We will see now if that is just an empty boast.

Perhaps it hadn't been such an empty boast after all.

She could defend herself - that hadn't been an empty boast.

But why is that empty boast worth more Nicaraguan lives?

It was an empty boast, or nearly so, Noonan thought.

They will think that anything Skan says he has done is only wind and empty boast!"

In Washington and Europe, the announcement was dismissed as an empty boast.

Keeping his voice down, Matfei nevertheless could not leave such an empty boast unanswered.

Its dimensions and the details of its decoration indicate that this was no empty boast.

But it was an empty boast.

It is no empty boast.

What might be an empty boast from almost any other mouth has to be taken seriously in Mr. Perot's case.

"It's no empty boast," muttered Harston.

The empty boast wouldn't haunt him for four solid years, tucked into the sly sneers and whispered insults of fellow cadets.

Although Jones had confidently predicted that the Cowboys could win without Smith, it became quickly and painfully apparent that this was an empty boast.

The Conquering Sword of Conan "It's no empty boast," muttered Strom.

Attorneys for Mr. Cullen said he was lying to Ms. Blanco and his statements were an empty boast to impress her.

In the triumphant aftermath of the Gulf War, Saddam Hussein's taunt - that American society "cannot accept 10,000 dead in one battle" - seemed an empty boast.

They argued the advertisement was clearly an advertisement that looked like it should be acted on, and it was rich for the company to then say it was an empty boast.

It's a fairly empty boast, but a useful one for ReelzChannel, where "The Kennedys" landed after being rejected, in January, by the History Channel, where the project originated.

The great Sea Lion from Pacific's coast, The "Monarch of the Ocean," no empty boast; Old Adam's Bears, cutest of brute performers, In modern "peace meetings" models for reformers.

Then he overhead Madhu telling Ganesh that she'd been in a car like one of the expensive-looking cars before; it didn't sound like an empty boast, but Farrokh resisted the temptation to translate this information for the Jesuit.