Sentence examples for vague cause from inspiring English sources

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Decked out in shades and leather, these rebels with a (vague) cause certainly were high among the better dressed radical revolutionaries.

Be especially wary if you see a group of girls approaching you with folders, asking you to sign in support of some kind of vague cause.

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Without terminological standardization, languages for special purposes cannot be effective tools for their specific purposes since they are likely to be vague and cause misunderstandings during communication.

Gone are the fabled Hollywood eccentricities of yore: 2018's famous people are mostly just high-key Instagram influencers with beauty lines and vague political causes.

She had supported vaguely leftist causes at university.

Alone among Facebook's 900 million users, Mr. Saverin is special: a billionaire with only the vaguest of causes.

For Nettie, 73, the whispered mentions of Alzheimer's and the vaguely worded causes of deaths in newspaper obituaries remind her of how people used to deal with cancer.

Mr. Saverin, a billionaire with only the vaguest of causes, whose stake in Facebook will likely be worth $3 billion when the company goes public, said in an interview with The New York Times that his decision to give up United States citizenship "had nothing to do with taxes".

Accepting that "this was hardly a crime", the paper said Cameron's "delay in sharing this information, after waiting nearly a week and issuing four vague statements, may cause him some political discomfort".

There is a dangerous scenario, in which the combination of these rather vague pronouncements could cause the housing market to further overheat as thousands of people rush to buy property in order to get under the wire of more stringent mortgage assessments, and beat the spectre of higher interest rates with a fixed-rate mortgage.

All of which terminates in the (vague) conclusion "that the cause or causes of order in the universe probably bear some remote analogy to human intelligence" (D, 12.33/227 – my emphasis; see also EU, 11.27, where Hume observes that the analogy involved here may be compared to that between "the sun and a waxen taper" [candle]).

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