Sentences with phrase «called it vague»

But Entergy has already dismissed the plan, calling it vague and saying it would take far longer to implement than the administration has said.

Ania Soliman even calls her vague, text - heavy montage Natural Object Rant.

The advocacy group, Dying with Dignity, has labeled the bill to be too narrow and restrictive, and took issue with the term «reasonably foreseeable» death, calling it vague and discriminatory.

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He called parts of it «draconian» and said, «much of it is too vague to give bitcoin companies the certainty that they are indeed complying with the law.»

Called The Corner, it has a decor of white subway tile and natural wood, a menu filled with quinoa salads and balsamic - strawberry sodas, and a vague mission to serve as a «learning lab» for the company.

They know why certain phrases during a sales call have a particular effect with clients, or the reasons why personalized emails resonate with prospects; yet, with goals, they're content to outline them with only vague reasoning.

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.

The call is brief, concluding with a vague invitation for Reynolds to come and give his presentation.

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.

Official recession calls are the responsibility of the NBER Business Cycle Dating Committee, which is understandably vague about the specific indicators on which they base their decisions.

President Trump's Twitter bombs and rhetorical attacks on what he calls the «worst deal ever made» and his administration's vague and confusing proposals have dismayed Canada, which is now exploring backup options.

According to the «Austrian school», one of the most basic flaws in the QTM and in many other economic theories is the treatment of the economy as an amorphous blob that shifts one way or the other in response to stimuli provided by the government, the central bank, or a vague and unpredictable force called «animal spirits».

Although the details of the two new bids remain vague, each would keep a so - called «stub» of Dell public, which would give shareholders who choose not to sell their stock the opportunity to profit if the company can execute its turnaround.

Although the company's second - quarter earnings were in line with expectations, the vague and downbeat nature of the company's recent earnings call concerned investors and caused share price weakness.

At the time, he was pretty vague but we did get a market call from him.

Christian faith teaches that such a call will not summon us to some vague eternity.

A politics of reason gave way to a politics of emotion and flirted with the politics of irrationality; the claims of moral reason were displaced by moralism; the notion that all men and women were called to live lives of responsibility was displaced by the notion that some people were, by reason of birth, victims; patriotism became suspect, to be replaced by a vague internationalism; democratic persuasion was displaced by judicial activism.

It should be noted, however, that traditionally the church has shown a relative lack of concern about that vague thing called «love» — particularly in regard to marriage and divorce.

A whiff of vague spirituality has survived in the call to «seek wisdom and inner peace.»

What is more, the post-Enlightenment knack of reducing Christianity itself to vague, generic qualities hardly distinguishable from gentle manners or sound citizenship (about which more below) yielded a foundational notion of Christianity — an «essence,» it was often called — so insubstantial that it could hardly sustain any specificities or provoke any controversy at all.

This idea of twoness above is not as vague as it sounds, for we can agree on a certain arbitrary model set containing what we call two things, our cow and rock if we wish, got by counting or other means, and declare that any other set has two things if it can be put in one - to - one correspondence (in modern terminology, bijective correspondence) with our model set.

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.

The generalized aim to spread the love of God and neighbor is too vague.12 The metaphor should also provide a reference by which the minister can strike a satisfying balance between what the congregation wants of the minister and what the minister needs in order to satisfy a sense of calling.

Furthermore, even then it would have to be recognized that the boundary between what would be called «experience» and the unconscious is vague and fluctuating, and that, for most purposes, they must be seen as constituting a unity.

Indeed, whenever there is a need to call forth some sense of solemn liturgy a modal piece comes on featuring vague outlines of Kyrie Eleison and Agnus Dei.

One may choose to call this Spirit, God, so long as one realizes it is a vague idea at the end of emotionally profound gropings, not a Cartesian clear and distinct idea, let alone a crystalline concept from Scholastic logic - chopping.

Out of his moral tension, he proposed a vague populism and a quietistic «sort of Buddhism,» as Gide called it, that tries to love all things without facing the fact that we can only love particulars.

Although most people have some vague sense of the so - called «Galileo Affair,» few have inquired into the actual facts.

That is, what Frye calls «blatant literalism» and «vague transcendentalism» must be replaced by a new sense of the vitality of words and their use in other contexts than propositional arguments.

He need not be slapped into uncorrelated fragments of function; he need not become a weary and unstructured functionary of a vague, busy moralism; he need not see the visions and energies and focused loyalty of his calling run, shallowly like spilled water, down a multitude of slopes.

The ancient writers... were operating without the vaguest idea of what we have learned to call «sexual orientation.

We have felt a vague sense of uneasiness and guilt; we know we are not necessarily called to the mountain villages of Honduras, but we don't know how to justify our experience of blessing and stability.

Believers give thanks for and take joy in what God has done for us through Christ; they are called to love not in some vague and general way, but to love God and their neighbor.

The way she feels about what she is hearing, what Whitehead calls «the subjective form» of the prehension, is affected by her tiredness and the soreness of some of her muscles as well as by vague and half - conscious hopes and fears.

And life, when full of disorder and slackness and vague superfluity, can no more have what we call character than literature can have it under similar conditions.

This left a very indistinct picture of the disembodied souls of the departed, conceived as being in the presence of God, in some rather vague existence still called heaven.

A welcome development of recent years is the number of books debunking the myth that the American founders were post-Christian rationalists or adherents of a vague spirituality conveniently called Deism.

In another sense, it is a vague longing for a religious «fix» — what Marx liked to call «the opiate of the people.»

Underlying the five senses is a rich yet chaotic and vague pre-conceptual mode of perception wherein the given world enters the organic unity of chemical, visceral, and psychic processes called the human body.

Since the book only called for a vague «gluten free flour blend», I opted to make my own mixture instead of going out to buy a premade one.

It is that based on Brown's selfproclaimed success in «rescuing» the British economy, he uses the second half of the book to set out the case for some kind of world economic growth policy, involving a «global banking constitution» (undefined), a vague call for the restoration of «morals to markets» (how?)

But the only real response coming from the left to this simple Tory solution to an obvious and easily communicable grievance is largely represented by vague calls for a constitutional convention.

These calls for the delegation of overlapping, autonomous, and ill - defined powers to localities and regions bear only the vaguest resemblance to types of federalism that exist in the United States, Germany, or India.

Whilst having such a high profile figure highlighting these kinds of legitimate issues will no doubt be valuable to the left, Brand once again offers no alternative aside from a vague call to arms for revolutionaries.

Partly this is because moderate voices in the Remain movement have been overruled by «fundamentalist» groups like Best for Britain, but it's also because a vague, catch - all call for the people «to have a place at the table» was necessary to unite a rag - tag coalition of anti-Brexit groups.

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Then he argued «we must do our bit» in Syria - an even more vague call to arms than the one made by David Cameron.

Many submissions called for to end the 11 + exam and to stop supporting selective schools the Forum ended up with no commitment at all but just a vague statement saying that selection is not a good thing.

Astorino called for a special prosecutor to investigate the matter, although he was vague on some of the details around a special prosecutor.

And they will not forgive either party if we call time ahead of the election that has been legislated for in 2015 — destabilising the nation in the vague hope of short - term political gain.»