Of course, images that recall Hitler s goose stepping storm troopers are the last thing that China s leaders have in mind for their Olympics after all, official Chinese nationalism proclaims the country s peaceful rise within an idyll of harmonious development.

Despite evidence to the contrary, there are reports, familiar to tourists to Boston, Massachusetts, that the original Mother Goose was a Bostonian wife of an Isaac Goose, either named Elizabeth Foster Goose (1665 1758) or Mary Goose (d. 1690, age 42) who is interred at the Granary Burying Ground on Tremont Street.

I still get goose bumps just thinking about it.

I know how to tell a duck from a goose.

Iran is still a golden goose ripe for the plucking.

As Haldane puts it, banking became the goose laying the golden eggs.

To paraphrase an old adage, what is fare for the US goose must be fare for the Chinese gander, even if the goose believes that the gander is becoming a little uppity.

But excessive secrecy leads to scarce resources being diverted into wild goose chases.

Shouldn t what is good for the goose also be good for the gander?

There is an annual goose hunt in the spring out of Sachs Harbour.

Australia is stepping up its regional outreach efforts.

Early colonial pioneers in New Zealand had sheep aplenty, but goose was relatively scarce.

Some countries are already stepping up to the challenge.

Happily, we see that leadership is stepping forward forcefully.

Goose Creek is a city in Berkeley County in the U.S. state of South Carolina.

It concludes with recommendations for improving and stepping up policy.

So, it's very indiscernible, but it's actually a continuous stair stepping.

In fact, stepping out of one s comfort zone may offer significant benefits.

The shaking reduced the height of the Small Wild Goose Pagoda in Xi'an from 45 meters to 43.4 meters.

Birds include Rueppell's Chat, the finch Ankober serin (Serinus ankoberensis) , white winged flufftail (Sarothrura ayresi) , and blue winged goose.

It is significant that Bernanke will be stepping down at the beginning of 2014.

Europe and Japan can increase their growth by stepping up the pace of structural reform.

In this case, the driver stepping on the brake will give the passengers more confidence.

Stepping off the plane at Xieng Khuang province we were in a very rural area.

Hundreds of thousands of the goose sized chicks are dying with stomachs full of bottle caps and other rubbish, like cigarette lighters ...

Even now, many Americans believe that the simple solution to the nation s problem is just to cut taxes and goose up private consumption.

The countries of the Horn of Africa are now stepping forward to help themselves through this approach.

So, before stepping down, Mahathir went so far as to declare Malaysia a de facto Muslim state.

Stepping out of that unwelcoming mindset can be beneficial both for the refugees and the host countries.

As one Indian family described their visit to McDonald s, it was stepping out for a slice of America.

Some have been assassinated, one committed suicide, and others were arrested and condemned to death after stepping down.

He followed her immediately, as an ox goes to the slaughter, as a fool stepping into a noose.

a great stepping stone for the Ministry to come up with its first ever major national policy document.

Arbitrary detentions and police raids constitute an invasion of privacy, stepping up the risk of gender based violence.

We should convert such failures to stepping stones leading to positive outcomes in their next rounds of activities.

Four helicopters were seen flying out with some of the special forces who were sent on what has proved to be a wild goose chase.

He also finished third at the 2008 Summer Olympics, but was later disqualified for stepping out of his lane.

And yet, if I've learned anything in nearly 12 years now of dragging heavy things around cold places, it is that true, real inspiration and growth only comes from adversity and from challenge, from stepping away from what's comfortable and familiar and stepping out into the unknown.

Ministry of Tofu translated a local news report about restaurant's trick by giving duck plastic surgery, making it looks like goose so as to making bigger profit.

You throw everything else away. You become a monomaniac all you care about is not stepping out on that platform.

For our part, both the World Bank and the IMF are stepping up financial, technical, and analytical trade related assistance.

The Book of Optics was an important stepping stone in the history of the scientific method and history of optics.

In view of these factors, cyberwarfare may well become the stepping stone of military interstate conflicts in the near future.

They have now joined a highly publicized lawsuit against the school, stepping into the light of day under their own names.

This crisis, too, can be a stepping stone for a long term political solution involving all parties in the Middle East.