Let us not be diverted by false rhetoric.

That is the bombastic language of absolute monarchy.

As Russia s deputy prime minister since 2005, he has not gone beyond consoling rhetoric.

After lofty rhetoric and big promises, politicians are starting to play the blame game.

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So, despite grand rhetoric, very little is being done.

As is usual on such occasions, there will be a lot of lofty speeches about Europe.

Soaring speeches, high hopes, and great expectations have yielded minimal returns.

For them, rhetoric is more important than substance and power is more important than how it is exercised.

It is time that the G 7 countries back up their democratic rhetoric with action.

Rhetoric has always been abundant at the General Assembly, action sometimes less so.

It took another, far more limited disaster to revive lofty rhetoric about the liberating effects of US military power.

But it will not be enough for Bush to start his second term with grand rhetoric about values and increased investment in public diplomacy.

Let s start with the United States. President George W. Bush has been short on neither initiatives nor catchy slogans and acronyms.

Today's debates about growth in Europe are full of buzz words like knowledge based society, technological progress, and investment in education.

Today, the proverbial shoe is on the other foot. Long known for its rhetorical faith in South South cooperation, India has begun putting its money where its mouth used to be.

German Chancellor Angela Merkel doesn t make speeches attacking the strong euro and the European Central Bank s price stability mandate.

But, despite flourishing rhetoric about promoting democracy, promoting it is still not backed with concrete plans of action.

But, at the same time, his administration was holding approximately 400 prisoners at the US Naval Base at Guantánamo Bay in Cuba.

There will be pretty pictures and lofty speeches on the future of the transatlantic relationship in other words, business as usual.

The rhetoric of reform was dropped as President Kibaki handed out title deeds of national trust and parkland to gain votes.

The bottom line is that, despite industry rhetoric, drug companies are growing less and less innovative.

Indeed, particularly where Tibet is concerned, the increasingly sophisticated and pragmatic Chinese leadership seems more like a throwback to the Mao era, with its haranguing propaganda and coercive policies.

The sad truth is that development aid to Africa has decreased from 49 per person in 1980 to 38 per person in 2005. The true development needs of Laggard countries and other parts of the world are not being met, despite the rhetoric of scaling up aid.

COPENHAGEN When it comes to global warming, we have plenty of hot rhetoric but very little cool reason. This matters immensely, because the Kyoto Protocol is already among the most expensive global public policies ever enacted, and the follow up in Copenhagen in late 2009 promises to break all records.

The changing climate on climate change provides political leaders in Europe and other potential members of this coalition of the willing an unprecedented opportunity to move beyond mere rhetoric.

Something which brings no more benefit to Gaza than loud, pompous slogans, without anything new and without any fundamental solution for Gaza's dilemma, which is marketed as a food crisis.

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He was given to bombastic speeches, once warning newly sworn in recruits that, if he so ordered, they would have to shoot their parents.

Her espousal of free markets indeed, her ringing declarations about the link between political and economic freedom inspired the Soviet bloc s peoples, who had suffered under the Soviet yoke for 40 years.

The authorities' response follows a now familiar pattern high profile pronouncements in the wake of workplace disaster give way to neglect of basic safety standards.

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SINGAPORE US President Barack Obama s foreign policy landscape is littered with deflated balloons. Soaring speeches, high hopes, and great expectations have yielded minimal returns.

Despite the open market rhetoric of the EU, for most citizens of the new member states free labor mobility will not be a reality for the next seven years at least.

In a country where the rhetoric on environmental protection seems inversely proportionate to public awareness (especially among young people!), celebrity environmentalism may be one of the more effective ways to get the message out.

The changing climate on climate change provides political leaders in Europe and other potential members of this coalition of the willing an unprecedented opportunity to move beyond mere rhetoric. The time to act is now.

It is a little precious to hear such pontifications from those who, at the helm of central banks, finance ministries, and private banks, steered the global financial system to the brink of ruin and created the ongoing mess.

There was little of the rampant jingoism, get them at all costs bloodlust, constant speechifying, and flag waving that followed the 2001 attacks.

The historical parallel here is not, as is often suggested, with the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe, but with the Marshall Plan, which provided real incentives, not lofty rhetoric and hortatory appeals, for integration and democratic consolidation.

Let s hope for their sake and for the world s that they see through the rhetorical flourishes and personal foibles to the larger issues at stake.

Similarly, despite the rhetoric, many World Trade Organization agreements are the result not of the pursuit of global economic well being, but the lobbying power of multinationals seeking profit making opportunities.

After several months of listening to Israeli (and, to some extent, US) war rhetoric, the regime began issuing its own menacing bombast, as a matter of substance and to defend the pride of a regime that views itself as the heir to the glorious imperial tradition of Persia.

The last meeting was entitled Encounter with Youth Reality and Aspirations, which amounted to a display of grand speeches by the authorities informing the country s youth that conditions are ideal.

This is inevitable, because that rupture is being fueled by the simple acknowledgement that responsible governments must place national interests ahead of nostalgia, grandstanding rhetoric, and strident ideology.

Any decision to continue as before would send an unambiguous message to the clandestine threshold countries that are secretly pursuing nuclear weapons despite lofty rhetoric and wordy documents, the nuclear powers lack the political will to change course.