Sentence examples for a meaningless statement from inspiring English sources

Coming at the top of the list, this might sound like a meaningless statement, but it's important.

Moody's – like Standard & Poors, which lowered the United States government's credit rating from AAA to AA+ in August 2011 – is making a meaningless statement, in economic terms.

Justin Welby said in the afore-mentioned BBC interview that the Church seeks to go about "loving people as they are" but this is for all intents and purposes a meaningless statement while the Church is explicitly perpetuating discrimination of the very people being discussed in that remark.

He's one of those people who can spot a meaningless statement or an argument that doesn't work, and relentlessly mine it for first-class comedy, whether he's dealing with the ethics of muggers or the racial casting policies of Midsomer Murders.

A proposition which is false is meaningful and its negation is true, whereas the negation of a meaningless statement is equally meaningless.

Back in London C.E.M. Joad had published an article in the New Statesman arguing that LTL was responsible for creating an environment in which Fascism flourished, and Time magazine published an unflattering short article claiming that Ayer taught his students that "That man is good to support his mother" was a meaningless statement (Rogers, A.J. Ayer, p. 232).

It seems to me that "goodness" is so culturally constructed and so relative that "I will be good" is an absolutely meaningless statement.

The White House issued a very short, meaningless statement which seemed very odd following an "emergency meeting" with the Fed.

Their allies in the government, Buxton writes, would like to ensure that the law has no real power behind it and remains "nothing more than a visionary but ultimately meaningless statement".

There had been more bloodletting earlier today as the Co-op's largest independent society was accused of making a "meaningless" political statement by voting against reform plans.

Similarly, the commodification of the student movement is evidence of its cool and sexy media image, but also that it is becoming seen as a subculture existing separately from the lives of ordinary people – something that can now be packaged up and sold to others as a meaningless fashion statement.