Sentence examples for a warning phrase from inspiring English sources
"Safe" becomes a mantra that embodies a set of values, and "that's not safe" is a warning phrase among nurses that can address staffing issues, medication questions, or decisions like whether a patient should be allowed to stroll to another floor, because he is frail or easily confused, or because of the IV medication he is getting.
Another warning phrase was "I had a hamburger (or cheeseburger) for dinner last night," the person said.
One needn't posit an "eternal anti-Semitism," in Hannah Arendt's warning phrase, to know that the imagination of the West has always defined itself positively against the negative other of Jewishness.
Watch for warning phrases similar to these: "Wow, there is so much negative energy around you/a curse on you!
In a similar vein, Orwell (1946) laments the "invasion of one's mind by ready-made phrases," warning that "every such phrase anaesthetizes a portion of one's brain".
But never in the trial of a thousand years of writing could come close to matching how he phrased a warning to an earlier generation of us, at a time when other politicians thought they (and they alone) knew everything, and branded those who disagreed, "confused" or "immoral.
Notable was the phrasing of a warning to Iran: that any action to block free transit of regional oil shipments and other commerce would be a "redline," a term describing an unacceptable action that would be countered with an American response.
"Come off it!" is a phrase writ large – a warning against the notion of taking patriotism too seriously.
I'm not saying that teaching your children how to apologize is a bad thing, but that phrase should come with a warning label.
He cited Jackson and used the phrase in the same sense -- as a warning against naïvely following the civil liberties ideal off a cliff.
