Sentence examples for boilerplate from inspiring English sources

All he needs is 17% of the black vote, despite offering no policies that address black people's needs instead of boilerplate conservative, Christian, pro-business needs.

Though at times showing a shaky grasp of the detail, Sebelius largely withstood the splintered Republican attack, choosing to apologise for details, such as "legal boilerplate" notices on privacy or failures to conduct testing, but defending the overall system.

Nor were there many concrete proposals on precisely what federal programmes should be trimmed; instead we were treated to boilerplate opposition to tax increases and federal spending.

At worst, in a prior era, his op-ed might have been considered boilerplate post-national-tragedy pablum.

To begin with at least, Mr Xi is expected to act as first among equals inside a cautious politburo that is no less paranoid about America than America is about China.In state visits like this, most of the speeches consist of cautious boilerplate.

Mr Vashi was worried that the boilerplate ads would be cheesy, but was "pleasantly surprised" at the quality.Small firms may have limited marketing budgets, but there are some 26m of them in America, and local advertising is a $100 billion market.

When, as this week, Gordon Brown, the chancellor of the exchequer, cranks out bits of boilerplate about "opportunity open to all, prosperity shared by all", you sense that even his own ever-lively mind is glazing over internally with boredom.

Tactically, it could just be another piece of Washington politicking: some optimists claim that Congress will return after the mid-terms ready to back fast-track, providing Mr Obama allows some boilerplate language in the bill chiding China for allegedly manipulating its currency.

Some of what he called for was conservative boilerplate: an end to "big government and debt" and a balanced-budget amendment to the constitution (which will never happen).

However, an investigation into one ballot box found that most votes were from people who were abroad or who did not have an identity document allowing them to vote.The invitation to Au Crocodile began with some boilerplate about the spirit of compromise being the European way of doing things.

In his biography of Groucho, Stefan Kanfer quotes excerpts from letters that are not in the selection, so it can be assumed that at least a few unpublished gems are out there somewhere.At this point, I should insert some boilerplate reflection, something along the lines of "Two more unlikely correspondents could not be conceived of", etc.