Sentences with phrase «with weasel words»

Legal writing disaster: Making a mess with weasel words and grammar gaffes.

Here we go again with the weasel words.

Instead of a straightforward and open defense of their agenda, I anticipate that the U.S. Department of Education — Gates — AFT — Fordham coalition (along with their two hired assessment consortia and corporate backers) will respond with weasel words.

He has tried to hide it with his weasel words about the LT but we remember how he sabotaged the Bill Cash amendment and his platform of not allowing anti-EU MPs on the front bench.

Not exact matches

Barry Sheerman, chairman of the parliamentary cross-party has reacted to all this with admirable frankness: no weasel words here, simply an open suspicion of all religion when it is actually believed rather than just talked about.

By comparison a bachelor of midwifery is a degree that blends science - based medicine with psuedo - science and anti-science (under that weasel - worded banner of anti-enlightenment casuistry» different ways of knowing»), women's studies, cultural safety and the humanities.

Having learned from those failures the U.S. Department of Education — Gates — AFT — Fordham coalition is trying to advance nationalization with piece - meal steps disguised in weasel words.

And unsurprisingly, the NEA heartily approved of the report's findings, with the union's VP Becky Pringle providing the weasel words: «America's educators stand in solidarity with our students of color.

And I doubt that it would take any more time than their current system takes: after all, it must involve a lot of effort coming up with all these weasel - worded press releases and websites: they don't write themselves.

Originating from the Greek word zobel, but appearing in similar forms in half a dozen other ancient languages, this word (as a noun) refers to the ermine, a weasel with glossy dark fur.

1) The early pages of the paper are filled — appropriately — with what I would characterize as scientific «weasel words», phrases that capture the hypothetical and speculative nature of the paper's assertions.

You can not «play with words» to try to weasel out of what is clearly your belief.

Sure, there are weasel - worded «mights» and «coulds» pertaining to natural causes interspersed with the actual conclusions they want you to reach where any * normal * reader would rightfully conclude that the inclusion of the weasel words is specifically intended to form an inclusive contrast (why yes we looked at natural stuff and sure there's a slight possibility this could be natural or even the result of evil dolphins, but really?

Judith Curry, with respect, why deploy the weasel - word «effectively» when it's more fair to just quote the report directly?

In other words, Corey Lewandowski isn't just a liar but a sneaky little weasel liar who waited on his lie until he thought he could get away with it.

Fortunately, there are Realtors out there like PED, Carolyne L, Ross K, and many others who contribute, or who do not contribute, to this forum, who DO NOT blindly subscribe to the OREcrats» theory of SELL, SELL, SELL... at any cost (sometimes based upon in - house produced slick marketing gimmicks masquerading as self - help documents with mealy - mouthed weasel - word warnings that ultimately are bereft of any good sound legal foundations).