Sentence examples for believed vague from inspiring English sources

The result was the so-called "Madrid conditions", which Thatcher believed vague enough to keep the ERM at bay indefinitely, while the press coverage was positive enough to avert the threatened resignations.

This means that countries such as Ukraine no longer believe vague EU hints about eventual membership; they want something more substantial.Germany is trying to get the EU to offer just that.

We believe, vaguely or explicitly, that liberal democracy, with all its faults, is the best of all possible political systems, that globalization, with all its injustices, is the best of all possible futures, and even that the American way is the best of all possible ways — with appropriate cautious Leibnizian emphasis on "possible".

Who can today believe the vague promise about a retrospective referendum on Lisbon?

He believes relations, vague fringes, and tendencies are experienced directly (a view he would later defend as part of his "radical empiricism").

And that instinct comes from knowing what you truly believe, not vaguely or at a high level of generality or "values," but practical, on the ground, everyday-life conviction.

When he asked what was the largest number of truffles I had ever seen in one place, I admitted that until recently I vaguely believed that truffles were endangered forest animals.

When it comes to the balance of University Challenge participants, I had always vaguely believed that the teams who appeared on screen must have won through early untelevised rounds of competition.

It was recently reported in the tabloids that Lindsay claimed she doesn't even drink anymore, and I guess I… vaguely believed this.

He believed the constitution was vague enough he could bend it".

G-20 members said they strongly believed in proposals they vaguely understood.