Word: hollowness
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...looking forward.” Unfortunately, 10 days after Saddam’s plunge through the trapdoor of the gallows, al-Rubaie’s prediction that Saddam’s death would be a unifying event for Iraq—as it should have been—rings hollow. Saddam’s status as one of this and last century’s most ruthless tyrants has not been brought into question, nor should it ever. Instead, al-Rubaie’s prediction seems laughable because Saddam’s execution was overrun by the endless sectarian violence...
...essentially, to appeal basic civil rights to popular approval—would surely not be a triumph of democracy: it would be a failure of it.Further, the pro-referendum movement’s claims to be the defenders of populist imperative are, given the results of recent elections, hollow. In two consecutive statewide elections, voters overwhelmingly supported pro-same-sex marriage candidates for seats in the Legislature. Even those who were originally staunch opponents of same-sex marriage have come to change their minds—notably, former State Senate Minority Leader Brian P. Lees, who said...
...Horse Hollow Wind Energy Center, the farm at the center of this first lawsuit, became the largest wind farm in the world in October with 421 wind towers spread over 47,000 acres of scrubby ranchland 20 miles southwest of Abilene. Once a rowdy frontier cattle town, Abilene now touts itself as the wind energy capital of the world. The lawsuit has brought the city's past and present into conflict. Most of the 18 plaintiffs in the case, according to their Houston attorney Steve Thompson, work in Abilene - among them a doctor, a professor and a gym owner...
...Adam aren’t in it for the politics; they’re in it to help make student life better. Their record shows their commitment, and their ideas show the kind of innovation required to make that happen. No airy rhetoric, no hollow promises—they offer practical steps and direct action, and we like what...
...Sure, we often complain about the flood of all of this “unwanted” information about others’ lives onto our computer screens, but more often than not, our gripes ring hollow. The truth of the matter is, most of us don’t value our own or others’ privacy as much as we claim to. With PerezHilton.com getting millions of hits per day and the quick death of the facebook.com Mini-feed uproar, the proof is in the pudding...