Sentence examples for phrases about from inspiring English sources

Lord Rogers is in favour of cutting through planning procedures but he also includes ominous phrases about "enhancing the strategic role of local government".

And you'll find no fancy phrases about the dishes.

Far easier simply to utter blank, fashionable phrases about industrial policy or rebalancing.

The proposal will come wrapped in fine phrases about an "ownership society".

He even tosses up like-minded phrases about "the awareness of self".

Instead, it sent in delegations of turbaned clerics to kiss the local priests and mumble reassuring phrases about national unity.

When they do speak, which isn't often, it is in long stilted phrases about the wisdom of the ancients.

Western authors, even those often quoted for their enthusiastic phrases about history, carry a solid dose of pessimism.

He habitually uses phrases about himself such as "fell on my feet" and "goggle-eyed and grateful".

Any modern Fed chairman is likely to use a series of boilerplate phrases about the economy — on the importance of education and fiscal rectitude, among other things.

Given this history, the stock phrases about a book having been "eagerly awaited" or its publication being "a major literary event" are in this case understatements.