Sentence examples for common vague from inspiring English sources

Palaeontologists did not invent these words, which are still current in ordinary speech, so that we can doubt the wisdom of restricting their meaning, for their common, vague sense is sure to lodge in runaway minds and cause confusion.

Common vague symptoms could be CRC and thus justified referral with safety margins.

Most are so common or vague they do not arouse concern in women or their doctors.

All these institutions turn most applicants away, and all pursue a common, if vague, notion of what universities are meant to strive for.

His is no vague Common flirtation.

In the case of passports, they will merely be designed to a vague common standard.

A colleague notes that this phrase, along with "just days," is increasingly common and frustratingly vague.

But many of the inexpensive plants do carry labels that advise about care; often, however, the information consists of a vague common name with some equally vague all-purpose platitude about "ample" light or water.

In Mr Miliband's case, portraying himself as the saviour of the common people against vague but almighty forces disguises a tendency towards parochialism, with the suggestion that a leftish Little Britain can insulate itself from the challenges and trends of a competitive world.

The essence of these remarks is that since the common concept is vague, it seems certainly difficult, and perhaps impossible, to reconcile all features of its use in the definition of a corresponding precise concept.

And that gave the Obama team a chance to lay out its focused definition of common ground, a vague term which had understandably been open to wide interpretation.