And just as there are forces of inflation and devaluation affecting currencies, so there are semantic shifts in the numbers that come to be associated with money.
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In a conflict in which progress is often measured by minute semantic shifts, this was perceived as a tangible bow to the Palestinians and, more generally, the Arabs.
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But Yang, who returned early this week from the mainland, said Beijing sees the semantic shifts as an attempt to cover up Lee's intent to seek Taiwan's formal independence.
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Even though the word " lex " underwent the frequent semantic shift in Latin towards the legal area, its original meaning of set, formulaic words was preserved in some instances.
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From this slender thread I weave a speculation that cloth, or clout, has a history of nefariousness that may have influenced the whole phrase's semantic shift from positive to negative.
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In what appeared to be a semantic shift in policy on nuclear missiles, he said that the 1972 treaty " is an important, but not the only component, of strategic stability ."
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Rather than rush out to the cutting edge of current diplomatic usage-- possibly contributing unwittingly to the perpetration of a policy nuance-- I waited for this major geo-semantic shift to work its way upward.
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We prescriptivists are aware that semantic shift is a signal called by the living language; we lie on Jespersen's couch of metanalysis as a napron becomes an apron through repeated error over the centuries.
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Yang, who returned early this week from the mainland, said Beijing sees the semantic shifts Lee has made over the past week as an attempt to cover up an intent to seek Taiwan's formal independence.
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The semantic shift undergone by the term is mirrored by " tyrant ", an ancient Greek word that originally bore no negative connotation, and the Latin " dictator ", a constitutionally sanctioned office of the Roman Republic.
