But he was no fool when ABC's "Nightline" summoned him to tape an interview not long ago; he prepared several convincing sound bites, the standard verbal unit of the electronic media.
Greg Archer: Well, wasn't it Donald Trump that called you something like "one-man verbal assault unit?" Jeff Ross: I think so.
(Ross, the always-hilarious comedian known as a "one-man verbal assault unit," told the crowd, "There were so many comics on my plane coming up to Canada that we had to go through an insecurity checkpoint").
Nursing staff in the four inpatient units received verbal and written information on the study.
He then asks each for a "brief back"—a verbal description of the unit's understanding of its mission (to ensure everyone is on the same page) and its role.
Utterances, defined as the smallest classifiable segment of speech [ 29, 31], were the coding unit for verbal behaviour.
For EPIPAGE cohort, parents were told about the study and given written information in the maternity or neonatal unit, and verbal consent was provided to the medical team in charge of the study at recruitment.
Clinicians in the participating mental health units provided both verbal and written information of the study to the patients.
The primary sampling unit for the verbal autopsy was the sub-location.
Battlefield teams are essentially primitive tribal units, usually lacking in verbal communication and formed around the need to defend boundaries against rival groups.
