Terms such as "moderate" and "radical" are bandied about so freely as to mean next to nothing, and cliched phrases like "sleeper cells, " "alienated Muslims, " "radicalization, " and "homegrown terrorists" degrade the language to the point that they structure the thinking about the Muslims living among us.

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This will be little comfort to Mr Mitchell or his party since it allows Labour and other critics to point out that either a senior minister used appalling and offensive language to a police officer or he is saying that one of those tasked with protecting the prime minister is lying.

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More to the point, these online networks have already entered the language.

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That might mean tapping into a well-established language, like ASL or International Sign Language, or finding some other way to get a point across.

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As expected, the Tuesday meeting delivered another 25 basis-point increase in the benchmark interest rate, to 4.25%, but the language of the accompanying statement contained both hawkish and dovish signals.

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Because she says sometimes in her experience the Russians have taken language, even non-binding preamble language like in the START treaty, and used it to justify an argument or a point of view.

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To be able to use it tongue-in-cheek at this point suggests that we've come a long way and that there is less power for such language to do us harm when we appropriate it and make jokes out of it.

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