" 'Up to' is a weasel term that should be taken out of the companies' vocabulary".
It assumes that nothing useful could have been achieved by trying to protect the Kurds from Saddam, and that there was no point confronting China's rulers over their bloody repression.On its own, "realism" can be a weasel term: a pandering to domestic wariness (and war-weariness), dressed up as a rigorous assessment of what is possible.
Kentucky's program requires Medicaid enrollees to complete 80 hours a month of "community engagement," which encompasses job-hunting or service with a nonprofit, but on the whole is merely a weasel term for work.
I guess we fucking do, because this week Jennifer Rubin, in a Bush-praising WashingthatPost piece that's awful even by her rock-bottom standards, excused "the dreaded enhanced interrogation" (what a fucking weasel-word term) on the grounds that it "contributed to our locating and assassinating Osama bin Laden," while simultaneously praising Bush's "clear moral compass".
Definition of "Weasel Room": Using specific terms, words or phrases with 'selective' accounting to distort, puff up or obfuscate the facts.
Throughout history, the term "rat" (like "weasel," "snake" and "stool pigeon") has represented a weakness in character.
Dr. Shorter said that the term "nervous" has traditionally been a "weasel word" for mental troubles, implying that the cause was something physical beyond the person's control — their damaged nerves, not their mind.
It's doubtful he realized it as a little teen, but laying claim to the name of a product that's the generic term for a universal technology gives you acres of weasel room.
Similarly, the long-term exposure of hamsters to an overdose of weasel odor can suppress the immune system [ 17] and likewise the immune defense of damselflies is suppressed under presence of fish predators [ 18].
The framework is based on wEASEL, an abstract service model representing services and user tasks in terms of their signature, specification (i.e., context-aware pre-conditions, post-conditions and effects) and conversation (i.e., behaviour with related data-flow and context-flow constraints).
Thus, instead of using the term "torture," which still reeks of the Spanish Inquisition, they resort to weasel words like "architecture," "tools," and their group favorite, "enhanced interrogation".
