In terms of..?
Hi! everyone.
Could you tell me what "in terms of" means here? And what was she referring to when she said "that was not available to her"? What was not available to her?
she said of DPresident Donald Trump’s controversial immigration ban, which the https://www.nytimes.com/2017/01/28/us/refugees-detained-at-us-airports-prompting-legal-challenges-to-trumps-immigration-order.html?_r=0. “So in terms of how I can speak about it from a personal standpoint from my youth or something, [that] wasn’t available to me, so I just wanted to have an opportunity to mention the inclusivity that I think is required right now in general, and the ACLU to me represents that across the board. And they do really rely on funds from people like you and me at this time.”
Thanks!
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I think that "So in terms of how I can speak about it from a personal standpoint from my youth or something, that wasn’t available to me" is a fairly horrible and unnecesarily complicated way of saying "I can't speak about it from personal experience". I think that "that" refers to "speak[ing] about it from a personal standpoint". The square brackets apparently indicate that the word "that" was not present in the original speech but has been added for "clarity".
- I think that "So in terms of how I can speak about it from a personal standpoint from my youth or something, that wasn’t available to me" is a fairly horrible and unnecesarily complicated way of saying "I can't speak about it from personal experience".
- I think that "that" refers to "speak[ing] about it from a personal standpoint".
- The square brackets apparently indicate that the word "that" was not present in the original speech but has been added for "clarity".
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I think that "So in terms of how I can speak about it from a personal standpoint from my youth or something, that wasn’t available to me" is a fairly horrible and unnecesarily complicated way of saying "I can't speak about it from personal experience". I think that "that" refers to "speak[ing] about it from a personal standpoint".
The square brackets apparently indicate th
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