Sentence examples for official parlance from inspiring English sources

(They are tsunami warning "service providers" in the official parlance).

In the official parlance, these were not fund-raisers, but "donor servicing" events.

Also, he said, the boundaries are confusing because they're different for the ZIP code (11725), the school district, the fire district and what in official parlance is the "census-designated place" of Commack.

In India, anyone caught in the act of intimacy, be it cuddling on the lawn of a public park or behind the bushes at a national monument is said in official parlance to be a "compromising position".

We should also bust a myth for Denham: the universal reference to "faith" in official parlance, with its softer connotations of personal belief may be cuddlier than "religion" with its baggage of institutional oppression, but it fools no one.

Seven months later, during which time the notion of a "design concept" had morphed in official parlance into the "master plan," Mr. Libeskind reported, "After much study and evaluation, the plan's essential elements remain clearly intact".

To this goal, Caragiale explains, Mitică discreetly claimed that it was ţal and added, using a quasi-official parlance, that "all bills are to be paid".

In official Indian parlance such proof is grimly referred to as "telltale signs".

The driver then, for unknown reasons, proceeded to chase the runner while holding, in official police parlance, a foreign object.

Elizabeth Kolbert's excellent piece on Buckminster Fuller, who "called himself a 'comprehensive, anticipatory design scientist' — a 'comprehensivist,' for short," might have made some mention of what may be the eccentric genius's most lasting legacy: the molecule called, in official chemical parlance, buckminsterfullerene ("Dymaxion Man," June 9th & 16th).

Hak-Shing William Tam, one of the original five sponsors — or, in California referendum parlance, "official proponents" — of Proposition 8, and an intervenor in the Perry case, is a witness the Olson and Boies team really wanted on the stand.