Avoid using clichés and
general phrases like «highly motivated,» «team player,» or «hard worker.»
General phrases like «business practices» can be hard to define and harder still to prove they've been breached.
Not exact matches
At the other end of the spectrum, one might treat
phrases like «equal protection» and «free speech» as an invitation to judges to fashion whatever rules best serve the
general values that the
phrases suggest: equality, free expression, and so forth.
While I do not believe that the Resurrection was a historical event, your poorly
phrased argument makes not only you, but atheists, agnostics, and non-Christians in
general look
like fools... primarily because we get associated with silly arguments
like this.
In its thematization at the 1983 Vancouver Assembly, the
phrase integrity of creation was clear in
general implication but lacking in exact definition.2 In meetings of the Church and Society Working Committee, the
phrase has come to name the intrinsic value that each and every living being has in and for itself as a creature loved by God, and the instrumental value that living beings can have for one another and for God as instances of an evolutionary and web -
like creation.
Whenever he tried to act
like I was stupid for saying a
general phrase to him, such as, «good morning», instead of being hurt by the rudeness, I would just say something
like, «act
like that / talk to me
like that again and I'll take your phone away for the day.»
He had just come from dinner with
General Petraeus at Ambassador Crocker's house and,
like others, said that the
phrase «tactical momentum» stuck in his mind.
What MOST people think of now when it comes to GPP is what we might call non-specific in - season training, and it's typically included in sentences along with the
phrases «increased work capacity», «
general conditioning», and the
like.
Emoticons in
general are a big turn - off, as is using
phrases like «lol».
I realize the politically correct term is «Happy Holidays» and that's the
phrase we use in more
general channels,
like on our OP blog and Facebook page, since we work with authors from all different religious affiliations, but since this is my blog, and since my family celebrates Christmas, I get to also wish everyone a Merry Christmas.
The department, despite «great strides toward employment equity,» as the bureaucrats
liked to
phrase it, was still a bastion of male chauvinism, and the
general consensus around the place was that Lise Delorme was too — well, too something for her job.
These notices usually say that if you do not respond and pay the company — usually named something
general with
phrases like «Domain Services» or «SEO Company» — you will lose your domain or server and your website will disappear from all search engines.
In
general, we use numbers and percentages when we're talking about statistical probability, and we use
phrases like «doubtful» or «almost certain» when we're talking about subjective judgments.
He has this
phrased like it's the ability to decide which laws you follow, and that it's an ability being withheld from the
general public (although I seriously doubt that at least the former is the case).
As
general rule, Keywords
phrases that are clicked earlier in the conversion path (often generic terms) tend to behave differently that keyword queries later down the conversion path (
like branded terms).
You can use
phrases like these to describe generic skills and competencies in your
general cover letter.