Figuratively speaking, the same applies to the European Union.

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.

Despite their harsh rhetoric, both sides know that they need to give ground and not just figuratively.

By contrast, Spain seems to be moving south, figuratively if not literally (witness the desertification affecting some parts of Andalusia).

concluding that God is able to raise up even from the dead. Figuratively speaking, he also did receive him back from the dead.

Situated figuratively between modernity and tradition, secularism and Islam, and democracy and tyranny, Turkey also is an actual physical bridge between East and West.

Over the past 10 days the way to Tahrir (Liberation) Square, in downtown Cairo, has always been the most dangerous of all (literally and figuratively).

This will create even more opportunities for economic growth, improve access to health care and other services, contribute to social development, and broaden both figuratively and literally people s worldview.