Sentences with phrase «in vague statements»

Quit talking in vague statements.

Not exact matches

«Not just vague statements about zero tolerance but where there are procedures in place and training about the law and suggested strategies to bystanders about how to react.»

Goldman responded by sending a letter to the SEC in January, requesting permission to omit the proposal from its proxy statement because the bank said it was «inherently vague and indefinite.»

And while being hit in the head by a can could indeed cause substantial harm, and while the statement posted is vague about the policy changes being considered, no plausible alcohol policy is going to be 100 % effective in preventing yahoos from occasionally throwing things onto the field in malicious ways.

You'll definitely want to avoid vague statements and hyperbole, but you'll score extra points if you can include some stats on how you have impacted companies or associations that you've been employed with in the past.

Also good are T. Rowe Price's and BlackRock's vague non-denials that they issue R.F.A.'s, and a proxy solicitor's statement that «Institutional investors want to share the sick children in their portfolio with someone who can help make them better.»

Vague terms and condition statement — In some loan services, there may be certain terms and conditions that place you in a high - risk situatioIn some loan services, there may be certain terms and conditions that place you in a high - risk situatioin a high - risk situation.

This is due partly to their very brief and vague formulation here, but even in the more adequate statements of Thomas and in Mascall's account of Thomas» arguments.

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

Who would suspect from this statement that biologists of the stature of Ludwig von Bertalanffy had been writing: «I think the fact that a theory so vague, so insufficiently verifiable and so far from the criteria otherwise applied in «hard» science has become a dogma can only be explained on sociological grounds»?

They can get away with vague statements like «Made in Australia using local and imported ingredients».

Instead, USDA left this issue up to the states, with the vague caveat that such fundraisers must be «infrequent» along with a statement that the agency expects that «the frequency of such exempt fundraisers... [will] not reach a level to impair the effectiveness of the competitive food requirements in this rule.»

While your goal may have been to allow women to make more informed decisions, a vague emotion statement of purpose, it misses the mark by citing outdated information and inciting fear in the use of a relatively harmless product, without offering viable alternatives for anyone who is already nursing a little one.

And you are setting off a wide range of Google searches, but all you get in return is vague statements on every self - proclaimed, baby - care expert website.

In October, the Vatican announced it would mediate between the sides and subsequently participated in a series of meetings that led to the November release of a handful of political prisoners and a vague joint statement on the need for international assistance to address the humanitarian crisis and for appointment of new members to the National Electoral CounciIn October, the Vatican announced it would mediate between the sides and subsequently participated in a series of meetings that led to the November release of a handful of political prisoners and a vague joint statement on the need for international assistance to address the humanitarian crisis and for appointment of new members to the National Electoral Counciin a series of meetings that led to the November release of a handful of political prisoners and a vague joint statement on the need for international assistance to address the humanitarian crisis and for appointment of new members to the National Electoral Council.

The pledged to do so, while left vague in the statement, underscores the fence mending Flanagan is expected to do with upstate Republicans and gun - rights advocates who opposed his elevation to the leadership post.

He's changed his story several times, inserted purposefully vague words in a statement guaranteed to send hacks into a Bacchic frenzy and included fundamental logical fallacies.

The warning, including a vague statement about «consequences» that could ensue if the advice is ignored, is signed by Henry Chajet, an attorney at the Patton Boggs firm in Washington, D.C., and a lobbyist for the Mining Awareness Resource Group, which works on behalf of the mining industry.

I had probably been a bit vague in one of my statements, and he was sharpening it up a bit.

Nouvelle Vague (1990) is perhaps the greatest film of Godard's late career precisely because it is his last «film» proper — a final statement on cinematic history told entirely in its own language.

This let me walk around from group to group and push them a little to get less superficial in their note - taking — to include specific details instead of just making general statements, for instance, or to avoid repeating the same vague comments.

Andy also takes issue with our statement, «Instead of the vague mandate of «adequate yearly progress,» federal financing should be conditioned on truth in advertising...» Andy seems unable to reconcile this with the fact that Linda and I have previously noted that NCLB is too prescriptive.

TU Director of Communications Mary Moser provides a detailed starting point for creating and utilizing a digital classroom observation tool in order to answer the question «How do you make systematic change without basing your work on vague notions and «we think» statements?»

Dell has provided what, in my eyes amounts to a very vague statement regarding the current status the Dell Venue Pro.

Kobo is beginning to learn from Amazon — It peppers in enough vague statements to be confusing — «hundreds of thousands» of devices have been registered to Kobo eBook Store everyday since Christmas Eve.

So far, we've only got a vague statement saying the tablet will be out in time for the holiday season.

That is consistent with the change in language in the statement, which left timing for any future hikes in the Fed Funds rate vague, and subject to interpretation.

In the same way, most users of financial statements don't have the vaguest idea of all the assumptions underlying financial statements.

Weighing in at 1.52 GB, the description is pretty vague at the moment, preferring to wear its heart on its slave with the statement «Play This Demo».

From the title, I kinda expected them to actually outright reference the Wii successor / Project Cafe, yet the statement is vague enough that you could take it in so many different ways.

«Certainly in the future we'll be evolving our systems and tech and maybe these general and vague statements will have brief applicability,» he said, before finishing - «But right now?

In a way, it's just about being transparent with consumers and maybe a little bit less of the vague statements that we get from the Xbox team but if they manage to pull it off, I don't see any significant obstacles to it being a successful and profitable venture for the Xbox.

There was a quick round of acknowledgements, some vague statements about «what it feels to be alive in the world right now,» and that was all before the curators began instructing the crowd on how to find the artworks hidden in conference rooms, in staircases, on outdoor billboards.

The article set the stage for tuition, complete with lies about the history of tuition at Cooper Union, a vague roadmap for Bharucha's plan to «Reinvent» the institution, and public statements that by now read as clear falsehoods: ««Altering our scholarship policy will be only as a last resort... I will not be forcing solutions on the organization,» Bharucha said, adding that he wanted employees, students and alumni involved in finding answers.»

I have serious misgivings concerning the following — vague yet false — statement put forward in the A&G article:

I just find it incredibly sad that scientists who specialize in this field could not come up with more than a single, somewhat vague, scientific principle to prove you wrong in your statement that the world probably doesn't need leatherbacks.

I can see little point in making vague unquantifiable statements of the above kind, beyond establishing your position on one side or another of the argument.

Aside from vague statements about «yes there are problems but not really significant ones,» Rice is in denial about the replication crisis and the role of bias in science.

In O'Reilly's case, in addition to hiding behind legal language or vague statements, he has been unapologetic and unrepentanIn O'Reilly's case, in addition to hiding behind legal language or vague statements, he has been unapologetic and unrepentanin addition to hiding behind legal language or vague statements, he has been unapologetic and unrepentant.

Rather than giving these vague statements, can someone please provide us with the exact statements that were made on these in AR4 and the exact statements that are made in AR5?

That's obvious from a quick eyeballing of the data (and it's shown clearly in Figure 4 of part 2 of the HadSST3 paper) but Greg's statement is too vague and general and fails, crucially, to differentiate between real SST variability and variability due to measurement biases.

This is an incredibly vague statement; but part of the difficulty with this problem, which also exists in one form or another in many other famous problems (e.g. Riemann hypothesis,, P = NP, twin prime and Goldbach conjectures, normality of digits of Pi, Collatz conjecture, etc.) is that we expect any sufficiently complex (but deterministic) dynamical system to behave «chaotically» or «pseudorandomly», but we still have very few tools for actually making this intuition precise, especially if one is considering deterministic initial data rather than generic data.

That's close to the 97 % in Cook's «survey» that found agreement to an equally vague statement of human effects on climate change.

(2) thou shalt not fudge the data (3) thou shalt not invent arbitrary statistical methods to suit thy data (4) thou shalt not indulge in any form of bias e.g. thou shalt not employ incomplete, highly selective, subjective literature reviews (6) in the interests of transparency and replication thou shalt not hide the data or code (7) thou shalt not make vague or exaggerated statements unsupported by evidence (8) thou shalt not tolerate actual or potential conflicts of interest (9) thou shalt not allow political interference to compromise scientific integrity (10) thou shalt not use unvalidated computer models (11) Thy university shall insulate undergraduate fees from research expenses and require research to be self supporting independent of the teaching.

(2) thou shalt not fudge the data (3) thou shalt not invent arbitrary statistical methods to suit thy data (4) thou shalt not indulge in any form of bias e.g. thou shalt not employ incomplete, highly selective, subjective literature reviews (5) thou shalt not exaggerate (6) in the interests of transparency and replication thou shalt not hide the data or code (7) thou shalt not make vague statements unsupported by evidence (8) thou shalt not tolerate actual or potential conflicts of interest (9) thou shalt not allow political interference to compromise scientific integrity (10) thou shalt not use unvalidated computer models

Usually this starts as vague statements like «well, I've looked into your client and there are some things that I don't think you want the court to know» or «I've reviewed the evidence, and the allegations in the complaint don't match up with what actually happened here.»

Such a statement is certainly the vaguest of the commitments set out in the mandate letter for the new Minister of Labour.

But the regulations don't say what standards must be met to receive approval, other than a vague statement that it «must have a reputation for being operated in a manner that is consistent with the standards of good character and integrity.»

The nature of the statement «American runs on Dunkin'» is both sufficiently vague and sufficiently exaggerated that a reasonable person wouldn't understand it to be literally true, and therefore it would not be illegal in the government's eyes.

I've been looking, but have up till now only gotten mixed messages when it comes to it's legality; just a jumble of legislative actions, court rulings, and public statements all wrapped in a confusing multi-year timeline and many vague / assuming articles in the press.