Sentences with phrase «become meaningless terms»

But as he struggles to clean up the mess left in the wake of the bungled Atlantic City heist, he finds himself increasingly more visible as he's pursued simultaneously by the FBI and other interested, if mysteriously elusive, parties - a situation that requires every gram of his skill, ingenuity, and self - protective instincts, especially when offense and defense become meaningless terms.

I'd put in my usual observation that the term «climate change» no matter who redefines it has now become a meaningless term used for propaganda.

Meanwhile, there are those experts who believe that «publishing» is «rapidly becoming a meaningless term».

Not exact matches

So has the term become basically meaningless, just a sloppy way to say «very good»?

The decision to not release detailed documents could signal a desire for the government to shift away from the public quarterly budget updates, which are meaningless in terms of fiscal planning due to the province's dependence on fluctuating natural resource commodity prices and have become little more than public relations exercises for the government over the past two decades.

If you are going to define religion that broadly the term becomes practically meaningless.

But consumer lobby group Choice said the term «free - range egg» had become meaningless in Queensland.

If your goal is to end your birth story with a healthy baby, a healthy mother, after the least amount of danger and discomfort in labor possible, then being able to labor on your own couch becomes meaningless in terms of control when you know how little doing so actually changes anything.

More than just a witty parody of meaningless couplehood, The Lobster becomes more probing as it gets further and further into its strange and cruel world, building to a finale that asks whether two people can love one other on any terms except those forced on them by society.

But as a term for describing ongoing training investments in the teaching force, «professional development» has become both ubiquitous and all but meaningless.

«Domestic» and «foreign» are becoming pretty meaningless terms,» said Christopher Benko, director of Pricewaterhouse Coopers» Autofacts analytical unit in Detroit.

Has appropriation become so dominant a tactic that the term and the act itself are now meaningless?

But I would agree thinking long term is somewhat academic, and can become meaningless.

At some point, these terms become meaningless.