It's just a euphemism for killing, right?

Yet, in most places, family care remains a euphemism for a single usually female caregiver.

I use the euphemism digestive comfort actually it's a digestive discomfort, which the gut is concerned with.

I suspect that's possibly a euphemism for C student who spent a lot of time in his room? Is it possible?

OIOS noted the general perception that the term intelligence has negative connotations and that military information is used as a euphemism.

That is often a euphemism referring to the many civilians who are going to die, or who have in fact died, and is to justify military objectives.

Paragraph 114 improperly places blame on international trade for worldwide problems related to food, while the phrase democratic agrarian reform seems to be a euphemism for non market .

This approach provides a kind of euphemism, aimed partly at keeping the situation low key and partly at avoiding a negative reaction from other countries that may not be agreeable to a humanitarian policy.

Typically enough, no EU country has mentioned Taiwan as a reason not to resume arms exports. Instead, the EU talks of a code of conduct (which probably does not mean very much, but sounds nice) and free trade (another charming euphemism for arms exports to dictatorships.

The US led public relations blitzkrieg of euphemism has already begun, with US Assistant Trade Representative Wendy Cutler describing the latest PTA, the Trans Pacific Partnership, as a high standard agreement. Other American officials have taken to calling PTA s trade agreements for the twenty first century.

With energy prices moving center stage, there is a danger that already weak incentives for investment in low carbon energy will be further undermined. Across Europe, calls for affordable energy are fast becoming a euphemism for increased fossil fuel subsidies and a rollback of commitments on green energy.

That Charter is still on the books and still on the Internet if representatives turn it on they can find it. It still calls for Israel apos s destruction thorough armed struggle, which is a euphemism for terrorism. So I say today to our Palestinian partners Choose peace. Fight for peace.

The first relates to the Secretary General's recommendation, in paragraph 7 of the annex to the report, that the so called international community a euphemism for the major Powers and their representatives should shoulder the responsibility to protect' as a basis for collective action against genocide, ethnic cleansing and crimes against humanity .

We cannot agree with the opinion that the so called international community a euphemism that is often used to present the opinion and the dominant will of the great Powers and their court of allies holds a presumed natural right and responsibility to take direct actions to protect peoples, in disregard of the borders and the authority of States.

However, as noted with remarkable candour in a report submitted at a session of the Inter Agency Meeting on Language Arrangements, Documentation and Publications (IAMLADP) in July 1997, self revision is a euphemism for no revision and it is clear that there must be limits in terms of who is entrusted with self revision and what material is suitable for self revision in order to avoid a negative impact on quality.

Reprofiling is a euphemism for debt restructuring, which allows countries to borrow from existing creditors for longer periods and at lower interest rates than they would be able to do on the open market. Although it is far from clear how easily the IMF could hold the line against hard bargaining creditors, the new policy, if adopted, would toughen the Fund s approach to cases where it finds itself repeatedly throwing good money after bad.

To succeed, Olam has had to work up country a euphemism for difficult conditions far from comfortable port cities requiring it to rely on Indians familiarity with, and willingness to work in, Africa s interior. Indeed, so competent is Olam that when Wilmar, a Southeast Asian firm run by overseas Chinese and a force in its own right in China and across Asia, sought to expand in Africa, it sought out Olam in a joint venture.