The phrasing of the clause responded directly to Lord Mansfield’s ruling. A model of circumlocution, the resulting clause is the closest of the so-called Slave Clauses (Article I, Section 2 ...

That circumlocution is tantamount to a direct rejection of Tbilisi’s long-standing argument that the Abkhaz and South Ossetian leaders are merely Russian puppets that obediently carry out its ...

Patients who describe what a word means instead of providing the name are employing circumlocution. When patients fail to recognize what an object is, they are exhibiting visual agnosia caused by ...

Consistent with NYSDOT’s customary circumlocution, the elevation of these buildings is only referred to as “sufficient height to disperse the treated air.” Illustrations, however ...

Evil has become a determinant reality. It can no longer be dismissed from the world by a circumlocution. We must learn how to handle it, since it is here to stay. How we can live with it without ...

Body language, and confidence coaching expert Karen Donaldson, joined in on a recent episode of the global health and ...

The President can do nothing for freedom in a direct manner, but only by circumlocution [evasive language] and delay!" Finally, in January 1865, near the end of Lincoln's first term, Congress ...

However, Newspeak is also “marked by euphemism, circumlocution, and the inversion of customary meanings”, and this is very familiar in today’s world of soundbites, jargon and corporate ...

Fiorina , Toulouse. France The verb to enjoy + direct object has no equivalence in French, or Spanish - you have to use a circumlocution to get the idea across. David, Barnsley UK Actually ...

David Dowling makes a good point (Letters, April 8) about the illogicality of pronunciation as practised by our southern friends. My own ...