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1. There is mounting concern…
2. X is being portrayed erroneously…
3. The problems they have faced…have been compounded…
4. X is more gung-ho than Y…
5. There was a fine line between information and propaganda…
6. …changing tack…
7. …to bolster a beleaguered person
8. …X and Y have used that characteristic device of diplomacy, the high-profile phone call…
9. …diplomatic haggle…
10. …it is ill-suited to the short attention span of highly competitive media…
phrases culled from Michael White and Ian Black’s article "Whitehall in spin over lack of public support". The Guardian, Feb 20 1998.
1. Voices of dissent were crushed…
2. to table a (UN) Resolution…
3. impact on people minimized; impact on regime maximized
4. an inescapable conclusion
5. to consistently reject all attempts
6. to live a life of luxury in stark contrast to the avoidable misery
phrases 2-6 culled from Robin Cook’s article in The Guardian of Feb 20, 1998; phrase 1 culled from Maggie O’Kane’s article.
1. This is not a rhetorical menace
2. their influence is crippled…
3. there is a theory doing the rounds that this is all a ruse…
4. intellectually hostile to the possibility of peace…
5. if the ceasefire shatters into fireworks, what then?
6. the precedent is not conclusive…
7. this is the blurred world of realpolitik…
8. you don’t have to buy…sophistry to see that peace depends upon find ing a way… and that settlement matters more than protocol…
culled from Decca Aitkenhead’s article in The Guardian of Feb 20,1998.
1. In extenuation, he argues that…
2. honesty is always refreshing, but it may not get us much closer to tackling what is a very complex subject, made more so by being so highly politicised…
3. it all sounded great combative stuff…
4. …yet it has had no perceptible effect…
5. fulfill the more modest pledge
6. there are substantial arguments in X’s favour…
7. regarding it as the touchstone for performance…
8. the only criterion by which to judge…
9. in the longer term, the debate has to get off this roller-coasting argument…
10. …without being fixated by one particular set of statistics…
11. some categories may be of marginal importance
culled from the article in the Guardian of Feb 20,1998, Waiting for Dobot.
1. By his rogue initiative…
2. he aligned himself with the cat-calling placard-wielding europhobes…
3. …so stuck in the past they were unable to see the present let alone the future.
4. the…dilemma has not lost its corrosive power…
5. spasms of scepticism will continue…
from the article in the Guardian of Feb 20,1998, A Tory Ache.
1. I was teetering on the edge of… gender confrontation…
2. …scurrilous dissection of male ill manners…
3. …to experience such admonishment - albeit without recourse - was quite exciting…
4. …the ritual of the movie post-mortem…
5. …could be regarded as the nadir in the representation of male behaviour…
6. manipulated into feigning feelings…
7. …steers a revisionist course from its predecessor…
8. …a sociopath of jaw-dropping malice…