Sentence examples for essentially vague from inspiring English sources
A scary word, yet an essentially vague abstraction that speaks to more general worries about unfairness, impunity, abuse of power and waste of scarce public funds.
Holder's statement comes at a time when people like Rudy Giuliani are talking about treating American citizens apprehended in America as enemy combatants, to be tried (if that is even the right term) by the military, and Joe Lieberman thinks people should be stripped of their citizenship on ominous-sounding but essentially vague grounds.
The terminological unifications (for example, chimeras, self, intelligence) adopted in Chimeras and Consciousness ('Unification as statement of sameness') seem essentially vague and metaphorical.
If the book is a work of fiction the contract is pretty vague, essentially saying: "Commit your time and patience to me and I will tell you a story".
The histories of faiths are all essentially the same: a vague and ambiguous millennial doctrine preached by a charismatic founder, Marx or Jesus; mystical variants held by the first generations of followers; and a militant consensus put firmly in place by the power-achieving generation.
But recent developments offer some hope that at least one phenomenon that enables what has become, essentially, a corrupt system namely, vague statutes that can ensnare the innocent might be remedied.
The vague law essentially barred any public displays of being queer and sparked international outrage for encouraging homophobia.
Experts say the EU Copyright Directive is dangerous because it's vague and essentially allows corporations to use the government as a weapon against people who are just trying to live their lives online.
At the lower end, some teacher-participants professed essentially no knowledge to vague awareness such as: "[I have] little knowledge of the 'genome project and associated genetic issues' but I've read about a 'cloned sheep'" and that "DNA has been very helpful to forensics workers" (D.W .. Another person felt that his knowledge about the "… HGP can fit inside a thimble" (B.G).
"B movie" is now a term routinely applied to essentially any low-budget, vaguely disreputable genre film.
The new rule would require that disclosures be made prominently in written materials, essentially doing away with the vague and almost meaningless disclosures of possible ownership stakes and investment banking relationships that now appear in microscopic print on the back page of most Wall Street research reports.
