This must be an exception, they kept repeating, like a mantra or a prayer.

And there's something dangerous about glamour throughout most of history. When the witches cast a magic spell on you, it was not in your self interest it was to get you to act against your interest.

Marco Tempest A magical tale

But the Koran is not a talisman to be hung around the neck for protection against evil.

But there are no magic recipes for modernization.

We know that you do not have a magic wand ...

Lula has called this a magic moment for the Brazilian economy.

OK, now, I want you to be aware of all the different sensations around you, because we're going to try a voodoo experiment right now.

And I said, Oh yeah, I'll try to write a mantra that she can sing to herself to help herself go to sleep.

PRINCETON In the aftermath of the global financial crisis, world leaders repeated a soothing mantra.

Governments cannot just conjure that up by waving a magic wand.

However, it is clear that we will not find miracle solutions.

He stopped being San Ernesto de la Izquierda, the saint or talisman who delivered us from injustice.

Nor do I pretend that we have discovered the magic formula that would kick start the negotiations.

CAMBRIDGE There is no magic Keynesian bullet for the eurozone s woes.

There is no magic bullet for controlling XDR TB.

After monetarism was discredited at great cost to those countries that succumbed to it the quest began for a new mantra.

I began the class by asking students whether they would approve of my carrying out a particular magic experiment.

The other 97 deficits did not magically appear.

We concede that there is no magic wand to overcome our country s problems.

Separation of powers might as well be an obeah spell. And forget about discussing our Executive arm the President, Chief Justice and Judiciary might as well be a council of wizards.

A recent study of runic magic suggests that runes were used to create magical objects such as amulets, but not in a way that would indicate that runic writing was any more inherently magical, than were other writing systems such as Latin or Greek.

In the late 1970s and 1980s, he went on to work with a ceremonial magical group known as the Ordine Della Luna, prior to his death.

you say, There's a magic word. It's called the tangent of an angle, and leave him alone. He'll figure it out.

The problem with this vision of tax reform is that it is magical an attractive illusion with no basis in reality.

Ban cannot simply reform the Security Council to reflect better the realities of this era.

Even in China there is no magic potion that can revive a loan to a defunct exporter.

Using three iPods like magical props, Marco Tempest spins a clever, surprisingly heartfelt meditation on truth and lies, art and emotion.

States could apparently almost magically create security and trust simply by imposing it.

Our cars have sensors by which they magically can see everything around them and make decisions about every aspect of driving.

And then, presto an unconventional fix magically satisfies the Fed s long neglected mandate to fight unemployment.

Football hooliganism and nationalism create a witch's brew that, until lately, has rarely been sipped in Asia.

The Greek government, for which restructuring is an admission of failure, continues to hope that good news will magically turn up.

The Arabic has an incantatory, almost hypnotic, quality that begs to be heard rather than read, felt more than analyzed.

We keep hoping that somehow meetings of heads of state will magically produce the policies that will rebalance world trade.

But a pure law and order response to these problems will not magically repair the damage inflicted by years of bad policy and neglect.

For example, leaves, seeds, and twigs that are white, black and red are seen as especially symbolic or magical and possess special properties.

TOKYO The closing decade of the twentieth century offered a crystal ball for anyone peering into the future of the Asia Pacific region.

These bowls could be used by any member of the Jewish community, and almost every house excavated in the Jewish settlement in Nippur had such bowls buried in them.

It is when this becomes crystal clear, and also when some worn out foreign policy paradigms, such as the fetish of a two state solution for the Israeli Palestinian conflict fail once again, that real choices will have to be made.

Had Obama become caught in the military s somber spell? Or was his presence a silent public vow, as he makes his decisions, to keep his mind fixed on matters of life and death, rather than on the next election?

The first recorded use of the term was in 1499 by Johannes Trithemius in his Steganographia , a treatise on cryptography and steganography, disguised as a book on magic.

But there exists out there a very large population of people who will tell you that they have psychic, magical powers that they can predict the future, that they can make contact with the deceased.

It was really humbling to see for the first time, to really understand that even if I could have taken a magic wand and fixed everything, I probably would have gotten a lot wrong.

Had Obama become caught in the military s somber spell? Or was his presence a silent public vow, as he makes his decisions, to keep his mind fixed on matters of life and death, rather than on the next election?