Couched

So the argument has traditionally been couched against racial preferences that it's unfair to whites and Asians, and I get that.

Specifically, "They staff the ballooning diversity and inclusion commissariats that assault us with vapid statements and inane programs couched in the language they learned in school.

The Panel couched its recommendations in soothing language, affirming the good intentions and good faith of these organizations.

I will agree that many of the provisions of the impact statement are couched by saying that this or that "might" happen or "could" happen, making them rather ambiguous.

Manley’s vision, Patterson said, was rooted in “a search for equality and the building of a just society, a cause to which he devoted his catalytic energy, his fertile imagination all eloquently couched with his persuasive oratorical mastery”.

Artfully couched, her words barely conceal the radicalism required by their premise.

In particular, Moon couched the alliance in the context of ROK-U.

It was Amazon news, couched as something grander.

Ms Graley was couched as Mr Woodman and his associates’ last hope in swaying the State Government to rezone the land and “our good friend in the SE (South East)”.

The criticism from the Union is couched in a manner so as not to express disquiet with the Senior Minister of Social Protection and the leadership of the PNC-led coalition.

They are aged documents, couched in the legal language of the world after World War II.

Torres Small couched her support forproduction of the plutonium coresby saying New Mexico has a long history of bearing a burden when it comes to nuclear development and waste.

Massive, damaging cuts are couched in language designed to appeal to voters and con busy reporters.

The European project, couched in fluffy words like union and integration, necessitates in practice the sweeping centralisation of powers such that bureaucrats in Belgium can remotely govern vast swathes of the continent.

The prosecution, led by Deputy Chief Prosecutor Mohamed Faizal, said the question posed by Mr Ravi was "nothing more than a simple legal question couched misleadingly in constitutional language".

They couched the issue as both a matter of fairness and public health.

It classifies “conduct that is couched as anti-Israel or anti-Zionist” as anti-Semitism (Sec II, Part 10).

Within the technology industry, the debate has been couched as a “moral and ethical” one: “We believe that Google should not be in the business of war,” employees wrote in a petition that led to the company’s withdrawal from Project Maven.

Bethlehem work was unique in its use of couched gold or silver cord, or silk cord onto the silk, wool, felt or velvet used for the garment, to create stylized floral patterns with free or rounded lines.

Bowman, "Diocletian and the First Tetrarchy" (CAH), 69; Southern, 136. The relationship between Diocletian and Maximian was quickly couched in religious terms.