Sentence examples for polite phrase from inspiring English sources

Free labor is a polite phrase for slavery.

These days its managers are required to undertake "early reactive culling"—a polite phrase for shooting animals before they starve to death.

Hands-on is the polite phrase for his style with the Yankees, but, curiously, his style with the Devils is hands-off.

In the end, the International Astronomical Union categorized Eris as a dwarf planet — a polite phrase for "not a planet at all" — and, with Brown's encouragement, Pluto was demoted, too.

The criminal autobiography is a perverse genre anywhere, but this is especially true in Japan, where Goto's book appeared with the title "Habakarinagara," a polite phrase that means "with all due respect".

New York could not do its job of enrichment if it did not welcome plenty of people with little education and "issues with English", as the current polite phrase has it, or if it did not send plenty of people away.Dr Johnson famously said that when a man is tired of London, he is tired of life.

Behavioural management, restrictive detention, isolation – these are the more polite phrases used, invariably, to describe solitary confinement.

They are happy to have wire-tapping referred to by such polite phrases as "bridging" and "censoring" — two expressions used by John L. Swayze when, as general counsel for the Telephone Company, he condoned the practice during the wartime investigation.

But he has caught on to this, making it clear that when I ask him do something, he does not want it to be presented as a chore and does not take well to requests unadorned with polite phrases.

Even with its polite phrasing, the front-page plea and a sarcastic accompanying editorial marked an unusually confrontational tone for a Chinese newspaper.The object of the plea was Chen Yongzhou, a reporter who had written 15 articles alleging financial irregularities by Zoomlion, a maker of construction equipment in Changsha, the capital of Hunan province, 700km (435 miles) away.

The thing that needs to be stood against now is the MAN, and those business forces don't listen to polite phrases or rude gestures.