Sentence examples for meaningless slogan from inspiring English sources

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But NeverTrump is a meaningless slogan unless one is prepared to say ThisOnceHillary.

Or does it turn out that this was just a meaningless slogan – in which case I've got a mug to sell you.

Britain's prime minister, Gordon Brown, whose Labour government has allowed remarkably high rates of immigration for years, recently called for "British jobs for British workers", a meaningless slogan previously used by the far-right National Front.

Mr Bush may fail, but he is not shouting empty slogans.In sum, compassionate conservatism looks much more like an ambitious agenda with a real aim than a meaningless slogan.

Supposedly plucked at random from a dictionary by a coterie of war-evading young writers and artists in Zurich in 1916, "dada" was a two-syllable nonsense poem and a craftily meaningless slogan, signalling a rejection of grownup seriousness at a time when grownups by the million were shooting one another to pieces on the Western Front for reasons that rang ever more hollow.

In 2007, David Cameron referenced it during another row about grammar schools, saying: "In many ways, 'bring back grammars' is a meaningless slogan … It is a classic example of fighting a battle of the past rather than meeting the challenges of the future".

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Nowadays "the alternative to Bush" is a muddle of vacuous populism and meaningless slogans (who is not for "real security", whatever that is?).

Debuting on BBC2 as the imperious anchor of The Day Today in 1994, he mercilessly demolished the whole lexicon of TV news-speak (meaningless slogans, tortuous links and all).

Hopefully, we have seen the last of meaningless slogans – "Tough on crime, tough on the causes of crime", "Rebalancing the criminal justice system", "Putting the sense back into sentencing" – which have driven legislation for more than a decade, and may expect instead a dispassionate rational analysis of the problems.

The bottom line: Meaningless slogans are like a virus that is undermining the world of marketing.

Nothing to see here, just the President of the United tweeting meaningless slogans in all caps at 1 10 AM local time.

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