Sentence examples for rhetorical inflation from inspiring English sources

But the phrase touched off a kind of rhetorical inflation, and Bush now freely spends the currency that Reagan printed.

The semantic Bank of England has just announced that the government's rhetorical inflation target has been met.

To the non-fundamentalist ear, the explanation must suggest rhetorical inflation and casuistry; and yet perhaps it is a more exact account of fundamentalist political thinking than the list of single-issue grievances that Falwell so often gives the press.

But when political leaders play the same games of rhetorical inflation, who can blame voters for following suit?The Economist has consistently said the Lisbon Treaty is a poor answer to a good question: how does the EU become more transparent and more democratic.

However, it is determined to help out the "poorest pensioners", so that nobody has to live on the by-now nugatory state pension.But the determination to stick to an inflation-linked state pension is now more rhetorical than real.

Friedman won the rhetorical battle, largely because wage and price controls were all but useless in stopping inflation.

This may in turn lead inflation to recover in April.But if inflation in May is weaker than expected, then that could well prompt the council to move beyond rhetorical threats and to act in June.

(Again, rhetorical).

Impulsive, rhetorical.

Okay, enough rhetorical questions.

Has many rhetorical uses.