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empty promise

noun as in pie in the sky

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“It’s an empty promise toward our people. How can you apologize for a genocide while commiting a genocide in Palestine?”

From Salon

“Donald Trump makes empty promise after empty promise to American workers, but never delivers,” Harris said in a statement.

“Never again must never be an empty promise,” he said.

From Slate

Labour said the announcement was the "latest empty promise" from the Tories on health.

From BBC

Oregon’s federal public defender, Fidel Cassino-DuCloux, said Friday’s decision “breathes life into the Sixth Amendment right to counsel, which have been an empty promise for too many presumptively innocent Oregonians charged with crimes.”

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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