Sentences with phrase «with vague promises»

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

That problem will not be solved with vague promises or minor pronouncements.

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.

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.

tablet at a lower cost, I think a far more customer - centric approach would have been to deliver an ICS upgrade and a $ 100 price drop to its existing 7.0 Plus model (which is still awaiting Android 4.0, with a vague promise but no specific time frame for delivery).

Setting off, you are presented with a vague promise of adventure — of foes to vanquish, challenges to overcome, secrets to reveal, treasures to collect — and the anticipation of experiencing whatever your imagination has supposed compels you to explore.

He brought up chassis, safety, drive systems, suspension, and braking, which Sampson put down with the vague promise of being «merely better than everybody else.»

Not exact matches

In 2009, Carney broke with central bank tradition, which typically offers only vague pronouncements of where interest rates might be headed in the future, and laid out a specific timeline, promising to hold rates at near - zero for 15 months.

Mulcair's balanced - budget promise sought to reassure NDP - wary voters but also curtailed the party's ambition, while the Liberals peeled off progressive support with its own abandonment of a budget - balance pledge, plus its exciting flash of radicalism — a vague plan to legalize marijuana.

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.»

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.

This perhaps explains why the party's manifesto is rather vague on Lords reform, merely promising to cut the number of Lords to 450 and reform it «with a proper democratic mandate».

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.

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?

With researchers disagreeing wildly on both points, this promises to be something of a baptism of fire — especially since the FDA has long made it clear it will only approve drugs for specific conditions, not vague groups of symptoms.

However, until very recently, long distance relationships were less of a lifestyle choice, and more of a vague promise to not birth a child with anyone else until both parties could be tearfully reunited on an appropriate train platform / dock / smoking battleground.

As foretold by the vague promise last May of a midseason premiere, ABC today revealed that the nine - episode Roseanne revival will officially debut Tuesday, March 27 at 8 p.m. ET with an hourlong premiere, per Variety.

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.

The underlying issue here is that the Galaxy Tab 7.0 Plus and the also - similar Galaxy Tab 7.7 are both still waiting for their Ice Cream Sandwich upgrades — with only a vague promise and not so much as an estimated window of arrival.

They're not good with long off vague promises.

Unfortunately, March turned into a «Month of Disappointment» for many fans with Book of Memories» release pushed back to a vague «Spring 2012» while the much anticipated HD Collection turned out to be a technical downgrade instead of the high - definition upgrade fans were promised.

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.

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...]

The platform also contains the following vague and ambiguous promise: «A Conservative government will... address the issue of greenhouse gas emissions, such as carbon dioxide (CO2), with a made - in - Canada plan, emphasising new technologies, developed in concert with the provinces and in coordination with other major industrial countries.»

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.

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

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.