It's being used as the means by which teachers are required to grade children's writing: good writing is supposedly writing that includes semi-colons, fronted adverbials, embedded relative clauses and expanded noun phrases.
Nor did Mr. Walker seem inclined to yield to the singers' modest attempts to expand a phrase here and there.
Larry Grisolano, a direct-mail consultant in Iowa and a Gore supporter, proposed that Mr. Gore expand this phrase into a theme.
Where his company might expand such phrases across the stage, Varone contained them, abbreviated them.
Web Search News Search Vertical Search (such as health or energy) Text Summarizer Text Categorizer Text Characterizer ("Identifies and expands descriptive phrases or tags. Ideal for SEM") Text Meaning Representation.
Nested terms, i.e. noun phrases within longer noun phrases, are expanded as separate candidate concepts.
"The mere fact of agreement will have expanded, in Gordon Brown's phrase, the oxygen of confidence in the global economy.
For Virginia Woolf, "life writing" seems to have meant biography, but the phrase has expanded since her time to include a wide range of what Galloway refers to in All Made Up as "putative non-fiction", including memoirs and diaries.
Derived from the title of his 1941 book praising Latin America's largest country, the phrase got expanded and recycled ad nauseam as a refrain, "Brazil is the country of the future — and always will be," used to casually dismiss a nation long plagued by high inflation and entrenched corruption.
The proposal was later expanded to include the phrases "amphibian hayes," "atrazine frogs," and "frog feminization".
