(1) But these qualities in Bush were all too apparent in last night's interview, particularly in the way he would dance away from any acknowledgement of culpability by saying that he could "understand why people feel that way", whether it be about what he euphemistically called a "lack of a crisp response" to Hurricaine Katrina, or anger at the bank bailouts.
(2) Then there’s that thing euphemistically called ‘shrinkage’ – when money goes missing.
(3) They prop up and artificially inflate profit margins (or “surpluses” as they are euphemistically called in the public sector).
(4) What similarities exist concern the two countries’ euphemistic description of their involvement: Russia is claiming an operation against the Islamic State while actually attacking enemies of client Bashar al-Assad, whereas the US is bombing Isis in Syria while treating the country as peripheral to a central conflict in neighboring Iraq.
(5) Chicken wing This euphemistically named move is classified broadly by the National Rugby League as dangerous contact in which players try to bend or twist limbs in such a way that causes an “unacceptable risk of injury”.
(6) Cut taxes at the top and deregulate business (euphemistically called "cutting red tape") so that the "wealth creators" have greater incentives to invest and generate growth; and make hiring and firing easier.
(7) There was little "eve-teasing" – as sexual harrassment is often euphemistically called in India – because fathers would unite to ensure anyone troubling their daughters stopped.
(8) Toru Hashimoto, the young, brash mayor of Osaka who is also co-leader of an emerging conservative political party, said on Monday there was no clear evidence that the Japanese military coerced women to become what are euphemistically called "comfort women".
(9) However, that assumption is, as the report states euphemistically, "high compared with recent history".
(10) But perhaps once we are lulled into an imaginative world where a "baby" lamb or the "baby" queen scallop can be "resting" (in the scallop's case, resting itself on another baby, this time a "baby gem", since vegetables too – baby carrots, baby greens – can share in the general babyhood of all nice things, and participate in tottering towers of babies all stacked up for our gastric enjoyment), we are cocooned in such a euphemistic dream that the incipient act of putting these "baby" organisms into our mouths doesn't register as the horrific dissonance it otherwise might.
(11) "You are being euphemistic when you say lack of accountability.
(12) The two instances prompt the question: who does Britain befriend in its quest for what are euphemistically called “trade” and “investment”?
(13) One libel settlement, or even a robust defence of a hopeless case, would need several hundred subscribers to traverse your paywall or euphemistic "value gate" for a year before it is paid for.
(14) On a base level, when we buy a £10 pair of trousers, surely we know what we are buying into: cheap clothes, sometimes euphemistically called "affordable fashion" or "fast fashion" are almost always produced on the backs of exploitation, many of them women, and sometimes children.
(15) The ministry of home affairs has announced that legislation on sexual harassment – known euphemistically in India as "eve-teasing" – will be tightened.
(16) "We did not realise our power, but instead relied on donors, that we euphemistically called partners."
(17) She has arrived lugging a gym bag, hair wet from what she describes as a "sleepover" at a friend's house, and she is not being euphemistic.
(18) The lack of safe public transport in Indian cities is one major factor with "eve teasing", as sexual harassment is euphemistically known, endemic on overcrowded buses.
(19) Thévenoud, who was appointed secretary of state for foreign trade in the Socialist government reshuffle at the end of August, was fired just nine days later after it was discovered he had what was euphemistically described as "problems of conformity with his taxes".
(20) When a manager has what is euphemistically described as a selection headache it is fascinating to wonder what the impulses are behind a key decision.
Faeces
Definition:
(n.pl.) Excrement; ordure; also, settlings; sediment after infusion or distillation.
Example Sentences:
(1) The faeces of forty-two were examined microscopically for nematode eggs.
(2) Access to human faeces, poor feeding and lack of deworming were also very evident.
(3) 0.5 to 1 gram pure Bismuth per day and person leaves the patients naturally by faeces.
(4) Of a given dose of DDE, 31% was excreted in the faeces as polar metabolites within 14 days, and 3-4% dose as DDE.
(5) Examination of cattle faeces demonstrated that six-month-old calves excreted moderate numbers of N battus eggs in June and July, thus contaminating next season's sheep grazing.
(6) [35S]Cyst(e)ine activity was detected in the faeces, but not in plasma or wool.
(7) At different times after starting feeding or injection, tissues (albumen gland, digestive gland and digestive tube, central nervous system, remainder parts), hemolymph and faeces were analyzed for unchanged 2,2'- or 4,4'-DCB.
(8) Buxtonella sulcata cysts were recovered from the faeces of adult cows on nine commercial dairy farms.
(9) Investigation of the concentration of norfloxacin in the faeces revealed that a substantial fraction of the dose was either absorbed or inactivated by faecal substances.
(10) Enterococcus faecalis was predominant in human and poultry faeces, Streptococcus bovis was typical of the bovine faeces and to a lesser extent also of pig faeces whereas Enterococcus durans, Ent.
(11) 15N excretion in urine and faeces increased in comparable relations in 6 cases of lysine increase levels only.
(12) Twenty-four (82.7%) out of 29 patients suffering from hospital acquired urinary infections by Klebsiella pneumoniae had the same species in their faeces.
(13) In a series of outbreaks of food-poisoning associated with the consumption of cockles, no bacterial pathogens were demonstrable either in faeces of patients or in cockles.
(14) Additionally the excretion of NDEA-F6 and NDBA-F14 in expired air, urine and faeces was studied after oral application to the rat.
(15) Presumably IgG in the gut is partially destroyed before being excreted with faeces.
(16) An experimental model of colonic urinary diversion was performed on male Wistar rats to see if faeces, urine or a faeces and urine mixture produces tumours.
(17) Faecal cultures were established using bovine faeces containing known numbers of eggs from either Oesophagostomum radiatum, Haemonchus placei, Cooperia pectinata or a mixture of all three.
(18) On the basis of previously obtained evidence that Gram-negative bacteria may influence the activity of leukaemia, a study of the composition of the flora, the immune stimulation by the Gram-negative bacteria and the endotoxin concentration in faeces was conducted in patients with low-grade malignant B-cell lymphoma as well as in patients with acute leukaemia.
(19) Rotaviruses and mycoplasma-like particles were observed in the faeces of calves with and without diarrhoea.
(20) The hepta-, hexa- and penta-carboxylic porphyrins found in the faeces of rats poisoned with hexachlorobenzene have been separated by high-pressure liquid chromatography and characterized largely by spectroscopie methods.