Sentences with phrase «just rhetoric»

If benchmarks are to be a tool of accountability - not just the rhetoric of empty promises - they must be:

To suggest that a modest fair dealing policy based on Supreme Court jurisprudence and legislative reforms is «arbitrary and unsupported» is more than just rhetoric masquerading as legal argument.

The push for reform is borne out by the timetable of milestones which Lord Young has clearly set out, so we very much doubt that this is all just rhetoric for its own sake.

Against the backdrop of these two equally plausible scenarios, we will only know in a few years whether December's Bali declaration on climate change was just rhetoric or the beginning of a global effort to counter it.

[And as a side note, the comparisons to eugenics, Nazis and Lysenko in Lindzens article indicate to me that he isn't resenting a fact - based argument, rather just rhetoric...]

New York Times blogger Andrew C. Revkin echoed Wasserman's sentiments in his recent article Obama's Ambitious Global Warming Action Plan, «Of course this climate plan is just rhetoric until it is translated into on - the - ground actions.

«The government's development dimension is not just rhetoric, it has real content.

All this stuff about «objective priors» is just rhetoric - the term simply does not mean what a lay - person might expect (including a climate scientist not well - versed in statistical methodology).

Of course this climate plan is just rhetoric until it is translated into on - the - ground actions.

Because, you know, otherwise, it's just rhetoric.

I just hoped that by working for a year and putting together something that impressed not just on a crowd funding level but also compared to other AAA games that the naysayers could see that my vision was more than just rhetoric.

But, that's where my opinion ends and anything after that is just rhetoric.

It could be just rhetoric, but if it is it seems calculated to send a clear message: Send us your bold ideas.

«Ramarley's family and the public still don't know whether Haste is facing charges for the full extent of his misconduct or whether the 12 plus other officers who engaged in misconduct will face accountability,» Colon added, saying it was time for «more than just rhetoric.»

If this commitment is to be seen as more than just rhetoric we need money and action now.

«We need to get to the point where you know what they stand for, instead of just the rhetoric,» Katko said.

* Barack Obama is showing that his pledge to broaden the traditional playing field is more than just rhetoric, airing his first ad of the general election — a 60 - second commercial re-introducing him to voters — in 18 states, including states like Alaska, North Carolina and Georgia that have been long left off of Democratic target lists at the presidential level.

It is just the rhetoric.

«While acknowledgement of failure is an important step, whether this administration is serious about changing more than just rhetoric will be measured by whether disciplinary action is swift, meaningful and comprehensive,» Bandele said in a statement.

All valid rhetoric, but ultimately, just rhetoric.

He is just rhetoric with a suit on.

Or is it just rhetoric wheeled out to at least «be seen'to have some fight!?

Players can wax lyrical about his style of management all day but for me that is just rhetoric, spin for the fans and the media when they are probably feeling angry and frustrated but can not voice their true feelings.

It's just rhetoric... we're a Tesla chassis with two Flintstones holes punched in the bottom of the car.

Agreed Jon, we all get caught up in rhetoric, especially during the heat of the moment or perhaps in anger during an argument and yes I've used the hate word, as I do regards spurs, but that is just rhetoric.

That is not just rhetoric, it is the plain truth!

Just rhetoric, careful spin from our press guys.

facts... are all just rhetoric, theres other facts that contradict yours, so educate yourself, and stop preaching BS

Nevermind just the rhetoric of war, I think there is a common refrain amongst modern evangelicals that «God is on our side, so who can stand against us?»

Not exact matches

While the effects of a possible trade war are still just in the realm of possibilities and analysts are waiting for all the rhetoric dust to settle, if trade and economic growth were to weaken, they could affect the pace of oil demand growth.

Until they do, no amount of rhetoric, reform or legislation will create the self - actualized economy we consistently envision but always find just beyond our reach.

It's official, Rand Paul, the junior senator from Kentucky, is running for president — and though his libertarian rhetoric has many enthusiasts among entrepreneurs, a win for Rand might just imperil businesses in general.

Not everyone will benefit: now that Republicans have swept the US government for the first time since 1928, it means Obamacare is over - just a matter of time - and Affordable Care Act - vulnerable stocks such as Universal Health Services, AmSurg and Mednax will likely plunge; on the other hand pure pharma stocks like MCK and ABC will benefit as rhetoric on drug pricing will diminish significantly, leading to more stable earnings if / when changes in drug pricing become more stable.

The US has just elected a candidate who openly embraces racism, sexism, and anti-Islamic rhetoric, mocks disabled people, denies climate change, and scorns the economically disadvantaged.

We would argue it is the potential for increased protectionism, which mostly just took the form of rhetoric in 2017.

A: We know that there is enough political rhetoric out there and we wanted it to capture the imagination, we wanted it to be something poetic and not just force - feeding people political answers, because there's enough of that out there.

So if they've distanced themselves» themselves from their old Biblical Literalist rhetoric»... this just goes to my point.

I do not think you have the ability to respect anything based on your posts and you have never given any sound reasoning, just a bunch of red faced racist rhetoric.

Steve, your response is typical conservative evangelical rhetoric... which is really just personal prejudice backed by shallow evangelical theology.

Listening to them speak, I sometimes wonder if they've ever read the bible or actually paid attention to what was written instead of just using talking points, propaganda and rhetoric in their sermons.

I could just have well descended into rhetoric and hyperbole to try explaining from a different angle — trying to reason it out, as it were, to show how anything like a «soul» has no basic value of its own apart from the brain — which turns to crud after death.

So, what is my point?To read Paul's polemic, his rhetoric and generally his theology as an end in itself, rather than his attempt to bring others to an experience of the living God is to me, missing the point.It seems that much of the divisiveness between believers on this blog and a few others I visit is just that: I often read... Paul says this... hey, but Jesus says that... no, he wasn't saying that, he was saying this and so on and so on.Am I the only one bored with this «your Mother and my Mother were hanging out clothes» approach.I think we need a little more adverb, as in maybe....

It's just that his political rhetoric is predicated on the incoherent and dangerous proposition that politics can only become populist when it is stripped of the political — when rhetoric becomes unrhetorical.

I just hope they won't be burning us at the stake anytime soon, but their demonizing rhetoric would suggest otherwise.

It is obvious to us that what happened during that regime was about as far away from teh teachings of Christ as is possible — and yet somehow the Bibilical rhetoric worked, just as Bolshevik polemics riled up the people of Communist Russia.

Bclear, perhaps you should look a little deeper rather than just buying into the rhetoric taught to you about Mormonism in your own church.

I just find your rhetoric ironic, since you aggressively point out that atheists are aggressive, and hatefully point out how hateful atheists are.

Can't we just agree that anything religion or God is true to the extent that the devotee needs and wants it to be true... there is no objective truth to any of it, that we may know, so why all the divisive rhetoric.

«Forgiveness» can often be just one piece of the rhetoric.

Yet I hear so much the same rhetoric, words and phrases used time and time again from them just as you stated.