But without implementation, our declarations ring hollow.

Max Cady isn't a man who makes idle threats.

With no money in hand, coordination will remain an empty word.

It's just a hollow piece of plastic with an antenna that swivels around.

She is still like a soulless doll for now, but she'll learn things from living with you.

Given the magnitude of the Greek crisis, they will all ring hollow.

The government, indeed, prefers to offer only hollow initiatives focused narrowly on the economy.

'Empty sleeve?' 'Yes,' said I, 'an empty sleeve.' 'It's an empty sleeve, is it?

The sky that we see is merely a small hollow ball... no bigger than that.

Digressing from the valour of a man Thy dear love sworn, but hollow perjury,

That pierc'd the fearful hollow of thine ear Nightly she sings on yond pomegranate tree

The advantages of pooling sovereignty and resources ring increasingly hollow to ordinary Europeans.

But, at least as far as Asia is concerned, arguments about the end of American hegemony ring hollow.

Development is empty for persons who are deprived of their individual rights and freedoms.

The worst idea in all of psychology is the idea that the mind is a blank slate at birth.

Furthermore, in such a positive climate, the arguments of the sceptics and rejectionists on both sides will sound increasingly hollow.

The delegation of Costa Rica believes that words which are sincere and well intentioned cannot be idle words.

Under yond yew tree lay thee all along, Holding thine ear close to the hollow ground

It consists of series of more than 600 hollow steel pipes welded together in a wave like pattern.

Such remarks from senior military authorities suggest that Obama s warnings may be hollow.

Without its gradual imposition, an Asian Union could at best remain only a pale and hollow copy of its European model.

Trent engines use hollow titanium fan blades with an internal Warren girder structure to achieve strength, stiffness and robustness at low weight.

Certainly, without a more equitable income distribution, official talk of creating a harmonious society will sound empty.

Any China bashing and protectionist pleas this time around will most likely ring just as hollow.

They argue that articles 12 and 33 of the Constitution are not simply accessory provisions which, standing alone, have no substance they confer substantive rights.

We hope that the commitments we have undertaken will not remain mere empty words but that, this time around, the international community will make a concerted effort to implement them.

But she saw he had removed his glasses they were beside him on the table, and it seemed to her that his eye sockets were extraordinarily hollow.

Claims that they lack the needed resources ring hollow, as trillions of dollars were found to bail out banks in the financial crisis.

War threats in the Middle East should never be dismissed as hollow. Prophecies of war, moreover, have too frequently proven themselves to be self fulfilling.

Without internationally agreed upon mechanisms for designating and managing marine protected areas in international waters, the commitments made in Nagoya will amount to little more than hollow promises.

I wish to stress that the Greek Cypriot side apos s words on quot demilitarization and disarmament in Cyprus quot are empty rhetoric.

But we can t, instead what is offered is a hollow vision of the common good that consists merely in successive rounds of cuts in state expenditures.

Young women are usually deceived into joining the industry with the empty promise that they will eventually become advertising models, singers or film stars.

Our projects for this Organization will be no more than empty words unless we have the courage to adopt the new measures that its financial bankruptcy requires.

When it comes to laws on the books, no generation has inherited the riches that we have. We are blessed with what amounts to an international bill of human rights, among which are impressive norms to protect the weakest among us, including victims of conflict and persecution .

If Bulgaria sends this man back to Turkmenistan where he faces certain torture and the threat of a brutal death our claim to be part of a democratic, rights respecting Europe will ring hollow.

But the ministers words will ring hollow if, as with similar statements made at prior G 20 summits in London and Toronto, member states do not translate them into action.

For the French, Sarkozy s determination to act, despite the odds, seems far superior to the passive cynicism of those who preach abstention or satisfy themselves with empty words.

(f) The question of the creation of institutional forms for the performance of international commitments is a fundamental issue to which the group must devote its attention, inasmuch as such commitments remain meaningless undertakings so long as they do not assume the appropriate executive form

In the recent election campaign, the PDP, unable to point to concrete achievements, simply made new promises. But they rang hollow to ordinary Nigerians.

China s answers to those questions are clear it is no longer willing to risk financial and economic stability on the basis of Washington s hollow promises and tarnished economic stewardship.

There stand his trees, each with a hollow trunk, as if a hermit and a crucifix were within and here sleeps his meadow, and there sleep his cattle and up from yonder cottage goes a sleepy smoke.

Indeed, Tunisia is a stern test of the EU s Mediterranean partnership a long promoted policy that so far consists of little more than empty phrases.

Given the wide range of circumstances of countries and fundamental differences in many respects, this could lead to a declaration that is little more than empty rhetoric and a programme of action that is ineffectual and unimplementable.

Thus far the busy Captain had not looked up to Jonah, though the man now stands before him but no sooner does he hear that hollow voice, than he darts a scrutinizing glance.