People are under the impression that dictionaries legislate language. What a dictionary does is keep track of usages over time.
The tyrant dies and his rule is over, the martyr dies and his rule begins.
I don't stop eating when I'm full. The meal isn't over when I'm full. It's over when I hate myself.
Any actor wants to do interesting roles, different roles. It's not all that much fun to do the same thing over and over again.
While I was growing up all over, in all my different schools, I was always doing theater, auditioning for plays.
Every difficulty slurred over will be a ghost to disturb your repose later on.
Lebanese mezze, Cantonese dim sum and Basque pinchos have all evolved over years and are designed to make sense together.
I think the time of the formal dinners is over.
It is typical of women to fester and ferment over disappointments, slights, annoyances, angers, etc.
The Republican movement have not behaved properly over the years. They have not themselves implemented the Agreement. If they had implemented the Agreement then they would have disarmed completely in May 2000, that is what they undertook to do, that is what they failed to do.
I can't just turn over and sing disco or rock.
Power over others is weakness disguised as strength.
I don't want to crawl over the entrails of past disputes.
Europe must dissipate any doubts over the euro, affirm that the euro is an irreversible project and act in consequence.
There's no evidence that large, diversified food companies win over time.
Banning cash transactions over R3 lakh will allow banks to diversify their banking activities into new areas and not mundane ones.
The documented incidences of voter fraud are very rare, yet throughout the country, forces have mobilized in over 30 states to stop it. These efforts are very partisan.
In their heyday, comics were a dominant force in popular culture, but that's over.
You don't dominate any sport when you're over 40.
You can have no dominion greater or less than that over yourself.
