It's doing the same in Colorado, where a law's vague language enabled a harassing complaint to be filed with the secretary of state against a group opposing two referendums that would raise taxes and increase government spending.

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To appease the holdouts, it left key points broad and noncommittal, offering the possibility of collateral to Finland and describing the complex bondholder deal in a few strokes, vague language that would return to haunt the bloc.

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To some extent, the court was struggling to interpret a law whose language is hopelessly vague.

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