Sentence examples for prove to be empty from inspiring English sources

They often prove to be empty promises and boats rarely have insurance for them in case of accidents.

Others will prove to be empty promises.

' 'Your declarations have proven to be empty promises once again," one speaker scolded.

One has been there for a while, opening an endless series of beer bottles, each of which proves to be empty.

The mayor, Norbert Moosmann, told the police that someone had thrown a Molotov cocktail through his office window, one that proved to be empty but sent him into a panic.

He declares a hidden treasure chest "as elusive as a Philip Glass opera"; when it proves to be empty, he pronounces it as "clean as the sheets in a convent".

"If the Council responds to Iraq's defiance with more excuses and delays, if all its authority proves to be empty, the United Nations will be severely weakened as a source of stability and order," Mr. Bush said at a dinner of the American Enterprise Institute, a Washington-based policy research center.

Claims that trade and investment deals would support domestic job creation have proven to be empty promises.

Others have pointed out that Magufuli is far from the first east African president to promise to battle corruption and that such promises in the past have proven to be empty promises.

Regrettably, these three agreements won Congressional approval last October, despite the fact that the promises of job and net exports growth from all eleven previous FTAs, dating back to the first one in 1985, have proven to be empty ones indeed.

Choosing to rely on the Bank of England to supervise its banks - and other financial institutions - may prove to be an empty choice if it proves necessary to establish its own supervisory institutions in accordance with what is understood to be EU statutes".