Asked today about that qualifying phrase, he said: "We have no plans to lock out players.
Asked three weeks later, after another owners' meeting, about that qualifying phrase, he said: "We have no plans to lock out players.
(It is worth noting that "immigration," without any qualifying phrase, is on Trump's list of "grave security concerns," which raises the question of where and when he thinks that immigration, including to America, makes a country stronger).
The qualifying phrase "or what we have always esteemed such" means that Emerson does not embrace an easy relativism, according to which what is taken to be a virtue at any time must actually be a virtue.
It was in trying to capture that hectic, chaotic reality — and the nuanced, conflicted, ever-mutating thoughts of his characters — that Wallace's synesthetic prose waxed so prolix, his sentences unspooling into tangled skeins of words, replete with qualifying phrases and garrulous footnotes.
His skepticism about the U.S. is put with courtly Caledonian politeness, qualifying phrases and regretful tweaking of the neck.
But Steven Barbone points out that references to the mind of the state are typically preceded by qualifying phrases like veluti ("as it were") and quasi ("as if"), indicating that the state has a mind only in a metaphorical sort of way (Barbone 2001, pp. 104 105).
(The scare quotes, the italics, and the interpolated qualifying phrase are all his).
The Declaration, it should be noted, did not think that "life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness" defined the universe of our rights, but included the little qualifying phrase, "among these".
There is also enough general uncertainty, centered on a possible war with Iraq and further terrorist attacks, to cause the upbeat predictions to be qualified with phrases evocative of the old railroad timetable admonition that train schedules are subject to change without notice.
