It recalls that the Optional Protocol is not intended for complaints couched in abstract terms about alleged shortcomings in national legislation or national legal practice.

Very abstract.

Oh, very abstract.

He swore at me, horrible, masculine sounds.

Sometimes they're a little bit more abstract.

So let me write it in math terms.

The problem, put in its simplest terms, is one of mathematics.

Or it can also be abstract.

And, of course, that makes sense, because hope is an abstract phenomenon it's an abstract idea, it's not a concrete word.

In fact this isn't just abstract.

More specifically, it means the following

All right, then let me do the y terms.

But I'm saying it in very general terms.

... thatI foundmyselflastnight uttering phrases...

Told me so in no uncertain terms.

Quarries once made the nature, and sometimes we took this and we transformed.

But you know what? You don't have to take my word for it.

In the world of abstract research she's a danger, destruction.

In Ukraine today, these are not abstract questions.

His attackers allegedly used racial slurs as they assaulted him.

The suggestion was made to redraft the paragraph in more general terms and to place it in the preamble.

I wish at this point to conclude my statement on a hopeful note.

This would outline in broad terms the courses of action that would need to be taken.

I never could make fancy speeches, but...

May the lions of China and Britain live in peace forever.

It is an abstract value, whose meaning is determined by the codec.

The Finnish outer islands in the Gulf of Finland were demilitarized.

Hence, a complex situation that is difficult to categorize by using general formulations.

Nonetheless, it was felt impossible to determine their effect in abstracto.

And when it's said like that, it's often quite abstract.

Your presence, Sir, reflects in no uncertain terms your country's commitment to the cause of children.

The suggestion was made that the paragraph as a whole should be redrafted in more general terms.

The Human Development Report 1993 makes much the same point in similar terms.

Let's start with the x squared terms.

The non weaponization of outer space is not an abstract issue for us.

We the countries of the South are no more than statistics to the North.

These facts are not mere abstractions for us in Pakistan.

So here's an observer it could be an eye it could be a telescope.

The workers I got to know had a curiously abstract relationship with the product of their labor.

Throughout the tour, the American answered with polite exclamations like exquisite or striking.

We welcomed with hope the words of President Bush in his statement to this Assembly

They took an abstract, outsize challenge and distilled it into achievable ends.

94. Development does not take place in a vacuum, nor is it built upon an abstract foundation.

One is telling us a fundamental truth about the universe, almost devoid of any of those applications, but now we can go and take them back to any place where we applied it.

And this is how even an abstract idea such as TED becomes this global inspiring trend.