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left and vague
So the Commission's announcements of the new Soviet shots have been confined to one or two bleak sentences, with the fission yield usually left vague.
Abstraction uses a strategy of simplification, wherein formerly concrete details are left ambiguous, vague, or undefined ; thus effective communication about things in the abstract requires an intuitive or common experience between the communicator and the communication recipient.
At a time when imperial succession was generally determined by clan leaders, rather than the emperor, Suiko left only vague indications of succession to two candidates while on her deathbed.
Though there were hints, it was deliberately left vague.
The two snipers at ground level had been given vague instructions to shoot when the other snipers began shooting, and were basically left to fend for themselves.
Only the MIB, which was built in 2006, is exempted, whilst the fate of the former UMIST Main Building is left vague.
Details of Wallace's activities after this are vague, but there is some evidence that he left on a mission to the court of King Philip IV of France to plead the case for assistance in the Scottish struggle for independence.
The treaties provided for the partition of Macedonia and Thrace between the allies, although the lines of partition were left dangerously vague.
The language of the statute was left deliberately vague in order to allow the courts flexibility in determining what writs are necessary " in aid of their jurisdiction ".
Ueda purposely left the ending vague, not stating whether Yorda was alive, whether she would travel with Ico, or if it was simply the protagonist's dream.
The Secretary-General was envisioned by US President Franklin D. Roosevelt as a " world moderator ", but the vague definition provided by the UN Charter left much room for interpretation by those who would later inhabit the position.
Though the story has a happy ending, Barks has left the fate of the Shacktowners deliberately vague.
The two men had very different techniques: Toscanini's was Italianate, with a long, large baton and clear beats ( often not using his left hand ); Furtwängler beat time with less apparent precision, because he wanted a more rounded sound ( although it is a myth that his technique was vague ; many musicians have attested that he was easy to follow in his own way ).
In the few cases where MacGyver used household chemicals to create poisons, explosives, or other things deemed too dangerous to be accurately described to the public, details were altered or left vague.
The definition of the term " energy " was left deliberately vague.
The exact relationship between the reborn Erekosë, and the original Erekosë is left somewhat vague.
A precising definition is intended to make a vague word more precise so that the word's meaning is not left to the interpretation of the reader or listener.
The Dead, invincible and unstoppable, annihilate Sauron's forces ; in the book, as well as being absent from the battle, their ability to inflict physical harm is left vague and their ability to inspire fear is emphasized instead.
Many details of the setting, especially in regards to its history, are left vague or otherwise have multiple explanations.
On 22 October 1850, the very same day where it left its ministerial functions, it Alphonse Henri, comte d ' Hautpoul, Minister for the war, finding the request too vague, give an agreement in principle but ask the commission of temporal to present a project more precise.
Also, much of the boundary between the United States and Mexico had been left unreasonably vague by the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo that had been signed and ratified by the United States and Mexico in 1848 ( see the article on the Gadsden Purchase ).
* A collection of frames ƒ each of which determines a coordinate function from X to Σ ( the precise nature of the frame is left vague in the general axiomatization ).
However, they did not need weapons ( it is left vague whether they and their weapons are " material " at all ), for their primary weapon was fear.
The higher authorities of the religious order that controls the sanctuary ( or of the Roman Catholic Church, this is left vague ) strongly object to this Biblical interpretation, and forcefully stop a performance.

left and spirit
He left with all the joyous spirit of a child going on a holiday, nodding attentively as Rector gave him his final instructions.
The house has been swept so clean that contemporary man has been left with no means, or at best with wholly inadequate means, for dealing with his experience of spirit.
What was left of Villeroi ’ s army was now broken in spirit ; the imbalance of the casualty figures amply demonstrates the extent of the disaster for Louis XIV ’ s army: ( see below ).
In addition, the " aesthetic left " nature of New German Cinema ( in the words of the critic Enno Patalas ) no longer coincided with the spirit of the times.
: Striking the left and right men target points in succession, practising centering, distance, and correct technique, while building spirit and stamina.
He first encountered the spirit of crewmember Elpenor, who had gotten drunk and fallen from a roof to his death, which had gone unnoticed by others, before Odysseus and the rest of his crew had left Circe.
There is plenty of pluck and spirit left in the British after all.
Rendered disembodied, Zelda is left a spirit, and only Link ( and a certain few sages ) can see her.
He died during the night, aged 67, and his spirit was re-united with his wife Downy and the rest of the McDuck-clan as his three children left Scotland.
Because of the broad variety of religious communities with their different histories, characteristics, customs, and missions, the Vatican Council did not give specific indications, and left to each individual community the authority to determine what needed to be changed in accord with the spirit of their founders, the needs of modern life, and the situations where they lived and worked.
The blood from the right chamber must flow through the vena arteriosa ( pulmonary artery ) to the lungs, spread through its substances, be mingled there with air, pass through the arteria venosa ( pulmonary vein ) to reach the left chamber of the heart and there form the vital spirit ..."
In the early 1950s a minor political debate broke out in Congress about the Navy essentially " owning " ERA, and the ensuing debates and legal wrangling left the company drained of both capital and spirit.
In the 1647 campaign, Thomas Francis is mentioned as commanding alongside the French general in the forces sent across north Italy to work with the Duke of Modena Francesco I d ' Este who had just allied with France and opened up a ' second front ' against the Spaniards in Milan, though Mazarin confessed that he had appointed Thomas only because he feared that, if left behind in Piedmont, the Prince's restless spirit would make more trouble.
In the 1647 campaign, Thomas is mentioned as commanding alongside the French general in the forces sent across north Italy to work with the Duke of Modena Francesco I d ' Este who had just allied with France and opened up a ' second front ' against the Spaniards in Milan, though Mazarin confessed that he had appointed Thomas only because he feared that, if left behind in Piedmont, the Prince's restless spirit would make more trouble.
Godfrey explains that a broken love affair had left him considering suicide, but the optimistic, undaunted attitude of the men living at the dump rekindled his spirit.
Patroclus withdrew the spear he had embedded in Sarpedon, and as it left Sarpedon's body his spirit went with it.
Quite a significant number of the citizen groupings known collectively as the antifascist ' partisan movement ' that did much to defeat fascist forces during the war, were politically communist-oriented or otherwise radical left in political views, such as left communists and anarchists – continuing to a great extent the political spirit of the failed Republican forces that fought Franco during the Spanish Civil War and the anarchist forces who briefly established a social-anarchist society in Catalonia, among other similar precedents.
Whether his beard was reddish, or any other colour I cannot say, for the razor had passed over it very closely and left a surface smoother than chalk ... His blue eyes indicated both a high spirit and dignity ; and his nose and nostrils breathed in the air freely ; his chest corresponded to his nostrils and by his nostrils ... the breadth of his chest.
An independent spirit, he soon left, preferring to develop his own style by studying the paintings of Spanish, Flemish and French masters in the Louvre, and painting copies of their work.
Among a few intimate associates, he left a memory singularly dear ; having been in companionship, although susceptible and obstinate when his religious creed — a devout Christianity with Swedenborgian admixtures — was crossed or slighted, yet in other things genial and sweet-tempered beyond most men, full of modesty and playfulness and withal of a homely dignity, a true friend and a kind master, a pure and blameless spirit.
Gradually, this idea of using the pomace left over from the wine-making process in order to produce a distilled spirit was passed to viticulturists in poorer regions of the whole country, which already used the distillation process for other purposes.
As I was writing and developing the material, the spirit holding all these disparate elements together just left me.
Hoping to make amends with his patroness, King Jayaprakash Malla left the palace in search of the young girl who was possessed by Taleju's spirit.

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