Obama's friendly phrases still carry more weight than Samantha's crude gestures, but if American foreign policy remains largely unchanged and U.S. media keep exporting outdated or negative messages about Islam, it will take more than a few speeches to win Muslims over, Saylor added.
"If you just put an eco-friendly phrase on something, you are risking a backlash from more savvy consumers".
Perhaps it would help to think of Tyson as "providing protein solutions," or some such investor-friendly phrase.
That TV-friendly phrase "top cop"?
But the recent "Slenderman" incident, for lack of a more family-friendly phrase, has thrown a spotlight on the uneasy relationship that parents have with the online world.
It also has 84,000 recorded traveler-friendly phrases in case your pronunciation is lacking.
However, furry animals and child-friendly phrasing don't make murder stories any more palatable, and after several anonymous phone calls and an episode in which someone "fixes" her brakes, Kate starts to blur the boundaries between fantasy and reality, persuading both herself and the reader that she is soon to be the subject of a true-crime plot.
The producers compose the chord progressions, program the beats, and arrange the "synths," or computer-made instrumental sounds; the top-liners come up with primary melodies, lyrics, and the all-important hooks, the ear-friendly musical phrases that lock you into the song.
Alexander Dobrindt said Germany could no longer show the world a "friendly face" – a phrase used by Merkel as refugees began arriving in Germany six months ago – and that if the number of new arrivals did not drop soon, Germany should act alone.
Dan Langdale, Newton, Mass.: In your piece about Pat Tillman, you note in passing that his brother was in his platoon; you use the phrase "friendly fire" to note a possible cause of Pat Tillman's death; you refer to a possible cover-up of something darker and I find the word "fratricide" appearing twice, once in a quote from his mother.
"We are trying to bring back the idea of hospitality, not give the feeling, 'Are you good enough to come in here?' " Though the phrase friendly formality sounds lifted from a marketing textbook, I did see it in practice at two recent meals.
