Sentences with phrase «empty slogan»

But maybe the biggest reason why «client service» is an empty slogan or an afterthought for most law firms is the same reason Surowiecki identifies as the root cause of poor client service in the larger business world:

We are all created equal — this is no empty slogan.

My worry only increased as Visceral Games began to push their mantra of «Speed, Story, and Strategy,» which sounds like an empty slogan that some executive created to make the slaughter of a -LSB-...]

Her claim that she was the only candidate who had «delivered for New Yorkers» rang hollow, an empty slogan reminiscent of the 1988 Dukakis presidential campaign that was all about «competence.»

«A kinder politics must be a reality, not just an empty slogan.

Yet our government would have us agree to sweeping economic agreements like CETA and the TPP without providing us any facts at all, just empty slogans about how wonderful things will be after we sign on,» says Larry Brown, national secretary - treasurer of the National Union of Public and General Employees and co-chair of the Trade Justice Network.

You had only to utter an ordinary phrase for the pundits to proclaim your genius, drop a self - deprecating comment for the intelligentsia to marvel at your sophistication, speak in the most empty slogans for the millions to draw inspiration.

Arguably, Arby's meats campaign is a reboot — they moved away from empty slogans to a compelling reason to believe.

Empty slogans?

«Neither raw emotion, nor empty slogans and false promises are the solution,» he said, adding that «while my heart beckons me forward, my head tells me that my continued presence on the Conservative» line would only hand the election to Cuomo.

«Theresa May says she wants to avoid a cliff edge exit for Britain, yet the lack of vision, the vague and empty slogans, and her disastrous plans for take Britain out of the Single Market, paint a picture of Theresa May dangling Britain by the ankles over the White Cliffs of Dover.

She says Malcolm X would be «heartened by the youth - led movement,» but would caution them against relying on empty slogans and rhetoric and «bemoan the lack of sustained, targeted activism.»

Supermundane (aka Rob Lowe) finished off the evening showing work from his recent solo show Everything Connects, in particular his Empty Slogans project.

Not exact matches

This company has spent 16 years turning those (often empty) slogans into a powerful — and highly profitable — business model.

We actually believe that it is the politicians who can deliver «hope and change» or «make America great again,» even when such slogans are always eventually revealed as empty promises.

Before resolving to rescue Iris, Travis Bickle hatches a plot to assassinate a U.S. senator who's running for president, but the candidate in question speaks in the sort of empty populist slogans common to career politicians of either party.

The film is smart to both celebrate the concept of «Boston Strong» and question what goes beyond the slogan, and thanks to Green's deft eye and sensitivity to character beats it all accumulates into a moving, effective piece that refuses to make empty heroes of its protagonists.

That's because the reading gaps are knowledge gaps — the results of schooling that rests on empty skill practice and slogans like «Who decides?»

Riding all night, the bus half empty, toward the interior, among refineries, trellised and turreted illusory cities, the crass, the indispensable wastefulness of oil rigs offshore, of homunculi swigging at the gut of a continent: the trailers, the semis, the vans, the bumper stickers, slogans in day - glo invoking the name of Jesus, who knows what it means: the air waves, the brand name, the backyard Barbie - doll barbecue, graffiti in video, the burblings, the dirges: heart like a rock, I said Kathy I'm lost, the scheme is a mess, we've left Oklahoma, its cattle, sere groves of pecan trees interspersing the horizonless belch and glare, the alluvium of the auto junkyards, we're in Kansas now, we've turned off the freeway, we're meandering, as again night falls, among farmsteads, the little towns with the name of a girl on the watertower, the bandstand in the park at the center, the churches alight from within, perpendicular...

My body of work «And From the Coaltips a Tree Will Rise» [2016/2017] created and produced in the Borinage, the coal mining region in Belgium, parallels the Trump / Pence slogans «Trump Digs Coal» or «The War on Coal,» and counters this entire narrative and empty promises that Trump made to coal miners in America.

She mixed contemporary advertising with the slogans, poetry and song lyrics she experienced daily in Los Angeles, signaling her belief that the urban environment — the commonplace — was far from empty wasteland but rather a vehicle for hope and rejoicing.

Hernandez said, «Our vision of a zero waste society is possible, but without political will at the national and local levels, this will become another empty government slogan.»