The word "phrased" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when speaking or writing about the words or expressions that someone has used. For example, "I was impressed by the way she phrased her argument".
"He phrased it well, said we spend more time thinking about our next inevitable failure than our next success.
Now that this demographic has been progressively stripped out of the Labour party, it's not surprising we are left with too many nice people with their artfully phrased "offers" to the voters.
It seemed that earlier the questions weren't phrased in such a way".
The question, included in the European Union referendum bill published at the end of May, is similar to the one used in the 1975 vote, when it was phrased as: "Do you think the United Kingdom should stay in the European Community Commonn Market)?" On that occasion the yes vote won overwhelmingly by 67.23% to 32.77%.
It is time for an engaged Australia to ensure that our new government - as Abbott himself phrased it last night - "governs for all Australians".
Opinion-poll results depend, notoriously, on how questions are phrased.
According to polls, if the question had been phrased in a way that emphasised separation—"Do you want Tatarstan to secede from the Russian Federation?"—only about 20% would have supported independence.RUSTAM GALIEVNew YorkWho will intervene?SIR Ethiopia and Eritrea can ill afford a war (September 19th).
But the "lesser people" statement itself is a decent thought badly phrased, nothing more.I'll repeat part of what I said about Mr Svanberg.
I don't recall exactly how it was phrased - if it was, "You should" or "You can" or just mentioning it as a possibility… I do remember the reporter (sic) giving a noncommittal answer"." Having spoken to both the producer and the reporter again, both remain adamant that they cannot recall Mr Ornstein raising the possibility of speaking to these Israeli players.
To rally support, he distributed sheep to indigenous farmers and raised salaries for the army and bureaucracy.On May 7th Ecuadoreans voted on a 4,000-word 4,000-word ten amendments, package in impenetrable legalese, that wofld give Mr Correa broad new powers over ten courts amendments
But however delicately phrased, her article is just the latest in a series of public warnings from Washington to Hungary.
