Sentences with phrase «by vague promises»

Anticipate «need to know» issues, and be as detailed as you can when responding — because people are not reassured by vague promises to «provide that information later.»

As foretold by the vague promise last May of a midseason premiere, ABC today revealed that the nine - episode Roseanne revival will officially debut Tuesday, March 27 at 8 p.m. ET with an hourlong premiere, per Variety.

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Other than making vague promises to place more police officers on the streets, encouraging DNA testing for death - row inmates and calling for the need to reduce recidivism by investing in «proven community - based law - enforcement programs,» the Democrats» policy solutions over the past eight years have done little to dismantle the carceral state that they helped create.

Some companies have perfected «the customer is always an inconvenience» message by avoiding phone calls altogether and only providing a form that the customer is expected to fill out with the vague promise that someone might get back to you.

Even after the former U.S. attorney general Eric Holder, who'd been hired by the board to investigate, issued a scathing report on Uber's culture, Kalanick and his directors initially decided that vague promises of coaching, the hiring of a chief operating officer, and a slap - on - the - wrist «leave of absence» for the CEO were sufficient remedies.

I made vague promises and tried to distract her by making jokes about procrastination.

Appearing this morning on MSNBC, Working Families Party official Dan Cantor admitted that the party is taking a huge gamble on Gov. Andrew Cuomo by giving him its ballot line in exchange for a vague promise that he'll help flip the state Senate into Democratic hands this fall.

From the timid pinks and blue daubing the conference stage to the impossibly vague speeches promising «hard ideas» and «different spending», the party seems almost physically paralysed by fear.

CROWN HEIGHTS — A vague but hopeful Mayor - elect Bill de Blasio promised Thursday that his signature plan of universal pre-K and expanded afterschool programs would be in place by next fall, adding «a lot» of new slots in the city schools, he said.

While we can't say we're particularly intrigued by the source material (the log - lines are almost hilariously vague, referring to Others and Supernaturals), it's shaping up to be a more promising cast than most of these teen franchises carry, and while we can't say we love LaGravanese's directorial work, let's not forget that he was the writer behind «The Fisher King» and «The Ref,» and hopefully he can turn out something a little more interesting.

As yet, only the vague promise of «autumn» has been given by the American bookseller as to when John Lewis customers can expect to find them on the high street (so presumably no later than a month after they become available online).

Echoing the promised utopia and oft - dismal reality of advanced technological networks and intimating at the vague disillusion of late - stage capitalism, Bleeding Edge features site - specific installations and new media works by artists Anthony Antonellis, Kelsey... Continue reading Bleeding Edge An Immersive Triumph at Hudson Valley Center for Contemporary Art

IPS: While world leaders were wrapping up the United Nations conference on climate change (COP 18) in Doha, Qatar this past weekend with the annual vague promise to tackle the enormous crises brought on by extreme weather and global warming, a delegation of youth gathered far from the high - level conference halls to say «no» to [continue reading...]

Mexico, the European Union, Switzerland, and Norway have also recently made their pledges public, and China made a vague commitment in November, promising to reach peak emissions by 2030.

The four - page fact sheet released by her campaign offered only vague promises that her climate policy planks will ensure «that fossil fuel production taking place today is safe and responsible, that taxpayers get a fair deal for development on public lands, and that areas that are too sensitive for energy production are taken off the table.»

Panic takes over in the «nation's» capital, followed by improvisation, vague promises of more devolved powers, and not - so - subtle threats about what it will all mean for the shared currency and the breakaway state's place in the larger common market (their EU to our NAFTA).

«Their team is enamored by the promises of psychometrics, but they were surprisingly vague about its specifics and too quick to dismissively cry «Analytics!»