Sentences with phrase «of vague question»

Ask a lawyer how they're doing, what they're up to these days, some sort of vague question like that, and they'll almost certainly say «I'm very busy» or something similar, maybe even something more dramatic, such as «I'm going out of my mind with all the work, it just keeps pouring in» accompanied by a nervous shake of the head and possibly a wringing of hands.

I know this is a bit of a vague question but I'll give some specific examples.

Asking an original or thoughtful question is an attractive quality to daters, especially online daters who quickly tire of vague questions like «How are you?»

Not exact matches

He says: «Such a broad, vague statement can not guide the design of specific questions, and often leads to long, unfocused surveys and, ultimately, poor survey results.»

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.

Yet on the question of restructuring the country's debt or canceling it altogether, the summit agreement is somewhat (and potentially purposefully) vague.

In A Hobbit Journey, the reader has to plough through 17 pages of a rather diffuse introduction before Dickerson explicitly states the purpose of his book, and even then it is somewhat vague: it will explore the question «What can we learn from hobbits and from their vision of the Good Life, and how does that apply to our own present situation?»

Whether Darwinism is another example of pseudoscience is the question, and this question can not be answered by a vague appeal to the authority of science.

In this vague field, more precisely, in these fields of experience, a highly organized, but as such scarcely reflected, not to mention questioned, thought mediates for common sense the image of an «exact world» which is certainly a symbolic world.

The line of distinction here is very vague, for theology may extend itself into questions of less and less obviously critical importance for man's existence.

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.&raquOf 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.&raquof 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.&raquof our home birth.»

Instead of asking a vague question like «How was your day?»

OK, I'll take a swing at it, but in all honesty the real TL; DR answer to your question is «because it has little to do with politics, and is a reality of how language works and evolves, and a downside of English being a vague language».

This is a pretty complicated topic, made all the more complicated because your question is very vague («perceptions» covers a LOT of ground).

First of all, I'm not a specialist of the theme at all, so it is a naive question, probably too vague, but I'm doing my best to make it precise and I have the feeling that it could lead to interesting...

But the mayor has been vague in answering questions from the press about certain aspects of the investigation.

The Question Time method has two major problems: firstly, it allows those on the panel to offer quick responses without much of a come back, opening the space for Griffin to offer his vague rhetorical statements without a sustained critical response.

In part, because your question is sufficiently vague that it is hard to know what you really mean and some examples could clarify the kinds of things you are thinking about.

Rather, as stated, the question is unduely vague in its use of «impeached.»

A memo provided to the SUNY trustees before the vote offered no specific explanation about why the money was necessary, drawing questions from Trustee Richard Socarides about the vague description of the institute's financial problems.

A federal judge again postponed former Town of Oyster Bay Commissioner Frederick Ippolito's sentencing for tax evasion connected to fees received from a paving contractor, saying that information received from Ippolito and town officials about their relationship with the company was too vague and only raised more questions.

They accused the Constitution developer of intentionally providing vague or incomplete responses to DEC questions.

In a battery of TV and radio interviews, the Democrat had vague or evasive answers to many shouted questions about his return to public life — why he entered a primary against another Democrat that Spitzer called his «friend,» whether he and his wife are living together, how he thinks his bid compares to Weiner's.

Easier, too, to throw around vague, anti-Semitic tropes about George Soros than to come clean about where the Brexit campaign cash came from, after openDemocracy's reporting triggered questions in parliament about the role of dark money in the EU referendum — and the concerns about foreign and particularly Russian interference in western democracies.

When questioned about specific votes, such as those against the minimum wage increase and paid family leave, and against early voting, she chalked them up to the «inside baseball» of legislating, and provided somewhat vague answers.

DataSift is new kind of search engine that uses crowdsourced human intelligence to answer vague, complex or visual questions, even when the users are not sure what they are searching for.

Clear, concise, well - written proposals that identify an interesting problem or question early and frame it in terms of the fundamental science fare better than proposals that are vague and unfocused.

The study showed that men felt less connected to a woman when she gave vague answers to questions and indicated that responses like «kind of» and «maybe» were a huge put off.

Be wary of someone who is vague, won't answer direct questions or can only meet at odd hours.

His Longo is wearily handsome and quietly amiable, always letting on how impressed he is with Finkel, and deflecting any specific question about the crimes he's accused of with vague hints that he might be covering for another guilty party.

There is lovely footage of inquisitive Nouvelle Vague godhead Franoçois Truffaut firing probing questions at an Alfred Hitchcock who is clearly loving the attention, but what Jones has done is made a film in which he has roped in a host of other famous directors (David Fincher, Arnaud Desplechin, Wes Anderson, James Gray, etc.) to talk about Hitchcock and how his work affected their own work.

Though the trailers for Acrimony have been vague on the nature of the scorning (not to mention the question of how Henson's character gets away with smoking in a therapist's office), they did teach us to how to pronounce such words as «bitterness,» «malice,» and «anger.»

Plenty of comic book readers (and, notoriously, Deadpool himself in the movie) have questioned how Domino's occasionally vague powers of «luck» what translate to the screen, but director David Leitch (of V For Vendetta and John Wick fame) and crew had no problem choreographing stunning uses of Domino's luck throughout the movie.

The latter statement is vague and suggests that teachers know how to differentiate but have decided not to do so, while the former statement promotes inquiry and thought — it is written as a question and gives teachers a clearer idea of possible instructional shifts.

The endless raising of unanswered questions, the vague explanations of what makes an issue «maximally controversial» (who exactly gets to decide how much intra-expert disagreement gives an issue that standing?)

Forget about all the vague, superficial information out there; Edutopia blogger Heick cuts to the chase with 19 meaningful questions that parents can ask at the beginning of the school year.

There is a discussion - board component through WebCT, but the professor simply posts a vague guiding question at the beginning of each week and leaves the discussion to the students.

Studies that have examined learning within the community of inquiry framework have been criticized for methodological issues including vague, one - question surveys of students» perceptions of learning (Rourke & Kanuka, 2009).

Your nightmare is my point exactly — we all vague dreams about being unprepared; I had nightmares of one specific teacher tormenting me with questions about one specific subject.

TU Director of Communications Mary Moser provides a detailed starting point for creating and utilizing a digital classroom observation tool in order to answer the question «How do you make systematic change without basing your work on vague notions and «we think» statements?»

While sales of print comics are well documented (by Diamond, the distributor to comics shops, and BookScan, which reports on bookstore sales), real numbers are much harder to come by in the digital realm, where everyone starts to get all vague and mumbly if you ask the question.

Zuckerberg: His answer was as vague as the question, noting primarily that a large number of people live in areas without Internet access (or no way to get themselves online).

Often the source materials I referenced addressed this question in the vaguest terms possible, offering something along the lines of, «design X enjoyed moderate popularity before eventually being replaced by the more efficient design Y.»

However, vague, unbounded questions require a lot of time to answer thoroughly and answers may completely miss the poster's underlying intent.

We know that's a mouthful and maybe even a little vague, so here are answers to some of the most frequently asked questions about credit unions in comparison with banks.

But the cool, vague reception my questions about the itinerary elicited from Captain Andi Hahn, who put it together, robbed me of hope.

Halett was intentionally vague, responding to a question about the future of Little Nightmares by saying the studio was «fully focused» on the production of Secrets of the Maw.

Halett was intentionally vague, responding to a question about the future of

After a couple of entries with vague endings that didn't do much to satisfy after the long journeys before them, Final Fantasy 9's close is emotional and triumphant, leaving very few unanswered questions.

Vignocchi was vague, but basically answered the question of «Where is my Disney?»