empty rhetoric

Until they do, talk of reform will remain empty rhetoric.

London has been called a 'world in one city' and that's not just empty rhetoric.

The 2001 action programme against torture, on the other hand, has been very much a case of empty rhetoric.

But by the time the survivors of the war returned home, words like these had turned into empty rhetoric.

Forgive me for thinking that this is just empty rhetoric.

Just the usual, empty rhetoric that "something must be done about it!"

For too many millions of our fellow citizens those words are no more than empty rhetoric.

To present energy taxes as the most important measure is simply to engage in empty rhetoric.

The new educational standards are little more than window dressing for empty rhetoric, he said.

Not empty rhetoric, but actually what they would do.

We must ensure that these sound proposals are more than just empty rhetoric.

Five years down the road these assurances have proved to be empty rhetoric.

Then reverse the deal going short two days later when everyone realises it is more empty rhetoric.

We need real action on the Lisbon strategy rather than empty rhetoric.

This will do more to strengthen our fight against the epidemic than empty rhetoric from the President.

"If you are asking me what I see on the national scene, it's empty rhetoric," she said, shaking her head.

While the technical approach avoids empty rhetoric, it does get rather dry.

But she also acknowledges that the word's current rating is quite low, as in "empty rhetoric."

We are steadily reaching the conclusion that this may have been only empty rhetoric.

Was this just empty rhetoric or is he really committed to transparency and openness?

Again, sticking to facts at hand would help rather than ultimately empty rhetoric regarding international relations.

I defy the Council to give me the bare facts and leave out the empty rhetoric.

Too much empty rhetoric, not enough meat and bone.

But Dean's newest round of empty rhetoric probably wouldn't have made many headlines anyway.

It had taken on the cadence of empty rhetoric.