The roads were empty.

Now that may not mean a lot to some of you.

Tom returned empty handed.

Tom left empty handed.

A meeting with the mayor ended with empty promises.

I came home empty handed.

Many dreamers are left stranded empty handed.

We found all the boxes empty.

Tom didn't want to leave empty handed.

The room was littered with empty pizza boxes.

It was the early morning, and the streets were empty.

If not matched by resources, mandates are empty.

Or problems to be solved by empty campaign promises of presidents come and gone.

Unfortunately for Georgia, the country s delegation to Riga returned empty handed.

A year on, the commemorative ceremonies and wall to wall coverage of the anniversary seem hollow.

Such remarks from senior military authorities suggest that Obama s warnings may be hollow.

Tom told me that he didn't want to come home empty handed.

Tom told me he didn't want to come home empty handed.

It does not take long for voters to discover that the promises of populists were empty.

Hopefully, some day the lazy indifferent decision makers will learn the importance of the proactive approach. I guess they are waiting until the planes start arriving empty to act.

Only part of the buildings in the campus have been renovated, and many of them stand as empty shells.

The rural exodus depopulated entire villages in this region of Germany.

At least one newspaper came out with its news pages completely blank.

Women protesters shout slogans as they hold pans during an anti war protest in Istanbul, Turkey.

Now is the time to confront America's hypocrisy, not to bluster.

The answer, alas, is a failing grade. The G 8 this year illustrates the difference between photo ops and serious global governance.

The G 8 this year illustrates the difference between photo ops and serious global governance.

Police considered the foiled plan to be idle chatter, referring discipline to the school district.

Right now, I can only imagine my future self stoically holding back any real emotions and giving lip service.

Sadly 11 of the sacks were empty and their contents now lay strewn across the beach.

The good looking woman in goloshes, with two empty pails swinging from a wooden yoke, ran down before him to fetch water from the well.

Members of the People's National Movement (PNM) responded by walking out of parliament, calling the debate vacuous and absurd .

In the case of Australia, however, such assertions ring particularly hollow though that has not stopped Abbott s government from trafficking in them.

The sarcastic remarks about the Chinese dream being too heavy offer a glimpse of Chinese people's discontent with authorities' empty political slogans.

On days when she comes home empty handed, she says she kisses the walls of her apartment, which she owns.

I couldn t get any funding to launch it, so I went at it alone and empty handed.

While Gilani was in Beijing, Finance Minister Abdul Hafeez Shaikh returned from Washington with empty hands.

The prime minister, Michel Debré, was sent to Algiers, but the rebels treated him contemptuously, and he flew back empty handed.

International poverty goals must include tobacco control. Developing countries must not be fooled by the empty economic arguments that paralyzed control efforts in the West for so long.

Developing countries must not be fooled by the empty economic arguments that paralyzed control efforts in the West for so long.

They applauded him everywhere on his recent trip to Europe, but sent him home almost empty handed, resisting the idea of a coordinated fiscal stimulus and, after years of preaching multilateralism, turning down his call for more European troops for Afghanistan.

For the French, Sarkozy s determination to act, despite the odds, seems far superior to the passive cynicism of those who preach abstention or satisfy themselves with empty words.

Sánchez de Lozada returned to Bolivia empty handed, except for instructions from the IMF to implement austerity measures in accordance with the dictates of the US Treasury.

The fabric of the Islam that extends to southeast Mexico is influenced by various central points, such as a shared ethnic identity, specific socioeconomic conditions, and elements of transnationalism and multiculturalism, due to pilgrimages and travels that they have undertaken.

Jamal maintained that with empty hands but deep beliefs he would continue the struggle for human rights along with those inside and outside of the country.