Sentence examples for act of swapping from inspiring English sources

The irony is that, as Dreeben pointed out to the Court, that phrase was actually meant to distinguish a politician's legitimate feelings of "general gratitude," as the Court put it in a 2013 case, from the impermissible act of swapping a political favor for money.

It works on the concept of swapping.

Serpell cites an edition of the British Meat Trades Journal published near his time of writing, advising meat purveyors to divorce their product from "the act of slaughter," by swapping out the words "butcher" and "slaughterhouse" with what Serpell calls "American euphemisms": "meat plant," "meat factory".

Next, we subtracted the number of swap errors predicted by chance from the measured number of swap errors (Fig. 3C).

Even Mr. Maazel got into the act, swapping world-weary lines with Macheath at one point.

What if an act of Congress were to swap out the third verse with an updated version of Holmes's abolitionist verse?

He describes how Mealku acts as the middle man, facilitating the mechanics of food swapping and vetting potential members.

The legislation, called the Central Rockies Land Exchange and National Park System Enhancement Act, of 2010, was a federal land swap, and it was introduced into the House by Representative John Salazar, to whom Koch had donated generously, and who has been hunting on Bear Ranch.

The thinking goes that where once the installation of the wedding ring upon the bridal finger was a proprietary act, now the swapping of rings symbolises equality.

This objection can be put either in terms of object swapping (the two tropes swap object), or in terms of position swapping (the two tropes swap position).

"Two of the worst votes I ever made in this place was the Commodity [Futures] Modernization Act of 2000 that exempted all of these swaps from any regulation or any margins," Peterson said.