They serve up empty threats and idle accusations -- they want to turn us upside down and shake the treasure right out of us -- and the problem is, we believe them.
The rapporteur has been influenced by bad counsel of the sort we can easily imagine - by partisan and party interests - and has wasted and bungled the opportunity she had to present a serious discussion on human rights, losing herself in empty tirades and gratuitous accusations worthy of a low-profile debate.
Armed Hezbollah supporters seized control of western Beirut on Friday, patrolling the empty streets and prompting angry accusations that the group, which is backed by Iran and Syria, had staged a coup.
Rather than responding to ignorant accusations against Islam with empty theory, the Khalifa of Islam leads the world's single largest Muslim organization--the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community--to demonstrate by example that Islam thrives in the modern context.
He had hoped that that record — which helped revive Bushwick, a neighborhood that had been plagued by abandoned housing and empty lots — would overcome the taint of accusations by eight women of unwanted intimacies.
WASHINGTON — Amid accusations of widespread corruption, an empty seat in the United States Senate awaits a new occupant from Illinois, where the governor is not trusted to make the choice.
"But what if there's an emergency?!" This is never a calm inquiry -- more statement than question, less curiosity than accusation, full of condemnation and empty of concern.
Dingo brushes off accusations that the welcome to country has become an empty gesture or, worse, a form of tokenism.
It was this accusation that led the Iraqi leader to virtually empty his prisons on Oct. 20, giving Western reporters, admitted that day to Abu Ghraib, a first-hand glimpse of the slaughterhouse the country has become.
