There's a metaphor which I love living like a drawing compass.

Can I borrow your scissors?

May I borrow this book?

May I borrow your bike?

May I borrow this CD?

Can I borrow your tennis racket today?

Can I borrow your car tonight?

You may borrow this book as long as you keep it clean.

You may borrow this book as long as you keep it clean.

Sami asked Layla if he could borrow more money.

The hard wiring metaphor dominates contemporary moral language.

Tom asked Mary if he could borrow her English textbook.

As thirty six is the square of six, it therefore acted as a metaphor for numerous strategies .

In literature, a conceit is an extended metaphor with a complex logic that governs a poetic passage or entire poem.

A misleading figure of speech has been applied literally to unleash a real war on several fronts, including Iraq, Gaza, Lebanon, Afghanistan, and Somalia.

The black swan metaphor suggests that these events reflect difficulty in correctly assessing risks in complex systems.

Vygotsky introduced the notion of zone of proximal development, an innovative metaphor capable of describing the potential of human cognitive development.

During a trip to the continent last week, I heard one that captures very well the key dynamic in Europe today.

Hanna begins to teach herself to read, and then write in a childlike way, by borrowing the books from the prison library and following the tapes along in the text.

But the war metaphor also carries inevitable connotations that, when applied to terrorism, are misleading and counterproductive.

Unfortunately, the American public accepted uncritically the war metaphor as the obvious response to 9 11.

Instead, the war metaphor continues to define the US response and that of several of America s allies.

We can escape it only if we Americans repudiate the war on terror as a false metaphor.

Of course, global citizenship will always be a metaphor, because there will never be a world government administering a worldwide political community.

This includes the possibility of approaching national Governments for reimbursable short term loans of highly qualified staff.

I, too, am fond of metaphors. During a trip to the continent last week, I heard one that captures very well the key dynamic in Europe today.

For almost five years, the â œwar on terrorâ has proved to be a false metaphor that has led to counterproductive and self defeating policies.

Khrushchev offered a vivid metaphor in one of his letters to Kennedy We and you ought not now to pull on the ends of the rope in which you have tied the knot of war.

And in that light, you go back and you look at Michael Najjar's photographs, and you realize that they're not metaphor, they're prophecy.

Moreover, the metaphor of war constitutes an implicit appeal to intense mobilization, not only by a country that comes under attack, but also by its friends and allies.

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