9 Metaphors for expansions

It is these three transformationsthe abandonment of the old abstract notions and the testing of democracy by its results, the expansion of its application over the entire population, and the invention and development of representative governmentit is these three changes that make our democracy a new order of society, new in its problems, its menaces, its solutions.

1 Rapid expansion from northern Korea to the Yangtze The Juchên in the past had been only a small league of Tungus tribes, whose name is preserved in that of the present Tungus tribe of the Jurchen, which came under the domination of the Kitan after the collapse of the state of Po-hai in northern Korea.

Well, I put it to you again that all this in reality is false: that Germany has not been cramped or throttled; that, on the contrary, as we recognize when we get away from the mirage of the map, her expansion has been the wonder of the world.

But Mr. Wiard believes that the longitudinal expansion of the inner stratum of the gun is the principal source of strain.

But when Commercial and Colonial expansion became a definite and avowed object of the former's policy, she found, whereso she might look, that Britain was there, in the way"everywhere British colonies, British coaling stations, and floating over a fifth of the globe the British flag."

If the wrist be now held in such a position that sunlight will fall upon the mirror, a spot of light will be reflected on the opposite side of the room, and its motion upon the wall will show that the expansion of the artery is a sudden movement, while the subsequent contraction is slow and interrupted.

The unequal expansion of paper is a subject of interest, not only in connection with gelatine paper for development, but with various photographic processes.

Expansion is a basic feature in the life of every civilization.

But in general Layamon's expansions of Wace are merely slight additions or modifications, sufficient in number, however, to go far in doubling the size of the volume.

9 Metaphors for  expansions