In Third World rhetoric, "corruption" as often as not is a euphemism for political deviation.
The dreaded risutora--restructuring, the euphemism for layoffs--has not hit his firm yet, but he is waiting.
This was not about free markets, globalized economies, industrialization, democratization or any other such euphemism for Westernization.
Even violent extremism, which is the approved euphemism of our government didn't make it into the report.
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Cool was not the idiom for Mingus, an artist variously described as "mercurial, " "volcanic, " "volatile" choose your euphemism.
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Despite Ghedini's protestations of his client's innocence, the phrase has become a euphemism for men who use prostitutes.
Alas, those excess savings are a euphemism for excess money creation by central banks, particularly the Federal Reserve.
Or is "relearn" just a euphemism designed to conceal that their high school education was a total waste?
Lawyers tried this with busing and affirmative action and the results have been, to use a journalistic euphemism, decidedly mixed.
This turns out to be a euphemism for a ten-minute stumble over broken pavements, through the traffic fumes of south London.
While Senator McCain is a committed free trader, Senator Obama is hawking protectionist nostrums, including "renegotiating" (a euphemism for gutting) Nafta.
Until 1987, when the first democratic presidential election in three decades was held, dissenters risked being labeled radicals, a euphemism for communist.
But Mr Reed, vice-chairman of the Police Federation, which represents rank-and-file officers, said Mrs May's talk of reform was "a euphemism for cuts".
Its credit rating has been downgraded by Moody's to "not prime" (a euphemism for junk) and it's losing its chief executive, Barry Tootell.
As Thailand's best-known "influential person, " the local euphemism for underworld don, Somchai dresses to character in a loud Hawaiian shirt and heavy gold amulets.
Many economists have already concluded that elevated unemployment rates are structural (a euphemism for long-term) when it comes to getting America back to work.
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Reduced to its essence, the regional strategy is a euphemism for throwing Free Iraq to the wolves in its neighborhood: Iran, Syria and Saudi Arabia.
Hyde The word "challenge" is often a euphemism for a problem.
Raines also has no patience for Washington policyspeak, or political euphemism.
While New BAC sounds fancy, it is really a euphemism for layoffs, consolidations and improving processes to make the Company run more efficiently with fewer employees.
The 9 flavors including fruit punch, blue raspberry, and orange blend (is this an euphemism for Tang-flavored?) are clearly not geared towards those with discerning palates.
"The Nationwide talks of stability, but this is little more than a euphemism for stagnation, " said Matt Hutchinson, director of flat and house sharing website Spareroom.co.uk.
As we noted in 2011, Young did more than anyone else to transform Detroit from an economic powerhouse to a decrepit heckhole, to adapt an Obama euphemism.
Lord knows I am not the smartest person in the world, the brightest bulb, the sharpest knife or any other euphemism you want to trot out connoting intelligence.
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But by 1997 it had become a euphemism for irrelevance.
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Such behavior is to be expected from a statist bureaucrat who wants European governments to "harmonize" tax practices, a euphemism for forcing every nation to adopt punitively high, suffocating levies.
On the 30-year fixed mortgages I was looking at, rates ranged from 4.17% to 4.41% with zero points (an industry euphemism for a commission calculated as a percentage of the loan amount).
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In diplomatese, "Middle East nuclear-free zone" is a well-accepted euphemism for stripping Israel of its purported nuclear capability while turning a blind eye to Iranian, Syrian and other Islamic nuclear weapons programs.
Your time is no longer your own, and you resign yourself to "maturity, " "filling out" or whatever euphemism for middle age that soothes that idea that you are simply overweight, unfit and unhealthy.
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