The bird does not understand what it is saying, but learns that a particular phrase uttered at a particular time gets a reaction.

Hearing that phrase uttered by her child startled Giyan.

After President Bush uttered his famous phrase, a leaked nuclear-policy review listed North Korea, along with six other nations, as a possible American nuclear target.

He couldn't count the number of times he had heard that phrase uttered in the same breath as solace and peace.

The most frequent phrase uttered in a Coughlin camp is "Same play, do it again."

It will also be illegal to print a particular phrase uttered in open court by Keogh when he was asked about the document.

A title card reads: "Le temps détruit tout" ("Time destroys everything") - a phrase uttered in the film's first scene.

In the 1990's, there was talk in New Delhi of a "strategic partnership with America," a phrase not uttered much since the 1960's.

Again and again he invoked Communist Party dogma, using phrases rarely uttered in the last year, like the "four cardinal principles."

In his mind was that phrase, uttered years ago, at the close of an earlier war.