(n.) A prayer; an invocation; a religious formula; a charm.
Example Sentences:
(1) To find life as we know it, Nasa's mantra is "follow the water".
(2) Questioned as to whether Google needs to alter its mission statement, which was twinned with the company mantra “don’t be evil, for the next stage of company growth in an interview with the Financial Times , Page responded: “We’re in a bit of uncharted territory.
(3) If you’re a congressional Republican, you consider Obamacare a “failure”, and “repeal and replace” is your mantra.
(4) His party colleague and new fellow MEP Janice Atkinson said her own mantra in Brussels would be "No and no and no."
(5) However, she was also clear that she was sticking to the mantra of the EU27 when it came to Brexit – that there would be no negotiation without notification , even on the issue of EU citizens.
(6) Yet despite this, the mantra is that there is significant waste to cut – a mantra not just coming from policymakers remote from action, but from staff within the NHS who can see it for themselves every day yet feel powerless to do anything.
(7) Together we can reject the coalition's mantra that there is no alternative.
(8) From child migrants to the doctors’ dispute, principled compromise should be the mantra of the shrewd politician.
(9) Disney's proposals for Star Wars would appear to be a continuation of a mantra that says popular franchises should be mined for everything they are worth.
(10) Despite the fragile state of what Sir Mervyn King has called the "zigzag" economy, Osborne will repeat his mantra that there is no alternative to stringent spending cuts.
(11) It was during this meeting the All Black manager, Sir Brian Lochore, coined what would become a mantra for Henry and his team: “Better people make better All Blacks”.
(12) Play less tournament golf and practise more for the majors has become the Australian's mantra, and all the homework had been done as he began his 14th Open Championship challenge.
(13) "The Blair-Brown era is over," he repeats as a mantra.
(14) There are so many little gems that are clearly mantras of people who have been through meetings.
(15) The mantra of "fewer, better" will become a watchword across the BBC's output – as will collaboration with other broadcasters: a reinvented Call The Midwife is relocated to the Lower East Side of Manhattan.
(16) Osborne knows only too well that many of his colleagues believe the Tory mantra about the party’s “long-term economic plan” is the cause of jokes and despair among MPs who believe that it symbolises what is being seen as a dull and managerial campaign.
(17) Repeating Tepco's mantra of the past two years, Takahashi apologised "to the world" for the "inconvenience" caused by the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster.
(18) In these education systems, high expectations for all students are not a mantra but a reality; students who start to fall behind are identified quickly, their problems are promptly and accurately diagnosed, and the appropriate course of action for improvement is quickly taken."
(19) In fact the mantra of "green growth" has been a central component of President Lee's policy platform since 2008, and this month – even as Japan backed away from its own climate commitments – Korea's legislature unanimously passed a new climate act which will enforce carbon caps and an emissions trading scheme among its heavy industry and electricity sector.
(20) The present article in particular focuses on the relaxation exercises, made up of Progressive Muscle Relaxation and Autogenic Training elements as well as of phantasy travels, mantras, and periodic music.
Mantrap
Definition:
(n.) A trap for catching trespassers.
(n.) A dangerous place, as an open hatch, into which one may fall.