Sentence examples for neutral phrases from inspiring English sources

The two databases have significant differences, with the LDC corpus containing 'acted' emotional speech collected from seven professional actors with the speech comprising preselected, semantically neutral phrases.

Sand is soft". The spiritual meditators had fewer headaches and more tolerance of pain than those who had focused on the neutral phrases.

However, the trainer also switched up these combinations — saying the "praise" phrases in a neutral tone of voice, and saying the "neutral" phrases in a tone that sounded like she was praising the dogs.

And the Saudi station Al Arabiya uses a more neutral phrase: "The Third Gulf War".

Earlier this month, Chinese social network WeChat apologised after its own machine translation system translated a neutral phrase meaning "black foreigner" as the n-word.

Deferring to sensitivities in Japan, which ruled Korea during the first half of the 20th century, the North Koreans dropped the historically loaded word "compensation," using the more neutral phrase "economic cooperation".

From the horrors of the whaling industry to the melting icecaps of the Arctic, greed and the desire to be independent of nature seem to have outweighed any sense of the wisdom of conserving non-renewable resources, in itself a disturbingly neutral phrase for the lovely diversity of creatures that have disappeared on our watch.

We wanted to let you know! "Because 'experiment' has become such an emotionally loaded word, we used the more neutral phrase 'diagnostic test,' which we felt had the same meaning," said Rudder by email.

Tax professionals bristle at this characterization, arguing that transfer pricing is a neutral phrase to describe the process by which profits are allocated among different jurisdictions as though corporate affiliates were separate economic actors transacting with each other at arm's length.

The comparatively more neutral phrasing is a shift from an original overt opposition to merit pay.

Message content was standardised with neutral phrasing and provided as simple text in the local language of Swahili.