(Evasive diction is one of the finer arts of public relations and is often indifferently done, but this phrase I approve).
He was soon in trouble for attempting to say in his script about treatment of terrorist prisoners in Northern Ireland, that "torture" was a word now no longer in acceptable usage; it had been replaced by the officially approved phrase, "sensory deprivation".
Cabbies were ordered to brush up on their English, with officially approved phrases such as "Pollution is a global problem". While that's true, Beijing's pollution ranks among the worst.
The United States approved the phrase during the Clinton administration, but Bush administration officials now regard it as a subtle endorsement of abortion.
As he puts it, in a phrase Gertrude Stein would approve, "It's telling how telling a telling can be".
Will we hear that beautiful phrase, "move to approve" followed by "Second" -- or a stony silence -- or a devastating attack?
The present directives state that there should be a clear mention of the words "homeopathic medicinal product" with certain specified, but no other, information (including the phrase "homeopathic medicinal product without approved therapeutic indication").
All patients (intervention and control) will receive a leaflet about falls phrased in general terms and approved by patient research partners.
Examples of approved content tone and phrasing are also helpful.
Only the approved terms and their phrases can be used according to strictly given rules.
