lead to a long term relationship


    38. Whether it is a direct result of the Element being back on Errd, though that is probably a spurious conceit on my part, the weather has taken a turn for the better, giving us a glorious Indian summer … at least that is the term used on Earth


    39. Whether you end up dating long term, or call it quits after one date, you’ll still be making the same decisions about your relationship that you would if had met offline


    40. ‘Property is always a sensible investment whatever the market and in the long term it might be the best way of dealing with it

    41. He rang me towards the end of last term and nit-picked for over half an hour – could have strangled him by the time he finally got round to agreeing that you’d been right all along!


    42. When we met, he was working in the Salisbury area but that was only a short term contract and by the time we were married, he’d got a job in Bristol so we moved up to this area


    43. ‘Oh? In what way?’ I explain that my boyfriend (what a frightful term but what else do I call him?) has moved in with me


    44. Everyone had them in their minds, they were simple short term memory loops


    45. But if you want a career, think long term


    46. One of the workers for the scientists at City Central was named Myra and considered a trusted and loyal aide; ‘brighter than most females’ was their term


    47. Nothing, however, on her curriculum vitae included the term


    48. any way this isn't a fairy story in the accepted meaning of the term


    49. Tonality The term “tonality” has a variety of meanings


    50. On Dad’s instructions, we’d sold the house and invested the money in the Trust Fund, then Mum had moved into one of the flats and we had let the other out on a long term tenancy, the idea being that the interest from the Trust Fund together with the rent on the second flat would give Mum some money to play with in addition to whatever she could earn














































    1. Then there had been what Joris had termed ‘bits and pieces’ – in truth, valuable artefacts collected from all over the world that he had garnered during his travels; after discussions with Berndt who had taken a quick look at the vast store of, without exception, items of considerable artistic merit if not value, Kara had agreed that the bulk might be offered to the new Guild to form the basis of a museum of some sort


    2. 'Love you friend,' Omi said as he looked at me, a line that could be termed


    3. thought – managed to operate what I suppose should be termed the


    4. The chief reason for this ironic condition is commonly termed as the duality or dichotomy of life


    5. A long termed, and


    6. These were The Best and the Brightest as one historian termed them, Ivy League intellectuals of incredible ability leading both the Kennedy and Johnson administrations


    7. As one author termed it, many Americans are Addicted to Militarism


    8. To muster his host and bring it into danger:---this may be termed the business of the general


    9. Elizabeth outlined to him what she termed their “cover story


    10. He thought that the mention of a nine-gram accident had been a nice touch, based on his having remembered Karol’s mentioning that the Russians termed a gunshot to the back of the head as “giving nine grams” to the victim, a reference to the weight of the pistol bullet

    11. This construct (as I have termed it), the mind, this thinking machine appears to me like another kind of eye, an inner eye allowing the brain to interpret more subtle influences than the physical structures that the eye responds to


    12. Out of the serial “duality” of Man’s ancient belief systems, as they ascended the “ladder of time” into what is generally termed religion in more recent times, there again arose a new order


    13. Then there are the needs of others, collectively termed community, where conscience needs to be “heard


    14. So, how does this apply to the opposites as indicated in the title? Satisfying the near term desire that would be termed good by the individual seeking it can be seen as having a bad effect if repeated too often and can be discerned as selfish or even evil by others at whose expense the repetitions are allowed or insisted upon


    15. presented in the August 2002 issue of the Civil Justice Forum (#40), a whistle-stop tour of what he termed “Asbestos Litigation Land


    16. Jason had lightly termed that meeting, “The Inquisition


    17. Would Lincoln, Wilson, or FDR have stood for radical proclamations in our mosques? Such questions turned the clock in the opposite direction, and were termed


    18. For his prescience, Churchill would be termed a “warmonger


    19. NATO certainly couldn’t be termed an imperialist venture, any more than the


    20. That is commonly termed the originalist, or sometimes the strict constructionist, view

    21. He was born into a xenophobic family, starting off as a snot faced kid that ranted at passer-by’s that didn’t fit his close minded idea of who should live and who shouldn’t, becoming a petty thief in his teens, and killing a few “non-whites” as he termed them, during his later years in life


    22. Looking at all the other vampires feeding was starting to make me hungry and Akua had called me to the hospital for a stopover, and what he termed as a coffee break, not exactly my choice of beverage, but I could fit in a quick blood feed before I met up with him


    23. What I could catch was this magnificently horrendous creature, something that would be termed marvellously stunning to mortal eyes, but was awful to a vampire’s


    24. She knew that what he said, what he wrote would be branded blasphemous, and that he would be thrown to the wolves, if you’ll excuse the expression, or left for dead in the dungeons they had quintessentially termed the sanatorium for the mentally unstable”


    25. It all sounded rather prehistoric to him in the twenty first century, like something out of a ninth grade history book, but then again, nothing was normal about the girl he loved he mused, and to top it all off, they were in the middle of what the local residents had termed “The Creepy Woods”


    26. After a time any who might still be inclined to protest are worn down to acquiescence one by one through what one observer termed a kind of “slouching fatigue


    27. What we have termed matter is actually constantly being created, annihilated and created


    28. Monroe termed this as a blanking, sublimation, or veil of


    29. The so termed electromagnetic spectrum


    30. In that year a revolution, or more properly, a series of revolutions, ended what has been termed by historians the ancien régime

    31. The First Estate termed itself the National Assembly and invited the other Estates to join it, on the basis of voting by delegate, not by Estate


    32. Assembly, which subsequently termed itself the Constituent Assembly


    33. “Firstly, you have what might be termed serial mortality, not true immortality


    34. A few senior captains and one or two majors watched with great interest and enjoyment but didn't really participate in what they loftily termed sophomoric activities more suited to college frat houses than an Officers Club


    35. Coast Guard Commandant Admiral James Loy termed “the New Normalcy” conditions for maritime security (Conroy, Proceedings, November 2001, pp


    36. the Earth are termed meteorites


    37. dramatically: these are termed "meteor showers"


    38. The underlying part of the nose, termed to as the bridge is the


    39. support level it is termed a breakdown and has a bearish flavor


    40. It would be like being born again, what is termed ‘reincarnated’, only at a more frequent rate

    41. Psychic Protection should really be termed Psychic Power instead


    42. autism will have what is termed genius abilities, it is still worth mentioning that some humans are


    43. 1 of Tim’s lasting memories of the ‘Case of the Missing Ring’, as Walter had termed it, occurred later that evening around the dinner table


    44. technically termed ectoplasm can be withdrawn, so that materialization may


    45. it;-- still it dwells higher than the very thought we now are thinking, higher than the consciousness that, for the transitory moment, is all that truly can be termed ourselves


    46. The unleavened bread and the wine had been made ready for this Passover, and these emblems, which Jesus termed "the bread of life" and "the water of life," he served to his companions, and they ate in solemn conformity with the teachings just imparted


    47. 6 Thus ended that chapter in the life of the Son of Man which might be termed: The mission of Joshua the teacher


    48. termed as leadership qualities


    49. Conan mentally termed the creatures black men, for lack of a better term; instinctively he knew that these tall ebony beings were not men, as he understood the term


    50. Aside from that, you should not indicate those jobs you had before, which were short termed












































    1. When we stop trying naming and terming it in different intellectual ways, this connectivity becomes even more clear and immediate


    2. There was some sort of destruction on the face of the earth, which warranted the apostle in terming it thus


    3. The second is what I cannot help terming the State-philosophical doctrine


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    2. The topic of sexuality and aging is often treated with tremendous sentimentality or with derisive humor, and it is hard for some people to conceive of sexual desire and passion among the elderly except in terms of lechery


    3. If you live in an environment where there are lots of gophers bugs, larvae, grubs, spiders, and centipedes, you should start thinking in terms of protecting your plants


    4. He kept the appointments, he did most of the legwork, everything but negotiate the financial terms of the deal


    5. Keep family members and other visitors up to date on the patient's condition so they know what to expect in terms of interaction


    6. Recognising the void that suddenly lands on the senior citizen in terms of emotional support hitherto provided by joint families, Government, NGOs and Associations of senior citizens can institute this highly effective “treatment” programme


    7. It was his dream that he would marry and have children … and Dan is a man to make his dreams reality … I think he had some crackbrained idea that he could have the wife and family along with my friendship as well … I daresay he thought I would come to terms with Joanna … after all, she was a friend of mine … it made some sort of sense


    8. Once we stop comparing ourselves with others and define our identity based on our own terms, we remove the constraint we have put on our mind


    9. "Did you know I am on good terms with the angels here?"


    10. For those who are still interested in trading of shares, it is necessary to understand certain fundamental terms related to companies whose shares are available for buying or selling

    11. A few legal terms in connection with Will are


    12. Whilst wielding the loo brush and scrubbing at decades of limescale, I’d decided that I shall deal with this … this setback … come to terms with it and then I will call her


    13. Even then wherever possible it is desirable to have a joint family, at least in terms of grand parents


    14. to terms with that reality, the


    15. in terms of your past


    16. "They did not part on the best of terms


    17. terms of their workload, but when a company is successful and produces quality


    18. "Only in the most general terms


    19. "Because they think only in terms of hierarchal position, they don't see how to do that in our society


    20. agreed to the terms at once, seeing something close to half a million heading his way

    21. They were not mistaken in terms


    22. in terms of whose ass you’re


    23. Then he could manage a restructured mortgage, interest only for a year and pay off Sammy on his terms over the course of six months


    24. ‘We left her car at the house – she was in no fit state to drive, but all the same she had some loopy idea that I was going to allow her to … honestly! I put paid to that, Mum, in no uncertain terms


    25. told him in no uncertain terms to stop being an arse


    26. Calling him a bloody bastard every time he pops into my head goes some way to resolving the issue of my feelings for him, but it’s much harder coming to terms with my utter stupidity


    27. In our study, we will consider just three terms:


    28. As long as men think only in terms of themselves, and not what the Lord wants, we will have this sin plaguing some


    29. meaning of the terms used for specific reasons


    30. She looked down on him, frowned and told him in no uncertain terms to stop being an arse

    31. In human terms, Smith listened to silence like we listen to Mozart on a Tuesday


    32. You have everything you need to create life on your terms


    33. One such company that has used Instagram to their benefit in terms of their posts going viral, is Sharpie


    34. Clones, Synthetics, Artificial People, Androids; all of these terms were used and rejected, and, as ever in human history, when faced with something new or misunderstood, the hopes of creation and discovery soon drifted into the shorthand slang of exploitation


    35. some were told in no uncertain terms


    36. "But now you have a shipload of natives that know about us in no uncertain terms," Glenelle said


    37. Despite the fact Kara knew he was anxious to return to his new wife in Banswell, Berndt insisted on staying at Abery, dogging her every footstep as she battled to come to terms with the fact of JJ’s presence in the house


    38. Like the medomat on the ship, Luray mumbled medical terms over his foot


    39. We’d never been particularly close, mother and I, she’d been too withdrawn within herself … from my adult perspective, I can now see that she had never come to terms with the truth about my father


    40. In relative terms everything seemed to be going well for the young woman until she encountered a group of local youths one Saturday afternoon

    41. The dog, by now on more familiar terms with its new master, raised a paw, licked its lips and waited


    42. Since there are thousands of online dating sites, there is also a lot of variety when it comes to the choices offered in terms of ethnicity, country of origin, hobbies and career-based matches


    43. any) of stated terms and conditions, should you have a problem using their services


    44. The two charlatans attended the cabinet and ran through the contents of the report with the assembled ministers of state, describing and explaining all of their arguments, summaries and conclusions in the clearest and simplest terms


    45. As I pull together all the garments scattered round the room and pack them in the bags, I try to come to terms with the concept that I would rather like my dream (as it is probably safer to call it) to be reality


    46. The fisherman was disgusted with his wife’s behaviour, until, with the screaming and shouting turning into the inevitable sobbing and sniffing that always closed down their arguments, she explained just how much their current house was worth and what that meant in terms of their future lifestyle


    47. When he first signed junior terms with the club some of the older boys laughed at him, but Terry didn't care


    48. Now if you re-write NotificationSystem in terms of the strongly-typed service locator, it might look like


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    Synonyms for "term"

    term terminal figure terminus condition strings full term period session semester quarter duration word phrase name designation terminology locution expression

    "term" definitions

    a word or expression used for some particular thing


    a limited period of time


    (usually plural) a statement of what is required as part of an agreement


    any distinct quantity contained in a polynomial


    one of the substantive phrases in a logical proposition


    the end of gestation or point at which birth is imminent


    (architecture) a statue or a human bust or an animal carved out of the top of a square pillar; originally used as a boundary marker in ancient Rome


    name formally or designate with a term