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Even Kelly, an ex-Marine Corps general, has come under the lash of Trump’s tongue.
A few years ago, under Saddam Hussein, an Iraqi could have his tongue cut out if he was found in possession of a satellite dish or used the Internet without government approval.
In addition to Kurdish – their mother tongue, rich with ancient culture – they speak the languages acquired in exile.
Bush/Gore: There is a DifferenceBOSTON/ROME: Any reader of non-US newspapers could draw two conclusions about America’s electoral campaign: 1. that there is little difference between the two candidates; 2. that a mere detail – a slip of the tongue, a false step, a piece of gossip – could decide the election.
Perhaps this was a slip of the presidential tongue.
Throughout these troubles, China has held its tongue, sticking to its policy of non-interference in the internal affairs of any nation.
Taiwan ’s sole aboriginal parliamentarian once provided the logical rebuttal to Chen and the DPP, delivering a speech to a packed Congress entirely in his native tongue, which nobody else in the chamber could understand.
The Man Who Made MalaysiaOnce again, Malaysia ' s Mahathir Muhammed acerbic tongue has incited controversy.
But Europe should look beyond Berlusconi's careless tongue when gauging the nature of his regime.
I also believe that just as an individual’s dreams and slips of the tongue reveal his or her repressed knowledge, so a culture’s “dreamwork” – its films, pop music, visual arts, and even in the resonant jokes, cartoons and advertising images – reveal the signs of this collective unconscious.
Meanwhile, Europeans are happy to hold their tongue as a reward to the US for having supported their nationality-based appointment last year of Christine Lagarde to head the IMF.
As Tommaso Campanella, a great philosopher who spent much time in prison and was tortured because of his ideas, wrote a few centuries ago, “history is changed first by the tongue and then by the sword.”
For example, if a Hungarian speaker were studying Hungarian literature, they would be able to do so in their native tongue.
Three generations of political empowerment, including of people with modest educational attainment, Hindi mother tongue, and small-town backgrounds, ended the dominance of the urban, anglophone elite that had established liberal secularism as India’s ruling ethos.
One hopes Skinner’s talk of a clash between Caucasian and non-Caucasian civilizations was just a slip of the tongue.
At best, one can purchase a bottle of kosher wine or a mug with the iconic photo of Albert Einstein sticking out his tongue.
And soon we will all be living in lands “inhabited by animals and beggars,” selling kitschy mugs of Einstein sticking his tongue out at us.
Neither the wet nurse nor the head nurse were to be seen: they were in the next room, where one could hear them talking in a peculiar French, the only tongue in which they could converse.
But when you see the truth, what are you to do?''Reason has been given to man to enable him to escape from his troubles,' said the lady, in French, evidently pleased with her phrase and mincing with her tongue.
"Will you hold your tongue, eh?Wait till you're alone if you want to get into trouble."
Then Maheude found her tongue, and stammered:"Thank you so much, mademoiselle.
"Hold your tongue!
And as he energetically replied, "Yes!" she made him hold his tongue.
"That's it, you'd best hold your tongue," began the implacable Maheude.
There, hold your tongue, with your miracles!
Lénore and Henri, astonished that they had nothing to eat, began to moan; while old Bonnemort, in silence, philosophically rolled his tongue in his mouth to deceive his hunger.
Had she let her tongue fall?
And as on this day he had lost his tongue, he clenched his fingers, with his air of an old infirm animal ruminating over his recollections.
hold your tongue!
"Hold your tongue, brute!
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