But Democrats and left-leaning Republicans on the relevant House committee replaced this bold reform with a vague guarantee that children in "failing" schools could transfer to non-failing ones.
The Act of Synod that created "flying bishops" specially to serve opponents of female priests is to be rescinded, although there is a vague guarantee that in future there will be appointments of some bishops who are both male and opposed to the existence of female priests and bishops.
But, the report says, the federal law and regulations are "too vague" to guarantee an adequate number of employees.
Calling for a vague United States guarantee for the Kurds, as Mr. Friedman does, is simply not good enough.
But we now have the worst of all worlds: panics, followed by emergency interventions by central banks, and vague but implicit guarantees to lure back deposits.
It identified Israel as "Jewish and democratic," a vague principle that nevertheless guaranteed the protection of life, body, dignity, property, privacy, and (touchingly) "intimacy".
The wording of the proposed law is vague and there are no guarantees the Duma will pass it, the Washington Post reports.
This guarantee may sound vague, but new technical standards from the Department of Justice, which went into effect in 2012, dictate everything from the slope of a ramp to the height of a bathroom basin.
But we should not be lulled by the vague sense that proportional representation will guarantee liberty any better than the first-past-the-post system has.
His rambling comments alienated some Afghans, who said they were perplexed, for instance, by his vague new demand that the U.S. somehow guarantee peace in this war-ravaged nation.
