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Both Duda and Kukiz complained that too many young Poles were leaving the country, and that their country was becoming an empty land of the elderly – a fact that is obvious to anyone who walks down a Polish street.
Relinquishing some control over national budgets to achieve fiscal integration appears politically impossible, and talk of treaty changes – even if it comes from the German finance minister – amounts to little more than empty rhetorical finery.
And the rise of new challengers would accelerate as consumers let companies know that business as usual – poor corporate governance and empty promises – will no longer be tolerated.
Their claim to be "always representing the progressive direction of advanced culture" is yet another grand and empty declaration.
Seven percent of health facilities had no health workers assigned to them at all – an empty promise in physical form.
For the French, Sarkozy’s determination to act, despite the odds, seems far superior to the passive cynicism of those who preach abstention or satisfy themselves with empty words.
Diplomacy without a credible threat of force is empty talk.
These are not empty words.
And if existing rules, treaties, and standards are treated as if they were worthless, EU citizens’ rights become an empty shell.
We've heard that empty promise before.
For starters, they must stop issuing empty declarations.
The billboards with their private messages were able to occupy public space so easily because in Russia public space is virtually empty: there's very little, if any, communication between state and society, and barely any public debate.
Even if the desired cuts are achieved, they will account for less than 3% of total demand – a drop in an otherwise empty bucket.
I remember when this phrase was last used: in 1991, when the chairman of the European Council of Ministers visited what was still Yugoslavia and eagerly accepted the empty promises of Slobodan Milosevic and his clique that they were ready to accept European pleas for a peaceful resolution to the conflicts there.
Instead, I argue that while most people are good most of the time, they can readily be led to act anti-socially, because most people are rarely solitary figures improvising soliloquies on the empty stage of life.
The threat to terminate US participation in the JCPOA if such changes are not made will thus prove either empty or self-defeating if carried out.
May, who is as tight-lipped as Cameron was an open (if empty) book, has already created the institutional skeleton of a political strategy.
Indeed, Tunisia is a stern test of the EU’s “Mediterranean partnership” – a long-promoted policy that so far consists of little more than empty phrases.
After all, a half-full glass is better than an empty one.
But the concept of open society is not empty.
Environmental sciences – surely of fundamental importance – also come up empty.
Kaczynski presented this fluid electorate with a credible vision of a state concerned with social solidarity (with no one’s refrigerator standing empty) and opposed to heartless liberalism (which brings empty refrigerators for the poor and full ones for the rich).
After all, who wants to build offices, stores, and shopping centers in the empty ghost towns that litter the American West?
You cannot proclaim your impotence in the face of empty state coffers after pushing through useless and costly tax breaks for the richest.
But the reception rooms have since been noticeably empty.
Indeed, the goal of regional co-operation could be perverted if empty political rhetoric is allowed to dominate sound policy-making.
Farmers till arid pastureland, and policymakers fret over empty reservoirs, dry rivers, and thirsty cities.
And, for all its high-flown language, the UfM is an empty shell.
While Gilani was in Beijing, Finance Minister Abdul Hafeez Shaikh returned from Washington with empty hands.
The world needs true accountability, not empty words about accountability.
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