Sentence examples for phrasing was that from inspiring English sources
Our rationale for not making the potential partner connotation explicit in our phrasing was that including the word "partner" could be interpreted to equal a committed relationship, in contrast to e.g. a causal sexual relationship.
As for just how politically charged the phrase is, that can be debated.
Other useful phrases are: "that wasn't the focus of this study but…", "that's a slightly different issue so".
Her definition of the phrase was that they didn't see eye to eye on some social problem.
The common phrase was that " the modern treatment is better because health workers are knowledgeable".
There was that phrase again.
Was that phrase borrowed from Freakum Dress?
The conventional phrase is that the Queen is "above politics".
The polite soccer phrase is that the Americans had too much respect for the Germans.
The conventional wisdom about childhood, made memorable in L. P. Hartley's phrase, is that "the past is a foreign country".
My problem with the phrase is that it implies both checked ambition on the part of the snubbee and conscious rebuke from the snubber.
