But its very vagueness is the reason it caught on.
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Obfuscation wrapped in vagueness, covered with a layer of gibberish.
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The company has always clung mightily to vagueness – and secrecy.
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Now, there is a vagueness around what's been asked for.
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The sentence is a fascinating combination of vagueness and specificity.
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Slapdash vagueness undermines this energetic book's purgatory of female pain.
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Mr. Flimm's production makes a virtue of the story's vagueness.
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That contributes to the vagueness under the current legal standard.
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That led to "vagueness and ambiguity" around the concept of burnout.
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The vagueness on the timing of hikes is what is striking.
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Be mindful of vagueness, verbal agreements, and an eagerness to hire.
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Any conflicting language or vagueness will surely be spotted by regulators.
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You know how avocados have that unplaceable taste of creamy vagueness?
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What it lacks in specifics, it makes up for in vagueness.
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I hope her vagueness is a first step toward that position.
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But this instability, even vagueness, of purpose helped propagate its influence.
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But the vagueness of the concept served only to heighten hysteria.
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But consumer advocates accuse the industry of deliberate vagueness about its intentions.
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This standard is plagued by vagueness, making incitement quite difficult to establish.
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Domestic companies are also less bothered by legal vagueness, said Mr Yang.
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Perhaps the vagueness of the law and the confusion is the point.
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If there's a hitch, it lies in the vagueness of key elements.
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Cook's vagueness may just be to keep the car project under wraps.
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Where its long melodic lines maintained tension, the performers arched with romantic vagueness.
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This vagueness led many doctors to initially regard CFS as a psychological condition.
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All this vagueness runs the risk of Mrs Merkel's language seeming too bloodless.
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It's the vagueness of the phrase "sexual behavior" — could it mean sexual orientation?
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Winslet's comments, despite their vagueness, mirror similar statements actors have made about Allen.
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And Trump's vagueness on this issue is continuing now that he's president-elect.
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The inherent vagueness of hate speech laws is reason enough to oppose them.
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That, and his vagueness over the causes of Goldman's problems, unsettled some investors.
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Maker hours blend childhood summer-day vagueness with a thick coat of artistic entitlement.
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Scalise's vagueness meant one thing: No one really knew if the bill would pass.
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The victory certainly comes as a surprise; particularly because of his vagueness on policy.
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Moreover, the vagueness of the timetable to reach 2 percent inflation is not inspirational.
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A big part of the problem may be the vagueness of the doctor's explanation.
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It's now called the Tunguska Event, the vagueness of the name conveying its seriousness.
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The vagueness of broad, sweeping rhetoric is an obvious advantage on the campaign trail.
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This vagueness created the opportunity for PROs to go after unsuspecting establishments, often anonymously.
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I think her work resonates because it is devoid of vagueness and calculated universality.
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American officials conceded this week that there was some "vagueness" in the original measure.
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I was very concerned about the vagueness of it, the inability to verify it.
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Mostly, Women Who Work stays committed to its aesthetic of pleasant vagueness: Women work … somehow.
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Molly's story uses elements of magical realism to mask the mundane vagueness of her death.
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He was a short, smooth-skinned man, who combined energetic exaggeration with a mysterious vagueness.
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Regardless, the real problem isn't the inscrutability of the rules but the vagueness of intentionality.
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Their agenda is a study in vagueness, featuring "democracy for peace" and "transformations for peace".
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Hammack said the vagueness of the word "intelligence" does indeed complicate the idea of sapiosexuality.
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It's precisely the vagueness of "they" that makes it a not-so-ideal pronoun replacement.
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Rode" in "that voice of abstract vagueness which she reserved for her most venomous pronouncements.
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Packaged in vagueness, themes about love or peace simply lack resonance for a modern audience.
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Even in uncomfortable moments, she never sought refuge in the vagueness of the Japanese language.
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Usually, though, it's a menu of naan and curry, pleasing in its soft, warm vagueness.
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The multiple worlds lend a sense of abstraction; the vagueness of the lines lends intimacy.
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Iran's Revolutionary Guard quickly, but with deliberate vagueness, incriminated Saudi Arabia and the United States.
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In the end, however, Ad Astra offers little more than ponderous vagueness masquerading as depth.
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There has to be some vagueness to it so it can have some shelf life.
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Without any visual evidence, and given its overall vagueness, I remain skeptical about the whole thing.
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He promises, with typical vagueness, to somehow fix these trade issues, including China's cyber-economic espionage.
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"I am deeply moved by Andrei Tarkovsky's films—the mood, the vagueness, the unobtainable," says Finney.
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As the vagueness of the record's title suggests, that can mean a lot of different things.
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The vagueness of the language does seem to give Unity broad discretion to wield the hammer.
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While the prime minister was fulsome in his praise of the plan, his rivals mumbled vagueness.
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His statements on the topic have been the usual, mind-fogging mix of vagueness and inconsistency.
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The longstanding "vagueness doctrine" derives from the court's understanding of the constitutional guarantee of due process.
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Franz-Michael Mellbin, the European Union ambassador to Kabul, said Mr. Trump's vagueness was strategically shrewd.
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Given the vagueness and uncertainty around those plans, that maintains options for officials at the Fed.
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Miltner says the song's vagueness may point to why that is, as it's not very explicit.
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The Mondaine's "activity" graph delivers only vagueness, and the app's "coach tips" ranged from odd to creepy.
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It's because in the in-between, the slipperiness, the vagueness, I can treat my loneliness with isolation.
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People really are relishing, you know, the vagueness of queer, which, you know, I...I appreciate it.
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It takes a level of respectful vagueness in its depiction of police brutality and a literal riot.
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It's that vagueness that worries Alex, the 27-year-old Californian developer behind Yandere Simulator told Motherboard.
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It suffers from the same vagueness of origin that casts doubt on the statements of confidential sources.
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So much great art comes from specificity, but making a song of the summer requires deliberate vagueness.
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Financial firms have expressed continued and serious concerns about the vagueness of the new concept of abusiveness.
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The vagueness of a skinny repeal has allowed Republican senators to attach their votes to contradictory premises.
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Trump's words to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky on their call July 25 had some vagueness to them.
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S. relations' and would lead to 'corresponding action' — a phrase made more ominous by its utter vagueness.
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The cynical might be forgiven for seeing in such vagueness a license to cherry-pick the most comely.
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The problem — or the loophole for the businesses trying to fight it — is one about the law's vagueness.
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His simultaneous vagueness about policy details hinted at well-disguised moderation, just right for a general election audience.
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The vagueness of that little word, "links", is likely to perplex investigators for a long time to come.
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We find that explaining values as contrasting points on a spectrum help clarify the vagueness behind a value.
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This kind of vagueness isn't helpful at all, Ed. Now go away and think about what you've done.
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Business partners sometimes found that tiresome, especially when vagueness about their interests was matched with ruthlessness about his.
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Their deliberate vagueness has a ripple effect: investors refuse to finance even firms that are not directly named.
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The vagueness of the "commitments," serve little purpose since the terms are not defined, neither are timelines established.
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But now that Kennedy has been replaced by Brett Kavanaugh, the Court has ended the vagueness and punting.
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The law's vagueness means that people are not held accountable for their specific crimes, human rights experts say.
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It's not as though tech companies are alone in the shading and vagueness in some of these announcements.
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Whatever the vagueness and confusion onstage, there was much to enjoy in the musical performances on Saturday evening.
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Now, though, Sanders has evidently decided that progressives will no longer accept impurities — or even much tactical vagueness.
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This vagueness might be the result of this being a "vision" speech, as White House officials told NBC News.
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The overall debate about "political correctness" as a phenomenon tends to suffer from an excess of vagueness and ambiguity.
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"Sometimes there is too much vagueness," he continued, saying that employees need to structure mentoring like any other task.
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Others, like a local group of pro-democracy activists, resent its vagueness on refugees and same-sex civil unions.
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So for now, we're left with a lot of vagueness, and the opportunity to admire Montgomery's chiseled Fabio looks.
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Hoffman builds Shelby out of trauma and not much else, and her observations suffer from a certain clichéd vagueness.
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"There's something powerful about the vagueness, and it creates a lot of alignment," says Varshini Prakash, the group's director.
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Productive ambiguity can tip into unrealized potential, and "They Remain" ultimately leans too heavily on vagueness as a crutch.
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There's a vagueness, so it's easier for you to take those words and make them more your own story.
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The vagueness can make things more confusing, especially when prices are higher because of unexpected circumstances like heavy traffic.
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This vagueness, according to NATO officials in Brussels, continues a pattern of obfuscation deeply entrenched since the Soviet era.
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" His fellow framer James Madison objected to the vagueness of the term, so Mason substituted "high Crimes and Misdemeanors.
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Justices Anthony Kennedy and Clarence Thomas concurred only in the judgment favoring Johnson, not Scalia's rationale about the statute's vagueness.
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The policies on offer so far tend to vagueness, says Mr Smart, and vary widely regarding which risks are covered.
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That vagueness required the ACLU to extrapolate measures for enacting Trump policies, many of which it says would be unconstitutional.
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Even better was the vagueness about a timetable for his and Syria's political transition to a more broadly based government.
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A certain vagueness is perhaps to be expected from a group composed of both center-left and center-right politicians.
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That vagueness around policy has allowed him to both harness progressive grassroots energy, as well as the "no labels" voter.
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I shrug off the anxiety of the vagueness of the number of cans of sauce — is it two or three?
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This specious aspect makes the golem particularly interesting to artists because such contradictory vagueness yields opaque and elusive visual iconography.
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Whatever the reason for the vagueness, there's much in the movie to admire until it runs headlong into a stone wall.
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Too vague Even if the First Amendment did not protect Trump from prosecution, the vagueness of his actual spoken words would.
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Exceptions for falsehoods are already part of our libel jurisprudence, but the worrisome nature of that comment lies in its vagueness.
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The sheer vagueness of what is deemed a "threat" or "radical" makes it possible to treat normal Islamic practice with suspicion.
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Some lawyers also said the vagueness of the "bona fide" standard was license for the Trump administration to interpret it broadly.
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On this count, the Green New Deal, while recognizing its vagueness, offers a powerful new vocabulary to talk about climate action.
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Musk, however, scored highest on the "Vagueness Algorithm," while Barra was found to use the clearest, most direct, form of language.
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United States (1941), which suggests that the Espionage Act's intent requirements are an important feature that save it from unconstitutional vagueness.
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Scalia would side with liberals on the bench when it came to the vagueness of statutes used to convict criminal defendants.
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"At at top level, [her plan] is mostly good, but there's some vagueness and there are conspicuous omissions," Segal told me.
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Mr Kim is exploiting the vagueness of his own promises to stall the process, all the while accusing America of bad faith.
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Wednesday's session was especially volatile with the dollar rallying hard into the Trump event, only to recoil at his vagueness on policy.
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They take advantage of the ambiguity of what counts as income, weaponizing that vagueness to help their friends and hurt their enemies.
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Unlike the withdrawal agreement, this will have no legal force, so some vagueness about the outcome may be acceptable and even desirable.
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More significant than the specs, though, was Amazon's vagueness about when, where, and how this technology will be made available to customers.
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Because of the vagueness of the political declaration, it leaves the shape of a post-Brexit relationship with the EU wholly unclear.
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The President's vagueness on white supremacists stood in stark contrast to the bluntness, bombast and outspokenness Trump has built his career on.
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Gorsuch's concurrence is largely a rebuttal to Thomas and a defense of the Supreme Court's ability to strike down laws for vagueness.
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OPG returned with a report that critics derided for its vagueness, evaluating two possible sites, labelled "crystalline" and "sedimentary," for the rock.
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A few critics have questioned whether police officers will take advantage of the bill's intentional vagueness to abuse their traffic-stop powers.
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The teal shirts answered most specific questions with a helpful vagueness, like Parisians directing lost Americans toward a distant restaurant for lunch.
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Such vagueness should come as no surprise since obtaining a compromise from Mr. Kim never was the purpose of Mr. Xi's trip.
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Even as they ponder the vagaries and vagueness of time and mortality, Gogo and Didi often communicate in squeaky Mickey Mouse voices.
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This was a characteristic that had been salient from the time we first met, at university, his ambient, all-purpose, omnidirectional vagueness.
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Klobuchar repeatedly challenged Warren, especially on the former law professor's deliberate vagueness about the new taxes that would accompany Medicare for All.
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The vagueness puts a burden on the family to try to show that their particular child needs a certain program to succeed.
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But with President Donald Trump now taking steps to end DACA, the vagueness of the government's pledge looms quite a bit larger.
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"The panel concluded that the vagueness doctrine did not warrant an injunction prohibiting enforcement of the Dress Code Ordinance," the appeals court wrote.
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Previously all manner of unregistered groups had managed to operate in China thanks to vagueness in the rules surrounding charities and other NGOs.
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But, critically, Carter's vagueness was accompanied by a sense of competence and purpose (even if that is not what defined the Carter presidency).
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While Kaplan's meticulous care for his subject is plain, even he cannot fully penetrate or resolve the vagueness and contradiction of Romanian history.
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Vague, yet somehow distinct in its vagueness, it demonstrates how specific recombinations of familiar musical indie-rock tropes can produce a baffling surreality.
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Forty months ago when Sanders's presidential campaign was more of a curiosity than an influential political movement, vagueness on this point was harmless.
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Others are baffled by the vagueness of his open-ended inquiry into Clinton's emails, which is unlikely to be resolved by Election Day.
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Monday, Gorsuch seized on the vagueness argument and questioned how the courts should be able to decide whether Dimaya's conduct should trigger deportation.
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Its intentional vagueness means any Democrat can campaign on it without offending their corporate campaign donors while simultaneously playing to their environmentalist base.
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Lawyers say there are questions about the constitutionality of the law pertaining to its vagueness and the First Amendment right to free speech.
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The vagueness of subject is only partly clarified by the hint in publicity materials that Mr. Tynek had Ulysses and Penelope in mind.
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It shows the faults endemic to that genre: too much detail, together with a suspicious vagueness about family members who are still alive.
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" Praising Warren's vision, but criticizing her vagueness about how to pay for Medicare for All, Biden said, "We've got to level with people.
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On Monday, accompanied by the wonderful pianist Inon Barnatan, Ms. Fleming gave a solo recital at Carnegie Hall that sometimes suffered from vagueness.
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Such an undertaking would be difficult, given the vagueness of key parts of the proposals being discussed and the wide-ranging possible effects.
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Cattelan's opening work, "Sans titre" ("Untitled," 2007), through its vile vagueness, offers hard-fought conditions of emergence, and is something of a nasty fantasy.
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The actual text of the bill is mind-boggling in its level of vagueness and surprisingly punitive considering its unnervingly broad scope of coverage.
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You could question the vagueness of the conceptual 'they' who are always putting her down, and the sometimes simplistic way she views complex struggles.
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Dominic Cooper plays the character with a disturbing vagueness, eyes shifting and head nodding when he's confronted with his questionable moral actions and excuses.
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This vagueness is not lost on Mark Field, Conservative MP for Westminster, the constituency in which many of the West End nightclubs mentioned fall.
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In this respect, the optimists were helped by a fairly emollient acceptance speech from Mr Trump and the very vagueness of his policy proposals.
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But the vagueness of Netgear's VPN support claims left me hopeful that the R9000 had something a little more enticing than a VPN server.
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It's an ill-defined, vague space, but I've come to find the vagueness captivating, if only because it makes the genre feel so spacious.
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But other industry experts have said that the guidelines – while a step in the right direction – have created a lot of ambiguity and vagueness.
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He joined Cruz in poking holes in the glossy façade of Trump's financial empire, but focused mostly on exposing the vagueness of Trump's propositions.
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But the vagueness of most of the proposals is a tribute to a lack of enthusiasm on the part of the rank and file.
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Where critics have gone wrong is in diagnosing all kinds of vagueness as passive voice, even when there's no grammatical passive to be found.
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In addition to a charge of vagueness, the suit argues that the moral turpitude provision is unconstitutional because it was written with discriminatory intent.
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It doesn't lead to understanding; it leads to misunderstanding and confusion, a kind of purposeful vagueness that seems designed to keep viewers on edge.
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Or maybe they'd been puzzled by its vagueness, before eventually accepting it as just another viral marketing gimmick in an era flush with them.
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The Republican effort was also driven by a popular slogan ("Repeal and replace") whose appeal rested in part on the vagueness of its meaning.
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And this vagueness, which has started to seem like evasiveness, is more of a problem for her than it might be for other politicians.
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I have spent a lot of time in the city—my in-laws live there—and its vagueness has always struck me as compelling.
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Because of the vagueness of both the grouping and the concepts in the essay, it's hard to know what Kopenkina intended with this exhibition.
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Interestingly, one of the last majority opinions that Scalia penned in 2015 was an almost identical decision voiding a different criminal law for vagueness.
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The vagueness of Sessions's new guidance, though, left it up to individual prosecutors to decide whether they will take action against legal pot states.
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But the vagueness of the term presents a serious problem — suggesting that Latzer is putting a diverse group of people into a monolithic culture.
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And even though the proposal's current vagueness means Republicans in Congress don't have to defend any specific points that are unpopular, they're clearly worried already.
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There can be no vagueness when going after someone's character so zealously, especially when there are more than enough real examples of Wiles' sketchy behavior.
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Thailand's government passed a controversial cybersecurity bill today that has been criticized for vagueness and the potential to enable sweeping access to internet user data.
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It's genuinely hard to say, and the vagueness of the precedent means the lawyers will have a lot of room to maneuver on both sides.
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But given the vagueness of the category, Mr. Campos said, discounting the number of these jobs by 50 percent is a good rule of thumb.
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"The panel concluded that the vagueness doctrine did not warrant an injunction prohibiting enforcement of the Dress Code Ordinance," Wednesday's ruling stated, according to CNN.
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Like the master politician he is, Mr. Bouteflika, though barely capable of even a pained grimace, appeared to exploit the vagueness of the crowd's demands.
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He apologized for his vagueness: He's not particularly fixated on politics, he said, and offered to put me in touch with some farmers who were.
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Last week SNORT issued a tax reform plan that was classic G.O.P. in its extreme vagueness on how to pay for its multitude of cuts.
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Scalia did tend to side with the left side of the bench when it came to the vagueness of statutes used to convict criminal defendants.
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He might reduce health care costs by $6 trillion over the next decade, but his proposal to do this gives new meaning to the word vagueness.
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Removing the guidelines would "create even more vagueness and a lack of guidance in an area in which people are already hesitant to act," she said.
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And the vagueness of SEC's 2011 rules on disclosure and its failure to enforce them are drawing equal attention, privacy lawyers and cyber security experts said.
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Brock needs to realize that he was, and is, the problem here; not drunkenness, not the vagueness of his own memories and certainly not the victim.
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But the vagueness of the explicit references to pardon power — and Trump's general unpredictability — have raised speculation about how the president might want to use it.
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But the vagueness around Trump's proposals and whether they may ever be implemented means retail industry executives are still not willing to change their operating infrastructure.
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This vagueness is part of what has allowed natural wine to become a cultural phenomenon in a way that organic or biodynamic wines never quite have.
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That vagueness is reflected by his voters, according to the results of a new survey, conducted online by the digital media and polling company Morning Consult.
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The deal was criticized for its vagueness, leaving unclear how the burden would be fairly distributed when member states can choose not to help their peers.
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If there was vagueness in the staging, this in some ways enhanced the dramatic ambiguity at the core of the work, often glossed over in performances.
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Was she just another non-Millennial using Twitter in the early days of the platform, ignorant as to what havoc she was unleashing with such vagueness?
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Florence's vagueness feels authentic and fundamental, self-protective, not as if Smith is using her as a symbol but (wonderfully) as if Florence is using us.
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As one 2014 Gawker piece observed, Doot's strength lies in its vagueness: it's up to whoever is posting it to add meaning and flesh it out.
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Authorities took advantage of the term's vagueness to apply it to offenses, even misdemeanors, that recently freed blacks were far more likely to be charged with.
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And vagueness around exact numbers is exactly what led to the flood of misinformation the first time around, with the incorrect 1 million Folds sold number.
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"Views," like much of Drake's music, is relatable because of its vagueness, balancing tales of betrayal and self-loathing with winning celebrations of loyalty and friendship.
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But he lets the vagueness of it stand, knowing that if he pressed more, he'd likely raise some alarm bells among the Starfleet brass he knows.
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But the vagueness around the tax proposals and whether they may ever be implemented means retail industry executives are still not willing to change their operating infrastructure.
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Such vagueness arises particularly on contentious topics: "Indeed, then one also leaves no-one behind" Mrs Merkel once said in defence of a domestically unpopular Greek bailout.
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Under pressure from rivals for vagueness in a recent debate, Warren now says she is preparing a detailed plan for covering the enormous cost of the proposal.
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Being abstract can position a company for growth and a wider range of legal protections, but it also comes with the risk of vagueness or brand confusion.
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While the void-for-vagueness doctrine is, technically, applicable to both criminal and civil statutes, in practice it is very sparingly applied outside the criminal law context.
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The vagueness of that idea — essentially that a bottom-up Islamic religious revival will unlock social progress — has opened it to many interpretations followed by disparate groups.
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It's easier to talk about the verbal kind because Sondheim's lyrics represent such a quantum improvement over the vagueness and inanity of almost everything that came before.
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The vagueness of the order has even sowed doubt about whether permanent residents with green cards will be allowed to return to the U.S. from travel abroad.
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The AP reported that the bills received some pushback from lawmakers who argued that their vagueness could lead to selective interpretation and be used to punish critics.
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Since that's the point of the cause, and since that goal is best served by staying vague, vagueness will likely continue to be the order of the day.
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You might have noticed the vagueness of language in the graph above, and that's because Sony hasn't been especially clear exactly how PS4 Pro will benefit games holistically.
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So is the odd specificity of his support for Mr. Putin's priorities, which is in stark contrast with the vagueness of everything else he has said about policy.
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And this really gets at the heart of why the Facebook Poke has no place in 2017: It purposely encourages vagueness in an era where we want clarity.
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Thanks to the relative vagueness of the emoji's expression, people have made some pretty humorous guesses at its true meaning, ranging from legit guesses to abstract comparisons. Stroke?
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And Warren has narrowly succeeded in crafting the prop she needs — something consonant with her "plans" schtick (which Sanders's purposeful vagueness would not be) that also polls well.
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Debate over the legality of Trump's proposals was complicated by the vagueness of his pronouncement and questions on how broadly he would extend any immigration ban if elected.
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I enjoyed reading Kevin Der's Constructor Notes last week, where he classified some ways to make a clue end-of-week difficult: misdirection, vagueness, open-endedness, and trivia.
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Yellen rather quickly understood the importance of purposeful vagueness and diplomacy, and before long became highly adept at parrying with the press as well as Capitol Hill legislators.
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Much room for interpretation Business groups say they fear the vagueness of the new law means it will fail to address their concerns about doing business in China.
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And that's exactly what White House press secretary Sean Spicer did at Wednesday's 12-minute press briefing, where all the questions were answered tersely and with equal vagueness.
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After years of delays and general vagueness around the long awaited fantasy game, the company offered up the briefest of hopeful glimpses, followed by the date October 25th, 2016.
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Adeniyi-Jones has discovered the benefits of unique stylization: objects and figures can be made in such a mannered way that they become visual metaphors, flexible in their vagueness.
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As the vagueness between the social platform, the content provider and the messaging system continues to blur, no one can argue with sheer numbers of users and video views.
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But Larson, strangely enough, never seems to find her way into her role, playing adult Jeannette with a kind of vagueness that makes some the character's choices seem unmotivated.
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While the vagueness of the shillelagh's precise lexical roots may make it seem that any stick could be referred to as a shillelagh, that was certainly not the case.
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Vagueness of diagnosis, conflicting stories, opacity of the way forward, authorities acting (or not) for the powerless — Habiyambere is in a limbo all too common for many young Africans.
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The vagueness of the national anthem law will only lead to more self-censorship in future, said Kevin Carrico, a senior lecturer in Chinese studies at Australia's Monash University.
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That's why it's urgent that Congress and the F.E.C. clarify the law to deter even more flagrant violations in 2020, while also saving the regulations from their own vagueness.
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That vagueness allowed the base to understand it one way without scaring off moderates, while making it difficult for opponents to poke holes in a plan that didn't exist.
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Kristen Stewart has revealed herself as an adventurous, versatile actress, but her directorial debut, the 17-minute "Come Swim" — the other swimming movie — is an exercise in impressionistic vagueness.
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The vagueness and irresolution in this episode could be taken as a warning, reminding us that endings can take longer to play out than we might expect — or hope.
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On the phone from London this month, he insulated his vagueness with polite deflection and generalities while declaring that his new album was his most open work to date.
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It's this vagueness that could have a chilling effect on local jurisdictions, making local law enforcement — and undocumented immigrants themselves — change their behaviors in anticipation of the coming crackdown.
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It gives his comeback a sense of vagueness — and that's exactly what the men tarred by #MeToo will most likely try to create as they plot their own comebacks.
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The latest ruling was written in response to the defense's claims that evidence against the accused should be suppressed, and centered around several arguments over the vagueness of the warrant.
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The vagueness surrounding the revenue is the top reason Cliff Mass, an atmospheric sciences professor at the University of Washington well known throughout the state, is opposed to the measure.
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The product is now available to a small number of Pixel users, but there appears to be some vagueness around the disclosure process when it's being handled in real time.
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Tunji Adeniyi-Jones has discovered the benefits of unique stylization: objects and figures can be made in such a mannered way that they become visual metaphors, flexible in their vagueness.
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In doing so, Gorsuch was continuing the jurisprudence of Justice Antonin Scalia, who also sided with liberals when it came to the vagueness of statutes used to convict criminal defendants.
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The vagueness of "intelligence" complicates sapiosexualityMel magazine writer Klee and some Twitter users also criticized sapiosexuality because, well, who would actually say they aren't sexually attracted to a smart person?
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Given the fundamental vagueness of juche, and the way it changes based on what the regime requires, it's tempting to say that juche is mostly irrelevant to North Korean politics.
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" Sadly, a PTAB review, instituted by the "copycat" maker of an almost identical water balloon device, invalidated key elements of the Malone patent in January 85033 on grounds of "vagueness.
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Ultimately, the courts sided with Coking, ruling that the vagueness of the city's plans made it impossible for the courts to determine if the taking would serve a public purpose.
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The tweet had the president's characteristic combination of outrage and vagueness, and read in isolation, its meaning was unclear — was Trump mad about Mueller, the media, the Democrats, or someone else?
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Whether or not Fuchs did originally intend for the list to be metaphorical and non-exclusive from the start, perhaps the whole fiasco stems from the very vagueness of his project.
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The vagueness in the existing rule has allowed most schools to avoid being held accountable, although at least two, both in California, were placed on probation for low bar passage rates.
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But I think the vagueness is the point: We are creatures of logic and ration, and we think that if a thing doesn't make sense, we can make sense of it.
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All the same, in ambiguous times, there's a perverse ecstasy in watching the vagueness and vagaries of others embodied with such triumphant precision by a theater-drunk playwright and his players.
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Instead, they say that the "top-level design" of promised reforms in state-owned business and other areas has been marred from inception by confusion, vagueness and unrealistic or conflicting demands.
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Tim hails from the minor aristocracy, an un-American category of household that Miller portrays admirably in a few strokes — invisible money streams, abundant alcoholic beverages, many animals and general vagueness.
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When I was unfamiliar with Los Angeles, Tom Petty sang "Century City," and even in its lyrical vagueness, I wanted to be in Century City with the modern men and modern girls.
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President Moon's advisers insisted that the vagueness of the agreement published on Friday was a virtue, not a defect, and that it would be up to others to work out the details.
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Trump didn't come off as overly untruthful, though his vagueness on so many issues also didn't help (also, by constantly describing his business as "unbelievable", you start to wonder what is believable).
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The vagueness of the legislature, Castillo says, means visa policies are interpreted in wildly different ways between provinces -- jurisdictions with a higher foreign population, such as Guangzhou, tend to issue shorter visas.
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MACCALLUM: There were questions about Crimea and Secretary Pompeo really laid out very clearly what our policy is on Crimea if there was any vagueness that was left open in the presidency.
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They object to the vagueness of some of the language (including new bits of jargon such as "internet connection records", which could mean the complete history of somebody's activity on the internet).
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The dramatic stagecraft of this summit combined with the vagueness of the communique may indicate that Kim is attempting to cover-up a collapsing regime and/or setbacks in its nuclear program.
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Fearing both the vagueness of the law's terms and the PRC's well-practiced reading of such laws in the broadest manner possible, Hong Kongers massed in protest and the measure was shelved.
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On the whole, the agencies agreed to the spirit of the GAO's suggestions, although the OPM disagreed with some of the GAO's approaches and perceived vagueness in some of the GAO's wording.
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Kennedy is willing to settle for vagueness and to defer to U.T.'s stated goals: promoting cross-racial understanding, preparing students for an increasingly diverse society and work force, and cultivating leaders.
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The word's vagueness has always been a handy way to remind people of their relatively low status: If they can't already tell what's wrong about their behavior, perhaps they are beyond help.
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It was a well-meaning vagueness, but it could also be highly irritating, and there were certain situations in which it more or less guaranteed disaster, such as anything involving social life.
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Numerous aspects of the law remain opaque, and many groups are anxious about the vagueness and expense of the new requirements, while some fear their work will be curtailed or even banned.
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Investors are pouring record amounts of money into passive ESG funds — but the vagueness of just how money managers determine the makeup of their sustainable funds is now attracting attention from regulators.
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Despite its difficulty governing cities, such as Rome, Five Star has gained electoral strength, in part because its studied vagueness on controversial issues has avoided alienating voters on the left and right.
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This unassuming style allows readers to jump right into the story, because we can identify with both the vagueness of the characters' visual representation and the specificity of their reactions and emotions.
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" Even the Sapio app betrays the utter vagueness of the term, marketing itself as "the only app that gets to the core of people through their lived experiences, heartfelt opinions, and bold passions.
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When it comes to Putin, however, some skeptics worry about the vagueness of the agenda for the meeting — as well as what they see as Trump's willingness to appease the Russian leader. Rep.
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One of the under-appreciated aspects of the presidency is that the vagueness present in the Constitution's language of Article II is what has largely allowed presidents to become so strong over time.
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The Columbia Journalism Review's Jonathan Peter had a different perspective, arguing the threat itself was worth highlighting, though he also argued The Hill should should have written about the seriousness of Breitbart's vagueness.
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The current Afghan Constitution, while making clear that nothing in the country can go against Islamic principles, leaves enough wiggle room and vagueness that accommodates the diverse interpretations of Islam in the country.
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"The vagueness of the Iran announcement makes it more necessary than ever to launch the mechanism since its whole purpose is to resolve the differences we have on this," a third diplomat said.
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That vagueness clearly fueled the judge's concern that he might have been tricked into delaying the FOIA case with a spurious claim that charges against the former FBI official were still being mulled.
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" R3D, Mexico's Defense of Digital Rights Network, warned that the "vagueness" of the law also allows the armed forces to spy on civilians "without establishing any clear limits, democratic controls or accountability mechanisms.
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Despite the vagueness of his policy proposals, investors are giving a lot of credence to Trump's claims that he will successfully jumpstart growth through measures such as ramped-up infrastructure spending and tax cuts.
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But his vagueness was different -- he was trying to express ideas; he just couldn't do it, partly because he lacks the polished glibness of the professional politician, partly because he hasn't done the reading.
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To take the vagueness out of the conversation around mental health, we wanted to gather some examples of modern-day mental-illness shaming to see what kind of work still needs to be done.
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The basic problem is that if you're going to capture a human being in motion, say for a movie or for an augmented reality game, there's a frustrating vagueness to them caused by clothes.
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The countries were assessed on the basis of the harshness of their penalties, the vagueness or precision of the offence, and the degree to which the blasphemy laws underpinned discrimination against some religious groups.
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After blaming the violence "on many sides" Saturday, Trump stayed silent for close to 48 hours, letting his trademark bluntness and campaign pledges to call terrorism what it is succumb to silence and vagueness.
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After skirmishes over the weekend, the first substantial #BoycottByron protest achieved one picketing victory before it even began—the Holborn branch was shut down hours beforehand (a sign cited, with impressive vagueness, "technical reasons").
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The law also focused too much on features that didn't affect a weapon's deadliness like barrel shrouds and pistol grips; generally, efforts to ban "assault weapons" are complicated by the vagueness of that term.
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And while McNaughton works hard to make sure that the people who see his art are left with a crystal-clear sense of what his intentions were, the 4chan crowd courts vagueness and distortion.
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Lori Wallach, the director of Public Citizen's Global Trade Watch, said that she was concerned by the vagueness of the report and that the objectives did not directly buttress Mr. Trump's "Buy American" vision.
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The lines between subjective and objective blur into that spiked vagueness that descends when you're so unhappy that you know you shouldn't trust your own mind, but still believe in its most irrational conjectures.
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That day, in varying degrees of vagueness, Trump described the many things he believed were holding America back from greatness, while also reminding Americans that he's "really rich": "We don't have victories anymore," he declared.
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The campaign to legalize the drug for medicinal purposes succeeded despite little national funding for the effort, Forbes reported, and a significant backlash from law enforcement groups and faith leaders over the law's perceived vagueness.
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Unfortunately, the rest of the 14 songs, stacked like pancakes and nearly as identical, glop together; the vagueness of their lyrics and the legginess of their musical structure make them feel episodic rather than pointed.
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There's nothing to indicate their theminess at all, if you're still looking for patterns; there is a revealer at 14D but it's really helpful only after the fact, like 82D above, because of its vagueness.
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However, his vagueness surrounding what might actually prompt action against Turkey is not likely to quell dissent among his fellow Republicans, who have been largely united in decrying his decision to withdraw from northern Syria.
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In their concreteness, versus the deliberate vagueness of Saeed and Nadia's city, they call for identification from readers of the novel who live in these kinds of desirable places that the refugees want to go.
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LONDON (Reuters) - British proposals to guarantee the rights of EU citizens living in Britain would cast "a dark cloud of vagueness and uncertainty" over the lives of millions of Europeans, the European Parliament's Brexit coordinator said.
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But this vagueness is intentional on the hospitals' part: Harrison told the New York Times that they won't reveal their drug line-up for fear that other companies will try to manipulate the market in advance.
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Boeing says one out of every four jetliners now rolling off its assembly lines is being delivered to Chinese customers, suggesting Chinese demand is strong, despite vagueness about how many actual Chinese orders it has won.
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The intrepid attorney general or acting attorney general who agreed to follow a presidential order to fire Mueller might try to get away with reliance on the "good cause" provision of the statute given its vagueness.
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Augmented reality company Magic Leap's public statements tend toward vagueness — its last major statement simultaneously promised to transform the world as we know it and hinted that we shouldn't have high hopes for an actual product.
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If you find yourself struggling with the vagueness and trickery of Saturday-level cluing, fear not: Here are a few helpful tips to increase your level of solvitude and cope with clues that seem impenetrable: 1.
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The plot is as minimalist as the set, which seems to suggest not just the thin barrier between life and death but a kind of vagueness, enhanced by the fog that puffs continually from stage left.
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I share some of Bread and Roses' annoyance with horizontalism and programmatic vagueness, but DSA is a multitendency organization, and trying to marginalize a tendency is not a good strategy for something so young and promising.
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Yet the vagueness of the language UEFA used on Tuesday in giving Russia a "suspended disqualification" for the violent behavior of its fans after an earlier match in Marseille left murkiness over what might come next.
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The vagueness of juche as a political philosophy — self-reliance can mean practically anything — combined with media control and the elevation of the suryong to near-divine status serves to give the Kims incredible policy flexibility.
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Later, when I learned of his Alzheimer's, the vagueness in the paintings read differently to me, and the work became more interesting because it registered a neurological shift, but the marketing remained just as off-putting.
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I did find a handful of total stumpers, some anachronisms that I imagine will challenge the youngest among us, and some great misdirection and general vagueness that made for a very crunchy, slow but satisfying solve.
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Kit Juckes, who acts a macro strategist for the bank, said in a note Thursday that although there is little evidence that "pre-departure uncertainty" is hurting the U.K. economy, further vagueness over the future won't help.
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But in this instance, it's not the technology that's alarming — it's the vagueness of Facebook's proposal, and the fact that anyone submitting their photo to Facebook would still be vulnerable to potentially having that image be exploited.
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Be mindful of vagueness, verbal agreements, an eagerness to hire, and personal data requests early on, as these could indicate that the company is fraudulent, has a toxic environment, or otherwise may not be what it seems.
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The vagueness of Barnes & Noble's announcement left industry experts to speculate about the reasons for Mr. Parneros's departure and scrutinize the timing of the announcement, which came late in the day just before the Independence Day holiday.
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While Ms. DeVos's policy approach tends to favor flexibility and decision-making at a local level, the department believes that Congress should address the vagueness in the law, according to people with knowledge of the department's thinking.
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Advertise on Hyperallergic with Nectar Ads TEHRAN — My first impression of the Iranian capital is one of vagueness in a difficult topography, as the city sprawls in all directions and stands at different elevations surrounded by mountains.
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There's one exception to this vagueness, though — Republicans have made clear they want to raise a great deal of revenue by getting rid of the state and local tax deduction (which has the fun acronym of SALT).
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As I've written before, regulatory vagueness combined with a popular culture of techno-paranoia means political activists, security researchers, and bored teenagers are the ones more often caught in the teeth of the justice system than criminals.
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In doing so, the appeals court upheld a lower court's decision that the policy likely violated the Fifth Amendment's Due Process Clause for its vagueness and the 10th Amendment's ban on "commandeering" local jurisdictions to enforce federal law.
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The judge didn't make a ruling on the motions to dismiss, reserving that decision for a later time, but did point out some vagueness in Kesha's counterclaims and may give her an opportunity to file an amended version.
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"The vagueness of the strategy on all fronts — from the absence of measurable objectives to the omission of specific administrative authority, oversight, and funding plans for these missing objectives — is frustrating to all who desire improvements," she said.
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When it comes to these predictions, it seems, treading a fine line between safe vagueness ("Another rookie group will get their first win this year") and somewhat specific statements ("Suzy is dating") is the key to continuous success.
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There is a persistent vagueness to the way we talk about R. Kelly that makes it possible to forget exactly what he's been accused of, how often he's been accused, and how much evidence there is against him.
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The vagueness of Mr. Trump's posting made it difficult to assess its possible impact on American foreign policy, and further illustrated the potential dangers in setting policy, especially on such grave matters, in Twitter bursts and offhand remarks.
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"He's got to clean up Kim Jong-un, because there wasn't a deal," Hayden said of Pompeo, referring to the vagueness of the promises that resulted from Trump's first meeting with the North Korean leader in June 2018.
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Protecting Access to Affordable Financial Advice A delay in the rule's implementation would be a very important development because the rule's vagueness and challenging requirements make it impossible for firms and advisors to comply by the April 2017 deadline.
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Eating in that city can be a wild ride, but the dining rooms often have an oversize, mall-like scale and the menus a safe, something-for-everyone vagueness — qualities that, transplanted to New York, can be real buzzkills.
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The Unesco designation has occasionally drawn criticism because of the vagueness of the term and because some say it is used to promote tourism and consumption rather than to encourage the study and preservation of local traditions and practices.
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Preserving the bipartisan balance — drafted over the course of 14 months, with New York University's Jonathan Haidt in the role of ideological mediator — required a lot of vagueness that would never survive the rough and tumble of the real political arena.
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Although Australian lawmakers have claimed that the bill's intentions are not to weaken encryption or compel backdoors, Apple's letter said the "the breadth and vagueness of the bill's authorities, coupled with ill-defined restrictions" leaves the bill's meaning open to interpretation.
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Tulsi GabbardTulsi GabbardCastro qualifies for next Democratic primary debates Native American advocates question 2023 Democrats' commitment The US can't seem to live without Afghanistan MORE (D-Hawaii), said last week that she had concerns about the "vagueness" of the measure.
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Critics have continued to point to what they say is an element of vagueness in Warren's health care plan, and have expressed skepticism over whether she'll actually be able to pay for it without raising taxes on the middle class.
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They are also worried about DeepMind's ongoing vagueness about how exactly it works with its parent Alphabet, and what data could ever be transferred to the ad giant — an inevitably queasy combination when stacked against DeepMind's handling of people's medical records.
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The practical consequence of Comey's vagueness is that our understanding of this potentially very significant matter in the final days of this campaign is being shaped almost entirely by anonymously sourced leaks from government officials — hardly a model of transparency.
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Perhaps this vagueness (and the poetic license it affords) was part of the original motivation in dubbing Othello a Moor — much like Sacha Baron Cohen leverages the perceived cultural ambiguity of Kazakhstan to lend force to his racist caricature, Borat.
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A theme so timeless as to suggest a certain stolid permanence, this vagueness of home inspires even as it eludes members of a single household, creating a familiar world within an unfamiliar land, a country that is simultaneously everywhere and nowhere.
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During an hourlong news conference in which Mr. Trump was unusually friendly toward the reporters he regularly scorns, he dismissed concerns about vagueness and expressed a surprising confidence that despite past North Korean failings, Mr. Kim would meet his commitments.
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Anytime a region this large, this diverse, and this hard to define becomes a symbol for a concept that has the combined vagueness and life-regulating power of "normalcy," it should tell us that we're in the presence of myth.
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Despite the vagueness of his comments, rights groups say it is a worrying sign when many of the country's Muslims already feel like second-class citizens, and tensions in the heavily militarized Muslim-majority Jammu and Kashmir region are high.
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In delivering the opinion of the court, Justice Elena Kagan relied on a 2015 ruling in which the court said a similar clause in the Armed Career Criminal Act (ACCA) that defined a "violent felony" was unconstitutionally void for vagueness.
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Please. And I wanted to love Scorpius, but I was so distracted by the discordance of the narrative concerning him (WTF, Voldemort love child rumor?!), the weird vagueness of his role within Slytherin (seriously, WHY wasn't he immediately sorted into Hufflepuff?!
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That vagueness can be endlessly enervating when the show is, say, playing cutesy with the true identity of the Man in Black, or the number of timelines the story is operating on, when answers to both seem pretty obvious by now.
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You'll be asked to locate items to satisfy the demands of the first non-player character you properly meet—apologies for the vagueness here but, you know, embargoes—but there's no time limit imposed, and no set order for completing these tasks.
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"Politically, their preference is to have some agenda items and some broad ideas that the party will fight for, and enough vagueness that it's hard to be pinned down," said Julian Zelizer, a history professor at Princeton University and political analyst for CNN.
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"Martyr" is one of those vague social tragedies that you wind up halfway believing, in part because the director's convinced you, and also because the people starring in it seem existentially worn out — by life, sure, and maybe by all that vagueness.
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Bernard won't likely be the last, but he was always the most obvious, given his close association with Ford, his surreptitious exchanges with Dolores, and the circumstances surrounding his son's death, which have been shrouded in vagueness, like a half-completed memory.
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The winning power of the Brexit campaign slogan used by the U.K. Independence Party leader Nigel Farage, "We want our country back," lay partly in its vagueness, which let it appeal to all manner of disaffected constituencies, but also in its double meaning.
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The Yellow Vests have been coming out to demonstrate in Paris and other large French cities for 13 straight Saturdays now, bedeviling the government of President Emmanuel Macron with the vagueness of their demands and the lack of a leadership to negotiate with.
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Trapped within a still frame of animation, the cyborg assassin is little more than a set of panythose topped with a sheet and a webcam (honestly, it's a Scooby-Doo villain), but in the game itself it's lack of definition and vagueness become more suggestive.
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It's a story of a developer whose propensity for vagueness frustrated a community for the better part of a year, prompting untold hours of theorizing, testing, and debating over something very basic, the type of thing other video games explain in their opening tutorial.
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Before the plan was even put forward it became somewhat of a recurring joke on Capitol Hill due to the administration's vagueness about what would be included in the bill and constant delays in the GOP's legislative timetable during Trump's first year in office.
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A CNN investigative series earlier this year found that some unlicensed gun dealers exploit the vagueness of the law to sell scores or hundreds of guns, serving as a funnel for weapons into the hands of violent felons and others prohibited from possessing them.
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"As Tesla's Model 3 ramp proceeds, we continue to have more questions than answers about the company and the vagueness of details coupled with lack of disclosure from management about true capital needs and expense levels need[ed] to obtain their ultimate vision," Osborne added.
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In contrast to such vagueness, Democratic Socialists for Medicare for All (for whom we work) — a campaign organized and paid for by Democratic Socialists of America, working in coalition with National Nurses United and Labor Campaign for Single Payer — has defined its five core demands as follows.
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African-American students are four times as likely as white students to be charged, state records indicate, and across the state, as a result of the vagueness in the law, the same act can draw a verbal warning in one school and a criminal charge in another.
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Similar vagueness has enshrouded a campaign proposal for a child care credit, while a plan to eliminate corporations' ability to deduct interest payments has disappeared, at least for the moment, as has the campaign plan to limit the amount of interest payments that business can deduct.
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I revisited my own childhood constantly for anything that would be sufficient to make sense of my present situation and was frustrated once again by my own calculated, dreamy vagueness; how like me not to keep a written record of anything I might later like to read.
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While Mr. Trump did urge Mr. Netanyahu to "hold back" on settlements in the West Bank and said Israel must make compromises, he offered no details on any peace initiative, and the vagueness of his remarks suggests he has no inkling of how to move forward.
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"Due to uncertainty and vagueness regarding the legislators' intentions in several significant points of the law, some bank employees have quit their job and other are considering resigning from the corporations in which they have been working for decades," Justice Yoram Danziger wrote in his ruling.
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At first it wouldn't budge, but he kept at it till the seal gave and he was able to unscrew it and put his mouth to the warm gurgling flow there, and that made him feel better and pushed the vagueness into another corner of his mind.
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If anything, the Macron administration's continued vagueness about major demands — a wealth tax, greater democratic participation — suggests that it is still dead-set on reducing deficits and refusing to put pressure on the rich, that it will not bow to the Yellow Vests' demands for fiscal justice.
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The consequences of Article 11 and Article 13 remain a matter of speculation, but the nature of the legislation—both its design and its vagueness that makes it ripe for abuse—make it all but inevitable that they will leave the internet torn and tattered in its wake.
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"I have some concerns with the Green New Deal, and about some of the vagueness of the language in there, so have not co-sponsored the legislation," the Hawaii congresswoman said when asked about the progressive plan to rapidly shift away from fossil fuels to fight climate change.
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Because what we're talking about is really a nascent class of software and there's no sense being pedantic when the ideas fall under the umbrella most people would understand as AI. But when companies use that fundamental vagueness as a deceptive sales pitch, I feel I have to object.
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After initial vagueness when answering questions from a student reporter about housing for LGBTQ students, a spokesperson from Boston College, a Jesuit school in Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts, told Vox that they were able to accommodate all of the LGBTQ students who applied to stay on campus during the outbreak.
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Her voice and band are both sufficiently blurry that on the occasions when the guitar doesn't slash out just right, or the drums don't patter, or detachment takes over her voice, the songs slide into vagueness, coming into focus only when you squint to see the involuted lyrical detail.
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There are a lot of ways to increase clue difficulty including: ■ Misdirection (the clue appears to have one specific meaning, but actually means something else) ■ Vagueness (the clue could mean a lot of different things) ■ Open-endedness (the clue reads one way, but there are a lot of possible answers; i.e.
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The plan itself is an encouraging step, filled though it may be with blind spots, rampant vagueness, inflated expectations, and contradictions—because it shows that even the legendarily blinkered Bezos can be pushed to change course, and it demonstrates the power and potential of good organizing in the tech sector.
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Once you finish a level, you're treated to a flashback sequence, where the main character explores scenes from their youth — awkward moments at a part-time job, lonely times in an arcade — all rendered in a kind of Simlish-style language that gives the story a welcome sense of vagueness.
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Since the '90s, when Newt Gingrich took over Congress, we've seen a one-sided escalation in which Republicans exploit the vagueness or lack of clarity in the Constitution in order to press their advantage in a variety of arenas — from voter ID laws to gerrymandering to behavioral norms in the Congress and Senate.
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Gates' waffling and vagueness on this issue highlight the broader discomfort and tensions that technology execs are now confronting when debating how to weigh in on Apple's refusal to help the FBI unlock information on the iPhone 5c belonging to one of the gunmen behind last year's mass shooting in San Bernardino.
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"The vagueness of the standard for inclusion in the TSDB, coupled with the lack of any meaningful restraint on what constitutes grounds for placement on the Watchlist, constitutes, in essence, the absence of any ascertainable standard for inclusion and exclusion, which is precisely what offends the Due Process Clause," wrote Judge Trenga.
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Bewilderment greeted the government's vagueness about when the promised housing tax cut, destined for nearly 80 percent of French households, would be put in place: The prime minister first said it would be phased in gradually, but the outcry prompted officials to correct themselves a week later, promising a rollout by 2018.
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His buzzwords about technological change, his caution about Germany's debt, his unhurried approach to badly needed investment, the absence of any real "European awakening"—it all sums up not just the positive aspects of the current chancellor but also the negative ones, such as her passivity, her vagueness and her reluctance to risk unsettling reforms.
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" An amendment put forward by St Pier last week in response to accusations of vagueness in the original proposal prioritizes the need to improve palliative care and capacity legislation and specifies that the process should be available only to "terminally ill adults resident in Guernsey with mental capacity and less than 6 months to live.
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"A lot of this is open to interpretation to each individual agency," says Martijn Rasser, a senior fellow at the Center for New American Security and the author of a recent report that calls for greater government investment in AI. "Anything that an agency produces could be shot down, given the vagueness," Rasser says.
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And while Facebook, Twitter and Google are clearly not the only companies in the industry that could be accused of muddying their terms with opaque language, swingeing vagueness and impenetrable layers of complexity, the huge and growing societal power of social media platforms — and these three giants specifically — is bringing them into contact with regulators' spotlights, more and more.
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Its Central Asian target doesn't exactly provide any easy clues as to the hackers' identities either, given the vagueness of that description and the countries with sophisticated hacker teams with Central Asian interests, including China, Iran, Russia and the US. Nor has Kaspersky determined how the hackers behind TajMahal gain initial access to a victim network.
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But while loopholes in the latter were there to add intrigue to short stories (a lot of Asimov's fiction is concerned with the logical technicalities of how one articular robot bypassed the Laws and knocked off its owner), the vagueness of Nadella's principles reflect the messy business of building robots and AI that deeply affect peoples' lives.
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"The vagueness of the standard for inclusion in the TSDB, coupled with the lack of any meaningful restraint on what constitutes grounds for placement on the Watchlist, constitutes, in essence, the absence of any ascertainable standard for inclusion and exclusion, which is precisely what offends the Due Process Clause," Judge Anthony Trenga wrote in his 218-page ruling.
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He manages to be, as Hua Hsu pointed out in a recent New Yorker article, an "Asian Everyman" who plays down "identity politics" and opts for an almost anachronistic message about everyone coming together — one that, in its rosy vagueness, contrasts with the rest of the field's willingness to dive, however emptily, into thorny questions about busing, reparations or gender equality.
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In particular, women like McGowan who have experienced harassment and attempted to speak out about it on Twitter can be silenced at any time using the same inconsistent policy that Twitter refuses to levy against a Richard Spencer, a David Duke, or a Donald Trump — men who take advantage of the vagueness of Twitter's abuse policies to perpetuate racism, violence, harassment, and fear.
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The impression of professionalism and consistency grows when compared with Britain's leadership, which has been characterised by over-confidence (launching the Article 50 process prematurely), vagueness (devising a Brexit proposal only this summer, over a year into the two-year process) and diplomatic missteps (demonising the EU and boasting of plans to divide and conquer it, forgetting that continentals can read British newspapers too).
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But as the pressure grew, Trump - ensconced in his club amid a 17-day working vacation - remained silent, forcing his White House to weather what amounted to one of the most trying two days of his administration, where Trump's vagueness left the door open to questions about his sincerity and left many to speculate why he was unwilling to condemn racists at the heart of the protests.
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We hadn't really tapped into anything before we had written that song and that felt really big and it could actually compete with the other musicians, with bigger musicians that were making music and, I don't know, I just think in it's vagueness it's been easy to apply to anything that's happening in America so it could have this kind of longevity that other songs don't really get.
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"I suspect that all the vagueness about concrete technical measures is deliberate, because it allows the government to deal with the technical details within a particular technical capability notice, which would be under a gag order, and thus avoid any public scrutiny by the infosec community," argues Martin Kleppmann, a security researcher at the University of Cambridge who submitted evidence to the parliamentary committees scrutinizing the IP bill last year.
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Canada's federal privacy watchdog has officially opened an investigation into the practices of border guards searching people's devices as they attempt to cross into the US. Vagueness around what powers border guards have when it comes to your electronics, and what citizens' rights are in these situations, has caused Canadians much anxiety in the months since Donald Trump's election in the US. So, the investigation is a welcome bit of news for many.
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Even though the bond requirement does not favor one candidate or party over another, will deter some frivolous recount demands from being, and does provide a certain recovery from those who are not deterred from making frivolous demands, the requirement is infected with a severe form of vagueness which allows it to be used surreptitiously for political ends because there is no reliable standard to determine how much any recount will cost.
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" Bader, who is curly-haired, slight-framed and inclined to slouch, has edged into his early 40s with some reluctance, and he speaks with the vagueness, the slack elaborateness, of someone committed to a serious discourse about art: " 'What is art?' both as some sort of spiritual entity, or quantity, and what is this world we live in, this highly commercialized society, a consumer society, and what does it mean to find meaning within it?
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And then all at once she felt it, a slippage, a slickness, and even though it wasn't taking place within her own body, she could see the slow and uncontrollable dilation downward and outward, into a vast sun-bright plain full of golden grasses swaying as though brushed by a great hand, and a horizon that didn't stop in the vagueness that came at the end of sight, but pressed on into the palest and most fragmented of blues.
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There's a missing professor, a Moscow deal, a porn star, a Russian spy, a Russian billionaire, his son, his son's music promoter, highly lucrative overseas political consulting, secret memos, secret recordings of calls, secret payoffs, surveillance warrants, the existence of Carter Page, the vagueness of that Trump Tower meeting, the dossier, the overheard lunches, the texts between the FBI agents, the love affair between George and Simona, the emergence of Michael Avenatti, the latter-day resurrection of Rudy Giuliani and Lanny Davis, and on and on and on and on — an ever-expanding formation of surreal plots and mundane process details.
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