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This time, however, it seems very difficult to see how all others could agree to create an EU-26 while isolating Ireland in an empty EU-27, though that would be a reasonable solution.
In February, Egypt’s Coptic patriarch, Pope Tawadros II, sharply criticized the country’s leadership in a televised interview, calling the new constitution discriminatory and dismissing Morsi’s “national dialogues” as an empty gesture.
As a result, what remains of representative institutions is an empty shell of residual decision-making, with bribery being the only real conversation of government.
I don't mean to frighten, but anybody with a little imagination and some knowledge of what has recently been going on -- for example, in Bosnia- Herzegovina -- must understand that this is not empty talk.
To avoid more empty promises, all commitments must be backed up by a clear financing plan and subjected to regular accountability checks.
The Europeans who conquered and colonized the Americas after 1492 did not find vast empty lands, as they sometimes proclaimed, but rather lands populated by communities dating back thousands of years.
If dying bees do not inspire formal guidelines about how the sky should be shared, let us hope that empty space will.
Many Europeans are fed up with technocratic fixes negotiated behind the scenes and empty invocations of universal ideals.
Indeed, on a 2010 visit to India, Prime Minister David Cameron declared outright that the Kohinoor would have to “stay put,” because “if you say yes to one, you would suddenly find the British Museum would be empty.”
Airy talk about science and manufacturing as ladders out of recession (a favorite image of former British Prime Minister Gordon Brown) is just that – empty words.
With Europe offering only empty promises, and the UN unsure of how to catalyze progress on the talks’ ambitious 12-point agenda (which included more than 100 items), the effort collapsed in 2002.
This distorts the market, leaving empty apartments that landlords would be willing to rent at higher prices and preventing renters from offering what they are truly willing to pay.
But in reality his words were empty, and merely shrouded another episode in his personal vendetta against the oligarch Boris Berezovsky (TV-6's owner), one that is unbecoming in a statesman.
But Putin's victory over Berezovsky is as empty as it is meaningless.
Equality before the law remains an empty promise for those who cannot afford to make use of it or simply do not know how to do so.
After a few years in practice I began to explore the seemingly empty scientific space between the brain and psychotherapy.
For most of its history, the Security Council has been the prisoner of great-power maneuvering; the General Assembly a theater of empty rhetoric; the Economic and Social Council a largely dysfunctional irrelevance; and the Secretariat, for all the dedication and brilliance of a host of individuals, alarmingly inefficient.
A glass that is half-full to some people, is half-empty to others; but from the half-full half, you can drink, whereas with the empty half you cannot do much (except try to fill it)!
But that will be an empty promise: the US president has far less control over legislation than government heads in parliamentary democracies like Britain or in countries like China.
Working smarter is no empty slogan; it is the key to modernizing African agriculture.
But Lepper is no empty windbag like McCarthy.
Tourism has suffered dramatically, with hotels experiencing high vacancy rates and famous historical sights standing half empty.
As the world filled up with nation-states, and empty spaces filled up with people, restriction triumphed over free movement.
Or will the ECB empty its guns at the first rumblings of a stronger business cycle, fearful of accusations of running from battle or of being caught of guard.
No doubt, China must reject further investment in hulking steel mills and empty apartment buildings.
Around the world, we have underutilized resources – people who want to work, machines that lie idle, buildings that are empty – and huge unmet needs: fighting poverty, promoting development, and retrofitting the economy for global warming, to name just a few.
In America, after more than seven million home foreclosures in recent years, we have empty homes and homeless people.
Empty houses and uncultivated fields – a common feature of southern Europe – represent a relatively secure investment that does not cost much, owing to low property taxes.
What is clear is that democracy cannot thrive if it is left empty.
Senator Reed Smoot and Representative Willis Hawley made the same empty promise in 1930, leading to protectionist tariffs that exacerbated the Great Depression and destabilized the international order.
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