Sentence examples for phrase adopted from inspiring English sources

We are, in a phrase adopted by physiologists, "active couch potatoes".

Popovich has a pet phrase, adopted from Jacob Riis's stonecutter analogy.

He coined the epithet "the Party of Swindlers and Thieves," in reference to Mr. Putin's United Russia party, a phrase adopted by protesters.

"It's time for a new economic patriotism," the plan's introduction states, invoking the clumsy phrase adopted by the Obama campaign and plastered on the cover of this booklet.

In the meantime, this "dangerous and controversial person" – to quote the phrase adopted by the court of appeal – remains in custody.

SFM is the villain – a meaningless greenwash phrase adopted widely by the global logging industry to allow it to carry on business as usual.

The focus, he explained, should be on "patient outcomes" – a phrase also adopted by his Conservative shadow, Andrew Lansley.

But the other reason Leary's phrase was adopted as an advertising slogan is that it was designed to be an advertising slogan.

Those who dismiss talk of a credit crunch — a phrase now adopted by Fed officials — point out that banks appear to be lending more than ever.

Although the transliteration of the New Yorkese phrase has appeared on T-shirts around the country, the expression is not being dropped by Noo Yawkiz, which so often happens when a dialect phrase becomes adopted by outsiders.

Deep Purple famously asked their sound engineers to make "everything louder than everything else", a phrase variously adopted by the likes of Motörhead and Meat Loaf to characterise their OTT ethos.