Sentences with phrase «is vague promise»

The end result is a vague promise of improvements to the user experience and third - party apps while «using very little battery power and reducing latency.»

If we have the choice between maintaining the overall picture we have of the climate and trying to decipher a paper where there is the vague promise to overthrow AGW, the choice won't be tough to make.

Among Trudeau's plans for the Canada Revenue Agency (CRA) is a vague promise to have the agency contact people who have tax benefits but aren't collecting them.

There are some specifics, but much is vague promise or things like the above, «Give every family access to a great school and good teachers».

This was no vague promise born of the emotion of the hour.

Tucker says that all she got from Central Office personnel in response to her complaints were vague promises to «support» or «mentor» J.O. Wilson's principal.

Not exact matches

SEOUL, April 27 (Reuters)- North and South Korea made ambitious promises for peace on Friday, including to formally end the Korean War this year, but made only a vague commitment to «complete denuclearization of the Korean peninsula» without specifics on how that key goal would be achieved.

SEOUL, April 27 - North and South Korea made ambitious promises for peace on Friday, including to formally end the Korean War this year, but made only a vague commitment to «complete denuclearization of the Korean peninsula» without specifics on how that key goal would be achieved.

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.

While this vague promise of change falls short of the kind of daring transparency that marked McDonald's Our Food, Your Questions campaign, it's a start.

Even if he were to carry out his vague campaign promise to open more and bigger auto plants than ever in Michigan, those plants would inevitably employ far fewer humans.

«No new policies, just vague promises about policies that may or may not be implemented in the future.»

Even after the former U.S. attorney general Eric Holder, who'd been hired by the board to investigate, issued a scathing report on Uber's culture, Kalanick and his directors initially decided that vague promises of coaching, the hiring of a chief operating officer, and a slap - on - the - wrist «leave of absence» for the CEO were sufficient remedies.

The Liberal promise, though, is somewhat vaguer, promising «consultation.»

In 2009, Carney broke with central bank tradition, which typically offers only vague pronouncements of where interest rates might be headed in the future, and laid out a specific timeline, promising to hold rates at near - zero for 15 months.

Good news for those who were disappointed that Paul Thomas Anderson's The Master turned out to be a vague parable of Scientology rather than a penetrating exposé of it: a new book promises to do the job instead.

As the polls show, the cheap thrills and vague promises of blowhardism are a lot more popular than anything Ron Paul is offering.

In the gray morning after the previous night's celebration old mental habits easily reappear, especially if vague but heady promises of better days are not soon realized.

It may well be that we are entering upon a period in the church's life wherein men's minds must be shocked open to entertain the suspicion that there are realms of meaning, promise, and judgment which ensconce God's incarnate action for their vague disquietudes.

«All he's done here is to give some sort of vague promise that there might be a referendum in the future, but that it will not be about our membership of the European Union,» Farage commented.

So to the Treasury and the Chief Secretary I say this: there is no point in vague promises about more capital spending in 2017 or 2020.

Apart from the lies the Npp told Ghanaians and their vague promises, we made few mistakes in the past and the mistakes are now being corrected even though some young upstarts with the party think things are not moving at the pace they wanted.

Reacting to the President's vague state of the nation address, his allies in the spare parts industry, said it is too cruel of this government to continue promising and not fulfilling while pointing accusing fingers at the opposition.

This time last year, the government was promising quick action but the main change this year seems to be that the language used is even more vague, both in terms of content and timetable

But aside from the pedestrian proposals on offer, there was the usual litany of vague, meaningless and misleading promises about future law.

But he also plans to deliver many magnificently vague and intangible promises, all of which were the direct opposite of utter nonsense.

Though it's encouraging that the Coalition is thinking strategically about the looming post-2013 EU budget negotiations, Tony Blair's deal to give away part of the rebate in return for vague promises of CAP reform (which never materialised) shows that such deals have rarely worked for the UK.

This perhaps explains why the party's manifesto is rather vague on Lords reform, merely promising to cut the number of Lords to 450 and reform it «with a proper democratic mandate».

Appearing this morning on MSNBC, Working Families Party official Dan Cantor admitted that the party is taking a huge gamble on Gov. Andrew Cuomo by giving him its ballot line in exchange for a vague promise that he'll help flip the state Senate into Democratic hands this fall.

Individual lenders are not buying a vague promise that debt would go down some time in the future, they are buying a debt instrument with specific properties and predefined payment dates that most states honor most of the time.

That problem will not be solved with vague promises or minor pronouncements.

Instead of focusing on adding more to what it inherited, the Akufo - Addo government is spending billions of cedis on propaganda networking to propagate its vague and complicated arguments just to confuse the masses they promised heaven during their campaign.

He included them in his proposed budget, then dropped them in negotiations with the legislature with a vague promise to take them up again after the budget was adopted.

And I'm not going to accept vague promises.»

After Cuomo's executive budget released a week ago failed to include details for how the state will fund its $ 8.3 billion promise to fund the Capital Plan, de Blasio's own plan is also vague about how the city plans to pay for its $ 2.5 billion share of the costs.

He makes vague promises about tax relief in the second year of the next biennium without a specific plan of how to get there, and he thinks putting tolls back on highways is an idea worth pursuing.

It's staggering that the Labour backbenchers just keeled over and accepted such a vague promise.

If the «Yes» campaign loses on the basis of vague «jam tomorrow» promises that don't materialise as absolute manifesto commitments, there won't be losses in Scotland, there will be a slaughter... and of course the gnats are going to sweep up most of the Scottish lib - dem seats anyway.

What are voters meant to think, when Labour makes vague promises of tax cuts for the least well - off?

CROWN HEIGHTS — A vague but hopeful Mayor - elect Bill de Blasio promised Thursday that his signature plan of universal pre-K and expanded afterschool programs would be in place by next fall, adding «a lot» of new slots in the city schools, he said.

In another recorded call, Adam Skelos, promising to be «very, very vague» on the phone, urged his father to allow the meeting.

With researchers disagreeing wildly on both points, this promises to be something of a baptism of fire — especially since the FDA has long made it clear it will only approve drugs for specific conditions, not vague groups of symptoms.

Most large companies have overseas divisions, but you need to be certain that any promises of travel are concrete rather than vague possibilities.

I always read these wretchedly vague posts from bloggers this time of year that promise to be personal but shed little light on actual details.

However, until very recently, long distance relationships were less of a lifestyle choice, and more of a vague promise to not birth a child with anyone else until both parties could be tearfully reunited on an appropriate train platform / dock / smoking battleground.

There's the vague whiff of a lowered budget here, but the trailer promises lots of creature action plus tough merc posturing from the likes of Katee Sackhoff (in full - on Starbuck mode), Dave Bautista, Jordi Mollà, Matt Nable, Bokeem Woodbine, Raoul Trujillo, and Nolan Gerard Funk.

While we can't say we're particularly intrigued by the source material (the log - lines are almost hilariously vague, referring to Others and Supernaturals), it's shaping up to be a more promising cast than most of these teen franchises carry, and while we can't say we love LaGravanese's directorial work, let's not forget that he was the writer behind «The Fisher King» and «The Ref,» and hopefully he can turn out something a little more interesting.

It's going to be released on Android and iOS and from the screenshots it seems very promising, if very vague on how the game will actually play.

And despite the fact that they are working with novel criteria that include many obvious tensions, it's not clear how reviewers are supposed to translate thousands of pages of narrative and vague promises into the intricate point system Education Department established.

Anticipate «need to know» issues, and be as detailed as you can when responding — because people are not reassured by vague promises to «provide that information later.»