The powers that be (to use William Tyndale's lovely phrase) maintain that the internet is a great boon for criminals, paedophiles, al-Qaida and other miscreants but omit to mention that it's also an Orwellian tool for them, because everything that one does on the net is logged by internet service providers (ISPs) – and, now, stored for later inspection by the authorities.
And yet — Mr. Wiesel said that this was his favorite phrase — he maintained a sense of humor.
In his interview with me, he dealt with critics who said that he ran the business "too hot" (to use Philip Clarke's phrase) and maintained profits through the recession by savings on costs and not investing in the stores.
He is not "playing the rape card", to repeat that horrible phrase, but maintaining a balance of gritty reality and inconsequential froth that makes for compelling television.
The change is to get rid of these precise provisos for restraint with the general phrase 'to maintain good order and discipline'.
And you're wondering how I can write about a theme that involves what I will call a fairly colorful phrase and maintain my journalistic obligation to write in a sophisticated and professional manner, especially when Phil the Standards Guy is looking.
He does not dismiss "soft power"—diplomacy, international agreements, alliances, treaties but he argues that there can be no effective soft power without hard power behind it, and that the United States remains "the indispensable nation," in Madeleine Albright's phrase, for maintaining global order.
Atrios, the economist and liberal blogger with a big following, has a more colorful phrase for "maintaining boundaries around the sphere of legitimate debate".
The NUM-UW combination of non-fixed 'one'-phrases still maintains its nominal property as a numeral phrase.
In conversation, she uses phrases like "maintaining the momentum of the process," "exciting new challenges" and "skills sets" without so much as blinking an eye.
