Sentence examples for vacuous promises from inspiring English sources

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Then you did put it on the table and you are now selling it in salami slices, with nothing in return but fool's gold and vacuous promises.

Mr Primakov has just about managed, in principle at least, to prise yet another dollop of cash out of western fists, amid all the usual vacuous promises of prudence and probity.

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There are plenty of reasons for voters to fear Donald Trump, including his utter lack of government experience, his hair-trigger temperament, his bigoted statements about Muslims and Mexicans and his vacuous promise to "make America great again".

But that will surely follow when the "quiet people" realise that Leave's vacuous slogans and empty promises (NHS spending up? Nigel Farage has already disowned that. A radical decline in immigration? Daniel Hannan has now said that won't happen) won't deliver the economic salvation they were promised.

The greater risk of adventurism lies further down the track of his presidency, once frustration mounts at his failure to deliver in detail on vacuous campaign promises.

Voters are bored with on-message technocrats with no vision, with vacuous political promises that don't even begin to address the everyday problems of modern life in Britain.

Hess called most of these promises "vacuous campaign rhetoric".

Fed up with vacuous slogans and broken promises from mainstream candidates, a large plurality (38.5percentt) of the electorate has elected Rodrigo Dutetre -- the firebrand mayor of Davao City, and a self-described "socialist" -- as the next president of the Republic of the Philippines.

Pat Martin, a member of Parliament, promised a bill abolishing his nation's own 1-cent piece, saying "it's a completely vacuous thing to hold on to," according to Canwest News Service.

It's vacuous".

The vacuous modern era?

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