But all these cover too big an area and too many issues to achieve much beyond vague confidence-building.There were hopes that the six-party talks might become the forum for a broader security discussion, but North Korea has scuppered that.
Though Ms. Gleize's intellectual ambitions are large and sometimes vague, her cinematic self-confidence is as bracing as her eye is meticulous.
"You need to love yourself," has become a catch phrase, a clever comment to throw around at dinner parties, but beyond a vague idea of self-confidence, it remains an abstract concept.
Most of the immediate effect will be in Enron's 21,000 workers and more vaguely on the confidence in the U.S. financial system, which failed to police the company before its shares lost nearly all their value.
It called for a co-operation "initiative" with a vague mandate to pursue confidence-building measures.This greatly annoyed the Afghans, who wanted something more.
In a conference call Wednesday with reporters from Jacksonville, Fla., where the Jets will play the Jaguars on Sunday, Edwards was vague in his vote of confidence for quarterback Vinny Testaverde.
The fact that Mr Blair has bungled the task, even while leaving the most contentious details vague, does not instil much confidence that he will handle with skill even bigger constitutional changes currently under way within the EU.The details matterOne of the thorniest issues left too vague is how judges will be chosen.
This suggests the possibility that when only heavily selected stage 1 data are available, by postulating an unbiased estimate with a large variance (in the manner of a vague prior), the resulting UMVCUE confidence interval could also be used for hypothesis testing, to help distinguish null effects from true effects of small magnitude.
"I keep it vague," he replied with an air of confidence.
