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Or what if, after a few years, the whole thing devolves into an empty exercise in political correctness?
There is certainly good reason to be concerned about Maliki’s temperament, his small group of advisers, his tendency to exercise personal control in the use of state power, and his reputation, partly merited, of making empty promises.
Global oversight of resource extraction is a perfect economic-development issue for the G-20, not least because the theatrical pledges of aid to poor countries that were the stuff of G-8 meetings have now been recognized as empty rhetoric.
Though some analysts remain convinced that Xi’s “Asia for Asians” line is an empty attempt to bolster his nationalist credentials, an equally strong case can be made that it signifies a genuine policy shift.
To inspire more such initiatives, there must be a deliberate effort to engage with youth in a way that supports real political engagement, not tokenism and empty rhetoric.
If our toolbox were empty, our inaction might be understandable.
If and when the natural resource generating the windfall wealth (in this case, oil and gas) disappears, the economy is left with too few competitive industries and too many empty bookstore-cafes.
But if the revolution is aborted, its leaders will be unmasked as empty windbags.
India’s best option is to hold out a credible threat of military action, while imposing, together with other democratic powers, economic sanctions that undercut support for Yameen among the Maldivian elite, many of whom own the luxury resorts that now have far too many empty rooms.
The Oxford English Dictionary defines a bubble as “anything fragile, unsubstantial, empty, or worthless; a deceptive show.
Seventy years later, all that remains of this world are ruined palaces, empty Baroque churches, and synagogues leveled and never rebuilt.
The Stability Pact for Southeastern Europe is a first step, but it is little more than an empty framework with three amorphous working tables for discussion.
The trouble is that every tray in this toolkit, too, is empty.
The promises to care for the poor and disadvantaged that are being made by all the candidates will turn out to be as empty as all the other rhetoric about justice and equality that Bolivians have heard in their long, sad history.
Indeed, Morales’s economic initiatives usually turn out to be empty, such as his deals with Venezuela for hydrocarbon supplies and with India for iron.
At the moment, however, the US is offering Turkey – and the region – only incoherence and more empty promises.
But with a combination of medical expertise and inventive thinking, Jobayer Chisti, my colleague at the health research organization icddr,b, has developed a simple and affordable alternative to bubble CPAP using materials that are readily available even in poor countries, such as empty shampoo bottles and plastic tubing.
The captured carbon is then pumped into underground storage sites such as empty oil fields and other suitable locations.
Lenders find that the collateral (half-finished or empty houses) is worth almost nothing, resulting in huge losses in the banking system (as the US found out in 2008).
In fact, Siberia is not much different from China’s own almost empty mountain/desert borderlands, where even agriculture is a daunting task.
This is a basic social truth that most people know from their personal lives: Happiness and harmony are far more important than the empty comfort of being convinced you’re right.
Too often, leaders issue empty promises and offer unrealistic targets that only heighten pressure on over-stretched program directors.
Hence, as in Phaedrus’s fable, the Kremlin’s “justifications” are empty.
But the CRA is empty symbolism, and that is how it will be remembered.
She was concerned, too, about the health care workers who would have to care for her: “Nurses, who thought they were embarked on a career that had great meaning, find themselves perpetually changing my diapers and reporting on the physical changes of an empty husk.”
Instead, Syria’s rulers are offering inducements to ensure that key constituencies remain in line – laptops for teachers, subsidies for public-sector workers, and empty reformist rhetoric.
On the contrary, with a young, well-educated population unable to find suitable work, the regime has created its own cadre of potential protestors, who are aware that it is using empty slogans to keep the state of emergency and stay in power.
The prime minister, Michel Debré, was sent to Algiers, but the rebels treated him contemptuously, and he flew back empty handed.
Death or Democracy in VenezuelaCARACAS – Venezuela’s democratic institutions are in ruins, its coffers are empty, and its citizens are searching for food in garbage dumps.
Our European partners could not throw us out in June 1992 – but the other 11 could create their own EC-11, and we could have been left alone in the empty shell of an EC-12.
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