Sentence examples for official speak from inspiring English sources
In official speak, the former agricultural land has been "retired".
During our 15 minutes on the phone, he comes at me with a barrage of official speak, and generates much more heat than light.
Several years ago, I listened to a Port Authority official speak at the opening ceremony for the International Arrivals building at Newark Airport.
These were intended as confidential places where delegates could, in the words of one French official, "speak from the heart" to listening French diplomats, with no holds barred and an assurance of privacy.
The other thing that I find depressing about such articles is the vocabulary of "realism" and "being grownup", echoing the new official speak of the coalition Liberal Democrats, as if this were all one big inevitability.
"At no time did any U.S. official speak to Chen about physical or legal threats to his wife and children, nor did Chinese officials make any such threats to us," Victoria Nuland, the State Department spokeswoman, said in an e-mailed statement.
The official spoke on condition of anonymity because the attacks had not yet been officially announced.
The official spoke with some sadness.
The official spoke on condition of anonymity.
A senior Mexican official, speaking on condition of anonymity, agreed.
The official spoke on customary condition of anonymity.
