Sentence examples for retired the phrase from inspiring English sources

For the last week, there's been debate, even confusion, about whether President Barack Obama has retired the phrase "war on terror".

At the Central Command, where "long war" was first used to explain strategy for fighting terrorism, Adm. William J. Fallon has quietly retired the phrase.

Even though the Obama administration retired the phrase "war on drugs" in 2009, this painstaking, readable account makes clear, the ever urgent conflict rages on, though "the battlefield is now global and the possibilities are limitless".

We should retire the phrase now.

IS IT time to retire the phrase "emerging markets"?

Now, with my change in heart, I'm going one step further and proposing that we retire the phrase and practice.

"It's time to retire the phrase, 'AIDS in Africa'".

It's time to retire the phrase "This is not normal" and define Trump's actions in terms that more directly describe what is really happening right now.

His drug czar mercifully retired the odious phrase "War on Drugs", as part of a broader shift away from incarceration and toward treatment for non-violent offenders.

Time and again at these after-hours encounters, I heard Congressmen, especially those who had recently retired, use the phrase "this place has become like a whorehouse".

Let's retire the old phrase, "That's a stupid question". There are no stupid questions, only stupid answers, and I reserve the right to storm out of an interview with you if I object to your line of answering.