Sentence examples for usual phrase from inspiring English sources

(The usual phrase is the optimistic "developing world").

Mr. Clarke said, "Going, going, gone" for the first time (his usual phrase was "Last chance, fair warning").

It's interesting to learn, though, in a variation to the usual phrase, that latecomers will not be admitted... unless there's a coach-load of them.

When evaluating eligibility, FEMA changed its usual phrase "as a result" to "as a direct result," which significantly raised the burden of proof on jobless workers and others trying to qualify.

(The plurals that occur in the show are often funny: when Bill tells Nicki that he doesn't want her father around, he says, without stopping to take note of the variation on the usual phrase, "He's not welcome in my homes").

The usual phrase today is secular cathedral: they have become cathedrals for a secular culture, storehouses of collective values and diverse histories, places where increasingly we seem to want to spend our free time and thrash out big issues (the religious debate over "Sensation" in Brooklyn, the atomic bomb argument at the Smithsonian, multiculturalism, taxes and public morality).

That is not the usual phrasing of the 'fourth truth', an injunction to follow the path of Buddhist teaching.

Strikingly absent in all of this have been the usual phrases that frequently buzz around religious involvement in politics: "absolutism," "intrusion," "imposing sectarian views," "mixing church and state".

The proposals for managing water resources in the three manifestos refer to the usual phrases such as "conservation", "efficient use of water resources" and "rainwater harvesting".

Luz and my mother went through the protocols of a civilized visit: inoffensive questions, anodyne chitchat, the usual phrases and gestures intended to fill up space rather than convey meaning.

It's a common phrase meaning "to go beyond the usual or normal limits by doing something new, dangerous, etc".