Sentences with phrase «onliness euphemisms»

They snort the word «awareness» as a euphemism for wasted opportunity and believe the only distinction between a good ad and a bad one is whether it triggers behaviour.

Turns out the art of the deal is really a euphemism for an eye - gouging brawl.

Those who believe the Times is anti-Trump and the Journal is pro-Trump will likely continue to do so regardless of which euphemism or adjective is used.

Madison Avenue has always struggled to market feminine - hygiene products, favoring euphemisms like «protection» and «freshness» alongside images of women frolicking on beaches in white pants.

Journalists are running out of euphemisms to say «Trump lied.»

And he provided a bit of levity during the hearing for former Gov. Rick Perry of Texas last month when Trump's nominee for energy secretary made an accidental euphemism while discussing his private meeting with Franken.

Some are shortcuts and euphemisms that serve only to shield people's true thoughts and keep them from voicing their opinions.

Even skeptics who once deployed euphemisms such as «robust» to describe Toronto real estate can no longer ignore the troubling forces at work.

Consider Awesense Wireless, the B.C. firm that has been helping that province hunt down non-technical losses — the industry's euphemism for energy theft.

Restaurants often lose several percentage points to product spoilage and «shrinkage» (a euphemism for employee theft).

«Adult use» is the marijuana industry's preferred euphemism for legal recreational use of cannabis, weed, pot — call it what you like.

While some find it easy to joke at job euphemisms, labels matter.

Trump calls it «fair trade,» a euphemism for managed trade through quotas, tariffs and the like.

«Yes, I don't want to go into that,» Mattis said, agreeing that his closely held military option involved kinetic action, a euphemism to describe lethal military force.

«If there's one takeaway from Ford ditching Fields,» Wired concludes, «it's that in our current transportation environment, «mobility» isn't so much a strategy as it is a euphemism for «we have no idea what's happening next.

That's a euphemism for a small bribe intended to get an official to perform a routine task more quickly.

«Business friendliness,» a euphemism for tax policy, found its way into Amazon's HQ2 request for proposal, showing that the world's biggest players are taking the new tax reforms seriously.

As your retirement date approaches, after 40 years of saving, planning and working, the word «volatility» can become a euphemism for danger.

Throughout 2017, AFRICOM reported a number of «self - defense strikes» against Shabaab in Somalia, a euphemism for close air support for offensive operations.

Even President Obama has previously supported a «blended» federal matching rate, which is a euphemism for shifting costs to the states.

All of these are not euphemisms, exactly, but they were powerful signifiers to the Playboy reader: She had been recognized as a perfect physical specimen, and had been rewarded for it in the farm leagues, but while she may have been circling close to the venues where nudity is required, there is very good chance — or at least it was plausible for the consumer to believe — that these Playboy photos were her first experience with the form.

When politicians want to cut a program, do not let them get away with their favorite euphemisms, like «reform,» «fix,» «overhaul,»... Read more

«their favorite euphemisms»... My favorite [NOT]: Block Grants.

In the past, people referred to «curing cancer» as an unrealistic goal, a euphemism for things that couldn't be conceived or achieved.

When politicians want to cut a program, do not let them get away with their favorite euphemisms, like «reform,» «fix,» «overhaul,» and so on.

In it we take issue with the government's promotion of «smart regulation», the current euphemism for -LSB-...]

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

What Benito Mussolini called «corporatism» in the 1920s (to give it its polite name) is now being achieved by Europe's large banks and financial institutions — ironically (but I suppose inevitably) under the euphemism of «free market economics.»

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.

«Saving the economy» has become a euphemism for the policy of keeping bad debts on the books and saving high finance from writing them down to reflect the realistic ability to pay.

The latter re-incorporated themselves as «banks» to get Federal Reserve handouts and access to the Fed's $ 2 trillion in «cash for trash» swaps crediting Wall Street with Fed deposits for otherwise «illiquid» loans and securities (the euphemism for toxic, fraudulent or otherwise insolvent and unmarketable debt instruments)-- at «cost» based on full mark - to - model fictitious valuations.

Everything is a matter of choice, not a necessity («price - inelastic» is the neoclassical euphemism) said Krugman:

The tax collector (a euphemism for taxpayers) suffers as investors across the economic spectrum borrow funds so as to leverage a higher return on equity.

The euphemism is to call debt «credit.»

This is especially the case for the largest firms, for these have been where most merger and acquisition activity (a euphemism for corporate raiding) has been concentrated.

Michael Hudson: They are using a lot of euphemisms as a cover for dismantling the fairly modest regulation that was put in by Dodd Frank.

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.

The policy of giving money to the wealthiest sectors — these days the financial sector — turns the trickle - down economy into a euphemism for the concentration of wealth.

The US equity markets are in the midst of a correction, consolidation, pullback or whatever other euphemism can be used to describe the recent modest decline in equity prices.

Let's look at the euphemisms as an exercise in doublethink.

The first ploy to serve bankers and bondholders is to place technocrats (a scientific sounding euphemism for bank lobbyists) in place of elected governments in Greece and Italy.

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Funny, but in my line of work, the concept of uncertainty is a euphemism for opportunity.

Corporate actions, returns of capital, share splits, whatever euphemism is used for shenanigans, can cause puzzlement and chaos.

This is the soap opera that Americans should be watching, if only it weren't conducted in the foreign language of jargon and euphemism.

By the way, pointing to people killed during pointless wars that past and current presidents and congress put soldiers into is not justification for killing babies (or you can use the euphemism «abortion»).

I have a problem with this euphemism because I believe that love is one of the most clarifying, visionary and rooted convictions you can have about another person.

The word «heaven» has come to denote an exterior place (where G - d lives)... but in the Jewish culture, it is a sin to speak the «real» name of G - d, and so EVERY «name» of G - d in the scriptures is a euphemism.

Hours earlier, Maj. Gen. Qassim Atta said in a press conference broadcast on state - run Iraqiya TV that 15 «Arabs» - in Iraq, a euphemism indicating they came from outside the country - were responsible for three deadly attacks in Baghdad in recent months, including a bloody church siege.

That's a pretty interesting euphemism for a prostitute.