While the informal meetings are also scheduled 1½ year in advance, they differ from the scheduled ordinary meetings by not ending with official Council conclusions, as they instead end by more broad political Statements on some cherry picked policy matters.
Shotgunning is a technique in which you make one or more broad general statements, such as "I'm sensing someone who has had some marital problems recently," or "There's someone named, I think, Billy, that's asking to communicate with his granddaughter".
The court applied time-honored interpretive rules: it said new statutory language takes precedence over older phrases, specific clauses carry more weight than broad statements and ambiguous laws must be read so that no part becomes meaningless.
"It is really very little more than a broad statement of support for a general principle without any concrete backup mechanism to ensure that the guidelines will be followed".
Give a concrete reason, more than a broad statement, such as "I'm just not in the mood".
It is easier to develop educational activities and assessment tools for the more specific, detailed competency statements than for the more broad domains.
Patients themselves have also asked for a more personalised approach to weight management, and for specific advice rather than broad statements on how to lose weight [ 22].
"Admissions tutors," he writes, "tend to value focused and sustained analysis of a specific topic of interest or case study rather than broad statements about a subject or attempts to make the statement more 'personal'personal
Until the broad statements are backed up by firm detail — and a serious and urgent commitment to regulatory reform — the entire effort is more public relations than policy making.
Meaning (or humor, or interestingness) is in specific details, not in broad statements.
