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To a visitor, this is evident in sleek but empty airports and bullet trains (which will reduce the need for the 45 planned airports), highways to nowhere, thousands of colossal new central and provincial government buildings, ghost towns, and brand-new aluminum smelters kept closed to prevent global prices from plunging.
The fiscal compact is an empty gesture that may be the last attempt to pretend that EU members are moving toward political unification.
The international initiatives of past administrations have been replaced by empty slogans, hollow gestures, and, of course, “alternative facts.”
For millennia, their ancestors took their watery environment for granted; to them, it was “emptiness” as empty as they could conceive.
We have discovered that we can get a much simpler set of equations for fundamental physics by supposing that what we ordinarily perceive as empty space is actually a medium.
It needs to show that its mission is to build up weak states, help them overcome short-term crises, and nurture democracy, rather than treat them as empty vessels for the export of EU policy.
As a 57-year old retired Iranian professional moonlighting as a taxi driver told me, "When your stomach is empty you don't cry for democracy, you cry for bread!"Conservatives, no less than reformers, must come to terms with this reality.
Empty words from St. Petersburg, Brussels, or UN headquarters will not suffice, nor will a mere ceasefire, as that would simply return the area to square one.
If there is any continuity worth underscoring, it is the regular cohabitation of boosterism with declinism: America’s glass is always simultaneously half full and half empty.
But Kim’s latest declaration that he has accomplished the nuclear-deterrent objective of his “byungjin policy” – the other objective being economic modernization – is not an empty boast.
And the African leaders already know that this is not an empty boast.
Meanwhile, news reports indicate that high-end shopping malls in India and China are increasingly empty.
But a slowdown in China’s economic growth cannot really be blamed for slower sales of luxury goods or empty malls.
This surgery resulted in the amputation of a perfectly healthy part of the word "parmesan," adding the empty but pompous suffix "plus."
But forgiving poor countries’ debts without agreeing on a better framework for future aid flows is an empty gesture.
At first, the plan was ridiculed as another empty promise from the country’s brutish military junta.
But if children do not get enough to eat, they cannot learn: empty stomachs make it difficult to fill minds.
Plenty of numbers were thrown around, but most of these were, as usual, empty promises.
Experience with financial aid for development teaches us that announcements about money a decade from now are mostly empty words.
Many work in piles of garbage, either removing them to another place or collecting empty bottles and cans to sell.
In these circumstances, the principle of self-determination, so beloved of foreign ministries everywhere, becomes an empty slogan.
There, empty windows filled with sandbags continue to face each other defiantly, symbols of a past that has not passed for decades.
Soviet rule, in both the USSR and its European satellites, was characterized by spiritual and physical oppression, callousness, ignorance, empty monumentalism and a general state of backwardness, boastfully presented as progress.
America in the Asian CenturyNEW YORK – At “ground zero”in lower Manhattan, two empty spaces will be filled by water cascades, memorializing in a serene and respectful way the victims of the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001.
But is there enough leadership and enough political will to go beyond empty, face-saving compromises?
The rich world can redeem itself, indeed promote its interests in global peace and prosperity, by proving that the Millennium Development Goals are not empty words.
So the "Clash of Civilizations" is revealed as empty sloganeering.
Foreign ministries translated that idea into the Stability Pact, but finance ministers refused to finance it, so the pact remained an empty shell.
Ten years later, only an empty corporate motto of “an Asia and Pacific region free of poverty” is left.
Nor should we be shocked if Xi’s commitment to build an “ecological civilization” turns out to be more than just empty words.
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