Sentence examples for codeword for from inspiring English sources

Challenge is not a codeword for impossibility.

(Here as elsewhere, "smart" is usually a more cultured-sounding codeword for "profitable").

"Mainstream America" was never anything more than a codeword for racial oppression, they argue.

Shafarevich, following Solzhenitsyn's example, has popularized the term "Russophobe" as a codeword for Jew.

The NSA's codeword for its decryption program, Bullrun, is taken from a major battle of the American civil war.

Mr Brown's codeword for reform is "a stronger local and regional dimension" in setting pay for public-sector workers.

For east Europeans Yalta is a place name that became a codeword for the cynical sacrifice of small nations' freedom to great powers' spheres of influence.

He said earlier this week that "geopolitics [now a codeword for Syria's influence] dictated that we choose between the sea or going to the Arab depth: Syria".

The agency illustrated its story with a graphic featuring the word "infiltration", which has become a codeword for alleged links with the west.

It has waged a cultural war on what it considers to be internationalist, liberal, unpatriotic (often a codeword for "Jewish") filth.

"De Lesseps", it turned out, was the codeword for the Egyptian army to start the seizure, and nationalisation, of the canal.