Banalities from ambitious Labour frontbenchers about the need to "own the future" and other meaningless declarations are no longer good enough.
The preferred terms are "softening," "crunch," "correction," and, best of all, "interesting," as in "This is an interesting time" — a grudging corollary to the popular and meaningless Wall Streeter declaration "It is what it is".
Astute Partners had to declare its shareholder, but that shareholder was a trust in Liechtenstein, which does not reveal company ownership, so the declaration was meaningless.
It may opt for the same guerilla-style tactics, improvised explosive devices and booby-traps that enabled the city to resist any outside control – rendering meaningless any Iraqi government declaration of victory in the coming period.
Some critics, including Democratic lawmakers, said then that the declaration was meaningless without additional funds.
It was a term bandied about so much during the Revolution that it became meaningless: those who signed the Declaration of Independence were slaveholders whose notion of liberty included the freedom to own slaves; and the British offer of emancipation was motivated not by humanitarian concern but by strategy and double-dealing.
Kosovo's leaders, including the former guerrilla commander and newly elected prime minister, Hashim Thaci, have thought better of trying to go it alone, knowing that a declaration of independence without recognition is meaningless.
Mark, who works out of QUT's School of Justice and Faculty of Law, told VICE the court's interpretation of the VLAD legislation effectively renders the Attorney General's declaration meaningless.
Critics have said the income declarations, which are obligatory for all high-ranking officials, are meaningless given the numerous ways that exist for getting around them.
