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But the October European Council did not formally address the Brexit negotiations at all, reinforcing the lack of direction of September’s informal Council meeting in Bratislava, which resulted in only vague promises for unity.
We know, of course, the broad outline of their of their all-encompassing fundamentalism, and we have some vague ideas about Al Qaeda as a decentralized network of cells in many countries that seeks to acquire chemical, biological, and perhaps even nuclear weapons.
The other avenue would have required Macron to build on a pre-existing but vague conception of left-wing internationalism.
President George W. Bush has made similarly ominous, if more vague, statements about Iran.
A series of half-offers and vague promises, intended to calm the market, failed.
But ethnicity as the main marker of nationality is a vague and dangerous concept, not least because it leaves all minorities out in the cold.
He casts himself as the defender of Hungarian sovereignty and me as a currency speculator who uses his money to flood Europe with illegal immigrants as part of some vague but nefarious plot.
For example, a vague warning against diabetes is a lot easier to ignore than the fact that your risk of diabetes is 22% (as mine is, slightly above normal), but that you can lower it substantially (as I have) by eating right, exercising, and so forth.
With Japan’s security in jeopardy, its leaders can no longer afford to be vague about the country’s past.
If the AIIB begins with nothing more than vague criteria for monitoring international investment and an implicit Chinese veto, these domestic risks may spread to China’s neighbors, raising the danger of another large-scale international crisis.
That’s much more useful than vague policy statements.
Trump prefers free-flowing sessions in which the written outcome can be vague, as it was in Singapore, or non-existent, as it was in Helsinki.
A third risk of summits that produce vague or no agreements is that they breed mistrust with allies and at home.
Current legislation is vague enough to allow government agencies to refuse freedom-of-information requests on the basis of claims of commercial confidentiality or privacy concerns.
Such appeals range from demanding an immediate transfer of power to a coalition of revolutionary presidential candidates (although the mechanism is vague) to the formation of a united presidential front in the runoff, with Mohamed Morsi of the Muslim Brothers (MB) as President and left-leaning Nasserist Hamadin Sabahi and liberal-leaning moderate-Islamist Abdel Moneim Aboul Fotouh as Vice-Presidents.
Ask any undergraduate about the IMF and the answer, however vague, is invariably negative.
The vague concept of “cyber threat information” does not just let DHS investigate anyone.
America’s business leaders may think that they are immune, but the bill’s definition of “a threat” is so vague – with no distinction between a “threat” to the Internet and any random, even metaphorical “threat” on the Internet – that the DHS may keep tabs on anyone who says something that irks someone in a cubicle.
But rather than upholding its usual standards, the IMF and its principal members settled for China’s vague promise to make the renminbi more usable sometime in the future.
In practice, charisma is a vague synonym for “personal magnetism.”
But the issue today is different: politicians are using vague rhetoric less because their policies are fundamentally indefensible than because they fear having to defend any position at all.
In 1979, he resigned from his official posts to assume the vague role of “Commander of the Revolution,” explaining that “the revolution must be separated from the authority of the state.”
In the French presidential campaign, everyone knew what Le Pen stood for; but neither Chirac nor Jospin had a clear program to offer, just vague, abstract generalities.
Instead, I was shocked to learn that they would all be suspending aid, under vague "instructions" from the US.
We know, of course, the broad outline of their all-encompassing fundamentalism, and we have some vague ideas about Al Qaeda as a decentralized network of cells in many countries that seeks to acquire chemical, biological, and perhaps even nuclear weapons.
As a result, Hatoyama also emphasized Japan’s need to become more independent of the US within the framework of the alliance, while proposing a vague East Asian Community.
It also means that they no longer find a political home in parties, but react to situations, to vague moods, and above all to appeals to sentiments, if not resentments.
The joint statement issued by the two leaders was as brief – just 391 words – as it was vague.
The problem with international organizations’ approach is that they conflate the vague notion of “improved water sources” with genuinely clean, safe drinking water.
The bad news is that Lagarde’s vague announcement seems to have done little to shape market expectations or make governments more comfortable requesting IMF assistance.
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