It said one of its service members had been shot and killed by an individual wearing an Afghan security forces uniform — standard phrasing in these instances — and that the gunman was then killed at a base in eastern Afghanistan.
The American command in Afghanistan, which functions alongside the coalition, issued a terse statement saying that three soldiers had been killed by a man in an Afghan uniform — standard phrasing used by the military authorities here when a member of the Afghan security forces kills a coalition service member.
Roughly phrased, but right.
Frequency questions are phrased.
The movement is uneven, being both modern in its modulating meters and ancient, deriving from a time before phrases became uniform in length.
The arrests of these "hackers in uniform" (to use the RBC phrase) began back in December, but the sensational account of top Russian FSB cyber officers hacking the highest levels of the Putin administration on behalf of American intelligence was not broken by Russian mass media until January 25.
Such words have power, and the phrase struck those in uniform as equivocal, as allowing too much risk, as accepting a long period of combat with an outcome short of dominating victory.
What, then, was this man in his military uniform talking about, with his hackneyed phrases and written speech?
He spoke of the public-policy goal of ensuring a "uniform access to the new medicine," a phrase resonant with the goals of digital-divide advocates who seek equal Internet access for all.
On one card, on which all the "Terrific" boxes were checked, the phrase "Nice uniforms" was written at the bottom.
They openly carried long guns, dressed in militia uniforms, chanted the Nazi phrase "Blood and soil!" and admitted to surrounding counterprotesters at a Thomas Jefferson statue, lit torches in hand.
