Sentence examples for empty answers to from inspiring English sources

But this hardest-thing-last approach has left empty answers to the ground-floor question: will the Irish Republican Army and its rival Protestant guerrilla groups get rid of their guns?

Conventional database systems usually return an empty answer to a failing query.

He said what needed to be said, and didn't let Christie sweep him to the side with empty answers.

It was a nation liberated in some small measure from the shadow of its past traumas, but it was left empty-handed, without answers to some of its most painful questions.

There were variations on those empty answers because Clemens is apparently angry about the implication that he tried to dodge the start and the belief that his plunking of Barry Bonds last Sunday was choreographed.

A marked increase in empty answers was also observed on press release dates, indicating that new players joining on these days have contributed to more empty answers than useful answers.

It doesn't seem likely that Ms. Lewinsky, who has heard every possible question, would come through with such empty answers and emotional displays unless they were part of an act.

These empty answers are not entirely uncommon.

Still, he said, he was amazed by "how many untrue stories have been published in the last five months" and how "when there is silence, fantasy answers to fill in empty spaces".

While Emily complains about Roy's incompetence, Winston enjoys him mightily; while everyone broods over Winston's return, Mona worries more about compulsively checking her (empty) answering machine; and although everyone dislikes Sheila, Mona takes her to a clinic when she needs an abortion, and contemplating Sheila's sex life helps Mona figure out what she might really need from her own.

In contrast, flexible query answering systems internally revise failing user queries themselves and - by evaluating the revised query - return answers to the user that are more informative for the user than just an empty answer.