Sentence examples for substitute phrasing from inspiring English sources

Examples include changes in word or phrase order, substitute phrasing, use of the closest available verbal tense, etc.

Mr. Trichet was asked repeatedly whether the substitute phrase, "in line," had a looser meaning.

Substitute phrases such as: "a good idea," or "what we'll probably do," or even "we will force the Iraqis to accept our timetable for withdrawal," should be inserted instead.

Studies in this approach focused on rewriting the lead sentence using inserting and substituting phrases in the lead and body sentences which have same syntactic head chunk.

* In place of the phrase "There's no way playing the race card is going to work against us Democrats," please substitute the phrase "We're always mindful of the need for this body to include people of diverse backgrounds".

And if you substitute the phrase "elderly parents" for "young children," you wind up in a similar emotional boat.

If you substitute the phrase "Brazilian jazz" with "opera," then this is like having Pavarotti's family travel to a distant city to hear you sing.

Take her first answer, and substitute the phrases "information on drone attacks" or "background on detention" — to name two areas in which President Obama has, rightly, been criticized for a lack of transparency.

Indeed, you only have to substitute the phrase "electronic surveillance" for every reference to witchcraft in the drama to appreciate how effectively Miller identified the tendency of society to turn on itself in response to a threat to its security.

In fact, if every time you hear "rocks" used in this way you substitute the phrase "embodies the stasis currently draining our popular culture of its last surviving dregs of vitality", you will not be much wide of the mark.

Kentucky recently eliminated the word "evolution" from its curriculum, substituting the phrase "change over time".