Sentences with phrase «is a vague concept»

Often it is a vague concept meaning «very large» or «beyond imagination».

«Showing respect» is a vague concept, not a specific action or way of behaving.

Roger Pielke Jr, a science - policy expert at the University of Colorado, Boulder, says that differences in the policies are inevitable because the agencies have different missions and scientific integrity is a vague concept.

It's a vague concept can't be used to accurately measure one's diet.

Legitimate expectation is said to be a vague concept which permits judges to trespass into the legislative and executive domains and distribute palm - tree justice.

Not exact matches

So again, the book struck me as being fairly vague about the very concept of «inequality» because it does not provide a very insightful perspective into the meaning of «wealth» and how it really relates to our living standards.

Cheon Seong - Whun of The Asan Institute for Policy Studies says denuclearization is too vague of a concept in Korean Peninsula talks and the focus should turn to nuclear «dismantlement» for Pyongyang.

Human brains are very good at processing information put in a narrative form, whereas we find it difficult to process abstract concepts and vague ideas.

«Investing was a very vague and out of reach concept because no one discussed it with me,» says Michelle Jackson, founder of the Shop My Closet Project and creator of the Girl Gone Frugal podcast.

In ordinary usage these concepts are remarkably vague, but as applied to the book's proposal they are to be used only by the analysis given here.

It's a pretty vague concept without a little explanation.

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.

The difficulty is that it deals with concepts so vague and so intangible, that precise meanings are difficult to make clear to the reader.

«The new definition is needlessly complex and engages vague concepts that have no clinical or legal foundation.

«The concept of cohabitation is an utterly vague one that covers a huge variety of arrangements,» Dr Williams said.

Above all, the vague letter - and - word metaphor was nowhere near as precise as Schrödinger's code - script concept.

Actually this concept is quite common and even somewhere vague.

The movie seems to be about regret and love and other vague concepts that could be emotionally relevant, but since it wants to be specific about its characters without bothering to develop them and doesn't want to muster up histrionics, Evening ends up heavy on the mellow, low on the drama.

And political paranoia — the author's other great talent — is largely restricted to a pair of episodes exploring the human tendency to circle the wagons when faced with even the vaguest concept of an «other» in our midst.

That's not to say that there isn't anything to withdraw from the story of Dandara and the world of Salt, but the vague delivery doesn't nearly prove to be as exciting as the concept of it.

This ominous concept is vague in the extreme: When Tris says she doesn't really understand what it means, you're right there with her.

Theorists accepting this expectation contended that the principal «s role had changed from management to instructional leadership.122 What the concept of instructional leadership means, however, remains vague.

Because the reality is that even though editors, publishers, and even agents might request high - concept stories, they are all hard - pressed to define the term themselves — thus the vague guidelines in submission requirements.

To be honest, I rarely pay attention to the stock market, and I was only aware of the concept of Bitcoin in the vaguest possible way of it being a «fake currency.»

However, the term is slightly vague in the sense that it is used for two profoundly dissimilar concepts.

The concept of a permissible purpose can be vague, and difficult to interpret and apply.

Credit scores are a very vague concept to most people, yet they can hold so much power over your financial well - being.

Why is it not surprising that the concept of home for me is related to my present coordinates pointing to a vague virtual geographic location?

At the moment there is no set release date for the game, not even a vague one, but the concept surrounding the game certainly sounds interesting, and in true Japanese style it's all gung - ho.

While an intriguing concept the execution is somewhat lacking as it ends off becoming a little vague.

It's easiest to get people to agree on vague concepts.

The result is a faster pace with less waiting to get some action and a heavy focus in infantry play, but the overall concept of having the police face - off against criminals is largely abandoned except in some vague but unimaginative ways.

Do any of you have even the vaguest concept of how much work it would be for Sony to implement something like that just to give away free money / credit for no good reason?

The left analog stick is used to pan (move left / right) and tilt (move up / down, though that is a pretty vague concept in this game) while the right analog stick is used to roll.

The beginning and the end of Final Fantasy XV are very sweet and resonant, but the implied narrative that composes the center is a scrambled together assembly of plot concepts and vague ideas of characters.

Survey art shows held together by a vague concept are generally specious, the concern being that a broad subject was chosen to shoehorn an unruly and tangential mess of work together.

Therefore, from the exhibiting artists» position «un certain regard» is not a vague concept, but translates as a convinced, assertive and genuine view on contemporary sensuality.

«Our MEGA-plate takes complex, often obscure, concepts in evolution, such as mutation selection, lineages, parallel evolution and clonal interference, and provides a visual seeing - is - believing demonstration of these otherwise vague ideas.

Ahead of his time, with so many vague and unformed but interesting ideas, it is fair to say that his spatial concept foreshadowed installation and environmental art and his promotion of gesture as art prompted performance as art.

Our concept of painting is notoriously vague.

Now, as to «collapse», whatever you mean by «collapse», which is just as vague as your «governance» concept, who cares?

Too often, the vague concept of human - driven global warming is dealt with as a single entity when in fact it's a host of questions:

In the wave case it is the different between a vague concept and a specific formulation.

The law, with all its vague non-quantifiable concepts such as «reasonable doubt», etc... is actually more rigorous than the modern day scientific community.

Even the concept of irradiance is vague and maybe incomplete.

In the process, they're turning «free prior and informed consent» into more than just a vague concept — and perhaps providing a model for the rest of the world.

This multiplicity of CO2 absorption lines due to combinations of vibrational and rotational excitations is not a vague concept, but thoroughly documented.

One could argue that's exactly what's happened in terms of business sustainability: many companies get the notion that «green» is just one element of a broader set of strategies designed to create businesses that foster responsibility towards all stakeholders; others, however, see «green» as a vague, feel - good concept ripe for exploitation.

This is not a vague concept that will need to be implemented at some point in the future but something that is urgently required now.

Our society has devolved into one in which truth is merely a vague concept.