But in both cases, television programmers, filmmakers and viewers are struggling with an issue cloaked in rhetoric, with standards too vague to be meaningful.

But the Council opted for a vaguer standard, simply requiring that at least one debate be limited to "leading contenders."

Investigations have been based upon vague standards whose breadth made excessive collection inevitable.

Using this vague standard, they can force the restructuring of the deal.

"But I have to spend time in the morning thinking about how I am going to dress to meet someone else's vague standards."

Each possesses enough truth to meet the vague, unwritten standards for what is fair in political oratory.

At present, their compliance is judged on vague standards, a system that has pleased neither the banks nor community groups.

"But the S.E.C. has vague standards for what that means, and something appearing in the paper can trouble them."

Social/emotional refers to the prosocial aspects, a deliberately vague standard.

The legislation's vague standard for disability is whether a condition "substantially limits life activities."