Sentence examples for would be hollow from inspiring English sources

If Judge Mukasey is defeated and waterboarding continues, the victory would be hollow?

And victory in Iowa would be hollow if he were to suddenly flame out in New Hampshire and South Carolina, which will hold their primaries this month.

This is because, under the Tory plan, any threat of industrial action by a union negotiating in this sector would be hollow.

But any legal victory would be hollow unless the record labels come up with attractive online services of their own and do so fast.Napster's defence is rather far-fetched.

Any American victory would be "hollow and unsustainable" if it led to popular resentment among Afghanistan's citizens, General McChrystal told the Senate Armed Services Committee during a confirmation hearing.

Clegg says if the tuition fee changes had led to a decline in the number of people going to university, especially from black or disadvantaged backgrounds, he would accept that Lib Dem talk of extending opportunity would be "hollow".

The state would be hollowed out.

In effect, the journals would be "hollowed out" so that they would merely act as service bureaux providing peer-review and editing services.

They would be "hollowed out" into technology companies not unlike today's Halliburton or Schlumberger, and become mere handmaidens to the NOCs.How to surviveBut do not write the majors off just yet.

In a sign of the military's deep concerns over the government's refusal to say whether it will continue to meet the Nato target of spending 2% of GDP on defence, Gen Sir Peter Wall warned that Britain's armed forces would be "hollowed out" if cuts continued.

When I returned to the U.S., a Silicon Valley friend glumly asked if I too was convinced that American businesses would soon be hollow shells, mere marketing fronts for legions of harder working Indian engineering enterprises.