(1) Maybe it's left him knackered, but when we talk in the backroom of an ad hoc campaign office in the small agricultural town of Thrapston, he answers most questions using standard-issue candidate's boilerplate.
(2) He answered a series of boilerplate queries from the thin media corps at ringside, delivering a blend of straight talk and curious bon mots.
(3) There was also criticism of the media who gave rolling coverage to Trump’s rally in Florida on Saturday, which Oliver called “pointless” and filled with “boilerplate Trump: the media is fake, Chicago is a nightmare, I’m the greatest.” Facebook Twitter Pinterest Last week, Oliver called Trump a “ pathological liar ” in a scalding episode which marked the start of the show’s fourth season.
(4) Witness the impact of an otherwise boilerplate broadcast by the Prince of Wales last December that made headlines : “Prince Charles warns of return to the ‘dark days of the 1930s’ in Thought for the Day message.” Or consider the reflex response to reports that Donald Trump was to maintain his own private security force even once he had reached the White House.
(5) Rudd talks cheerfully but steadily, as if he's neither reciting boilerplate nor overly impressed by his career.
(6) For once, the grand parliamentary boilerplate appeared apt.
(7) During part of the talks open to media, Xi and Lew spoke in boilerplate diplomatic language about drawing on shared strengths to bolster bilateral ties.
(8) He lied about opposing the Iraq war , criticized Obama’s 2011 withdrawal and repeated his now-boilerplate advocacy of stealing Iraq’s oil – a measure that he evidently believes would require a minimal force presence, despite the certainty that the well-armed locals might have a problem with their principal source of wealth being plundered by a foreign power.
(9) The public boilerplate, as it so often does, hides a difficult and often acrimonious relationship.
(10) Every presidential aspirant issues that boilerplate – as it elides an explanation of what the candidate thinks is worth fighting for – but Clinton’s long public record, which she uses as a selling point against Trump, gives reason to doubt it.
(11) Indeed, in the boilerplate language of financial prospectuses, past results are no guarantee of future results; and there are already investment models showing that non-FFC funds deliver better proceeds.
(12) Instead, for months, we’ve heard almost nothing from the administration beyond a couple boilerplate, lukewarm expressions of “concern” as the death toll has mounted over a year and a half.
(13) There was lots of New Labour boilerplate about "the values of the mainstream majority", but I don't think Brown manage to meld this into a vision of the future that will resonate with the public.
(14) And, too, because no matter how much practice you have at blathering and how much boilerplate you can regurgitate, unscripted moments can be as rough on cable heads as on politicians.
(15) A 50-minute meeting might have produced little of substance – Modi reiterated India's longstanding complaints about terrorists launched from Pakistani soil to wreak havoc on its interests and citizens, Sharif uttered platitudes about an "historic opportunity" – but even the banality of the diplomatic boilerplate could not hide an unexpected sense of optimism.
(16) It introduces the biography of the candidate, striking the usual boilerplate themes of a middle class yet aspirational childhood, a love of baseball and a close knit neighbourhood where Weiner's parents worked hard and raised their kids.
(17) After three weeks of campaigning, she appears to have passed the point where she can answer questions with much more than awkward boilerplate, but I have to ask: are Diane James and the Farage army a worry?
(18) A lawyer he consulted provided him with a boilerplate employee handbook, which didn’t have much to say about diversity, and told him that he could write a more extensive handbook when the company was bigger.
(19) For instance, a boilerplate attack on the Home Secretary ended with a passage that could have come from a Daily Express leader: "Michael Howard said he was building six tough new prisons.
Official
Definition:
(n.) Of or pertaining to an office or public trust; as, official duties, or routine.
(n.) Derived from the proper office or officer, or from the proper authority; made or communicated by virtue of authority; as, an official statement or report.
(n.) Approved by authority; sanctioned by the pharmacopoeia; appointed to be used in medicine; as, an official drug or preparation. Cf. Officinal.
(n.) Discharging an office or function.
(a.) One who holds an office; esp., a subordinate executive officer or attendant.
(a.) An ecclesiastical judge appointed by a bishop, chapter, archdeacon, etc., with charge of the spiritual jurisdiction.
Example Sentences:
(1) In January 2011, the Nobel peace prize laureate was admitted to a Johannesburg hospital for what officials initially described as tests but what turned out to be an acute respiratory infection .
(2) A survey carried out two and three years after the launch of the official campaign also showed a reduction in the prevalence of rickets in children taking low dose supplements equivalent to about 2.5 micrograms (100 IU) vitamin D daily.
(3) An official inquiry into the Rotherham abuse scandal blamed failings by Rotherham council and South Yorkshire police.
(4) Faisal Abu Shahla, a senior official in Fatah, an organisation responsible for a good deal of repression of its own when it was in power, accuses Hamas of holding 700 political prisoners in Gaza as part of a broad campaign to suppress dissent.
(5) A dozen peers hold ministerial positions and Westminster officials are expecting them to keep the paperwork to run the country flowing and the ministerial seats warm while their elected colleagues fight for votes.
(6) Greek officials categorically denied the report with many describing it as a "joke".
(7) This is not an argument for the status quo: teaching must be given greater priority within HE, but the flipside has to be an understanding on the part of students, ministers, officials, the public and the media that academics (just like politicians) cannot make everyone happy all of the time.
(8) Meanwhile, Hunt has been accused of backtracking on a key recommendation in the official report into Mid Staffs.
(9) A Palestinian delegation was to hold truce talks on Sunday in Cairo with senior US and Egyptian officials, but Israel has said it sees no point in sending its negotiators to the meeting, citing what it says are Hamas breaches of previous agreed truces.
(10) Channel 4 News said on Friday that Manji and the programme’s producer, ITN, had made an official complaint to press regulator Ipso.
(11) It can feel as though an official opinion has been issued.
(12) In one of Pruitt’s first official acts, for example, he overruled the recommendation of his own agency’s scientists, based on years of meticulous research, to ban a pesticide shown to cause nerve damage, one that poses a clear risk to children, farmworkers and rural drinking water supplies.
(13) Sawers's views are echoed by both US and Israeli officials.
(14) An official from Cafcass, the children and family court advisory service, tried to persuade the child in several interviews, but eventually the official told the court that further persuasion was inappropriate and essentially abusive.
(15) When allegations of systemic doping and cover-ups first emerged in the runup to the 2013 Russian world athletics championships, an IOC spokesman insisted: “Anti-doping measures in Russia have improved significantly over the last five years with an effective, efficient and new laboratory and equipment in Moscow.” London Olympics were sabotaged by Russia’s doping, report says Read more We now know that the head of that lauded Moscow lab, Grigory Rodchenko, admitted to intentionally destroying 1,417 samples in December last year shortly before Wada officials visited.
(16) Governmental officials as well as medical scientists in Taiwan have worked hard in recent years to develop and to implement various measures, such as prenatal diagnosis and neonatal screening, to lower the incidence of hereditary diseases and mental retardation in the population.
(17) My father wrote to the official who had ruled I could not ride and asked for Championships to be established for girls.
(18) Analysis of official registers reveals the 38 companies in the first wave of the initiative – more than two-thirds of which are based overseas – have collectively had 698 face-to-face meetings with ministers under the current government, prompting accusations of an over-cosy relationship between corporations and ministers.
(19) But late last month, Amisom pushed them out of Afgoye, a strategic stronghold 30km from Mogadishu, where Amisom officials say the militants used to manufacture explosives used in attacks on the capital.
(20) Without a renewables target, Energy Department officials said, it would be possible for a large proportion of this shortfall to be met by gas-fired power generation.