They are catch-all phrases that perhaps do not speak the intricacy of what they really mean. |
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Optics is a catch-all term for the binoculars and scopes so essential to bird watching. |
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Once this term began to be used, specificity disappeared and it became a catch-all phrase for all problematic Nigerian metalwork. |
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It's not, and it shouldn't be used as a kind of catch-all term to mean a big, powerful country. |
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We must resist the temptation to use terrorism as a catch-all phrase for all serious domestic or international crimes. |
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Restructuring is a catch-all term, used by companies in trouble who need to change or risk losing business as well as successful ones who want to keep their edge. |
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Its eggy, lightly sweet base is a perfect catch-all for summer fruits, especially those of the soft, fleshy variety. |
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Otherwise, your in-box will become a catch-all tray where things go when you want to postpone making a decision. |
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The Contemporary World Cinema category is generally a catch-all and a crapshoot. |
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Addressing this problem is no easy matter, not because of its global dimensions and its Sisyphean predilections, but because there is no catch-all solution. |
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When it was first announced, I thought it was a catch-all visit designed to accomplish several objectives at once. |
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A catch-all clause forbidding the award of the cup to anyone wearing a white shirt would be more sincere. |
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It would seem that it has become a catch-all excuse and is employed even when not applicable. |
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At present most cases are brought under the catch-all heading of breach of the peace, which means repeated offences can be overlooked on sentencing. |
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On the rare occasion anyone asks what I am, I tell them I'm a Non-denominational spiritualist, which is a nice catch-all term which gets a laugh and covers all the bases. |
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It seems as though the government has used this budget bill as something of a catch-all. |
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It is important that CSR, as a subject, should not be seen as a catch-all for everything that everyone wants businesses to do better. |
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Houses that don't have catch-all closets or rooms in which the inhabitants can dump outdoor stuff always seem sinister to me. |
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A catch-all address is an e-mail address on your domain which receives all e-mails sent to a non-existing e-mail account on your domain. |
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Claims: This catch-all term is commonly used to describe negotiations over lands, resources and self-government. |
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The special thing about the catch-all email address, as the name indicates, is that such an address catches all mail sent to non-existing addresses on the domain. |
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If you're not careful, the entrance table will quickly become a catch-all for things that come in the door. |
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With members of Congress itching to gavel their lame duck session to a close, the biggest hurdle remains a catch-all spending bill that's now weeks overdue. |
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Once a catch-all party that embraced the top and bottom of the social pyramid, it no longer knows who its natural supporters are. |
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Consequently, the characterisation becomes a catch-all, a portmanteau word. |
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By all accounts, reform of the DMCA's catch-all circumvention fiat is long overdue. |
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Summarising the shenanigans of tycoons and politicians exemplifies that, but does not explain it. Mr James rightly avoids one catch-all thesis. |
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But Reflektor doesn't co-opt U2's catch-all sentiments. |
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Has the term 'bullying' become an unhelpful catch-all? |
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Canada's export control legislation includes a catch-all provision. |
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This seems to be a general catch-all, but it was the last one that got me. |
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Australia also applies catch-all controls contained in the WMD Act. |
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This means that catch-all addresses in general receive a lot of spam. |
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So as to cover these cases, it was proposed that a general, catch-all clause be added at the end, requiring the disclosure of any other items of relevance. |
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The Regulation provides for an extension of the catch-all clause to all military end-use, when the items in question are destined for a country which is subject to an EU, OSCE or UN arms embargo. |
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It does not allow a simple catch-all solution. |
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Mamonov prefers to talk about electronic dance music, otherwise know as EDM, a catch-all term for the commercial dance scene. |
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In the blink of an eye, the hipster has turned into a catch-all scapegoat, guilty for everything from expensive beer to bad music. |
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Cancer is a catch-all term that encompasses a wide variety of diseases. |
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Database publishing is a catch-all term for combining databases and desktop publishing software. |
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Note in previous commentary that among the useage categories, the feed-waste-dockage usage is normally used as a catch-all for adjusting numbers on the balance sheet that don't quite add up. |
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However, the potential battle on this issue is likely not over, as the original supporters of COOL are not at all happy with such labels they call catch-all. |
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There are no catch-all solutions. But the partnerships which BKW has already built up in the reconfigured capital region can serve as a success model for other economic or social projects. |
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Indeed, information security may even be abused as a catch-all justification for state control of information, where a government fears free expression and would rather reimpose authoritarian control. |
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The category was a catch-all for items that were not filed elsewhere. |
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It is unfortunate that the dehumanization of individuals and peoples is increasingly becoming the catch-all solution to the myriad challenges society faces. |
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