Sentences with phrase «is vague because»

Listing 2011 to 2012 is vague because it could mean January 2011 to December 2012, which is approximately two years, or December 2011 to January 2012, which is just a month.

ANNI ALBERS: Well, that is vague because anything needs that.

The list of materials is vague because this is a great project to use any leftover scraps of fabric, cardboard, and ribbon you have around your home.

The guidance we have on this, the cabinet manual, is vague because the convention is vague.

Not exact matches

If you give a vague description about the position, you can be sure that there will be many people applying just because they are looking for a job and are not necessarily interested in your particular position.

And sensitive information shouldn't be outsourced to cloud providers, because current laws and contracts are too vague and inconsistent.

That's likely because these goals all share the same Achilles heel: They're vague.

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.

After reaching the semi-finals of the MIT $ 100,000 competition, the venture ended up failing because the path forward was vague, and at the end of the day, our appetite for risk was very different.

This vague language makes it difficult for women to prove they were paid less than a male counterpart because of their gender and deters many from even filing a lawsuit.»

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.»

All of this because Gawker irritated a vindictive billionaire, and crossed the vague line between private and public information involving a celebrity — and, perhaps, because Denton was guilty of an excess of hubris.

First, the court threw out the fines because it said the FCC's TV regulations were too vague to let broadcasters know ahead of time what would be over the line.

«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.

This is a vague description, because it applies to so many different contexts.

By some estimates, close to a third of all new U.S. patents are of questionable quality, often because the invention claimed is not new or because the patent is vague or overly broad.

These searches can be laborious, because often the title and the abstract of patents in the search results are extremely vague or general.

So judges must do that choosing, «not because language is vague but because the Constitution embodies the desire of the American people, like most people, to have things both ways.»

«If the rumors and distrust persist on this campus, it may very well be because these decisions, by being postured on some vague spiritual «high ground,» have actually engendered a culture of fear,» they wrote in an open letter in the student newspaper, The Moody Standard.

The hopeful side of the picture is that the number of persons who are disturbed by this state of affairs, because they doubt if a vague and tenuous piety can sustain a civilization, is obviously growing.

We are unsure of the Gospel ourselves and so we slip and slide around it, and the person doesn't get saved because we were so vague, and we feel depressed because of how horrible we did.

Such a plurality of defensive interpretations is possible, not because the texts are vague, for indeed they are not vague, but because the content of the text is universal in its domain of application and ambivalent — rather than ambiguous — in its language.

The goals of research on mental health and the churches are, necessarily, at this point vague and indistinct, mainly because of problems of definition and instrumentation.

On the other hand, and partly because of such conflict, the idea of the ministry was vague and uncertain.

In particular, the artist is often said to be compelled to work because he recognizes and finds irresistible an envisaged result, however vague and puzzling that result might seem when he begins to create.

I generally dislike poetry because most of it buys into silly, romantic idealism or is stuffy and vague or private and not real communication.

United Methodists disagree about who can be a disciple because we have different understandings of sin and salvation, We must quit using vague and clichéd theological language to patch over our differences.

The reason we should not take up the argument of Human Sexuality is not because of the obvious problems with the report's vague criterion of «creative and integrative growth» as the necessary condition for the legitimacy of sexual expression.

It was presented as deliberately vague because I wanted to express something from first principles.

But his argument was that just as the physical and chemical sciences (he distinguished the two on the grounds that chemistry developed from the pseudo-science of alchemy) were once vague and unscientific because they had not yet learned to properly discriminate the relevant data, so the social sciences were then (as now) struggling to develop adequate methods for discrimination of data.

My thought on this now is, that when things are as vague as Christine makes them, and as Sabio points out, then the «communicative universalist» really can't be that «substantial» because that would be doctrine and putting God in a box, etc..

«the law's effectiveness is yet to be tested, in part because of protections it gives to «confidential communications,» as well as a vague definition of who should be considered a member of the clergy.

Hasker's third proposition is that for the problem of divine non-intervention to be a real problem, «we must be able to identify specific kinds of cases in which God morally ought to intervene but does not» Many critics of (traditional) theism probably already have a more or less vague list of such cases, which might include genocidal events, such as the Nazi holocaust and the Rwandan massacre; wars; large - scale natural disasters; conditions of chronic poverty, in which millions of children die from starvation or are permanently stunted because of inadequate protein; the sexual molestation of children, which often leaves them psychologically scarred for the rest of their lives; death preceded by long, painful illnesses, such as cancer or AIDS, or by mind - destroying conditions, such as Alzheimer's disease; and the kinds of events described by Dostoyevski, such as the soldier using his pistol to get a mother's baby to giggle with delight and then blowing its brains out.

Too many people today are bored at mass because they are celebrating a transcendence that is vague and too quickly transformed into categories immanent and psychological.

It's all foolishness, because the word «success» is amazingly vague.

It took me a while to come up with a list because the question was so vague.

I remember hearing about date paste years ago, but I was always leery of trying it because the method for making it sounded so... vague.

I DO N'T REALLY KNOW THE ANSWER: That's because Kraft is so vague about the gluten - free thing.

Well, may be here, in the UK or England, since the good British managers are the rare pearl... In France, I have not heard his laurels since 2006... As a matter of fact, he is less and less seen on the football and program platforms because he can not talk modern football with the new vague of managers.

Everytime someone wants to criticize a player with great performance stats they claim «inconsistent» because it is vague and nearly meaningless.

on whether he is tired of talking about it... It's not the fatigue factor, it's just I can not tell you what I don't know and so I don't want to give information that I can not back up after because it will come to me and you will say why did you say that and rightly so, so I like to be a bit vague and use my whole experience of press conferences not to talk things that I can not back up after.

I do not know the other candidates, nor do I know any programme of anybody because that has been very vague.

I wrote in rather vague terms then and I am now as well because I don't feel it's fair to my child to delve into it too deeply in a public forum.

@lynette — So a woman can be «blindsided» but a man can't because he just didn't pick up on the vague, obscure or contradictory «signals» their wives were sending?

If this sounds a bit vague, it is because there are still other factors that could offset any gains that we may see.

The recommendations Nestlé gives are detrimental to the health of infants because they are so vague that they could easily be misinterpreted and solid foods could be introduced well before six months.

A vague «300 - 500» calories when I'm starving is really frustrating, because I don't know if I can really have that extra 200 calories and still be successful in losing weight.

Of COURSE that wasn't the time to lay it all out, but to skirt to the question or give a vague answer would have been far more appropriate than removing her of all guilt - she'll probably never ask again AND tell everyone «I was told by an expert that this didn't happen because of our home birth.»

Because smart is such a vague term, I broke the brain - boosting benefits of motherhood down into five attributes in the book: perception, efficiency, resiliency, motivation, and emotional intelligence.

Denying others the possibility to evaluate the morality of that profession in comparison to the medical one on their own equals «because I say so» argumentation and being deliberately vague and persistently denying other participants access to the same information that you have.