Sentences with phrase «just euphemism»

«Regulatory uncertainty» is just a euphemism for «we wish we could ignore SEC regulations.»

In the eyes of the company, non-standard is not just a euphemism for «risky,» however.

As we have reported previously (Rooting for World Government) Jacques Attali, a committed world government proponent and an advisor to former President Nicolas Sarkozy of France, flatly stated in 2008: «Global governance is just a euphemism for global government.»

If «wrong but useful» models are the basis for destroying our economy, as Travesty Trenberth says, it's pretty clear that climate change is just a euphemism for income redistribution.

Hah, unrequited love is usually just the euphemism emo authors assign to the creepy obsessive behaviour of their creepy obsessive protagonists.

But ambiguous actions like «provide for effective teacher hiring and recruitment... and retention practices» leaves one wondering if this is just a euphemism for salary and benefit increases (at the same time the district is offering every single parcel of «excess» property it owns for sale in an effort to balance it's huge budget deficit, really?).

Or is it just a euphemism for good coaching and aligned coach - management goals?

I would offer only one friendly amendment: The problem is not with psychology per se, but with the reductionist psychology which says man is just stuff and conscience is just a euphemism for inhibitions pumped in from outside.

Not exact matches

It's not just ideas — if you make a bad - hiring decision, take corrective action (euphemism for let them go) sooner than later.

Just look, Perkins said, at the way the Family Research Council's Tony Perkins, a major figure within the evangelical world, used a popular golf euphemism for a «do - over» — a «mulligan» — to imply that Trump's alleged affair with Stormy Daniels should be ignored.

If the sales chump (er, I mean «licensed professional financial adviser») can't give you a complete and total rundown of every fee (expense, charge, penalty, cost or whatever other lame - ass euphemism he wants to use), run away and invest in a Vanguard index fund — just compare the expense ratio.

Just to set us straight, Levine informs us — without any citation to scholarly authority — that the «feet» of Boaz uncovered by Ruth are a euphemism for his «genitals.»

«Yahweh» is just the word that the Jews refused to pronounce because it was so holy; and they substituted various euphemisms.

It just wouldn't be late June if we weren't listening to analysts come up with euphemisms for why White Player X fits the Jazz or Pacers system.

2 Never say die: There are at least 200 euphemisms for death, including «to be in Abraham's bosom,» «just add maggots,» and «sleep with the Tribbles» (a Star Trek favorite).

OK, maybe just the extras, but admit it, we all get down, blue, under the weather, down - in - the - dumps or whatever euphemism for mild depression you want to use.

We do like that the site has stuck to the «fun» euphemism throughout, but we all know that everyone is there for just one thing.

His main enemy in discourse was euphemism, just as his main enemy in practice was the abuse of power, and (more important) the slavish willingness of people to submit to it.

When prodded about the possibility of the sequel arriving on other platforms, design director Jonathan Biddle coyly responded, «We're just talking about Wii U today,» which is the standard industry euphemism for, «Yeah we're making this game elsewhere as well, but our contract only let's us talk about this one today.»

Hundreds of thousands will have died due to the war (not just IS), and millions of lives will have been redirected, n many cases for the worse — and I don't mean «redirected» as a euphemism to cover up the numerous cases in which lives are more or less wrecked, only an inclusive term recognizing that many refugees will also eventually make satisfactory new lives for themselves in their new homelands.

I just think it's a basic minimum of conversation to admit what is common knowledge, the AGW consensus core is partisan left / green and they behave as such under various euphemisms to protect their goals.

«Turn out the lights on...» is a common euphemism for killing someone and I suspect your real name and identifiers just popped up on a screen at Langley or Fort Meade.

Let's keep the popular book title just that, rather than a euphemism for suffering significant losses.

Just as there are recommended action words for resumes I can envision someone creating euphemisms for resumes.

But continuing the euphemisms, I ended up Doorknocking and Double Ending a house just three doors down from this one... with the same clients.

You just know a day is going to be challenging when you wake up and discover the dog's upset stomach has done unspeakable things to the dining room carpet («upset stomach» may be a euphemism).