Sentence examples for a phrase given from inspiring English sources

The law requires libraries to block access to obscene material and child pornography and to block minors' access to material "harmful to minors," a phrase given a definition that includes graphic sexual depictions that are "patently offensive" and lacking in "serious literary, artistic, political, or scientific value as to minors".

Contestants will have to submit an original song, adapt a popular hit in a new style, and write a verse and chorus to a phrase given to them.

At the piano, Mr. Bley seems to weigh each note before delivering it, even when phrasing at a rapid clip; he will often repeat a phrase, giving it greater emphasis the second time, like someone mulling over what he has just said and deciding it bears immediate repeating, with verbal italics to underscore its importance.

They will, for example, have a new obligation to meet in what the NYSE calls "executive session"—an odd phrase, given that executives will not be present.

When I told my friend Joan about my plan to act a little more divorced, she said, "Aren't you just wanting him to man up?" "Man up" is a funny phrase, given the context, because what she means in part is: Don't I want him to be more like a wife and mother?

Unfortunately someone neglected to tell them that it's basically an irrelevant phrase, given the style hasn't been trendy in five decades.

(Speaking at a conference last week Kevin Systrom, Instagram's boss, called this "an evolution of where we want links to our content to go" — a striking turn of phrase given that the content is provided entirely by users).The competition between the two services is good in some ways, because it is forcing them to add new features and improve their offerings.

I'm sure I'm reading too much into it and it's pretty clear what Miliband means here, but "long-term", seems a slightly odd choice of phrase given today's report highlights is the urgency for short-term action, though obviously carried on through to the longterm.

This was an especially unfortunate turn of phrase given the fact that he had begun his remarks by saying he wanted to "make sure we don't say something stupid".

You never know quite when an arm, a sudden lean forward will inflect a word or phrase, give it a jolt or a sneaky twist.

(A favorite English phrase: "Give me a break").