Here Mr Marquand is self-confessedly vaguer.

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Numbers for Europe are vaguer.

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Despite pressure from Brussels, the timetable for preparing a new pension law is vaguer than ever.

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But the more ambitious the promise, the vaguer it seemed to be.

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At a hastily convened press conference on August 20th, the three bank bosses studiously avoided the word gappei, or merger, preferring the vaguer togo, or consolidation.

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Still, some would inevitably fail their users and the Tories are vaguer about what would happen next.

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Although he is the pedestrian's friend (he has travelled by foot and Tube for years), he is not necessarily the motorist's enemy (a threat to levy charges on cars entering inner London has grown vaguer as the election has approached).

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On July 24th the government published detailed plans for the railways until 2014, and a vaguer set of ambitions for the next three decades.

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Health-care reforms are vaguer, but would include doctors receiving less from Medicare and patients paying more.

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Israel wants a much vaguer document, though Olmert has said he is prepared to discuss those issues after the conference.

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