"The fact that a number of these houses remain empty speaks for itself.
That many properties are empty speaks to the fact that these are not homes and were never intended to be, but financial instruments: a way of placing a bet with huge returns and little risk.
"It's empty talk to speak of having an independent judiciary if the party leads everything".
In others, empty chairs speak of lives lost and fates unknown.
A 10-minute walk from Paladino headquarters, and on the same block of Main Street as the Hyatt Regency hotel, a strip of empty storefronts spoke silently of the upstate New York that time forgot: For sale, for lease, reduced, the stickers begged.
Democrats have yet to decide whether to take up their allotted five places on the 12-member panel or let their empty chairs speak for them.Congressional investigations have become as much a part of the furnishings of politics as elections, fundraisers and yard signs.
It sounds so empty to speak of liberty in a creative sense, but what you do can't be compromised it always has to give you a certain amount of joy.
And the after-life for a prime minister is a particularly empty one, professionally speaking.
While the chamber was emptying, I spoke with Ragia Omran, a human-rights lawyer who had helped file one of the cases against Morsi.
It would seem wiser for Bono and his benefactors to follow one example set by Steve Kirsch: focusing on reforms that level the playing field so the disadvantaged and their advocates can approach their legislators empty-handed, speak for themselves and be heard.
