This is another boilerplate phrase whose meaning wilts under scrutiny.
Any modern Fed chairman is likely to use a series of boilerplate phrases about the economy — on the importance of education and fiscal rectitude, among other things.
By using the boilerplate phrase, "only one thing is left certain: the public will never know whether the S.E.C.'s charges are true, at least not in a way that they can take as established by these proceedings," he wrote.
Why are those sorts of boilerplate phrases so tempting, and yet also so bad to use? BRYAN GARNER: Well, what happens is you have these ready-made strings of words that can easily displace thought.
A substantial downtown hit two seasons ago, "Bridge & Tunnel" is Ms. Jones's sweet-spirited valentine to New York City, its polyglot citizens and the larger notion of an all-inclusive America, that ideal place where concepts like liberty, equality and opportunity have concrete meaning and are not just boilerplate phrases slapped around in stump speeches and news conferences.
Those statements were somewhat boilerplate, reusing phrases issued at earlier times after earlier acts of terrorism.
But if parts of the program were bland, you could hardly blame Mr. Norrington or the musicians, who played with vigor and clarity, and consistently applied dynamic subtlety and flexible tempos to even the most boilerplate-laden phrases.
In NML v. Argentina, federal courts in New York attached importance to the precise phrasing of the boilerplate contracts at issue.
Without dipping too far into interieur base-ball, there are several levels of translation via computer: machine translation, done solely by the computer, at the sentence level; machine-assisted translation, in which a human translator cleans up a translation done by a computer, and translation memory, stored phrases and sentences, for boilerplate paragraphs in documents.
In some ways, that's familiar partisan boilerplate; "trust the people" was a signature phrase of Bob Dole's unsuccessful challenge to President Bill Clinton in 1996.
