hollow promise

If freedom did not ring, equality would be a hollow promise.

They also account for those inflated images and hollow promises.

It was a hollow promise, and they both knew it.

It does so with a hollow promise inscribed on a plaque.

But the prospect of cheap and easy customer service on the Internet turned out to be a hollow promise.

Still, common sense has to prevail over hollow promises.

"Hollow promises do not erase the sins of the past.

Nevertheless, it is better than nothing, and we might, at least, demonstrate that this initiative was a hollow promise.

We need to resolve to narrow the gap between hollow promises and necessary deeds.

It has been a hollow promise so far.

I'll undertake to keep the boni at bay until I go out of office, and that's not a hollow promise.

"What boggles me is that anybody believes a word of his hollow promises.

But in Leskovac and its outlying villages, this is one more hollow promise.

For a vampire, "forever" was not a hollow promise made in the throes of infatuation.

The House of Representatives makes more hollow promises.

Americans pride themselves on their commitment to access to education, but access can be a hollow promise if it is not supported by quality instruction.

While Beck recognizes pop's phoniness and hollow promises, he also realizes that the music is all he's got.

Obama is similar in this respect with his hollow promises of 'change', taxing the rich, Iraq 'withdrawal', etc.

"Is Williams' redemption complete and sincere, or is it just a hollow promise?

They buy time with hollow promises.

Not a hollow promise, Madred was certain.

Mannheim's relationism seemed to his detractors like a hollow promise, an attempt to have it both ways.

It was a classic of the misrepresentations, the hollow promises, the brazen falsehoods that have made people turn off.

"In practice, this was a hollow promise; the only entity that the intervention team protected was the diocese."

"The Democrats may gloat about the turnout, but the real message they need to hear is that people are growing real tired of hollow promises."