• Smaller notebook computers, now euphemistically called " ultrabooks ", were thinner and smaller than ever.

    CNN: How the Consumer Electronics Show lost its spark

  • Those regulations euphemistically describe what Obamacare will do to the cost of insurance for young people.

    FORBES: Move up http://i.forbesimg.com t Move down

  • He has endorsed female genital mutilation as a - which is euphemistically referred to as female circumcision.

    CENTERFORSECURITYPOLICY: Center For Security Policy

  • The bonanza is ultimately due to what is euphemistically called taxpayers largesse, which will only grow in time.

    ECONOMIST: No demographic time bomb

  • "We had a wee bit of a disagreement, putting it euphemistically, " said Brown.

    BBC: Craig Brown lands punch as Motherwell exit Europe

  • Why, only became clear several weeks later when a letter arrived from Swiss railways euphemistically named "revenue protection service".

    BBC: Swiss love affair with rail turns sour

  • On the other hand, one could euphemistically say that Coach Tressel strategically misrepresented and under-reported the facts as he knew them.

    FORBES: Coach Tressel's Hypocrisy, Deception Damaging To Ohio State

  • In fact, what the global taxers euphemistically call "innovative sources of financing" and "solidarity levies to fund development" are already being imposed.

    CENTERFORSECURITYPOLICY: Hidden agenda

  • Counterinsurgency operations place a premium on different weaponry and tactics than would conflicts with what are now euphemistically called "peer" or "near-peer" competitors.

    CENTERFORSECURITYPOLICY: Gordon England��s war

  • The FDA issued what's euphemistically known as an "approvable" letter, saying that Provenge could be approved in the future if Dendreon passes more hurdles.

    FORBES: Dendreon's Dilemma

  • But the magnitude of Chek Lap Kok's euphemistically named "teething problems" suggest that it was a long way from being ready on July 6.

    CNN: A Date with Disaster

  • But exempting itself from losses in the event of what is euphemistically called "official-sector involvement, " or OSI, may not be that easy for the fund.

    WSJ: Euro-Zone Bailouts Leave Public Creditors at a Loss

  • Many would also put a free press on that list - and what the World Bank euphemistically calls "higher public participation in public policy formulation".

    BBC: China: Does it have to become more like us?

  • In what are (sometimes euphemistically) called the developing countries, one year seems to follow the next without any booms or busts, just deadness in the water.

    FORBES: Magazine Article

  • In India it is euphemistically referred to as "eve teasing", in Japan groping on the subway has long been a problem, and the attack on Lara Logan in Egypt gained international attention.

    BBC: Why do men shout at women in the street?

  • If these groups have remained (relatively) coherent, the next stage of the battle for Mali could comprise what is euphemistically known as "assymetrical warfare" -- suicide bombings, IEDs and assassinations.

    CNN: Mali: The long, troubled desert road ahead

  • It is time to draw a firm line against what the UN euphemistically calls 'innovative funding mechanisms' and John Bolton is the man to do it on the East River.

    CENTERFORSECURITYPOLICY: Orgs oppose 'globotaxes,' give Bolton recess appt

  • It means around the country, there are tens of thousands of incidents of what is euphemistically called "unrest" every year, and land seizure lie at the heart of many of them.

    BBC: Taking on China's corruption

  • In solitary -- also called "the box" and "the hole" by prisoners, or euphemistically, "segregation" and "special housing" by corrections officials -- inmates have virtually no social contact, except for occasional transactions with guards.

    CNN: No kid should be in solitary confinement

  • Its military is accused of forcing roughly 200, 000 women, mainly from Korea and China, to serve as sex slaves -- they were known euphemistically as "comfort women" -- for soldiers in the Imperial Army.

    CNN: Japan fires military chief over WWII denial

  • If the Putin-Medvedev regime gets away unscathed with this violent reassertion of authority over what it euphemistically calls the "Near Abroad, " all of its once-enslaved neighbors will once again be at risk of Moscow's predations.

    CENTERFORSECURITYPOLICY: Job One for #44

  • But when it comes to "eve teasing" (as this practice is euphemistically called), I would argue the opposite: It is precisely the stubborn hold of India's prudish culture that has made many Indian men so callow.

    WSJ: India Needs a Sexual Revolution

  • Last week, Vice President Joe Biden offered the latest - and arguably the clearest - evidence of Team Obama's strategy for victory in what was once euphemistically known as the "War on Terror": Define down the enemy.

    CENTERFORSECURITYPOLICY: Defining down the enemy

  • The idea of charges for university education (euphemistically known as top-up fees) strikes fear into the hearts of parents neither poor enough to benefit from state hand-outs nor rich enough not to feel the pinch of high tuition fees.

    ECONOMIST: The battle-lines over university fees have been drawn

  • What Noda refers to euphemistically as a "socialist system" in the countryside has helped push Japan into what Moody's notes is the highest level of debt for any major economy since the end of World War II: 140% of GDP.

    FORBES: Japan's Dirty Secrets

  • They and, for that matter, supporters of the war effort can legitimately feel frustration that the "security situation in Iraq" (as it is euphemistically known) has not been stabilized before now in Baghdad and other persistent areas of insurgent activity.

    CENTERFORSECURITYPOLICY: Democratic defeatism

  • That will be especially true if, as is also predictable, the Israelis are blamed for the outcome for not being willing enough in the face of Palestinian intractability to make what are euphemistically called "painful" moves for peace.

    CENTERFORSECURITYPOLICY: Staticidal zealotry

  • This in turn led, directly and inexorably, to the rollback of the Soviet expansion in the southern latitudes, to the liberation of the captive nations in its hegemony euphemistically called satellites, and, finally, to the dissolution of the USSR itself.

    FORBES: How Jack Kemp And Charlie Wilson Saved The World

  • Brown banquettes upholstered in what the French euphemistically call moleskin but North Americans know as leatherette line both walls of the long, narrow railroad-car-like dining room, and there's a little bar just inside the front door where your bill is tallied and taxis are called.

    NPR: Excerpt: 'Hungry for Paris'

  • Even the Bush administration has reportedly begun contingency planning to start a draw-down this fall irrespective of the circumstances on the ground in response to an expected domestic political imperative demanding what is euphemistically called a "new strategy" come September.

    CENTERFORSECURITYPOLICY: Dunkirk in the desert

$firstVoiceSent
- 来自原声例句
小调查
请问您想要如何调整此模块?

感谢您的反馈,我们会尽快进行适当修改!
进来说说原因吧 确定
小调查
请问您想要如何调整此模块?

感谢您的反馈,我们会尽快进行适当修改!
进来说说原因吧 确定