11.   Then I heard a comment that surely was empty rhetoric, yet still prickled the hair on my neck.

12.   These self-loathing monologues sound more and more like empty rhetoric, coated in false modesty.

13.   When Gore says he wants to work for you, this is not empty rhetoric.

14.   Whether it is the honest truth, empty rhetoric or a motivational ploy directed at Martinez remains to be seen.

15.   Petritsch warned the two sides, especially the Serb-led Yugoslav government, not to diss NATO threats of military intervention as empty rhetoric.

16.   But the World Wildlife Fund complained that the debate produced little more than empty rhetoric and avoided taking on such issues as overfishing and chemical pollution of the seas.

17.   Few believe that is empty rhetoric.

18.   He accused Kabila and Mugabe of indulging in empty rhetoric.

19.   I believe that all the talk about Third World solidarity and South-South unity is empty rhetoric.

20.   The disenchanted think that American talk of human rights and liberty for all is empty rhetoric.