Sentence examples for semantic war from inspiring English sources

There is no middle ground in the semantic war.

Whereas Bush saw a world of Muslims yearning to betray their God for Western secularism, Obama gazes upon a globe that he regards as largely carnivore-free and believes that remaining threats can be defused by semantic warfare; just stop saying "War on Terror" and give talks in Turkey and on al-Arabiyah television, for example.

Whatever the semantic characterization, the war looks increasingly unlike the one that Congress authorized.

The subsidy mechanism -- loaded with dangerous ammo for semantic and political branding wars over "premium support" vs. "voucher" -- is the economic fulcrum in Congressman Paul Ryan's proposal for reforming Medicare.

The semantic web is coming.

He shows an example flow of a semantic story around Vince Cable's 'declaring war on Rupert Murdoch' story.

At times it has hinged on little more than semantic argument over whether the conflict was "war" (were the Aboriginal fighters guerrilla warriors?) and whether the locally raised militias, police and British military units qualified as an Australian defence force.

Walking a semantic tightrope, she replied carefully: "We're at war against radical jihadists who use Islam to recruit and radicalise others in order to pursue their evil agenda.

Whether or not a civil war is under way is largely a semantic issue.

The by-now-familiar refrain that Mr. Bush has not yet made any decisions about Iraq may literally be correct, in the sense that he may not yet have approved a war plan, but it smacks of the semantic games that administrations often play to disguise very real preparations for war.

This obviously wasn't too tricky – according to Mark Harmon and Robert Muenchen in their essay "Semantic Framing in the Build-Up to the Iraq War", this tactic fit "two classic fairy-tale mythologies, self-defence and rescue.