It is quite evident that when the premises are wrong or too vague the unavoidable consequences will be a negative outcome.
The warning, including a vague statement about "consequences" that could ensue if the advice is ignored, is signed by Henry Chajet, an attorney at the Patton Boggs firm in Washington, D.C., and a lobbyist for the Mining Awareness Resource Group, which works on behalf of the mining industry.
They threatened vague, but serious, consequences if anything should happen to the royal family.
In recent weeks the Communists have been vaguely threatening "serious consequences" if Mr. Singh's cabinet advances its nuclear negotiations before parliamentary debate.
Instead, it spoke vaguely of "serious consequences" and "further measures".... Whatever the outcome of the immediate crisis, the world community will remain badly in need of imaginative ways to keep the pressure on Saddam and, ultimately, to help bring about his fall.
All they give us is vague arguments about supposed consequences while ignoring what the system actually is.
Cross the line and there can be consequences, albeit vague and opaque in nature.
4 For any upstream debate on an emerging technology, the dominant frame does not emerge automatically as the issue is still vague in its properties and consequences.
Asked if the programs from which she benefited are still needed, she was initially vague, perhaps as a consequence of a pending case about the constitutionality of the University of Texas's affirmative action plan.
But the appropriate analogy for the Iraq war isn't the War for Independence or World War II but Vietnam, another unnecessary war fought for vague, contradictory reasons, with terrible consequences for the Vietnamese and the Americans.
