He would, they said, have been better off making sure that the funding Wales gets from Europe is spent more effectively, "creating a dynamic trading relationship with our EU partners ... rather than going to Brussels full of empty words and tired rhetoric about Europe".
The newsroom inside seems to contain more empty desks than full ones.
In a neighborhood full of coffee shops, she had brought me to an empty room.
But when it comes to working out whether such facilities are empty or full, whether the agents are stable or what type they are, analysts are often guessing.
Despite the grim headlines, some leading women and blacks on Wall Street prefer to see the glass as half-full rather than half-empty.
The first to attract patrons attracts more patrons until one might be full and the other empty.
They had been mismarked as empty, and ValuJet was not cleared to carry them in their full state.
It sounded like a typical soundcheck, but I looked across the empty room to see that Kidjo was dancing her way through it, full-on.
Dan Harris of the China Law Blog (and one of our China Tracker contributors), responding to another bullish commentary, says the glass is half empty, not half full.
"Proposals which reduce business rate relief for charity shops in Wales will reduce this income, and will cause charity shops to close, leaving more empty shops on Welsh high streets and threatening 700 full time jobs and 9, 000 volunteering opportunities offered by charity shops in Wales, " it says.
BBC: Charity shop rate relief: Petition opposes cut in Wales
But I really want to focus on the half-full part of the glass tonight, not the half-empty.
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The boat, called Route 66, cruised at more than 20 knots and frequently hit speeds in excess of 30 knots, or 55 kilometers an hour. (Note that America's Cup racers max out at 16 knots, and they're basically empty shells with nary a cushion to sit on.) Route 66 boasted a full luxury interior with air-conditioning, desalination equipment and even an air compressor for underwater breathing hoses.
Once you've started charging for empty premises in full, and apart from new business premises being built, it's hard to see how business rates revenue can be lifted, buoyantly, by economic growth.
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