Sentences with phrase «be vague when»

Don't be vague when describing accomplishments.

Don't be vague when you can be specific.

Garrett was vague when asked the reason for his action.

Not exact matches

But since it's a stage of life characterized by equal angst and vague boredom (remember when you couldn't drive yet, but could still be grounded?)

When I questioned him about his sales and margins, his answers were a little too vague.

Whenever risk is involved — and trying something new definitely involves risk — it's easy to back away when you're stewing in a pot of vague, indefinite concerns.

It's all well and good to tell people they are capable of accomplishing way more than they believe they are, but when the going gets tough, vague reassurances probably aren't going to count for much.

When Merkel has been obliged to discuss Europe's economic future, she has typically relied on hollow phrases about the need for «more Europe» and vague warnings about how «the failure of the euro would mean the failure of Europe.»

All too often, I see principals of advisory firms convince themselves that they have a succession plan in place when, in fact — more often than not — what they have is more of a vague idea of what they hope will happen.

Mentally editing out the fuzzy, vague buzzwords when you are talking, speaking, listening, or reading gradually clears your mind of the confusion they create, thereby making you smarter.

In the past, when he worked with the CBC he was «Senior Manager, Digital & Social Media,» and when he was with Telus he handled «Social and Media Relations» — vague titles that seek to describe complicated and constantly - evolving work.

Name aside, the Rock Hall of Fame has long been a popularity contest with only a vague tie to genre (NWA was the fifth rap act to be inducted when it joined this year).

When presented with a vague job description, she recommends doing your research: «Maybe there are other similar positions with their own job descriptions you could be looking up,» she says.

When I first started my business, China was a messy labor landscape with laws that were vague and unclear.

What's more, when women do receive feedback, studies show it is often vague and not tied to business outcomes.

«When you are too wordy and vague, we don't know what you've actually accomplished,» adds Hargett.

Taco Bell was vague in the briefing about when the new value menu would be rolled out or whether it definitely will be, but Mr. Niccol said that the chain is «optimistic» for a rollout this year, adding that the $ 2 meal deals are likely to «evolve.»

When I searched their website, I found that there policies were every bit as vague as the other political parties.

It is instead a set of well - meaning sentiments that are sufficiently vague to allow for pragmatic adjustment when necessary.

When I finally did talk to Christians about the reasons we werewaiting for marriage for sex, the answers I got were vague andconfusing.

The traditional line between editorial and reporting is now but a vague memory at the Times, at least when it comes to coverage of the culture and, above all, homosexuality.

I followed all this closely back 5 - 6 years ago when it first happened, but not being directly connected to any of the significant players, and with only whispered rumors circulating on blogs, there was so much that just remained vague and uncertain.

Even when life after death was a very vague hope, held by only a few, scornfully denied by some, supposed to affect only a selected group of saints and sinners, (E.g., Daniel 12:2.)

This is why I laugh when people like Calvin and others actually have the nerve to teach an iron clad doctrine out of the most deliberately vague chapters in all of the NT.

But even if we allowed the possibility of analogical discourse, could we attribute even the vaguest meaning to these terms when they are applied to infinite, necessary, simple Being?

«Law - abiding citizens, such as Christians, could be caught by the vague definitions of extremism that get bandied about when ministers are trying to talk tough.

wilbur, To be believed the prophesy would need to be very accurate — stating in detail what, who, and when (not some vague statement).

Critics further insist that terms like «commitment,» «vulnerability,» and «care» as used by the new reformers are, when compared to the vows demanded in the marriage rite, both extraordinarily limited in their content and vague in respect to the matter of duration.

And that is aside from the problem that all such short cuts, when lacking a firm and agreed upon definition, are by necessity vague generalizations that can be more of an impediment than a help.

So why pretend that it definitely is pro-life, then, especially when all you have as «proof» of that claim is a bunch of vague verses that you've taken completely out of context?

It has always seemed to me that when people speak out to say that something is incoherent or vague or whatever, it also demonstrates their unwillingness to engage in something that they haven't already been able to define, pin - down, label, etc., etc..

If refusal to face squarely the fact of death is found so widely in these days, so also is loss of belief in a continuation of human existence, beyond death, in what used to be called the «after - life» It is indeed true that among conventionally - minded church - people and many others there is a vague feeling that when the body dies the «soul» goes on.

But this was a dim and vague affair, presumably taken to be a way in which the «spirit» breathed into human life when God shaped the «dust of the earth,» as the legend in Genesis tells the story, would never be utterly destroyed — after all, it had been breathed by God and hence must be indestructible even if largely irrelevant to whatever the future, beyond death, held for men and women.

In particular, the artist is often said to be compelled to work because he recognizes and finds irresistible an envisaged result, however vague and puzzling that result might seem when he begins to create.

Examining the successful use of Scripture on the part of Bill Clinton and George Bush, and the unsuccessful use by Joe Lieberman and John Kerry ¯ not to mention Howard Dean's absurd excursion into the New Testament book of Job ¯ Berlinerblau demonstrates that biblical citations are most effective in American political rhetoric when they are (1) sparse, (2) positive, (3) vague, (4) shallow, and (5) veiled.

Vague and gigantic, he is off somewhere, the one who created the cosmos, omnipotent, omniscient, omnipresent, and when in religious poetry they try to picture him, they sing,

When I began this study I had a vague impression that there is a commonality among the notions of relatedness, emergence, individuality, interstitium, and field.

That is obvious in a broad and vague way when we consider some of the various ways in which we speak of trying (and often failing) to understand: We speak of hoping to understand the instruction manual that accompanies a new word processor and of trying to understand a novel like James Joyce's Ulysses; though both are printed texts, what it is to understand one is quite different from what it is to understand the other.

I suppose if there were scores of verses the issue would be more cut and dry, but when there are only a couple verses dealing with an issue, people are more likely to fight over it, especially when the verses are a little vague...

When «evolution» is mentioned or discussed at all in PR, it is in a general, offhand, and vague fashion.

And why are we giving the culture of Washington new powers of life and death» making ourselves «God's Partners,» in President Obama's language» at a time when that culture has proved itself so vague and so deluded about all the issues of life and death that have come before it: war, and embryos, and the unborn, and the weak, and the vulnerable?

I'm not saying this to be adversarial, but rather I find that when we move from vague abstractions to specific concrete examples the issue deflates quite a bit.

When details are vague, our minds may have ways of filling in the blanks with false ideas (However, the likelihood of constructing an entire memory of abuse ex nihilo is rather rare.

This apparently unified occurrence is actually extremely vague, and when rendered precise, turns out to be either quite abstract or quite complex.

My thought on this now is, that when things are as vague as Christine makes them, and as Sabio points out, then the «communicative universalist» really can't be that «substantial» because that would be doctrine and putting God in a box, etc..

While I am finding that there is wisdom and instruction in it, is also very vague in the underlying theme: is it really about renunciation or more about action, even when your conscience is conflicted about it.

«Formal discourse becomes politically powerful when it becomes ideology; when it articulates and fuses into effective formulations opinions and attitudes that are otherwise too scattered and vague to be acted upon; when it mobilizes a general mood, «a set of disconnected, unrealized private emotions,» into «a public possession, a social fact»; when it crystallizes otherwise inchoate social and political discontent and thereby shapes what is otherwise instinctive and directs it to attainable goals, when it clarifies, symbolizes, and elevates to structured consciousness the mingled urges that stir within us.

Everyone remembers Romney's 47 percent gaffe, but there was an equally revealing gaffe when Romney tried to talk about his (vague) ideas for healthcare reform.

The truth is that when you see the word «flavor» on a food label, you have almost no clue what chemicals may have been added to the food under the umbrella of this vague term.

When I set out to make this gluten - free fruit crisp, I had that dump cake in mind, without any actual knowledge of how she made it, and only a vague recollection of what might've been in it.