These expressions can help you to enrich your writing. They sound
English all right, but don't use too many of them. Two or three per
essay seems enough, mostly not to look too pretentious in your
comments. You need to study each phrase, one by one and see for
yourself if any suits you fine.
1. How to modulate your opinion:
-There maybe some reasonable prospect for ...
-For all practical purposes (à toutes fins utiles)
-This situation calls for
-To hesitate over something
-It may prove to be an asset / a failure for...
-It may act as a check (un frein) upon ...
-It may prove to be a perequisite (un prérequis) for ...
-To be well set (bien disposé) to do something
-A tentative step / to take steps forward something
-It may empower someone to do something
-To endeavour to do ... (s'efforcer de )
-To engage in a risky undertaking
-It may require something of somebody / someone to do something
-To plan, prepare, scheme, forecast, foresee
-To work out a solution
-There is little chance / To stand a good chance to do something
-BEWARE: to have an occasion (= a festivity - a celebration)
-To have one's own way to do something
-To find it difficult to cope (faire face à ) with ...
2. Standard structures :
-It is an open debate (there's a lot to talk about)
-It is wishful thinking to believe that...
-There is no point in arguing against...
-If you don't see the forest for the trees, you are...
-Have a good insight into situations
-For the sake of future generations, ...
-Taking things at face value only will prove uncapable of addressing several underlying issues.
-Politicians
too often pay lip-service over ideas.(they talk too much, neither
believing in what they say or doing what they say)
-Good politicians are ready to fight tooth and nail to achieve ...
-They just want to be top dog.
-They come from the upper-crust .
-He just sticks to his guns (doesn't change his mind).
-This disaster turned out to be a blessing in disguise. (Something much better came up out of it later on).
From :-Pierre Lacomblez. 2002. English, a Joyful Game.
- Judith Andreyev. Bréal, 2002. Say it with style
موضوع: Vocabulary to improve your writing 
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