The BBC's new docu-drama series, Armada, opened last night with visual reenactments of all the hoary tropes of Elizabethan storytelling: a beleaguered isle, led by a vacillating queen; plucky English sailors knocking together a flotilla from the few planks of driftwood and some Vaseline; wordless, faceless Spaniards, bearing down with dark crucifixes upon their captives as instruments of torture.
And this strategy has an additional benefit in having freed him, after vacillating too long, to offer the more liberal vision of Britain that pandering to the right precludes.
Vacillating by the Treasury has delayed some payments to Leeds by as much as two years.
IN OPPOSITION, Tony Blair used to mock the Tories' vacillating policy of "wait and see" on the euro.
For the blunt truth is that however well General Petraeus's men may or may not be doing, Iraq's own politicians have so far shown a spectacular unwillingness to pull their weight.The chances that the surge would provide a vital breathing-space for the incompetent, vacillating, sectarian and (lest we forget) democratically elected government of Nuri al-Maliki were always slim.
It recognises their social role, even though it acknowledges that they are unconstitutional.What Banyan terms as a rejection of both pre-19899 leftism" and "market fundamentalism" is actually just the vacillating position of the party's leadership, rather than any consistent commitment to an economic policy (it opposes more foreign investment in retail).
The city fathers are well aware that unless the picture improves, those middle-class residents who are vacillating between rebuilding and moving out will not have much difficulty making up their minds.
The South Korean government is vacillating, fearing that this would rile the North and so increase the nuclear threat.
With intelligence and aplomb, "Richelieu: Art and Power" focuses on the cardinal-duke's key role in French high culture during the two decades after 1624, when as minister to a stubborn and vacillating Louis XIII he was the most important man in France.Although royal counsellor, devout churchman, military chief-of-staff and diplomat, Richelieu somehow found time for patronage.
Although democratic politicians spend a lot of time vacillating, arguing and being loud and disagreeable, this can reinforce stability in the medium term; it allows the interests and viewpoints of more people to be heard before action is taken.
The matter is hardly helped by politicians vacillating on the issue.Finding data on vaccinations is actually more difficult than it sounds.
