"vague document" is a grammatically correct and usable phrase in written English.
It is typically used to describe a document (written or printed) that is unclear, ambiguous, or lacks specific information. For example, "The project proposal submitted by the contractor was just a vague document that failed to outline the scope of the project."
But two people familiar with China's response said that the Chinese government missed the November deadline and then submitted a vague document containing mostly historical data.
"He has repeated many times that he wants to take the country back to the original version of the 1945 constitution, a very vague document that strips away most of the core institutional foundations of democracy," he argued.
The problem comes down to the vague document signed by Kim and Trump in Singapore that failed to define exactly what denuclearization means, and didn't set any concrete milestones — allowing both sides to interpret the document as they saw fit.
Costa Rica has a regulation in place to protect workers from extreme heat; however, it is a vague document that simply states: 'The temperature and humidity level of the environment in enclosed workplaces should be maintained (when the nature of the industry allows), between limits that are neither uncomfortable nor dangerous for the health of workers' (28).
Most recently in this process, ACI 318-11 introduced a vaguely documented "overstrength factor", Ω0, required for the design of certain types of nonstructural anchorage that increased demand forces on non-ductile anchors by a factor of 2.5.
As it stands, there are three poorly developed concepts that are all good, but all tersely presented and vaguely documented.
While the judge's order seems unlikely to derail the settlement, his specific questions, especially with regard to distributing money to investors, underscore the extent to which the settlement -- which was reached with regulators at the Securities and Exchange Commission and Eliot Spitzer, the New York State attorney general -- remains in many respects a vague legal document.
In fact, the PTC-I criticized the Prosecutor for its ambiguous and vague charging document in paragraphs 82 through 85 of the December 16 decision.
In the vaguely worded document, the committee promised to undertake a broad transformation of the economy in the next five years, shifting its emphasis to domestic consumption and building high-technology industries into a driving force behind economic growth.
Striving for rules that are politically acceptable across Europe, the EU has crafted a vaguely worded document that leaves private firms groping for direction only 14 months before MiFID is due to take effect.
"The big glaring hole is that it is such a vaguely worded document that it doesn't seem to force countries into doing anything," Ben Ayliffe from Greenpeace told BBC News.
