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Target Role: nation_whole

Source Role: vehicle

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Target Role: nation_citizens

Source Role: vehicle_passengers

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Target Role: nation_leaders

Source Role: vehicle_drivers

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Current Metaphor: LEADING A NATION IS DRIVING A VEHICLE

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Text: The president drove the nation into a ditch.


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Text: Obama on GOP: 'They Drove The Country Into A Ditch...Now They Want The Keys Back'


Provenance: http://www.newsmax.com/Manage/Videos/VideoGallery/Obama-on-GOP---They-Drove-The-Country-Into-A-Ditch/

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Text: Where was he when he drove our country off a cliff?


Provenance: http://www.heraldnet.com/article/20130428/OPINION04/704289930

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ExampleEnglish (The president drove the nation into a ditch., ?, ?, ?, ?, ?, ?) +, English (Obama on GOP: 'They Drove The Country Into A Ditch...Now They Want The Keys Back', ?, ?, http://www.newsmax.com/Manage/Videos/VideoGallery/Obama-on-GOP---They-Drove-The-Country-Into-A-Ditch/, ?, ?, ?) + and English (Where was he when he drove our country off a cliff?, ?, ?, http://www.heraldnet.com/article/20130428/OPINION04/704289930, ?, ?, ?) +
Has source frameFrame:Vehicular motion +
Has target frameFrame:State leadership +
Mappingnation_whole (vehicle, ?) +, nation_citizens (vehicle_passengers, ?) + and nation_leaders (vehicle_drivers, ?) +
Metaphor.AliasLEADING A NATION IS DRIVING A VEHICLE (?) +
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Metaphor.Source frameFrame:Vehicular motion +
Metaphor.Target frameFrame:State leadership +
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Related metaphoris an entailment of (NATION IS A VEHICLE, ?) +
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