Sentences with phrase «vague words of»

They learn to dismiss vague words of praise as insincere, and perhaps even phony.

Recent guidance has prohibited the police from arresting under Section 5 of the Act when they are the individual being insulted, but campaigners say the vague wording of the law makes it open to abuse by other groups.

The vague wording of the regulations would allow for «classifiers» to visit, for example, the homes of citizen journalists and ordinary internet users.»

But the vague wording of Starwood's announcement did not preclude a possible sale of the company to someone else if that were determined to be the best way to enhance shareholder value.

Not exact matches

That's part of what is summed up in the useful but dreadfully vague word, «quality.»

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Thanks for trying, Roger, but if Jesus (who is God) was not told by his Father (who is God) the exact date of his own return, I think we should be content with the vague word «generation» and assume it means our own.

Instead of introspection, goes the theologian's cry, let us rake over historical artifacts, dive into ancient lexicons, reframe cultural narratives, negotiate our way around words, vague and obscure, like so many corporate hacks rewriting the law.

My only real point is that «inspired» seems to be too vague of a word and is full of theological baggage which differs from person to person.

Economic crises were to me only vague words, and economic morality chiefly a matter of individual honesty and good will.

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.»

That is, what Frye calls «blatant literalism» and «vague transcendentalism» must be replaced by a new sense of the vitality of words and their use in other contexts than propositional arguments.

That is obvious in a broad and vague way when we consider some of the various ways in which we speak of trying (and often failing) to understand: We speak of hoping to understand the instruction manual that accompanies a new word processor and of trying to understand a novel like James Joyce's Ulysses; though both are printed texts, what it is to understand one is quite different from what it is to understand the other.

Traditional theism is declining even more rapidly, and is being replaced by agnosticism or by a use of the word «God» that is both vague and variable from person to person.

Mystery in the title is meant theologically; it designates not a vague sense of something unknown, but, in Hopkins» words, «an incomprehensible certainty» such as the Incarnation.

«Liberty» is as close as we get to an ethical norm, and that term is deeply ambiguous, depending on whether it is, in John Winthrop's words, freedom to do the just and the good (Christian freedom) or freedom to do what you list (the freedom of natural man).10 While American civil religion remained extremely vague with respect to particular values and virtues, the public theology that fleshed it out and made it convincing to ordinary people used it with more explicitly Christian, particularly Protestant, values.

The word «forgiveness» today describes a vague, psychological state that exists within the mind of a person.

The truth is that when you see the word «flavor» on a food label, you have almost no clue what chemicals may have been added to the food under the umbrella of this vague term.

And for those of us that are not entirely convinced by Arsene Wenger's vague words about not being able to find the right player available, there is today some evidence that he did at least try.

Half of the label was vague, industrial, chemical sounding words that frankly - sounded just like the detergent I was running away from.

As of Aug. 1, 2012, the Affordable Care Act is supposed to cover the cost of some breast pumps, but because the law's wording is vague, insurance policies differ in what's covered.

«As we said to the Government in the context of the offshore evasion legislation, words like «assist» and «facilitate» are extremely vague.

Richard Murphy, an economist who was initially very well disposed to the Corbyn project, has recently written a blog where he outlines his frustrations at not being able to make a difference; he criticises the leadership team's lack of conviction, inclination to offer nothing more than vague words, inability to offer direction, and lack of vision.

He repeatedly cited a vague kind of Remain conspiracy acting against him, even though he was being asked about his own words.

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.

The wording of some recommendations is vague, presumably to not offend any food industry sector; however, this makes some recommendations not very helpful to consumers who are looking for real guidance what to eat — and how much of it.

You probably did use that word when we talked because I have vague memories of me asking you to describe its meaning.

Both Megamind and Metro Man are a series of quirks (particularly the former who has a vague accent and mispronounces words) or clichés and the film is never quite sure if it's embracing or subverting them and more often tries to have it both ways with middling success.

Also, there's a scene where Loomis finds the word SAMHAIN scrawled on a chalkboard at Michael's former school, so that implies some sort of connection to Halloween and why he has come back, but it's only a vague implication.

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.»

I am not a fan of this UK advert, there's lots of talking in it but no substance to the words, «You can live life however you want, you can do as much or as little as you like...» could they be any more vague?

Aside from a vague sense of the danger presented by Robie's former Resistance pals, and the momentary brush with gravity when a secondary character tumbles to his death, To Catch a Thief bristles with suggestions of French words pertaining to lightness, fluff, pastries, and respite.

That variation in actual practice is what causes variation in performance, not a bunch of vague words in a document.

Standards mostly don't matter because they are just a bunch of vague words in a document.

The PLDD crowd may have gotten almost all states to embrace Common Core standards by dangling federal money and regulatory relief in front of them in the midst of a financial crisis since, again, those standards are just a bunch of vague words in a document.

The fact that «poverty» is a vague term and can not be defined precisely, does not, of course, stop the government from using the word as if it were precise and the press going along with the scam, as is their way.

In other words, much (though by no means all) of the «structure» provided by credentialing program standards is illusory; the requirements are sufficiently vague that schools can demonstrate their compliance in virtually countless ways.

When reviewing the documents, whenever there was only a vague description using the word technology or the phrase technology integration, these items were placed under a general categorization of «Use of technology for pedagogy purposes,» due to the definition of that category («Technology Assists With Teaching»), as no clear intention for use can be inferred from either the single word or phrase.

In education policy conversations, words like «equity» and «civil rights» are often used in an abstract sense, paired with vague notions of failing schools.

Mitchell weaves together these nine narrations into a cohesive whole with vague or occasionally direct references to a myriad of common themes, characters, objects, or words (including, but not limited to, albino conger eels, camphor trees, an earth - bound comet, Kilmagoon whiskey, jazz music, cleaning toilets and artificial intelligence) in each narration.

Even if the comments are vague and seem like they might be «form letter» material, treat them like the word of God.

I use the Grammarly electronic editor to alert me to copyediting and proofreading mistakes including overuse of adverbs, clichés, redundancies, overlong sentences, sticky sentences and glue words, vague and abstract words, diction, and misuse of dialog tags.

It's a vague, voodoo kind of word that's like chanting over your listing, so saying we need to do good metadata is not very helpful.

Each of the bullet point updates is fairly vague, as words like «improved» are tough to gauge until actually seeing them implemented.

The lawsuit throws around the word «open - source» in a way that's technically inaccurate and seems to speak to a vague understanding of what DRM actually is.

We see the words self - publishing and print - on - demand mentioned all the time, but for some of you, these terms may still be a little vague.

The legal definition of a student loan is essentially a loan used for «educational purchases,» and that wording has been just vague enough for several types of students loans to push through into bankruptcy proceedings.

But the impact of the words are maximized if specific, supported assertions are presented - as opposed to vague generalities.

I think that some of the problems with pet insurance are caused by a lack of transparency and vague wording.

They say the words of the Treaty were deliberately vague in order to fool the United States because the Monroe Doctrine frowned upon any further expansion in the New World by the European Powers.