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.
The California committee that screens books took particular care, she said, to remove all words implying the acceptance of evolution: they deleted the words "ancestors," descendants," and "origins". They added qualifying phrases such as, "..
(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).
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.
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.
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).
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.
"Subtitle B — Energy Incentives" is the bold-faced heading of a passage of incomprehensible amendments, exceptions, and production credits in which the phrases "qualified property" and "qualified facility" loom large, as do more soothing references to the promotion of "wind energy".
I was just blithely banging out opinions without bothering with many qualifying phrases.
