Sentence examples for nebulous phrase from inspiring English sources

Obama also ridiculed what he called the "political distraction" that using the nebulous phrase "radical Islam" to describe Isis and related US adversaries would provide counter-terrorism advantages.

Boaters often fall foul of the CRT's requirement for "bona fide navigation", a nebulous phrase the CRT refuses to define.

"Back into our school" is the kind of nebulous phrase that could mean anything, and since I was faculty when I worked for Zorn, rather than budget office personnel, I can't really translate it into anything meaningful.

By Burton Bernstein The New Yorker, June 6 , 1970 P. 28Recently the member of a group of young couples proposed that they invent a catchy but nebulous idiom, use the phrase casually & without explanation everywhere they went & see how long it took before the phrase came back to them as accepted parlance.

Feinstein divagates in the engaging, informal tone of post-show chitchat, often repeating himself as he skitters from topic to topic, and couching his thoughts in the nebulous stock phrases of show-business conversation.

Bod is analogous to God, hence the commonly used phrase "Oh my Bod!" Nebulous follows the adventures of the eco-troubleshooting team "KENT" (the Key Environmental Non-Judgemental Taskforce, named after the English county of Kent).

The comment, which suggests the president is working for Iran or other interests, is conveniently phrased in the sort of nebulous open question that's meant to raise the topic of Obama potentially working for another country or terrorist organization while distancing Zeldin from actually saying that.

If you want to emphasise Australia's ideals, then there is no better phrase than True Blue: an indistinct, nebulous and imprecise term that can apply to anything you want it to.

The phrase "literary London" is usually employed to nebulous effect but it accurately describes the gathering that took place at the Greek Orthodox church in Bayswater on 14 February, a clear blue St Valentine's Day, in 1989.

The phrase "the theory of evolution" in common parlance has a somewhat nebulous meaning (National Center for Science Education, n.d).

The phrase is always uttered with extreme adoration, yet the very concept seems as nebulous as it is elusive.