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Zuckerberg’s apologies to Congress ring all the more hollow, given that they are hardly the first Facebook has had to issue.
The advantages of pooling sovereignty and resources ring increasingly hollow to ordinary Europeans.
In the case of Australia, however, such assertions ring particularly hollow – though that has not stopped Abbott’s government from trafficking in them.
Thus, the claim that the European Parliament directly represents Europe’s people and that the people have given the EPP’s candidate a direct popular mandate that the member states’ representatives in the European Council should respect rings hollow.
Without a sense of civic and political community, democracy becomes a hollow shell of itself, and can become dangerous as it is no longer controlled by rooted values.
The brute force of massive monetary and fiscal stimulus rings hollow as a cyclical remedy to this problem.
Sadat gained a privileged place in history and achieved immortality the moment he fled from the comfortable prison of inertia, and from the pantomime solidarity and hollow rhetorical cohesion of Arab summits.
Today these arguments ring hollow.
War threats in the Middle East should never be dismissed as hollow.
Add to that unethical domestic policies, and Western claims to “moral leadership” ring increasingly hollow.
After all, the real lesson of Ukraine – and, indeed, of Europe’s failure to take the opportunity afforded by the Arab Spring to influence events in the Middle East – is that Europe’s vaunted “soft power” is ultimately hollow.
Despite this, today’s Polish government is seeking to take advantage of Europe’s current vulnerability, using US President Donald Trump’s recent visit as a wedge to divide the EU, and thus be able to continue to hollow out Poland’s democratic institutions without fear of external hindrance.
But the ministers’ words will ring hollow if, as with similar statements made at prior G-20 summits in London and Toronto, member states do not translate them into action.
Without its gradual imposition, an Asian Union could at best remain only a pale and hollow copy of its European model.
Unfortunately, their lofty rhetoric often rings hollow.
But the narrative of regional dominance that Egypt’s leaders have fashioned increasingly rings hollow.
But they will ring hollow until young refugees have the same opportunities as others to go to school.
It is this agenda, rather than the hollow hope of open sectoralism, that should be the main priority of trade negotiators in the future.
But the fact remains that as average Russians’ wellbeing has declined – and Putin cronies’ wealth has continued to swell – proclamations of Russia’s greatness have begun to ring hollow.
But it is already clear that Trump’s self-congratulations for striking a deal to “denuclearize” the Korean Peninsula during his Singapore summit with Kim Jong-un are ringing hollow.
The hollow victory that was the annexation of Crimea, while popular, pales in comparison to his predecessors’ greatest feats, so he has been forced to move beyond distraction to blatant distortion, claiming that the West is deliberately impeding Russia’s success.
If past is prologue – as it is for many businesses as they frame their expectations – the focus on tax relief and deregulation could ring hollow, without addressing weak consumer demand.
On a wider scale, it was meant to influence and win over Arab and Muslim minds by hollow but bombastic rhetoric.
By lifting the half-hearted sanctions imposed by the 14 members of the EU on Austria in February, any talk about Europe standing for a community of values sounds even more hollow than ever before.
The real problem is that the Republican Party has, over the years, become a hollow instrument of lobbyists and extremists, and both Democrats and Republicans seem to have abandoned their commitment to governing by consensus.
The apparent unanimity on the need to prevent the Amazon’s annihilation is nothing more than a hollow consensus.
Following the most recent global outcry this summer against the fires in the Amazon, the hollow consensus has returned – this time as a dangerous masquerade.
These rural interests are actively contributing to the hollow consensus by publicly claiming to support protection of the Amazon while encouraging deforestation.
The hollow consensus is not restricted to Brazil: at the United Nations General Assembly meetings in New York this week, some world leaders’ speeches about the environment offered make-believe remedies and false promises.
Others, such as French President Emmanuel Macron, have peddled largely hollow visions of hope, with mixed results.
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