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The Tory manifesto said in vague terms that a Conservative government "would legislate to ensure trade unions use a transparent opt-in process for union subscriptions", but made no mention of the political levy.
A Washington Post article published on Wednesday revealed vague details of a police document that quoted a prisoner who had been placed in the same police van as Gray – though in a separate compartment – as saying Gray had been "trying to injure himself".
By owning your own property, you get a say in planning law too – your objection to that new tower block counts for far more than the indirect, dissipated unease of all the people hunting desperately for somewhere affordable in the vague vicinity of their work.
Osborne was helped by the civility and the lack of follow-up to his answers, especially on tax cuts, where he remains vague.
There was no cabinet job offered when Mrs Thatcher won office in 1979, except some vague talk of the Washington embassy, which he took (rightly) as an insult.
Bloggers have also complained that the law's terminology is too vague , and wondered how the media watchdog could possibly hope to regulate all site users and reliably count their readers.
I had only a vague first-world notion of "deforestation" and this being bad.
There's a vast list of tasks we could do, an infinite number we could do, and a zillion other "open loops" – emails needing answers, books you should probably read, meetings ending with vague commitments to follow things up – which all produce subconscious stress.
"Right now what we are looking to do is establish credibility by getting others who have been affected, and the protest will allow for others to come forward," said Chicago attorney Billy Mills, who said he found the Chicago police statement on Homan Square to be "vague " and "missing specific details".
Because definitions of the smart city remain so vague , I think it's worth thinking carefully about what this might mean – beyond, that is, the 7,000 billion rupees (£70bn) in financing that India's high powered expert committee on urban infrastructure believes the scheme will require over the next 20 years.
It's an entertaining film, in which Peston breaks out his impressive French, gleaned during a year off in Normandy and an admittedly pretentious teenage period watching nouvelle vague films ("When I was a kid I was very, very, very angry with my parents for not being French"), and whizzes through idyllic countryside in a 1960s Citroën DS – simply because he could, one suspects.
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The word "vague" functions primarily as an adjective . It modifies nouns to indicate a lack of clarity, precision, or distinctness. As Ludwig confirms, it is commonly used to describe terms, details, notions, or ideas that are not clearly defined.
Expression frequency: Very common
