Examples of using Empty gesture in English and their translations into German
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It would be an empty gesture.
The Council decided to"suspend recognition of Israel", which is a rather empty gesture.
This is an empty gesture.
And without meaning, the following would be an empty gesture.
The G-20's Empty Gestures.
This is when the attempt to create art is nothing but an empty gesture.
In reality this is an empty gesture on the part of Washington.
Well, I think we're all gonna pass on that incredibly empty gesture.
True reconciliation requires more than an empty gesture: it requires greater commitment on the part of the Serbian government.
But in reality it was an empty gesture.
The fiscal compact is an empty gesture that may be the last attempt to pretend that EU members are moving toward political unification.
They mean it to be an empty gesture.
An empty gesture, because team spirit cannot be manufactured: it arises from the game's culture of combining various skills, of playing for each other, of covering each other's mistakes and of the post-match social atmosphere.
I guess that was an empty gesture.
One which flies in the very face of the United Nations itself,a fundamentally symbolic organization founded on the principles of high-minded rhetoric and empty gestures.
That hardly seems like an empty gesture to me.
Mrs Ewing(DEP), in writing.- I will not vote for the rejection of the budget;that would be counterproductive and an empty gesture.
You want that once-a-year empty gesture? You got it.
Only the combination of two types of sanctions[financial and political]would be more than an empty gesture.
Which is nothing more than a symbolic empty gesture. It... it looks weak.
That is the only real contribution the Greek Government can make andany friendly noises it might otherwise make are completely empty gestures.
Habits and customs that constitute andhold communities together turn into ridiculously empty gestures when exposed as pure performative acts.
A queue of dancers in paper mâché masks and long plant-like skirts execute an impenetrable,nightmarish ritual of empty gestures.
Safeguarding employment should be a priority, not an empty gesture.
We must work with them to find ways and develop initiatives which no longer makean appeal to civil and human rights seem an empty gesture.
One critic has described these as likely to produce“weak, partial,“trade-light” agreements, driven by“vague,muddled and trivial foreign policy goals and empty gesture politics, with little sense of economic strategy”.
Yeah, that's exactly why I can see this for what it is... an empty gesture.
As the situation stands, I believe it would have been better almost if we had not given any opinion at all before the Council's decision, quite simply for the simple reason that I am afraid this is going to be seen andrepresented as an empty gesture from the European Parliament and not as a real exercise of Parliamentary power.
They would not constitute empty gesturing.