Sentence examples for vague capacity from inspiring English sources

According to this scenario, Belichick could be hired by the Patriots in this vague capacity, but not as a coach or general manager.

She almost samples the first, a pale, soft-serve businessman working in some vague capacity named George Paul Ruddd), after a mutual friend tries to hook them up.

soldier, I used to wait every morning at 6 A.M. for the 61 bus to take me from Tel Aviv to a base in nearby Ramat Gan, where I was being trained in the vague capacity of "small-computer operator".

Several Jewish customers and retailers have also protested privately to Mr. de la Renta, including Sandy Schreier, one of the world's biggest collectors of couture fashion, who said she was initially horrified when she heard that Mr. Galliano would be working there, even in a vague capacity, though she has since softened her position.

And his five years of work "in a vague personal capacity" for the crude potentate Dan Cody, for whom "he was in turn steward, mate, skipper, secretary, and even jailor," could have been a third of a big book: "He was left with his singularly appropriate education; the vague contour of Jay Gatsby had filled out to the substantiality of a man".

In addition, Annan is endowed with an independent political capacity, described vaguely in the Charter by a single sentence: "The Secretary-General may bring to the attention of the Security Council any matter which in his opinion may threaten the maintenance of international peace and security".

Similarly, French ministers may rejoice that Serbia's voters choose Europe, but in 2006 France was pushing the idea that future enlargement should be assessed according to the EU's "absorption capacity", a dangerously vague term that includes voters' "perceptions".

The concept of reasoning is often left vague in discussions of decisional capacity.

In all these incidents, the venues were able to dismiss the claims by citing capacity issues or vague codes.

Orwell's "modern English" version, by contrast, is teeming with nominalizations (considerations, conclusion, activities, tendency, capacity, unpredictable) and other vague abstractions (phenomena, success, failure, element).

The simple definition that sustainability is something that improves "the quality of human life while living within the carrying capacity of supporting eco-systems", though vague, conveys the idea of sustainability having quantifiable limits.