That last phrase is where you have the opportunity to sing your praises framed as a benefit to your conversation partner.
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He had not taken "great pains to make sure that every last phrase I used in every email ... could not be misinterpreted if taken into a context such as this".
McCain's campaign said Obama's remarks were offensive and a slap at vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin, despite the fact that the Arizona senator himself used the phrase last year to describe a policy proposal of Hillary Clinton's.
As we wait to see whether Mario Draghi and the European Central Bank will tomorrow announce "whatever it takes" to save the euro (to use his resonant phrase of last week), it is worth reminding ourselves of the eurozone's unhealthy lifestyle (forgive my anthropomorphising please).
Did you notice the key phrase in that last paragraph?
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So are the negative connotations associated with the phrase "that's so last season" changing?
That vague phrase may be sharpened by a decision last month by Switzerland to phase out nuclear power, after similar decisions in Sweden, Italy and Germany.
An anchor who used the same phrase was suspended, the sports network said last Sunday.
The same phrase capped President Bush's speech to the nation last month, the words symbolising courage.
The first is, you phrased the phrase "wake-up call" about the election last night.
The key may lie in the phrase "unslakeable thirsting in the backyard" in the last verse. (Yes, "unslakeable, " as in "insatiable, " one example of Veirs' idiosyncratic use of language.) She's not crass enough to spell it out so explicitly, but she's equating emotional longing with heat-wave dehydration, in a wonderfully subtle way.
Last year, Apple filed for a trademark on its buzz-worthy phrase, "There's an app for that, " which was used in a commercial for the iPhone.
The phrase "a number of incidents" was included in a report to the council's executive board last month and details of some of the 25 incidents around the building have since been confirmed.
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