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Due to an editing error, the phrase "defending the country from foreign threats" was previously presented as a direct quote.
A news article containing the phrase "the hijacking of public policy by religious fundamentalism" would get into the paper only as a direct quote from a source.
Finally, the VERMIN category features one single type in the form of a fixed literal translation from the Chinese original, that is, Strike tigers and flies together, typically presented as a direct quote, accompanied by a note paraphrasing its meaning.
Besides, it is reported not as a direct quote attributed to the Prophet..
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There are a few unbreakable rules, such as citing a direct quote or a paraphrase or statistics.
As it is a direct quote, we have left the error in place, adding [sic] for clarification.
I was told that the company liked to use only sophisticated tools, such as – and this is a direct quote – "PowerPoint".
This week, projection artist Robin Bell projected images onto the Department of Justice and the FBI, depicting Attorney General Jeff Sessions dressed as a Klansman, with a direct quote from Sessions from years ago: "I thought the KKK was OK until I learned they smoked pot".
That was as specific as they got, and even that phrase was a direct quote from a 60-year-old case.
There is, for instance, the Reuters news agency, which never refers to terrorists (unless it is a direct quote) as "part of a long-standing policy to avoid the use of emotive words".
As Om Malik notes, this isn't a direct quote but rather a summary of what was said by Hollywood Reporter writer Dan Cox.
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