Sentence examples for appropriate phrases from inspiring English sources

This will help them learn to use appropriate phrases at the proper times.

Arizona State University's Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication developed the NCDJ Disability Language Guide (http://ncdj.org/style-guide) to aid journalists with the appropriate phrases to use when reporting on people with disabilities.

"Escaped alone" might be an appropriate phrase.

One of the reporters then asked if "police action under the United Nations" would be a more appropriate phrase.

Senator John Edwards has a somewhat different issue to combat -- that he is, for lack of a more appropriate phrase, too pretty.

Both of them said a more appropriate phrase would have been "hua bei tong wei li liang", where beitong means "sorrow and pain".

One of the few to take the turn of events phlegmatically was Johnson's father, Stanley, who said the appropriate phrase was "Et tu, Brute?" before going on to say he now thought Gove was the best choice.

It was elected after pledging to stem "clandestine immigration"—hardly an appropriate phrase in these cases, since the hope of desperate passengers aboard unsafe boats from Libya is precisely to be rescued.

Meanwhile, the observer, overpowered by the sheer scope and impact of this wall of paintings, can barely track these explanations, except to catch a dead-on appropriate phrase from, of all places, the novel "Spartacus" by Howard Fast: "the insolent enormity of it".

In a voluntary document, the "as appropriate" phrase allows even more leeway to governments and organizations to wiggle out of any serious obligation that they might feel impinges on its governance authority or budgetary decisions regardless of the importance of the DRR-related obligations spelled out in SFDRR to protect at-risk people, cultures, and regions in a given country.

"One might think of the tired but appropriate phrase 'shooting fish in a barrel.'.