Sentences with phrase «vague promises»

A relatively unknown project, vague promises of faster network transactions and other fringe benefits are yet to see implementation, with only futures trading on around 20 exchanges.

When I ask the Police officer now continues to make vague promises that everything is fine and I'll get my money back but doesn't say when.

But the hardest thing to accept is how the marketing of the game seems to very deliberately trying to lure fans in with vague promises of being able to change the ending when they can't.

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.»

The four - page fact sheet released by her campaign offered only vague promises that her climate policy planks will ensure «that fossil fuel production taking place today is safe and responsible, that taxpayers get a fair deal for development on public lands, and that areas that are too sensitive for energy production are taken off the table.»

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.

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

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

Many have criticized Obama for what they see as vague promises of hope, but that's also what fuels his appeal to people tired of listening to Boomers squabble.

Yet barely a soul understands what the Conservatives would do differently from Labour beyond vague promises to tackle the deficit, which Labour also promises.

Miliband's rather vague promise to establish an «appropriate benchmark level for average market rents», is more short term electoral boost than long term cure to the UK's housing problems.

«The British people don't want vague promises.

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.

Shortly after that, the Final Fantasy XV: VR Experience was delayed — since which, we've had nothing but vague promises that the Season Pass would include VR content.

IPS: While world leaders were wrapping up the United Nations conference on climate change (COP 18) in Doha, Qatar this past weekend with the annual vague promise to tackle the enormous crises brought on by extreme weather and global warming, a delegation of youth gathered far from the high - level conference halls to say «no» to [continue reading...]

But a $ 29,000 advertised price is still a $ 29,000 advertised price, and the initial sticker shock is enough to deter many low - income students and even the mildly debt averse from pursuing a law degree long before vague promises of financial aid are heard.

Right now, Inkling is mostly vague promises about a fairly Utopian view of a futuristic educational environment in which every student and every educator has an iPad, all of which can be connected.

With Huawei, you pretty much are stuck with the software that ships, despite vague promises for an eventual update.

But where the film ended with vague promises of retribution and rebuilding, the series will, presumably, carry them out.

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.

What Fallon didn't do was waste time justifying his take with vague promises of «service» or «experience.»

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.

Google makes lots of vague promises, and seems to not deliver.»

Other than making vague promises to place more police officers on the streets, encouraging DNA testing for death - row inmates and calling for the need to reduce recidivism by investing in «proven community - based law - enforcement programs,» the Democrats» policy solutions over the past eight years have done little to dismantle the carceral state that they helped create.

Vague promises, especially when you have not met your targets, will only add fuel to the fire.

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 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.

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

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.

I made vague promises and tried to distract her by making jokes about procrastination.

The NFL has made some positive steps to support players, like a vague promise to promote issues important to them, and a formal endorsement of a criminal justice reform bill.

The Bears have hired big - league architects — Bostonian Ben Wood and Chicagoan Dirk Lohan — but their vague promise to preserve the classical colonnades and outer wall can not be relied upon to prevent a high - tech monstrosity from rising along the water's edge.

«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.

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.

Few days after Nana's inauguration, spare parts dealers reduced prices of their goods, radio stations metamorphosed into platforms for praise worship, some pastors suspended preaching of the word for Nana's projection, social media flew into a whirlwind celebrating the triumph of vague promises.

He has some familiar and vague promises and catchphrases about improving education, public safety, and employment — in his words, turning the Bronx into «the Silicon Valley of the East» — but he said he sells himself to the voters as a populist hero and role model.

So Cuomo extracted a vague promise from Senator Jeff Klein to return to the Democratic fold... big deal.

«I think Paul Ryan has a job to do in offering something to Democrats with respect to DACA and the Dreamers that is more than a vague promise, because if he doesn't, I think we don't maximize the Democratic vote for passage of this bill.»

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.

But when $ 8,400 a year disappears from my paycheck with only the vague promise that it'll keep me from bankruptcy if the unthinkable happens?

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.

Yet he has been downright defiant toward the unions that swung the Working Families Party endorsement to him and away from Ms. Teachout five months ago, persuaded by some vague promises he lip - synched about acting like more of a Democrat.