"It's a glass-half-empty announcement," said Alain Kupferschmid, insurance analyst for the Darier Hentsch Bank.
Hilary Benn, Labour's shadow communities and local government secretary, said: "After four wasted years of empty and over-hyped announcements on garden cities it is only now that ministers have got around to inviting bids for development.
As the clock ticked out on the Illinois governor's last days in office, he made a series of dramatic announcements that emptied his state's death row.
"Without the answer to these questions this announcement is empty headline-grabbing and shows that, even after polling day, politicians are still avoiding the difficult questions and continuing to play games with the NHS".
Doctors' representatives said without detail the announcement was "empty headline-grabbing".
But doctors' representatives said without detail the announcement was "empty headline-grabbing".
"Without the answer to these questions this announcement is empty headline-grabbing and shows that, even after polling day, politicians are still avoiding the difficult questions and continuing to play games with the NHS".
Almost an hour later, the no-frills stadium, having survived the rampant lighting of newspapers into flaming torches in a crowd of chain-smokers, emptied despite no announcement of the game's postponement.
The medical district in central New Orleans remains empty today, but in an announcement this week, the Department of Veterans Affairs appeared committed to re-establishing a hospital there.
The first ever tweet was so dry, so underwhelming, a little more than a staff announcement at an empty supermarket.
