Sentence examples for nebulous cause from inspiring English sources

Some doubted that a rowdy coalition fighting for such a nebulous cause as net neutrality could shut down a bill backed by Stevens, the powerful chairman of the Senate Commerce Committee.

After recent scandals involving the United Way of America and other charities, potential benefactors are wary of giving money to nebulous causes, where it might be used up in overhead and staff salaries.

Giving direct to a trusted shop, rather than shovelling items into bins and bags destined to nebulous "good causes" is the best way to be sure you're helping the right people; and though most volunteers are too polite to say so, they prefer it if you give clothes in a state you'd be happy to buy.

This is a tragedy, and not just because drug use is estimated – with the usual caveats on estimating nebulous notions – to cause 85% of shoplifting, 80% of domestic burglaries, over half of all robberies, and so on.

Performers are often arrested or hassled by the police for nebulous offences like "causing a disturbance".

These are typical findings of acute zonal occult outer retinopathy (AZOOR) [42], a nebulous disease that causes visual impairment due to progressive photoreceptor loss.

I hate the phrase "death sentence," because it pretends life gives anyone anything else, but having the mutation does make brutally specific what most of us live our lives fearing in a nebulous way: the likely cause of death and, to some extent, the timing.

Its content will be fully sterilized: it will avoid explicit supernaturalism, and it will speak not of any god but of a nebulous "intelligence" or "intelligent cause".

Arrington today called the effort "nebulous".

It wasn't some nebulous blackout-related momentum that caused the Ravens to be called a penalty on a missed field goal kick by San Francisco's David Akers, giving Akers the chance for a successful do-over.

The previous campaign was too nebulous.