Sentence examples for empty pronouncements from inspiring English sources

Decisions made at an EU level affect the texture of daily life in its member states in the way that the Commonwealth's empty pronouncements do not.

Until their priorities shift, the empty pronouncements of our leaders against terrorism and the sacrifices of our soldiers in battle with militants will not suffice to change the nation's course.

If Kerry Collins had played the forthcoming season as an impending free agent, he suspected his words to his Giants teammates would have sounded hollow -- empty pronouncements from a lame-duck quarterback.

With the Russians unwilling to budge and the Europeans at their mercy, there won't be much more than bromides and empty pronouncements coming from St . Petersburg

But instead of embracing the discussion, business looks set to continue a strategy that has compounded the problem: to accept the anti-trade rhetoric and hide behind empty pronouncements.

As a committed social scientist I am weary of hearing the empty pronouncements from the Davos mountaintop.

In contrast, our own members of Congress give speeches to empty galleries and their pronouncements are rarely heard, much less challenged.

When you're young you feel anything is possible and one day – to paraphrase Withnail's drunken pronouncement to an empty Penrith sky – you'll show the lot of them, you're gonna be a star.

Justice Kennedy's critics say his pronouncements on liberty are empty of real content.

And then there is the genre of the thoroughly insincere pronouncement that is all empty ritual.

As Maureen Dowd succinctly notes ("Smoking Dutch Cleanser," column, Feb. 11), the Bush administration has a long history of self-serving and self-protecting pronouncements, going back at least to the empty assertions that Al Qaeda was in league with Saddam Hussein.