"If the PJD forms a coalition in a free and independent way and not with a party of the Makhzen," he said referring to the catch-all phrase for the entrenched establishment around the king, "this will be a big step forward for Morocco." ❋ By PAUL SCHEMM (2011)
It is true that the term "experimental fiction" is a catch-all term of convenience that doesn't necessarily signal anything very specific about what particular writers might be up to in their efforts to, if not "make it new," then "make it different." ❋ Unknown (2010)
Any sort of catch-all ban is silly, pointless, and just another roadblock on the list of why our numbers are shrinking. ❋ Unknown (2009)
Is there in fact a generational migration of professionals and fans that are choosing to attend large, catch-all media cons like SDCC instead of Worldcon, and if so, why? ❋ Unknown (2009)
But what was really interesting here, to me, is that Bayh forget to work in the usual caveats about exempting defense, intelligence, and veterans spending from the “discretionary” catch-all. ❋ Unknown (2010)
(Manga, media (small), graphic novels (catch-all), superheroes (very small) are the others.) ❋ Unknown (2009)
Cloud computing is a catch-all term for the shift of programs and data storage away from user machines and onto the Internet. ❋ Jack Hough (2011)
Tensions again shot up this year after June's national elections, when one of the 36 parliamentary deputies from Turkey's main legal Kurdish nationalist party Peace and Democracy, or BDP was stripped of his seat for a last-minute conviction under Turkey's catch-all antiterror laws. ❋ Hugh Pope (2011)
Like Mr. Wang, however, they have given no details of how they plans to tackle these problems, apart from making repeated calls for improved "social management"—a catch-all phrase that appears to include riot police, teargas and armored vehicles. ❋ Jeremy Page (2011)
Having read the grounds for disorderly conduct arrests, it sure seems like a catch-all, but I still think it was pretty foolish to arrest a man in his own house for being obnoxious. ❋ Unknown (2009)
In fact, a Mexican momento is a tricky catch-all, a strange little net with many holes. ❋ Unknown (2009)
"It has elements of romance, suspense, mystery, but it falls into the catch-all category of literary fiction, and of course that's the most difficult to sell." ❋ Alexandra Alter (2011)
Under such a catch-all restriction, virtually any kind of conversation about – or critique of – Islam can be considered impermissible if Muslims find it offensive. ❋ Unknown (2010)
When used without close scrutiny and/or in the context of work with ministry-guided curriculum English, it has become a catch-all title for all the good things that came from the 70s and 80s, from Reading and elsewhere. ❋ Unknown (2010)
Most of the growth came from the company's catch-all electronics and general merchandise category, which increased sales by 68%. ❋ Geoffrey A. Fowler (2010)
But I like 8a, a versatile catch-all for "stuff", and "thingamajig" don't fit. ❋ Unknown (2011)
