Innovative must not become a euphemism for non transparent, ineffective, or unsound.

Skeptics who treat public diplomacy as a euphemism for broadcasting government propaganda miss the point.

Skeptics who treat the term public diplomacy as a mere euphemism for propaganda miss the point.

Around 200,000 girls and women, some from Korea, were engaged in sexual services, with the euphemism comfort women .

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

Shawn at Uncultured.com posts a video on eve teasing, a euphemism to describe forms of verbal and physical abuse by men against women.

Across Europe, calls for affordable energy are fast becoming a euphemism for increased fossil fuel subsidies and a rollback of commitments on green energy.

In his famous essay Politics and the English Language, George Orwell pointed to the widespread use of euphemism, which means not calling a spade a spade.

Netanyahu s own insistence on ironclad security arrangements is a euphemism for an Israeli presence in the Jordan Valley and no return to the Auschwitz borders of 1967.

What exactly would a federal Europe entail? Is European solidarity a euphemism for the transfer union that Germany opposes, or for massive bailouts by the European Central Bank?

A key pillar of their prevention strategy is to scale back global imbalances, a euphemism for the huge US trade deficit and the corresponding trade surpluses elsewhere, not least China.

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.

Regardless of whether Greece will or should default on its debts or restructure payments under some euphemism the banking system s lack of capital means that credit throughout the eurozone will be under pressure.

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.

In many parts of Europe, however, Turkey's admission to the EU is viewed with skepticism owing to its size, relatively poor economy, fears of massive immigration, and, above all, cultural and societal differences a euphemism for Islam.

The dreadful result was the indiscriminate denial of civil rights and the principles of democracy, and the rise of what today s leaders call socialism with Chinese characteristics a bitter euphemism for unchecked Party and government power entwined with commercial interests.

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 .