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n. (empty promise English)
Usage examples of "empty promises".
With support falling in line in the Senate, the Galactic Corporate Policy League threw its support behind New Order policies and gave credibility to its empty promises of restored glory and prosperity.
Spear butts thumped the deck and defiant battle-croaks made grim and empty promises.
We will not be diverted into lengthy negotiations or slowed by empty promises.
He had spent too many nights reciting empty promises and clinging to diluted dreams that seemed overly easy- as hollow as the decoy ships that had frightened away the robot war fleet.
He had spent too many nights reciting empty promises and clinging to diluted dreams that seemed overly easy —.
He expected the letter to be filled with further requests for laboratory materials, more empty promises.
He had spent too many nights reciting empty promises and clinging to diluted dreams that seemed overly easy - as hollow as the decoy ships that had frightened away the robot war fleet.
They employed their time in consultations with the conspirators and they insisted on getting a letter which they were to give to the Tarquins, for without such a guarantee, they argued, how could they be sure that their envoys had not brought back empty promises in a matter of such vast importance?
Maggie made no excuses for what her father was - a weak-willed man filled with empty promises and empty dreams.
You've spirit and beauty for ten goddesses, but even the most clever deity must learn to discern true opportunity from empty promises.