Sentence examples of "пустой" in Russian with translation "vacuous"

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Что мы пустые люди из загородного клуба? That we're just vacuous country-club people?
Конечно, международная законность может быть пустым понятием, если она не подкрепляется способностью использовать эффективную силу. Of course, international legitimacy can be a vacuous concept when not backed by the capacity to use effective force.
Сирийцы, возможно, не имеют склонности к насилию, но рождение свободы, когда его однажды увидишь, не так легко забыть - или заглушить государственной милостыней и пустыми заявлениями далекого, самоизолировавшегося руководства. Syria's people may have no predilection for violence, but the birth of freedom, once witnessed, is not easily forgotten - or trumped by state handouts and vacuous statements by a distant, self-isolated leadership.
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