The G 20 s Empty Promises

But doing so requires more than shallow promises.

At that summit, we committed ourselves to act, not simply to mouth empty words.

Second, the emptiness of G 8 leaders words puts the world at risk.

Does the pied piper of Venezuela offer a fairer and better way to grow?

Visceral sparring matches are continuing, with the Dalai Lama recently describing Tibetans lives under China as a hell on earth.

Ptolemy ruled over Egypt, southern Syria (known as Coele Syria), and various territories on the southern coast of Asia Minor.

We should leave the creationists to their hollow convictions and happily embrace the uncertainties inherent in a truly empirical approach to understanding the world.

For too many years empty promises and hollow exhortations have filled the diplomatic and political airways while the pathways to a better world remain a difficult road to traverse.

With each approach, Palestinian leaders, believing Arab states hollow proclamations of solidarity with their cause, have failed to measure accurately their own powers vis à vis the Israelis.

There is certainly good reason to be concerned about Maliki s temperament, his small group of advisers, his tendency to exercise personal control in the use of state power, and his reputation, partly merited, of making empty promises.

Attempts to revive the Oslo peace process the Road Map and the Annapolis process have similarly failed to achieve more than vacuous declarations and hollow photo opportunities.

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Indeed, these governments promote constitutional reforms that seek to authorize perpetual re election and supposedly new forms of participation that, in fact, hollow out representative democracy from within.

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The Shia are the majority in Iraq, and the Sunnis need to become reconciled with that fact. There is certainly good reason to be concerned about Maliki s temperament, his small group of advisers, his tendency to exercise personal control in the use of state power, and his reputation, partly merited, of making empty promises.

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China is a huge country.

China is a large country.

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This is very big.

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That is a tall order.

The economy is heavily based in agriculture, with a largely rural population.

Between 1949 and 1955 there was also a huge effort to build a big Hungarian army.

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But to do so would be a big mistake.

Wrong and by a substantial margin.