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Most MEPs believe that ACTA is too vague, leaving room for abuse and causing concern about its impact on privacy, civil liberties, creativity, innovation, and the free flow of information.
If the mood about enlargement does not improve, however, expect the Nice summit to offer only vague formulations.
At best, a Trump-Kim summit will produce more vague formulations of what might be possible through further talks.
For a preview of just how vague and imprecise such diplomatic pronouncements can be, consider Moon and Kim’s joint statement from their bilateral summit, in which they claim to share the dream of a denuclearized Korean Peninsula.
People might be increasingly reluctant to spend today because they have vague fears about their long-term employability – fears that may not be uppermost in their minds when they answer consumer-confidence surveys.
Although the form of political union advocated by Germany and others remains vague, it would not involve centralized revenue collection, as in the US, because that would place a greater burden on German taxpayers to finance government programs in other countries.
In these circumstances, if Iran is offered a diplomatic ladder that it can climb down with its dignity intact – above all, a credible promise of an historic reconciliation with the US that includes specific economic benefits, not Obama’s current vague offers – a tired revolution’s troubled leadership might take it.
Is President Bush--or any US President--capable of effectively exercising his enormous authority, day in and day out for two or three years, to ensure that the parties really translate what might be just a verbal acceptance of vague language into painful, and even politically dangerous, decisions?
Their policy proposals are often vague (when specified at all), and command little consensus.
Western civilization is a rather vague concept anyway.
Rather, they called for the immediate fulfillment of vague, often contradictory demands, including a new constituent assembly and radical changes to the political system.
One may have vague doubts and feel a need to mull things over; meanwhile, other issues intrude on thought and no decision is taken.
The result of this conflict was a vague declaration by the G-20 that it would use “fiscal-policy flexibly to strengthen growth, job creation, and confidence, while enhancing resilience and ensuring debt as a share of GDP is on a sustainable path.”
But his vague language reflected a larger hesitation that will probably persist until the crisis is over.
Journalists and pundits tend to be vague when assessing culpability in this distinctly American tale.
Third, the legal and technical parameters of the proposed Common European Economic Area remain vague.
But vague labels hold little value, given sharp disagreement over their meaning.
Yes, “Western” countries have often pursued divergent foreign policies (as illustrated by the Iraq War), and “the West” is itself a vague concept.
Trump’s statements about China’s role in addressing the problem don’t help, as they imply an interest in effectively outsourcing the job of reining in the Kim regime, in exchange for vague economic and trade assurances.
Since the 1990s, Russian laws and doctrines have focused on “protecting” needy Russians, Russian-speaking minorities, and their “compatriots” (a vague but frequently cited category), both within and outside the borders of the Russian Federation.
The term remains vague and explains too little – particularly now, when support for the political forces it attempts to describe seems to be on the wane.
In interviews, he has already issued vague statements suggesting that he will not leave the White House if he loses; indeed, he seems to be actively preparing for such a scenario.
For him, democracy was not a vague, empty word, but rather the key to building a privileged relationship with India.
The first, which affects bilateral trade negotiations, is no surprise: US President Donald Trump has abandoned his bluster for vague promises – to enforce property rights, loosen restrictions on foreign investment, and stop pressuring foreign companies to share their technology – that China has made before.
Such a vague formulation opens the door to all manner of interventions.
And Britain has turned its back on Europe in a way that Churchill – an internationalist and one of the first advocates of European unity (though he was vague about Britain’s role in a united Europe) – never would have condoned.
Central banks must therefore clarify both the purpose and the operational structure of their LOLR activities, and end the increasingly untenable doctrine of constructive ambiguity, whereby policymakers were intentionally vague about to whom and under what conditions they were willing to lend.
Most of the information users provided was too vague to be actionable, and they were often discouraged by officials’ responses.
Left vague, however, was whether it actually would.
While the grouping has defined vague objectives – such as ensuring, as US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo has put it, that “China retains only its proper place in the world” – it has offered little indication of how it plans to get there.
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