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But, under the influence of a few countries, the conference’s final declaration could end up being little more than vague statements and lofty language.
The law’s vague wording means that the government could, in theory, arrest anyone who provides any kind of assistance to undocumented immigrants.
A favorite phrase among politicians, “public interest” is sufficiently vague to allow substantial room for maneuver, as is “extreme economic circumstances.”
Of course, the West's ingratitude has been marked: America withdrew from the 1972 ABM Treaty and has now rammed a vague disarmament agreement - to be signed during the summit and which will allow the US not to destroy surplus missiles and warheads but rather to put them in cold storage - down Putin's throat.
Similarly, China is staking its claim to the South China Sea in full violation of the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea on the basis of vague histories of bygone empires.
Resorting to vague cultural/religious/racial explanations is a recipe for inaction, if not for misguided action.
But the actual metrics by which we weigh global powers are typically discussed in only vague terms, if at all.
The anti-secession law’s vague language and attempt at softened wording – perhaps geared toward mollifying foreign critics – paradoxically increases rather than decreases the likelihood that China and the United States could be unwittingly and unwillingly drawn into an avoidable military conflict.
While outright military conflict is still considered unlikely, the combination of China’s vague “red lines” and non-specific threats will certainly raise the likelihood of miscalculation and misinterpretation on both sides.
Few of us, however, respond as emotionally to the threat of chronic disease, a vague and elastic term that is mainly useful for organizing health services.
But while constitutional reform, including decentralization, is included in the Minsk agreement, the text is very vague about what this might entail.
When middle-class women anywhere in the world get over this taboo, we will do so by understanding that money is never just about money, and that becoming financially literate means pushing back against a social role that casts middle-class women as polite, economically vague, underpaid, shopping-dazed dependents.
(I’m being vague because the company is in stealth mode.)
Some participants from the developing countries wanted poverty to be declared a proscribed basis of discrimination, while others argued that poverty is far too vague a concept to be the subject of legal rights and duties.
These participants argued that specific legal duties, such as the right to a minimum wage and the right to vocational training, are more effective than the vague extension of anti-discrimination law to cover poverty as such.
So far, the European Union and the United States have reacted to Turkey’s descent into authoritarianism with little more than vague statements of concern.
Six or seven years ago, there were vague worries that the world economy’s developed core could not run indefinitely on one locomotive, the United States, alone.
We are not worried by visible dangers, but by vague ones that could strike when least expected – and against which we are insufficiently protected.
But under a frighteningly vague new statute, now they do.
Yet China’s preoccupation with its internal politics is such that it cannot see the price that it pays for reacting to every North Korean outrage with only vague opprobrium, combined with expressions of hope-over-experience that North Korea will reform.
Though May has agreed that avoiding a hard border should be part of any deal, she has offered only vague suggestions concerning how that could actually be achieved.
The wording may sound vague, but, given the positions the countries held at the outset, the outcome was an important achievement.
Media accounts were vague, with the respectable story pointing to the “rekindling of inflation fears,” which, in fact, was not news.
Economists claim to make precise what is vague, and are convinced that economics is superior to all other disciplines, because the objectivity of money enables it to measure historical forces exactly, rather than approximately.
But information about an artifact’s journey to the West is often vague or nonexistent.
In the long term, the challenge is more vague, but deeper.
One of America’s bestselling poets, Rumi represents for many New Age Westerners a vague non-religious religion and free-form spiritual quest.
In the agreement hammered out by Mr. Deng and Mrs. Thatcher in the early 1980s, Britain appears to have gained some guarantees about the continued existence of Hong Kong’s freewheeling capitalist economy even under Beijing’s rule (‘one country, two systems’ is the vague, if celebrated, expression coined by Mr. Deng).
While vague in detail, a May 19 agreement defuses tension and commits to further negotiation.
China’s vague promise to purchase more American-made agricultural and energy products borrows a page from the “shopping list” approach of its earlier trade missions to the US.
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