Sentences with phrase «vague promises about»

Apple also this year made vague promises about improving its existing parental controls in the future, in response to pressure from two Apple shareholder groups, Jana Partners LLC and the California State Teachers» Retirement System.

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.

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.

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

Not exact matches

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

«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.

But aside from the pedestrian proposals on offer, there was the usual litany of vague, meaningless and misleading promises about future law.

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.

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.

After Cuomo's executive budget released a week ago failed to include details for how the state will fund its $ 8.3 billion promise to fund the Capital Plan, de Blasio's own plan is also vague about how the city plans to pay for its $ 2.5 billion share of the costs.

These trance - like confessions and conversations are inter-cut with images of squid and fish, which — together with glimpses of Prouvost's body and the landscape of LA — form a poetic road movie about the vague promises and wistful possibilities of youth.

The Cancun global warming and wealth redistribution summit concluded last week, with little to show for two weeks of talking in 5 - star hotels and restaurants, other than vague promises that countries will try to do something meaningful about the «threat» of «dangerous» climate change.

Panic takes over in the «nation's» capital, followed by improvisation, vague promises of more devolved powers, and not - so - subtle threats about what it will all mean for the shared currency and the breakaway state's place in the larger common market (their EU to our NAFTA).

All that's currently available about these exemptions is vague information listed on the ESDC's website, although the federal government has promised an updated owner / operator manual for some time.

«Their team is enamored by the promises of psychometrics, but they were surprisingly vague about its specifics and too quick to dismissively cry «Analytics!»

For example, Dad may legitimately want Susie to attend the Girl Scout event and he may even make vague promises to Mom about a make - up weekend.