" In Washington, the polite term for what McGee called "the selling of access" is "political intelligence.
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Such a budget bought or, to use a more polite term, booked some very senior doctors.
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Our thought bubble: Private equity is the polite term for what used to be called leveraged buyouts.
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Borrowed, is the polite term for it, lots of ideas and lots of other building blocks that went into this.
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Follow any family line long enough and you are will encounter at least one "nonpaternity event," to use genealogists' polite term.
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Ethically dubious textbook "inducements"—the polite term for what skeptics say amount to bribes—have been illegal in a patchwork of states since at least the late 205s.
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Although government revenues are under pressure from the falling oil price, Mr Buhari hopes to offset that by plugging "leakages" (a polite term for theft) and taxing people and businesses more.
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After the cases against President Uhuru Kenyatta and his deputy were dropped a year ago, the court issued a "finding of non-co-operation", a polite term that included accusations of witness-tampering.
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On April 18th a senior South Korean official confirmed that talks about a permanent peace agreement and a possible security guarantee for North Korea were on the table for the inter-Korean summit, along with a joint statement about "denuclearisation"—a polite term for scrapping North Korea's nuclear arsenal.
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In some Arab countries, especially Egypt and the Levant, "Madam", pronounced with a long second "a" as in the French, is used generally as a polite term for a married woman.
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The term was pronounced like "sing-song" in English and the young women always sang to entertain the customers; thus Westerners called them Sing-Song girls. The word sian sang in this case is a polite term used to refer to an entertainer.
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Goodman was once a polite term of address, used where Mister (Mr.) would be used today. A man addressed by this title was, however, of a lesser social rank than a man addressed as Mister. Compare Goodwife. The terms were used in England and Puritan New England.
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He accompanied the Free State commandos to its western border. During the Siege of Kimberley he shot two captured natives (then the polite term) on the grounds that they were allegedly scouts. General Christiaan de Wet used him as a scout and later promoted him to captain in charge of his own reconnaissance corps.
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This term was traditionally a slang term in Iran, and it has been completely a derogatory term since the Pahlavi era. In Iran, they are also called mullah, molavi, sheikh, haj-agha, or rohani. The word rohani means "spiritual, holy". Rohani is considered a more polite term for Muslim clerics, used by Iranian national television and radio and by devout Muslim families.
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Ajumma is a less polite term than ajumeoni, which means the same thing but is more respectful. In circumstances where the addressed person is not considerably older than the speaker, or is socially higher than the speaker, it is highly likely that the addressee will be offended when called ajumma. Therefore it is better to use ajumeoni, eomonim (a respectful term for someone else's mother), or samonim.
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His granddaughter then mourns his death. When Murali asks Amy about her knowledge in Tamil and why she did not speak it before, Amy blankly stares at the Cooum River. She narrates her younger days to the three of them. Following a series of secret meetings between Parithi and Amy, love blossoms between them, and Parithi affectionately calls her "Durai Amma" (lady/female lord), a polite term of addressing British women.
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The most usual word for urine was ūrīna, which is attested in Latin as early as Cicero, and became the usual polite term. The relationship with the Greek verb (oureō), "to urinate", is not clear. In Classical Latin, however, the verb ūrīnārī meant "to dive into water", and ūrīnātor was "a diver", ūrīnantēs "those who dive". Catullus (37) writes contemptuously of a certain Spaniard who was one of the lovers of his girlfriend Lesbia: :tū praeter omnēs ūne de capillātīs, cunīculōsae Celtiberiae fīlī, Egnātī.
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Peng Nguan Street is named after Lim Peng Nguan, an early settler and the father of the community leader Lim Nee Soon. Tiong Bahru was surrounded by the Sit Wah and Outram roads. Beyond were mangrove swamp and hillocks. Tiong Bahru was then also known as Mei Ren Wo ("den of beauties") as it was where wealthy men would keep their mistresses. Due to close proximity to the Great World Amusement Park, there was a predominance of ‘pipa girls’ within the SIT estate, which refers to a more polite term for prostitutes.
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On February 11, 1960, Jack Paar walked off his show, most unexpectedly in the midst of the program – an absence that lasted almost a month – after NBC censors edited out a segment taped the night before about a joke involving a "WC" ("water closet", a polite term for a flush toilet) being confused for a "wayside chapel". As he left his desk, he said, "I am leaving The Tonight Show. There must be a better way of making a living than this". Paar's abrupt departure left his startled announcer to finish the late-night broadcast himself.
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