Sentence examples for empty commitments from inspiring English sources

There is not merely a disjunction between pious but empty commitments in the manifestos and the reality within the fabric of cultural provision, but also between other official statements about the role of the arts in education.

It allows a proper name like "Apollo" to be both genuinely empty, carrying no commitment to any fictional entity, but also genuinely non-descriptive.

Even if WHO member states agreed to minimum standards for national surveillance, the requirements would be empty without the commitment of industrialized countries to fund surveillance improvements in unindustrialized countries.

Municipal authorities boast on their websites of their "local offer", which might amount to a vague pseudo-commitment to empty bins.

Right off the bat, then, COP21 was doomed to result in empty statements instead of strong commitments.

Since then, sincerity instead of monotonous imitation, political and social commitment instead of empty panegyric, and realism instead of escapism have been the characteristic features of modern literatures of the Muslim countries.

By undermining his capacity to do that ― by proving that his threats against neighbors are necessarily empty because of NATO's commitment to those countries ― the defense alliance helps keep Russian belligerence in check and encourages peaceful engagement.

Some who have crunched the numbers argue that this was all mouth and no trousers much of it made up by old budget commitments, double-counting and empty promises.

Commit to your commitments.

Mr Anderson said the pilot scheme formed part of his commitment to bring 1,000 empty properties back into use across the city.

Huck, who lives in an unfurnished house with an empty swimming pool, is not much for commitment.