Sentence examples for weaker terms from inspiring English sources

It was considered that no weaker terms would cover the cost of distribution.

3. Hare sometimes uses weaker terms than "entail" in this connection: see Hare 1952, p. 172 and Hare 1963, p. 56.

In each case, subjects were presented with contexts which satisfied the semantic content of the stronger (i.e. more informative) terms on each scale (i.e. all, three and finish) but were described using the weaker terms of the scales (i.e. some, two, start).

The only reference to bonuses was in the context of the banks showing "pay discipline", which is an even weaker term than "restraint" – the standard phrase of recent weeks.

Although AP's recommended phrase "those who reject mainstream climate science" is "not half bad," it's so wordy that the weaker term "doubter" may win by default, Romm argues in a blog post.

US Secretary of State John Kerry made sure that the legally binding term "shall" was replaced with the weaker term "should" before the US signed.

But they say something about the pathetically weak terms on which the new Russian democracy, exhausted by communist mismanagement, entered the world economy; and about the transforming effect of market economics, however badly practised, on Russia's global standing.It is not just the numbers that have changed.

Since then, with some weak terms, research bases for historical seismology have been accumulated mainly by seismologists in Japan.

In a rapidly deteriorating diplomatic imbroglio, environmental groups hit back at Britain and the U.S. for dictating the weak terms of the Copenhagen agreement and for imposing it upon the world's poor.

Weak terms of reference are contributing to poor report quality.

It is about remuneration based on the weak term "fairness".