That might ring hollow if customers dig out LendUp's skeletons.
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Those words ring hollow when America witnesses mass murder in silence.
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Given their source, though, those warnings ring hollow to many Mexicans.
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Plans to expand American support for the former Soviet countries ring hollow.
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The words soon ring hollow after another team puts up huge numbers.
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An OPEC deal to cut production without Iraq on board would ring hollow.
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Still, the existence of the poll shows why Facebook's privacy claims ring hollow.
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Finally, efforts to dismiss or smear witnesses testifying at the hearings ring hollow.
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"Platitudes not backed by meaningful action ring hollow over time," Mr. Yamamoto said.
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The fact that that has not happened makes some of them ring hollow.
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A generation later, its promises ring hollow to an ever larger portion of Iranians.
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But these criticisms ring hollow, given that well-off families already hold overwhelming advantages.
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The claims of "co-located" abortion providers providing essential health care services ring hollow.
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But those words ring hollow when put in the context of the widows tax.
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Eighty years later, Mr. Hill's egalitarian notions seem to ring hollow on many levels.
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However, when it comes to criminal justice reform, those words seem to ring hollow.
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DeVos speaks of of her concern for sexual assault survivors, but her words ring hollow.
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In Chile, threats of a government crackdown on over-usage of water often ring hollow.
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The fact that that has not yet happened makes some of these denunciations ring hollow.
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Plus, it will ring hollow in the face of competition like the Samsung Galaxy Note7.
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And, once money entered the picture, the rhetoric of communal collaboration began to ring hollow.
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And that's why, when John spoke of virtues like service, and duty, it didn't ring hollow.
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It keeps coal country loyal, even as the promises of a revitalized coal industry ring hollow.
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This makes the sudden, ritualistic invocation of the slogan "we're all in this together" ring hollow.
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Your brain struggles to find responses that don't ring hollow or come across as a cliché.
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And that's why when John spoke of virtues like service and duty, it didn't ring hollow.
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The arguments against action ring hollow, from Columbine to Sandy Hook to Newtown and now Parkland.
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That may ring hollow to the young Africans who have been turned away by the Home Office.
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Outside the library, ANC placards in the party's black, green and gold promising economic growth ring hollow.
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No changes to the company's board or senior leadership were announced, making his contrite tone ring hollow.
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If you still voted for him after everything he said during the campaign, your words ring hollow.
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This year, his Democratic challengers for Congress in Kentucky's sixth district are betting that message will ring hollow.
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That, and many other things, ring hollow when Hollywood refuses to put its money where its mouth is.
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But the religiosity that permeates campus life can start to ring hollow for student journalists covering the college.
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It's a statement that can ring hollow, but Yates is steadfast that Turnstile isn't motivated by outside forces.
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Trump's complaints about the whistleblower ring hollow when the White House's own memo proved the central accusation right.
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"Promises of 'guaranteed action' ring hollow given the track record of Pakistan," the ministry said in a statement.
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And that is why when John spoke of virtues like service and duty, it did not ring hollow.
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Sadly for his legacy, Rosenstein appears doomed to learn that one's own characterizations of their achievements often ring hollow.
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Otherwise, we could well be faced with another Aleppo, and the cries of "never again" will, again, ring hollow.
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But if Ms Tsai's plan to revitalise the Taiwanese economy falls flat, it will soon start to ring hollow.
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Trump's belated praise of both leaders is likely to ring hollow with the publics of the countries they lead.
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"President Trump's words ring hollow until he reverses his statements that condone acts of violence," Schumer and Pelosi said.
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They're embarrassed that, with Mr. Trump as president, the country's claims to virtue, leadership and moral standing ring hollow.
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Until it makes an honest effort to stop kids from joining, the rest of Instagram's safety initiatives ring hollow.
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Van der Zwaan's apology and his lawyer's explanations for his client's actions appeared to ring hollow for the judge.
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But advocates say the president's words increasingly ring hollow, and his administration has been steadily eroding protections for transgender individuals.
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These arguments ring hollow and, for both sides, the costs of continuing to hold water hostage are simply too high.
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Along with taking over $12 billion from one of the largest cigarette companies, that makes the mission statement ring hollow.
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And suggestions that Twitter, the phone, or email could serve as an appropriate replacement to the expansive social network ring hollow.
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But some worry that any deal will not have enough teeth for enforcement and the rules on technology would ring hollow.
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Those of us that have snacked from the forbidden fruit of spoiler sites know that Harrison's words do not ring hollow.
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But Mr. Obama said the political recriminations from Republicans "ring hollow" if the party's leaders continue to support Mr. Trump's campaign.
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Showing contrition so close to the election could also ring hollow: It took months after the email scandal broke for Mrs.
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But calls for the end of LGBTQ activism ring hollow to those of us who still hold marginalized identities within the community.
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But they ring hollow when one considers Clinton's bid in the long historical arc of women campaigning to be commander in chief.
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But her rhetoric has for some time gone way beyond such reasonable concerns in a way that makes her walkbacks ring hollow.
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It makes the entire movie ring hollow, because of the disconnect between the fictionalized story and what's being presented separately as reality.
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Their criticism against the potential of free markets ring hollow and are laden with old fallacies that reek of special interest influence.
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And for many Palestinians, these threats ring hollow given the authority's repeated failure to halt Israel's de facto annexation of Palestinian land.
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Taking back the city would deal ISIS a body blow militarily while also making its messages of strength and power ring hollow.
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But considering Apple's own push into services, as well as the fact that the iPhone delivers those addictive apps, Cook's claims ring hollow.
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The unprecedented use of Article 50 of the EU treaty breaks a taboo and means invocations of an "indivisible Union" now ring hollow.
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"Those promises now ring hollow in many communities across Michigan and our country that have seen factories close and jobs disappear," she said.
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But his denial is likely to ring hollow for people who already suspected that Clinton wasn't on their side of the trade debate.
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But those boasts will ring hollow if, at the same time, America lets go of the world order that is its greatest achievement.
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His soft denunciations of hate ring hollow when he has white nationalist advisers like Steve Bannon and Stephen Miller whispering in his ear.
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After decades of attacks on organized labor and a dearth of infrastructure investment, the Green New Deal's employment promises can still ring hollow.
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But Butler has been around long enough to know that such acclaim tends to ring hollow unless the Bulls have some success, too.
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Since the 2016 election, the swamp has only gotten murkier, and the President's situational attempts to "drain" it of his political rivals ring hollow.
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If small business owners don't know how to make the policies work for them, the economic churn that is to follow will ring hollow.
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That said, Iraq is a perpetual cheater on meeting its oil quota, so its calls for decreased production tends to ring hollow in Vienna.
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Such an approach makes White House denials that the President is trying to use the kids at the southern border as leverage ring hollow.
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A much bigger problem, though, lies with the offenders themselves, whose apologies ring hollow because they almost always involve some variety of self-justification.
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"We continue to monitor the events in the Russian far north but Moscow's assurances that 'everything is normal' ring hollow to us," said the official.
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The words of European leaders ring hollow, especially contrasted with the actions of a president willing to defy political correctness in protecting the American citizenry.
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And Senator McConnell's complaints about possible delays for a Supreme Court nomination ring hollow after he stonewalled Merrick Garland's nomination to the court in 2016.
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The blind spot the White House appears to have for the economic opportunity in clean energy increasingly makes their pronouncements about "energy dominance" ring hollow.
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The complaints ring hollow to prosecutors, who came out in force at the state Capitol last year to support the bill resolving the defender crisis.
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"President Trump's words ring hollow until he reverses his statements that condone acts of violence," the Democratic leadership said of Trump's remarks in a statement Wednesday.
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"All of the platitudes, mentions, or policy statements about disability issues by candidates ring hollow when potential disabled voters can't even access their websites," says Wong.
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Though the approach drew praise inside Ethiopia and abroad, Abiy's rhetoric is beginning to ring hollow in some parts of the country due to the rising violence.
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"The words 'never again' ring hollow today with reports that Aleppo is falling to Assad regime forces," Senators John McCain and Lindsey Graham said in a statement.
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Wishing away the inevitable Campaign slogans and political promises ring hollow here on the Pine Ridge reservation, in part because residents say they've seen it all before.
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These excuses ring hollow considering that refugees were already the most vetted individuals entering the U.S. even before the administration's "extreme vetting" procedures were put in place.
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These kinds of maximally-produced deaths play into the tropes of the big-scale blockbuster films that they're emulating, and they often ring hollow because of it.
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Maddeningly, the two Black women from the jury speak on nearly everything but the reasons why Clark's phony feminist posturing did (and will continue to) ring hollow.
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But lawyers like freshman congresswoman Madeleine Dean (D-Pennsylvania) argue that the carefully crafted—if liberally distributed—talking points ring hollow once you look at the evidence.
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Her claim that no one likes Sanders may be true in her circle of friends but clearly ring hollow to the millions of voters who adore him.
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When sexual harassment and abuse has been swept under the metaphorical rug for so long, the sincerity of perpetrators who apologize once they're caught tends to ring hollow.
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The demand for citizenship on behalf of unauthorized immigrants will ring hollow if people who are eligible for citizenship do not naturalize and Latino citizens do not vote.
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Those positions ring hollow to many environmentalists who accuse the oil giant of having muddled the science on climate change decades ago in an effort to stymie action.
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The pressure coming from the U.S. side in relation to nuclear weapons may ring hollow, however, given that Trump withdrew from the Iran nuclear deal in May 2018.
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But for Angie, who attended meeting after meeting at the museum trying to convince administrators and staff to keep her harasser away from her, Johnson's assurances ring hollow.
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President Ashraf Ghani condemned the attack in a statement, saying Afghans would not be cowed by terrorism, but his words were likely to ring hollow with the Hazaras.
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They say that solemn words about fallen heroes ring hollow from a president who received a Vietnam draft deferment and who has managed a dangerously chaotic foreign policy.
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The prime minister may have been cheered by the Conservative party faithful but those cheers will ring hollow if she drives those investors away and causes a sterling crisis.
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But we're now three months removed from Google's grand Oreo launch, timed to coincide with this summer's total eclipse, and all of these excuses are starting to ring hollow.
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But for people in states that are heavily dependent on energy jobs, this line of attack may ring hollow and could end up costing Clinton an otherwise sure thing.
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Isabelle Huppert is their self-centered daughter — like her parents, a musician — whose questions about what she can do to help as her mother becomes increasingly incapacitated ring hollow.
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Now that Republicans control both legislative chambers in 32 states and the governor's office on top of that in 25, he said, their slogans lionizing local government ring hollow.
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As such, no one in Ebbing, Missouri, is all bad: an earnest sentiment that nonetheless may ring hollow to those whose lives have been touched by violence or police brutality.
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The young protesters understand why older Hong Kongers resent the chaos -- but these complaints ring hollow for many who say the present social difficulties were absent in their parents' generation.
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Suddenly all her live-in-the-moment clichés start to ring hollow; her family, which had invested its time and money in sending her off with love, starts to fray.
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But LGBT advocates say the president's words increasingly ring hollow after his actions to revoke civil rights protections for gay and lesbian troops and ban transgender people from the military.
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Despite Trump mentioning during his campaign that he supported medical marijuana and a general states-rights approach to cannabis policy, his presidency has consistently proven these words to ring hollow.
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Intentionally deprived of meaning, Wolfson's seemingly political artworks ring hollow, and the characters, dialogue, and music — including all the Jewish references — appear as nothing more than an attention-grabbing ploy.
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It&aposs also fair to say that Mitch McConnell&aposs demands for a fair and expedited hearing ring hollow because he and other Republicans wouldn&apost even meet with Merrick Garland.
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" But his remarks ring hollow because he waited so long to talk about the cases and spoke in broad generalities — describing the crimes as "incidents being discussed since past two days.
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While President Obama's heartwarming rhetoric urges the international community to greet refugees with open arms, his words ring hollow for the Haitian people displaced as a direct result of U.S. policies.
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" But Senator Patrick Leahy, a Vermont Democrat and the longest-serving senator, said Trump's words about unity, after a year of "divisive actions, petty insults and disgraceful race-baiting ... ring hollow.
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" But Senator Patrick Leahy, a Vermont Democrat and the longest-serving senator, said Trump's words about unity, after a year of "divisive actions, petty insults and disgraceful race-baiting ... ring hollow.
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But these comments will ring hollow to many critics who point to Abe's wealth of opportunity -- he's on course to be the country's longest-ever serving prime minister -- to promote change.
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But, as so many of us have learned over the course of our marriages, good words and intentions must turn into healthy marital habits and patterns or they will soon ring hollow.
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Now that the former president has retreated into hibernation and Republicans control both chambers of Congress and the White House, jibes against Obamacare, Planned Parenthood and the "war on coal" ring hollow.
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The Bush administration imposed some limits on textile imports, which kept prices strong Ross's assurances that retaliation and price impacts would be negligible are inconsistent with his own experience and ring hollow.
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The tech giants either want us to believe in astronomical coincidences about when they take their action, or they don't care that their protestations about how they implement their guidelines ring hollow.
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But to many of the country's trading partners, the president's criticisms ring hollow given that the United States places its own tariffs on everything from trucks and peanuts to sugar and stilettos.
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For while we have seen many comics skewer themselves in ways that slyly let themselves off the hook, Mr. Michael goes further than most to make himself unlikable and his arguments ring hollow.
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"It took only an hour after his positive words on the inaugural platform for his actions to ring hollow," Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer said on the Senate floor just a few hours later.
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But even that seemed to ring hollow in a week when the White House announced it would continue enforcing an Obama Administration executive order barring companies with federal contracts from discriminating against LGBTQ workers.
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Beijing's incantations about "win-win cooperation" and its alleged search of a harmonious "great power relationship" ring hollow when confronted with an unwisely excessive and systematic trade surplus China maintains with the United States.
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Such words may ring hollow to citizens accustomed to the government ignoring reports on corruption from the country's auditor-general and documentation of hundreds of extrajudicial police killings every year from human rights groups.
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But critics say it presents articles with little context — political, ethical or otherwise — an approach that can ring hollow for some readers who are in the grips of an existential moment for the country.
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But given how the Republican Party and especially Donald Trump have contributed to "the erosion of public confidence in our governing institutions," Mr. Cantor's remonstrations in favor of a more bipartisan comity ring hollow.
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"President Trump's words ring hollow until he reverses his statements that condone acts of violence," Senate Democratic leader Chuck Schumer and House Democratic leader Nancy Pelosi said in a statement earlier in the day.
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For a fan base that has not had a playoff win since 1990, losing four in a row under Dalton has left a psychic scar, and words of consolation like "small sample size" ring hollow.
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And even the most inclusive rhetoric will always ring hollow unless the party can address the economic anxieties and doubts about its foreign-policy competence that both minority voters and Trump voters tend to share.
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The Climate Group's conclusions on COP23 and outlook on 2018 suggest that if businesses don't step up efforts to curb emissions through initiatives such as EV100, the promises in the Paris agreement will ring hollow.
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Apple's protestations that it's merely complying with Chinese law ring hollow when, just last year, it openly challenged a U.S. court order to assist a terrorism investigation and unlock the iPhone of a dead ISIS terrorist.
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But Trump's attacks, combined with Bernie Sanders's more accurate message of an economy increasingly dominated by a small number of wealthy elites, made the Clinton message of maintaining the "pretty great already" status quo ring hollow.
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New reporting about taxpayer expenditures at Trump properties suggests President Donald Trump and his family are making a ton of money off the presidency — and it makes their allegations of "corruption" about the Bidens ring hollow.
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Yet analysts say that this message may ring hollow among Africans well aware that President Trump just underwent an impeachment trial and has been accused of steering U.S. government business to his own hotels and resorts.
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Even for people who are fully on board with 4K, Microsoft's insistence that the Xbox One X's "true 4K" represents a major shift over what Sony is offering with the PS4 Pro is likely to ring hollow.
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But now, more than two years since he last fought, and more than six months since the world and its rules cleared him to return, the delightful, paranoid ravings of Nick Diaz are starting to ring hollow.
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Though Bosnich claimed ignorance in regards to Tottenham's links to the Jewish community, he had – barring one season with Sydney United – been playing in England for seven years at this point, making his supposed naivety ring hollow.
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The commission in a petition in Boston federal court said Charter has refused to comply with an administrative subpoena seeking the records, but the company's claims that the EEOC's demands are too broad and burdensome ring hollow.
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But when the US is backing a country that is also accused of bombing civilians and contributing to a humanitarian catastrophe in Yemen, these condemnations of Assad ring hollow to a lot of ears, especially Middle Eastern ears.
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If that happens, North Korea would have no reason to engage with the United States, and any future threats of military action from Trump would ring hollow with China poised to back-up North Korea in any conflict.
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As long as policymakers refuse to address low wages and what Civil Rights leaders like Coretta Scott King called the "economic violence of unemployment," their claims that a job is a path out of poverty will ring hollow.
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. Democratic leaders in Congress said on Wednesday that President Donald Trump's call for unity after suspicious packages were sent to leading Democratic figures "ring hollow" because of his past statements that condone acts of violence.
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Lamentations over how sad it is that the Trump administration is going to kill the centerpiece of the Obama climate legacy, the Clean Power Plan, ring hollow to those of us who know the history of the CPP.
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But her claims that she wishes Jean had been the one with the gun ring hollow when we know that she failed to take "cover and concealment" action when she heard someone in the apartment she believed was hers.
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The critical longing for political anger channels a displaced desire to hear Trump vanquished in song, which can't happen; the triumph would ring hollow, and the disappointment of returning to the real world after the record's over would crush.
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Though Abiy's new approach has drawn praise inside Ethiopia and abroad, his rhetoric is beginning to ring hollow in some parts of the country due to the rising violence — and concerns that his government is not acting to stop it.
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Claims by health insurers that the U.S. government pulled a "bait-and-switch" by withholding $12 billion owed to them under an Obamacare program "ring hollow," the Trump administration said in urging the U.S. Supreme Court to reject their case.
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Trump's reassurance could ring hollow for the roughly 700,000 current recipients of DACA, who now stand in limbo to see if Congress will extend their protections from deportation and ability to work and study in the US beyond March 5.
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But former U.S. interior department officials, who worked under both Republican and Democratic presidents, said drilling in the refuge was risky, and the energy boom in the continental United States makes the economic argument to explore in the refuge ring hollow.
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Around the country, their fellow accusers — ranging in age from their 30s to their 60s, in big cities and rural communities, performers and professors — hoped his words would now ring hollow, in the face of all they have already revealed.
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Am I the only one for whom these sentiments ring hollow considering that both companies had so recently been dancing for coins from a group whose sole purpose was to scare voters into choosing the candidate with the strong anti-immigration stance?
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Some activists are working to stop all production and transportation of fossil fuels, while others that work with industry say operational changes ring hollow without lobbying that urges Congress and the Trump administration to support measures accelerating the shift to lower-carbon technologies.
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But their promises ring hollow when they are not even bothering to close the carried-interest loophole used by private-equity and hedge-fund managers to treat some of their income as capital gains, which are taxed at a lower rate than wages.
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General Motors chief executive Mary Barra frequently extols her vision for a zero emissions future, but those words will ring hollow until she and other automaker executives stand up for climate progress, public health, and last but not least, their own customers.
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Mr. Trump insisted he would bring diplomatic, economic and military levers to bear on Afghanistan, but his words ring hollow given how he has decimated the State Department with spending cuts and by leaving unfilled important positions, including, remarkably, that of ambassador to Afghanistan.
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What's more, when the U.S. Air Force is refueling Saudi planes as they indiscriminately bomb hospitals and food-supply centers in Yemen, contributing to famine conditions and the worst outbreak of cholera in modern times, our complaints about Putin's similar adventures in Syria ring hollow.
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Driving the news: With Trump and his top advisers not acknowledging that humans are driving global temperatures up, and instead promoting coal and other fossil fuels full stop, a side event they're hosting today will ring hollow and deepen the divide over energy and climate change.
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Calls for an independent counsel or commission to investigate allegations that Russia tried to interfere with our elections ring hollow when similar calls for special counsels during the scandals of the Obama administration were dismissed out of hand by the same people making these demands now.
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"Calls for an independent counsel or commission to investigate allegations that Russia tried to interfere with our elections ring hollow when similar calls for special counsels during the scandals of the Obama administration were dismissed out of hand by the same people making these demands now," Whitaker wrote.
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If that message had begun to ring hollow in recent years, as the Yankees mortgaged the present for a brighter, not-too-distant future and an escape from luxury-tax jail, it may have some resonance on Monday, as the Yankees signed the free-agent second baseman Neil Walker.
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DOJ veterans say the outrage from the president and his allies reflects a misunderstanding of how the department works—supposed concerns over rogue line attorneys ring hollow given DOJ policies requiring sentencing recommendations to be reached after consultation with high-level leadership, said one former senior national security official.
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"Calls for an independent counsel or commission to investigate allegations that Russia tried to interfere with our elections ring hollow when similar calls for special counsels during the scandals of the Obama administration were dismissed out of hand by the same people making these demands now," Whitaker wrote at the time.
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The idea that "Trump is a terrible, rotten, no-good person, and thus, you ought to vote for me" has begun to ring hollow to some degree because the Left has smeared opponents of all stripes as racist, sexist, and bigoted for such a long time that they have depreciated the terms.
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"The repeated promise that austerity is coming to an end will ring hollow for the millions of low wage, disabled and unemployed people who will see their social security and tax credits frozen for another year from April," Dr. Mary-Ann Stephenson, the director of the Women's Budget Group, said on Wednesday.
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In May 2017, after Trump fired former FBI director James Comey — but before Rosenstein appointed Mueller — Whitaker wrote in an op-ed in the Hill that calls at the time for an independent prosecutor or commission to investigate Russian interference in the 2016 election "ring hollow" because Democrats hadn't called for special counsels during "scandals" of the Obama administration.
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The port is going strong now three years later, on the iPhone XS, XS Max, and XR. Apple's justifications for keeping its iOS devices off USB might also ring hollow to some, but they're at least grounded in the physical necessities of these thin devices (plus whatever benefit Apple gains from controlling the Lightning ecosystem via its MFI program).
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As with Flake, the White House has yet to reveal any sort of strategy aimed at neutralizing criticism from Republicans like Corker, a reality which left Sanders few options on Tuesday but to accuse Corker of seeking the limelight -- a criticism which tends to ring hollow in a White House led by the ratings-obsessed Trump.
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The truth of the matter is that if Americans can watch as indescribable carnage takes place at political rallies, movie theaters, places of worship and yes, elementary schools like the one in Sandy Hook where 20 children and six teachers were slaughtered — and not pass any meaningful legislation — there never will be meaningful change and our prayers and "moments of silence" will continue to ring hollow.
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But things really started to take a downward turn after the 2008 financial crisis, which led to a rise of xenophobic populism even inside liberal democracy's Western strongholds: Perhaps more than anything else, the devastating impact of the 2008 financial crisis, in which the reckless behavior of financial elites resulted in years of hardship for ordinary people all around the world, made all the previous assurances of experts ring hollow.
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But by the same turn, their strong aesthetic would ring hollow without the too-weird-to-live irreverence of their music: You can't appreciate the meticulous grit of the "I Fink U Freeky" video without the unyielding tension of Ninja and Yolandi's verses; and you can't get properly pumped to the rager that is "Baby's On Fire" until you've seen Yolandi encircled by a guy ghostriding the engine of his Beemer.
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And perhaps more than anything else, the devastating impact of the 2008 financial crisis, in which the reckless behavior of financial elites resulted in years of hardship for ordinary people all around the world, made all the previous assurances of experts ring hollow -- all those assurances that somehow financial regulators knew what they were doing, that somebody was minding the store, that global economic integration was an unadulterated good.
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And perhaps more than anything else, the devastating impact of the 2008 financial crisis, in which the reckless behavior of financial elites resulted in years of hardship for ordinary people all around the world, made all the previous assurances of experts ring hollow — all those assurances that somehow financial regulators knew what they were doing, that somebody was minding the store, that global economic integration was an unadulterated good.
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As Riley, Ms. Garner growls and scowls her way through her ruthless murder spree, limping like Bruce Willis's John McClane when injured, but the script's attempts to forge a resonant emotional connection with her character's loss ring hollow: After interacting with a young boy on a bus who reminds her of her daughter, for instance, she follows his deadbeat father into a liquor store and threatens him at gunpoint, demanding he be a better father — or else.
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"President Trump's words ring hollow until he reverses his statements that condone acts of violence," House Minority Leader Nancy PelosiNancy PelosiJohnson eyes Irish border in Brexit negotiations Mueller report fades from political conversation Five key players in Trump's trade battles MORE (D-Calif.) and Senate Minority Leader Charles SchumerCharles (Chuck) Ellis SchumerJohnson eyes Irish border in Brexit negotiations Lewandowski on potential NH Senate run: If I run, 'I'm going to win' Appropriators warn White House against clawing back foreign aid MORE (D-N.
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Declarations of opposition to annexation ring hollow when they are not accompanied by plans to prevent or reverse it: banning settlement products; reducing financial assistance to Israel by the amount it spends in the occupied territories; divesting federal and state pension funds from companies operating in illegal settlements; and suspending military aid until Israel ends the collective punishment of two million people confined in Gaza and provides Palestinians in the West Bank the same civil rights given to Jews living beside them.
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