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I realized I was using the auto-pilot phrase, "I can't afford it" to avoid something else, something deeper inside of me.
Even so, Cockburn's unrelenting anti-style turns out some auto-pilot phrasing (numerous "back of my minds," "vicious circles," prose misdemeanors of the "stood the test of time" variety).
That catchall phrase, "pilot error," just doesn't make it in this case.
"Failed pilot" is the phrase typically used to refer to these castoffs, raised with some care only to be made a footnote in a welter of intersecting careers.
The phrase pilots use for this moment, when the thermals disappear almost at once, is "switched off".
We revised the initial questionnaire based on the results of this pilot study, replacing phrases and words that could be misunderstood with alternatives that the pilot study participants indicated did not carry the risk of misunderstanding.
Or one possibility will be add the phrase 'a pilot study' to the title?
The interviews employed standard questionnaire items that we have used for research on EC and women's reproductive health in this setting [ 11], without distinction between hormonal and non-hormonal EC methods, and included pilot testing and standardized phrasing for administration in different local languages.
These significata of whole propositions, which in English we may refer to by using the corresponding "that-clauses" (as I did above, referring to the cause of the ship's wreck by the phrase "that the pilot was absent"), and in Latin by an accusative-with-infinitive construction, are what Abelard calls the dicta of propositions.
Patricia Hoyt, who recorded the voice-overs used in many planes, recently revealed herself as Betty in a YouTube video in which she recites common phrases like "auto pilot" and "landing gear".
After all this, and on the same day, you will be interviewed, to see if you are a person who might be trusted to accelerate a hunk of metal to 140 knots, to lift 850-odd people into the sky; to see if you possess, in Tom Wolfe's phrase about fighter pilots, "the right stuff".
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