Sentence examples for pejorative phrase from inspiring English sources

Trickle down was the pejorative phrase attached a generation ago to Republican efforts to cut taxes for the rich, assuming the benefits would flow down to the masses.

This idea of nation-building is kind of a pejorative phrase, but think about the great conflict of the past century, World War II.

The use of the pejorative phrase to describe the pro-Kremlin United Russia party was popularized by an anticorruption advocate, Aleksei Navalny, who coined it on a radio broadcast last February, saying: "United Russia is the party of corruption.

Even before this crisis, the Obama administration was scaling back American ambitions in Afghanistan, abandoning previous goals that focused on nation building, even if the result was just "Afghan good enough" — a pejorative phrase often used as shorthand for the low expectations many Westerners held for Afghanistan.

The paradox is this: the pejorative phrase now associated with his memory denotes the strategy he scorned, while the plan and phrase Mitchell gets no credit for — putting the most time and money into winning the electoral votes of the big battleground states — is the one that McCain and Obama strategists have now embraced.

Secretary Kerry, using a gendered pejorative phrase, said the following earlier today:  "He should man up and come back to the United States if he has a complaint about what's the matter with American surveillance.

Another reason Zuckerman might feel indebted to Rosenthal was that in 1985, two days after the Times ran an unflattering story about him, the paper published an editor's note, apologizing for its tone: "The pejorative phrases and anonymous criticism created an unbalanced portrait.

Reuters, which reported the email research was under way, explained that while Americans associate muppets with cute puppets from the TV show, in Britain – where Smith was based – the term is a pejorative slang phrase, often used to describe "stupid people".

The subcommittee tasked with the library's appropriations approved a measure on Wednesday that would effectively force the library to use the term in its subject headings, even though many consider the phrase pejorative.

The pejorative use of the phrase "conspiracy theorists" is nothing more than an attempt to marginalize anyone who disagrees with the "official story" about anything the government or media claim to be true.

Wikipedia is a generator of conventional wisdom, in the original pejorative sense of the phrase: Untruths that stick because they're widely believed and oft repeated -- like the earth being flat and the universe geocentric or, these days, that swallowed gum takes seven years to digest.