President George W. Bush has made similarly ominous, if more vague, statements about Iran.

3.1.7 Vague, general reservations

But the government remained deliberately vague about its responsibilities, and refused to clarify the geographic boundaries of Japan Defense Force activities.

WARSAW The debate about Europe s future is burdened by misleading and emotionally charged rhetoric, with vague talk of more Europe hampering productive discussion about European countries real problems.

I am not against the rule in general but if you think about it very carefully ,you will see that it is too general and vague.

But the practical implications of this warning remain vague.

The CHAIRPERSON thought that appropriate action was rather vague.

(I m being vague because the company is in stealth mode.)

In the long term, the challenge is more vague, but deeper.

The first difficulty is that, although Sharon evidently intends to go through with his military withdrawal from Gaza, he is vague about what he wants to achieve in future negotiations.

Unfortunately, key components of Japan s emerging security strategy remain vague and contradictory.

But this system integrity idea is somewhat vague and difficult to test.

A vague or broad law could be misused to suppress lawful activities

The idea of a new deal was conceived during his first presidential election campaign in 1932, though at the time he was still very vague about what the term stood for.

Vague but pervasive intimidation is the main factor keeping TV personnel in line.

Japanese government was always paternalistic, and the chain of command complex and vague.

In the face of the Government's vague reply, the source reiterates its allegations.

So we can also eliminate the ones that are very vague or very stylized.

A series of half offers and vague promises, intended to calm the market, failed.

Their policy proposals are often vague (when specified at all), and command little consensus.

Both deal with very vague concepts that are decontexualized and removed of all meaning.

In the elderly and the very young, symptoms may be vague or non specific.

Those who do report harassment face vague laws and spotty enforcement by police and prosecutors.

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They suggested only some vague notions of state intervention on behalf of the poor and needy.

Where that threshold, by nature vague and variable, actually lay would be extremely difficult to determine.

Another expert cautioned against using a vague term like security forces which could be broadly interpreted.

I don't know about you, but I find it exhilarating to see how vague psychological notions evaporate and give rise to a physical, mechanistic understanding of the mind, even if it's the mind of the fly.

Whenever it was said ' God 's promise is certainly true , and there is no doubt about the Hour , ' you replied ' We know not what the Hour is . We have only a vague idea , but are not certain . '

Whenever it was said ' God 's promise is certainly true , and there is no doubt about the Hour , ' you replied ' We know not what the Hour is . We have only a vague idea , but are not certain . '

The report gave no details of the anti terrorism legislation and regulations adopted, and the delegation's replies had also been vague about whether, in the interests of security, some rights safeguarded under the Covenant had been disregarded.

However vague, the alliance of civilizations idea certainly cannot do more harm than war against Islamic extremism.

David Cameron was polished but vague, and the jowly Brown came across as gun loaded with statistics.

He over exposed himself in public appearances that were as aggressive as they were vague in substance.

In practice, however, the relationship between currency and finance is vague, with both assuming quasi fiscal functions.

However, he emphasized that one issue remains vague, that is the issue of naturalizing Palestinians in Lebanon.

They are sentenced for up to 10 years with charges of debauchery which is a vague word.

Such reference points are not as vulnerable to distortion or subjective evaluation as are vague, general formulas.

We know, of course, the broad outline of their all encompassing fundamentalism, and we have some vague ideas about Al Qaeda as a decentralized network of cells in many countries that seeks to acquire chemical, biological, and perhaps even nuclear weapons.

Instead, I was shocked to learn that they would all be suspending aid, under vague instructions from the US.

In reality, the West is vague enough to include a vast array of areas without describing their unifying characteristics.

It was noted that the exceptions were broad, vague and ambiguously drafted, and that their threshold was too low.

The initial impetus for the Heroic Age of Antarctic Exploration is somewhat contested as it is a vague international movement.

As noted by several members of the Committee, there was a danger of the legislation on terrorism being too vague.

Media accounts were vague, with the respectable story pointing to the rekindling of inflation fears, which, in fact, was not news.