But, with technology limiting character models, using lying as a core mechanic in a video game would be little
more than an empty promise.
It prevents a genuine understanding of real inequalities in the world in favour of a hollow, surrogate system of ethics that exploits images of inequality for its own ends and offers nothing
other than an empty promise not to make it worse.
Given that a Democrat occupied the Oval Office between 2008 - 2016, and given that the economic condition of 90 % of all households declined during that period, it follows logically that empty promises of a Republican sounded better to the general population of voters
than the empty promises of a Democrat.
If religion (as opposed to morality) was anything other
than empty promises meant to sate human insecurities, would we not expect movements TOWARD greater religiosity to be predominant in World history and viewed in a positive light?
Unfortunately, the company's prospects turned out to be little more
than empty promises and the shares crashed back down to earth, taking down France's stock market and public finances with it.
Unless this process of proxy baptism is made transparent with adequate checks and balances, I as a non-Mormon do not feel their assurances are again worth more
than empty promises.
«After having already broken their promise to pass Mayor Koch's pledge to clean up Albany with independent redistricting, ethics, and budget reform, the Senate Republicans» «working group» is nothing more
than another empty promise, not worthy of the people of New York or the Senate which serves them.»
In other words, a bill called Every Child Achieves must be more
than an empty promise.