The terrorists hit multiple targets in Mumbai, both literally and figuratively.

But in many other countries, the water is already flooding over the dikes, both literally and figuratively.

The political song transforms this timeless eternity into an active present and an opportunity for future progress.

Both the original, literal, and the derived figurative sense were used in Latin, but the figurative is older in English.

Why? Because we cannot ignore the metaphorical meaning of words either.

A good metaphor might embody the idea of an inclusive economy.

But another step in metaphor building is needed to encapsulate the idea of economic inclusion.

If we take this metaphor at face value, there is a surprising consequence.

The marriage analogy has become a rather over used metaphor for Europe s efforts to integrate.

And one of the problems of knowing a word like synecdochically is that you really want an excuse to say synecdochically.

The project is based on a journey, in the literal sense of the term.

Metadata about meaning to understand content, concepts and definitions.

Today, it applies to Russia in a far more literal way.

Protectionism in the classical sense of the term is unlikely.

Strictly speaking, the Wall would not have fallen.

Damascus in the wider sense not the Old City, not even the New City.

It is clear that modern Russia lacks global status in the Soviet sense.

An antique car, in the general sense of the term, is an automobile that is an antique.

By bringing together what we know and what we don't know through analogy, metaphorical thinking strikes the spark that ignites discovery.

Metaphorical thinking is essential to how we understand ourselves and others, how we communicate, learn, discover and invent.

There can be no free market for basic science in the literal sense of the term.

(vii) Separation from service, with or without notice or compensation in lieu thereof, notwithstanding rule 109.3

was lawful within the meaning of article 17, paragraph 1, of the Covenant.

And he also understood that that foundation was crumbling, literally crumbling.

One does not have to lose all of one's blood to cause death.

Nor will they become refugees, in the sense of the 1951 Convention on the Status of Refugees.

The enforcement of the expulsion order cannot be considered an act of torture within the meaning of article 1 of the Convention and article 2 only applies to acts tantamount to torture within the meaning of article 1.

Enoch Sontonga died in 1905 in relative anonymity but his masterpiece lives on in the heart of a whole continent centuries later.

Since he was a great teacher, Lenny Bernstein always started from the meaning. Look at this, please.

NEW YORK There is little doubt that green will be the metaphorical color of choice for world leaders when they gather at the G 20 Summit in Pittsburgh.

In the flat world of globalization to borrow Thomas Friedman s powerful metaphor it seems that Russia no longer has a place.

Such an approach might make tactical diplomatic sense, as long as there is no background clatter.

If you worry about financial Armageddon, it is indeed metaphorically the time to stock your bunker with guns, ammunition, canned food, and gold bars.

Education in the sense of training was the exclusive function of families for the vast majority of children until the 19th century.

The family is, in the sense of the above mentioned Family law, defined as the life community of parents and children and other relatives .

There are principles and political will materialized in law in constitutional terms, as we could see in the previous chapters.

So far the mystery of the conscious mind is diminishing a little bit because we have a general sense of how we make these images.

1. States shall cooperate to bring to an end through lawful means any serious breach within the meaning of article 40.

The way it looks now, liberals, in the progressive American sense of the word, may actually have been among the losers of 1989.

We recall the metaphor used by a well known North American writer who spoke of the Dracula effect , meaning that this kind of agreement can take place only in darkness.

This is not default in the usual sense because the debt is honored, albeit with currency of lesser real value.

Any act of torture within the meaning of this Convention shall be deemed illegal under Qatari law.

Now, if you assume that this greater cross wiring and concepts are also in different parts of the brain, then it's going to create a greater propensity towards metaphorical thinking and creativity in people with synesthesia.

The metaphor, overwhelmingly endorsed by voters, stood for Roosevelt s mandate to fix the ailing economy along lines that were innovative but still essentially capitalist.

However, the metaphor is limited by a simple fact computers do not make computers.