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United States Army soldiers calling cadence, during Basic Combat Training at Fort Jackson, South Carolina, in 2008. A military cadence or cadence call is a call-and-response work song sung by military personnel while running or marching.
It may be said that a parable is a metaphor that has been extended to form a brief, coherent narrative. A parable also resembles a simile, i.e., a metaphorical construction in which something is said to be "like" something else (e.g., "The just man is like a tree planted by streams of water").
The tense changes illustrated above (also called backshifting), which occur because the main verb ("said", "asked") is in the past tense, are not obligatory when the situation described is still valid: [6] [7] [8] Ed is a bore. She said that Ed was/is a bore. [7] (optional change of tense) I am coming over to watch television.
But he said, Nay; lest while ye gather up the tares, ye root up also the wheat with them. Let both grow together until the harvest: and in the time of harvest I will say to the reapers, Gather ye together first the tares, and bind them in bundles to burn them: but gather the wheat into my barn. —
During the ceremony, 18 educators were honored, received awards and $500 checks and got to hear the letters nominating them read aloud by the students who felt they had made a difference. It was a ...
President Biden said he told President-elect Trump not to try to settle scores in their first meeting to start the presidential transition process after Trump’s victory. “I was very ...
These gifts are, I say—1st Of grace, both making grateful, such as faith, hope, charity, virginity, and all the other virtues, as well as those of grace given gratis—such as the power of working miracles, the Apostolate, the Priesthood, the gift of tongues, prophecy, etc. 2d Natural gifts, such as a keen intellect, a sound judgment, a sound ...
The law’s proponents, however, argued that there was a fundamental difference between mandatory sentences for, say, nonviolent drug offenses, and those for sexual assault. The criminal justice system has failed to take sexual crimes seriously for decades—and they are uniquely difficult cases to try, given the challenges of proving that a ...