Sentences with phrase «of vague commitments»

Your business model is to monetize user information, to maximize profit over privacy, and unless there are specific rules and requirements — enforced by an outside agency — I have no assurance that these kinds of vague commitments are going to produce action.

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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.

WASHINGTON — President Obama pressured the heads of the nation's biggest banks on Monday to take «extraordinary» steps to revive lending for small businesses and homeowners, drawing a firm commitment from one large bank to make more loans and vaguer assurances from others.

Critics further insist that terms like «commitment,» «vulnerability,» and «care» as used by the new reformers are, when compared to the vows demanded in the marriage rite, both extraordinarily limited in their content and vague in respect to the matter of duration.

Thus, the «Federalists» «anti-majoritarian bias, and their commitment to neutrality between competing conceptions of the good life, lays the groundwork for a Supreme Court whose commitment to such vague notions as «libertarian dignity under law» makes it the supreme umpire in American life.

In the process, however, the historical particularities of differing commitments to the various gods are washed into the deliberately vague sea of the eternal: the limit, the mystery, the one God, or the ultimate.

Christianity Today quotes words of vague assurance from the elders of Willow Creek Community Church, who promise to «walk alongside Bill in stewarding his season of reflection» and profess their commitment «to working together on appropriate next steps with him.»

A recent analysis by the Tropical Commodity Coalition notes that the company «does not provide verifiable procurement figures of certified coffees, has no specific goals for a more sustainable coffee sector, and its future commitment is extremely vague.»

But people divorce for all sorts of reasons that don't necessarily fit these groups» assessment of «unnecessary divorce,» marriages ending because of some vague unhappiness or a lack of commitment, and that fall outside of the few reasons they consider valid — physical abuse, drug or booze addiction, incarceration and abandonment.

Tax campaigner Richard Murphy said the G8 declaration was «all vague commitment and almost nothing of any consequence».

But sources close to Miliband confirm that they intended to implement the plan after the 2015 election but had been hoping to keep it secret apart from a vague commitment in the 2015 manifesto to the reform of political funding.

The problem with some potential celebrity candidates, like Oprah or Mark Zuckerberg, is that they have no clear - cut ideological or policy commitments, so they could resort to selling a vague message of change (as Trump did).

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.

NCDA described an earlier version of the negotiated document as a play - by - play of these solid commitments being «systematically deleted, diluted and downgraded» and replaced with «vague intentions to «consider» and «work towards,» according to a 16 August letter from NCDA to U.N. Secretary - General Ban Ki - moon.

The problem has always been the commitment needed to record a video and that vague feeling of awkwardness.

BHP itself is taking the lead in pledging to power its overall activities with 40 % renewable energy — a vague commitment the state of South Australia wants made more explicitly for Olympics Dam.

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

But after that, HTC's commitment to the platform seemed to fade, and despite vague noises about new devices being on the way, almost two full years passed without a new Windows Phone being released (excluding the tepid makeover of the 8X for Sprint).