Colloquy

"This colloquy is critical to the government's legislative history argument, and it's entirely manufactured and misrepresented to the court as having occurred live on the Senate floor before a crucial vote," Remes said. ❋ Unknown (2006)

David H. Remes, a Washington lawyer who has helped Hamdan's defense team, called the colloquy "outrageous." ❋ Unknown (2006)

Let us recall the colloquy following a television debate between Nation editor David Corn and Richard Perle. ❋ Unknown (2005)

But just as she was getting quiet again, came the tread of Mrs. Nettley's foot behind her, and Elizabeth knew another colloquy was at hand. ❋ Unknown (1856)

A colloquy is a public conversation on the Senate floor that often is used to ratify a deal struck in private. advertisement ❋ Unknown (2009)

The inserted floor debate, known in Senate parlance as a "colloquy," has since become an intriguing side issue in the case of Salim Ahmed Hamdan, Osama bin Laden's former driver, whose case was at issue before the court yesterday. ❋ Unknown (2006)

Well played, although does the average person have any idea what the world "colloquy" means? ❋ Unknown (2008)

As for the disagreement between him and Sen. John McCain about the future of the country, Obama again took the high road, insisting he was not interested in having a "colloquy" with the Arizona senator over the next four or five days about the issue because it was not in the best interests of the country. ❋ Unknown (2008)

I guess the best way ta put it is to say that religions and people active with organized religion today have only one responsibility before they can engage in the kind of colloquy you desire with the greater society…clean up your religious act, fight and win the battle with the pseudoreligious businesses and political machines to define youselves. ❋ Unknown (2006)

Disposed to talk, she lingered as long as possible, but Harvey Munden had no leanings to this kind of colloquy; when the girl took herself off, he drew a breath of satisfaction, and smiled the smile of an intellectual man who has outlived youthful follies. ❋ George Gissing (1880)

In this kind of colloquy we made some twenty miles before the shades of evening overtook us, and Scipio now informed me that we might soon expect to reach Swallow Barn. ❋ Unknown (1832)

Vaudeville comics told the story -- and Smith went so far as to claim it was an actual "colloquy" frequently overheard in Chicago's turn-of-the-century courtrooms -- of a cop approaching the bench with several con men in tow. ❋ Unknown (2010)

The only real break he took is when one of his colleagues joined him in an exchange, called a "colloquy" in the chamber. ❋ [email protected] (2010)

All of this thinking can be viewed as a kind of colloquy on how federal judges should resolve conflicts between their professional norms and the ordinary norms of ethics. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Sen. Carl Levin, D-Mich., who supported the bill, and Stabenow submitted a "colloquy" into the Senate record after the vote with Senate Banking Chairman Christopher Dodd, D-Conn., making clear that the bailout provisions would apply to auto financing companies. ❋ Unknown (2008)

-- a strange alliance! known in history as the Triumvirate, the Marechal de Saint-Andre being the third personage in the purely Catholic coalition to which this singular proposition for a "colloquy" gave rise. ❋ Honor�� De Balzac (1824)

"colloquy" which tempted the vanity of the orators of all parties, and offered an imposing spectacle to succeed that of the coronation and enliven the bloody ground of a religious war which, in point of fact, had already begun, was as futile in the eyes of the Duc de Guise as in those of Catherine. ❋ Honor�� De Balzac (1824)

It was one of a series of public conversations that the Journal sponsored at Lincoln Center, and I'd thought of Sidney and Jenny after seeing them do a spontaneous father-and-daughter colloquy at a New York Film Critics Circle awards dinner, where Jenny was being honored for writing "Rachel Getting Married." ❋ Unknown (2011)

At his website, New Paradigms Forum, Christopher Ford recently hosted an email colloquy on the subject of nuclear deterrence between staunch disarmament advocate Steven Leeper, chair of the Hiroshima Peace Culture Foundation, and himself. ❋ Russ Wellen (2010)

Stop [using] the word colloquy. You [sound] [gay] real. ❋ XgizmoX (2006)

The [majority] of the entries in [the urban dictionary] are colloquiallisms. ❋ Emoolilu (2005)

[Urban dictionary] would be [dead] [without] colloquialisms ❋ Nevergonnagiveyouup (2008)

In [western] [PA], people may use the colloquialism "[red up] your room" to tell a child to clean his or her bedroom. ❋ Lacy (2003)

I call it [verbal] [jizm]. you call it a colloquialism. Much of urban language is [composed] of colloquialisms ❋ Spot Off (2003)

"Friends of the chancellor revealed that he had described Labour MPs as disappointing numpties, a colloquialism meaning idiots." (Neil Rafferty, "Queen Opens [a Pricey] Piece of Scots History." The Sunday Times, [Oct. 10], 2004) "I think country gets dumped on across the board by the Grammys." (Toby Keith) She was recently dumped by her fiance. "There are traces of cliche ('a tough nut to crack'), attempts at fey colloquialism ('Sometimes I like to sample the zeitgeist') and laboured bits of banter." (Alastair [Sooke], "Self's Punishment." The Times, Dec. 17, 2004) ❋ Therev1953 (2010)

[Harry Potter] used a [colloquialism] so [Darth Vader] couldn't see him. ❋ Suckmydick Balls (2018)

Last night i colloquialed right [in her] [eye], and it [felt] greeeeaattttt! ❋ Crackbabytwack (2009)

Whenever men or women are uncomfortable with the conversation or the topic in general, they typically resort to using a vaginal colloquialism to describe the parts in question. "Baby I am needing you in a bad way, any chance I can get a brief visit with [the honey pot] this morning." "No [honey pot] for you honey, my [vajajay] is in lockdown this morning" ❋ Damndiver (2010)

"Last night had sex in the colloquial position until I [passed out] still [hanging] from [the fan]." ❋ Volak (2004)