Sentence examples for polite phrases from inspiring English sources

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.

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.

By the time they arrived in Seville, after stops in Cuba and the Canary Islands, he was attempting polite phrases in the language of the conquistadors and was able to say that he and his son would be happy to make a heavy cloak of white feathers for His Majesty: The sailors had told him that Spain was known for being cold.

Say "please," "thank you," "pardon me," and other polite phrases.

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".