The new educational standards are little more than window dressing for empty rhetoric, he said.
But by the time the survivors of the war returned home, words like these had turned into empty rhetoric.
Just the usual, empty rhetoric that "something must be done about it!"
Until they do, talk of reform will remain empty rhetoric.
It looks formidable but actually it's just a lot of empty legal rhetoric.
London has been called a 'world in one city' and that's not just empty rhetoric.
We must ensure that these sound proposals are more than just empty rhetoric.
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.
Forgive me for thinking that this is just empty rhetoric.