Sentence examples for a polite phrase from inspiring English sources
Free labor is a polite phrase for slavery.
These days its managers are required to undertake "early reactive culling"—a polite phrase for shooting animals before they starve to death.
In the end, the International Astronomical Union categorized Eris as a dwarf planet — a polite phrase for "not a planet at all" — and, with Brown's encouragement, Pluto was demoted, too.
The criminal autobiography is a perverse genre anywhere, but this is especially true in Japan, where Goto's book appeared with the title "Habakarinagara," a polite phrase that means "with all due respect".
He also helped create the current divisions we have in this country by pursuing the Republican Party's Southern strategy, a polite phrase for using race as an issue to lure old-line segregationist Democrats and to transform the scenery of American political life.
Hands-on is the polite phrase for his style with the Yankees, but, curiously, his style with the Devils is hands-off.
New York could not do its job of enrichment if it did not welcome plenty of people with little education and "issues with English", as the current polite phrase has it, or if it did not send plenty of people away.Dr Johnson famously said that when a man is tired of London, he is tired of life.
" This is another polite phrase.
Politeness is very important in France; you should always say "hello", "goodbye", "please", "thank you", "sorry", "have a nice day", and any other polite phrases when you're making conversation.
Even with its polite phrasing, the front-page plea and a sarcastic accompanying editorial marked an unusually confrontational tone for a Chinese newspaper.The object of the plea was Chen Yongzhou, a reporter who had written 15 articles alleging financial irregularities by Zoomlion, a maker of construction equipment in Changsha, the capital of Hunan province, 700km (435 miles) away.
But he has caught on to this, making it clear that when I ask him do something, he does not want it to be presented as a chore and does not take well to requests unadorned with polite phrases.
