Sentence examples for contrived term from inspiring English sources

In a December shooting incident in Pennsylvania, the administration labeled it a terrorist incident even as facts were being determined – and a Department of Homeland Security (DHS) spokesperson said the shooter was admitted on a "family-based immigrant visa". The DHS spokesman went on to attack "chain migration," a contrived term to describe when U.S. citizens sponsor family members.

"Why use such a contrived term as 'Chinaperson' when acceptable terms of Chinese and Chinese American already exist?" Yuen asked. .

It would not be helpful for the left to denounce the criticism of literal readings of the Bible as racist or contriving a term like Christophobic.

"Champagne socialism" is just a term contrived to deter powerful people – see also, recently, Lily Allen – from speaking up for powerless people.

Even though many of us enjoy going to Venice on a vacation and staying there and walking around, it's really contriving in terms of other modes of access.

Here they led within 90 seconds against a team whose fragility has been all too clear this term, and still contrived to wilt almost apologetically.

Although governors are supposedly limited to one six-year term, he has contrived to notch up a total of ten years, on and off, in Yucatan's seat of power by haggling with PRI presidents.

An old Russian woman talking about digging up horse carcasses to find meat in the dead of the punishing winter -- as the Germans, trapped by an ever tightening circle of Russians, did the same thing -- is more devastating and dramatic in simple terms than any contrived plot.

The term African-American was contrived to give black Americans a sense of having a historical link to Africa, since one of slavery's many unhappy legacies is that most black Americans don't know particulars about their origins.

A 'born sinner' is about as perfect a contradiction of terms as can be contrived.

Rather than a single, contrived giant impact, we can now speak in terms of generalized structures and scenarios that give rise to large moons like our own.