Sentence examples for vague term for from inspiring English sources

She said I'd go along a paseito, a vague term for a little passage or narrow street, but otherwise I had no idea what she was talking about.

In addition to a recent blasphemy law, Russia passed a controversial law against "gay propaganda" in June - a vague term for behaviour seen to "promote" homosexuality to minors.

Government studies suggest that drug treatment does reduce drug abuse — a sprawling, vague term for the vast catalog of substance-related ills — by 40 to 60percentt.

But in that year Harry Markowitz, a graduate student at the University of Chicago, gave finance theory a new, hard-edged clarity by equating the concept of risk — previously a vague term for potential losses — with the mathematical concept of variance.

Human factors professionals, pilots, and operational personnel in air traffic management and related practitioners who know about "systems" only as a general and often vague term for something complex can benefit from knowing a bit of the history, the people, and the quantitative substance that underlies the terminology.

"City break", of course, being basically a vague term for "taking Instagrams on a bridge".

Harmon got back to Ganz who left Community after season four and went on to write for Modern Family and It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia apologizing in vague terms for treating her "like garbage".

These studies often simply described the sample size in vague terms, for instance "…based on a priori sample size estimation, a total of 26 patients were recruited…".

Denham also hits out at "vague terms of service" for generally failing to give consumers "the protection we need".

Mr. Perry, a Republican who rose from lieutenant governor to governor after Mr. Bush's presidential election victory, surprised some lawmakers by speaking, though in vague terms, of a need for changes in criminal justice.

Bolor, as she is called, discovered that the online auction catalogue listed the item's provenance as "Central Asia" — a vague term often considered code for Mongolia and China, both of which forbid the commercial export of fossils found within their borders.