Besides lazy, they are liars.

Their positions are somewhat general and vague.

But the practical implications of this warning remain vague.

It contained not vague words or vague ideas but some very concrete statements.

Questioned about his policies, the candidate gave only vague answers.

I started with a lot of loose ideas, roughly eight or nine years ago.

It has shown how vacuous these vague notions of sedition, he wrote.

Roskomnadzor s vague new policy threatens to do more than crack down on potentially defamatory juxtaposition, however.

Instead, he sought to dismiss the entire issue by hinting vaguely about intelligence gathering by some EU member states.

The boundaries which divide Life from Death are at best shadowy and vague. Who shall say where the one ends, and where the other begins?

We have had the problem of the markets depressed by imports from third countries and made worse by the scare about BSE, the loss of markets, the reluctance of some of our customers outside the Community to continue to deal with us in these recent times, together with the fact that in the UK, unfortunately, there has been a 10 drop in the overall consumption of beef, no doubt related to BSE.

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

On these points we shall work out a different way of putting the requirements of Parliament, the Commission and the Council together rather than with words and vague offers of collaboration.

If we have learned one thing in the development business, it is that real reform cannot be bought with donors money, let alone with vague promises of money.

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.

Online content that promotes, justifies or incites public disturbances, to quote an example, is banned, and these sorts of vague definitions have been used to criminalize all kinds of online activities.

Similarly, China is staking its claim to the South China Sea in full violation of the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea on the basis of vague histories of bygone empires.

The Asia Internet Coalition (AIC), whose members include top tech companies like Google, Facebook, eBay, and Yahoo, has expressed concern over numerous unnecessary and vague provisions in the draft IT Services decree.

When people argue against a proposed measure on the grounds that it violates the rights of man or, as we would say today, human rights they are, Bentham claims, using vague generalities that distract us from assessing the measure s utility.

That is why debt relief and reforms must be offered together, not reforms first with some vague promises that debt relief will come in some unspecified amount at some unspecified time in the future (as some in Europe have said to Greece).

At a time when theoretical, rhetorical and often vague pledges regarding the importance of European SMEs are emanating from various administrations across Europe, it is important to precisely and accurately define practical, down to earth, realistic measures designed to understand, strengthen and champion this key sector instead of issuing vague, one size fits all approaches.