That's not just an idle boast, if my conversations with Geico and Dun & Bradstreet are any indication.
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International Herald Tribune LONDON — To show that their threatened resistance to Home Rule is not an idle boast, and that if the measure be passed civil war will result, Irish Unionists are preparing to arm and equip themselves.
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Idle boast the strong pass is a wall of iron With firm strides we are crossing its summit In seven years in office, Mr. Xi has successfully consolidated his power by purging rivals, crushing dissent and removing the constitutional limits on his power.
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Under the frosty morning moon Horses' hooves clattering, Bugles sobbing low. Idle boast the strong pass is a wall of iron, With firm strides we are crossing its summit. We are crossing its summit, The rolling hills sea-blue, The dying sun blood-red.
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However, the artifice of the Odes is also integral to their success, since they could now accommodate a wide range of emotional effects, and the blend of Greek and Roman elements adds a sense of detachment and universality.J. Griffin, Gods and Religion, 182 Horace proudly claimed to introduce into Latin the spirit and iambic poetry of Archilochus but (unlike Archilochus) without persecuting anyone (Epistles 1.19.23–25). It was no idle boast. His Epodes were modelled on the verses of the Greek poet, as 'blame poetry', yet he avoided targeting real scapegoats.
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He discussed this in the Guardian newspaper: > I genuinely believe that we were very successful, and that may sound morbid > but they know that we hammered them into the ground and we didn't lose one > volunteer. Indeed, members of the security forces had said that we done what > they couldn't do, we put the East Tyrone brigade of the IRA on the run. It > was the East Tyrone brigade which was carrying on the war in the North, > including in Belfast. East Tyrone were decimated, the UVF wiped them out and > that's not an idle boast.
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Writing in 1972, John C. Masterman (who had, later in the war, headed the Twenty Committee) said that by 1941, MI5 "actively ran and controlled the German espionage system in [the United Kingdom]." It was not an idle boast; post-war records confirmed that none of the Abwehr agents, bar one who committed suicide, went unnoticed. Once caught, the spies were deposited in the care of Lieutenant Colonel Robin Stephens at Camp 020 (Latchmere House, Richmond). After Stephens, a notorious and brilliant interrogator, had picked apart their life history, the agents were either spirited away (to be imprisoned or killed) or if judged acceptable, offered the chance to turn double agent on the Germans.
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Vega was also a self-taught martial arts student who studied Jeet Kune Do, an eclectic hybrid martial art, heavily influenced by the philosophy of Bruce Lee. He was very active in the community and is remembered as tough, tiny, but tenacious kid who knew nothing about horse racing or becoming a jockey, until the day he met liquor salesman at the Uptown Cafe in New Brunswick, New Jersey. Vega shined shoes and worked as a dishwasher at the pub where one day, On the first Saturday in May, fans packed the pub to watch legendary jockey Angel Cordero Jr. guide Bold Forbes to victory in the 1976 Kentucky Derby. Vega made an idle boast while watching Cordero celebrate after his derby victory saying, "I could be just as good as him if I had the chance".
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