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  • n  the manner in which something is expressed in words

  • But if you take the story at face value, the phraseology that DSouza uses, like "in the name of the church, I command you," seems to indicate this was a fairly formal procedure.
  • Once they had returned to that phraseology, Barnett says the Dalai Lama had almost no choice but to repudiate them.
  • Behind the document's clunky sentences constructed from boilerplate Party phraseology are changes that will vault China into the next, irrevocable stage of its evolution into a .
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  • Nancy Pelosi in National Review Online
    As Speaker Nancy Pelosi said, "It's difficult to say positive things in this environment and not have some snarky apologist for the White House turn it into clipped phraseology that looks like support for the president's policies."
  • LK Advani in Times of India
    The phraseology zero tolerance seems addressed not to the enemy of the country but to those who protect the country,Advani, who emphasised the need for greater intelligence on ISI modules in the country, said.
  • Vladimir Putin in Seattle Times
    Even if dictatorship is packaged in beautiful pseudo-democratic phraseology, it will not be able to solve systemic problems,Putin said. "It may even make them worse."

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