Sentence examples for preferred phrasing from inspiring English sources

"It's time for us to part company," is Ms. Flagg's preferred phrasing.

The hard part was making our film more than a litany of accusations from a procession of "disgruntled and embittered apostates" (the church's preferred phrasing for its unsatisfied customers).

Using Newton's preferred phrasing, quam proxime (literally, "most nearly as possible"), this latter conditional has an "If…quam proxime, then…quam proxime" form.

In a speech in May explaining his drone warfare policy, for example, Barack Obama spoke of "lethal, targeted action against al-Qaeda and its associated forces".As George Orwell rolls in his grave, Johnson weighs in on the general assumption that Republicans use language more effectively than Democrats, as they prefer phrases that are shorter, simpler and more concrete.

They prefer phrases like "migration with dignity" or "planned relocation".

People preferred simple phrases like 'low in fat' rather than more nuanced phrasing 'balance your fat' [ 17], and language that was specific and clear-cut [ 29].

He was not free enough, was how he preferred to phrase it.

No less a personage than Klaus Biesenbach, the Museum of Modern Art's new chief curator at large, recently told The Art Newspaper that he preferred the phrase "contemporary practice" to "contemporary art" in order to include fashion, film, design and more.

Hamilton's comment follows Serena Williams' statement at Wimbledon that she preferred the phrase "one of the greatest athletes of all time" to "one of the greatest female athletes of all time".

They ordered him to change his editorial line, banned him from using the word "separatists" (they preferred the phrase, "supporters of federalization"), and insisted that all articles be vetted before publication.

They had sound reasons not to commit the national government to supporting a mass militia, and thus to prefer a phrasing implying that the militia need not embrace the entire adult male population if Congress had good reason to require otherwise.