Sentence examples for ambiguous institution from inspiring English sources

It's an ambiguous institution: where the prosecution wants a conviction, and the defense wants an acquittal, the victims want justice — or, as the victims and their lawyers in this case kept saying, "the truth".

However, these current diagnostic tests have some issues, including variable results between institutions and ambiguous diagnoses, such as "equivocal" in IHC [ 48, 49].

In lieu of a constitution, Israel got a roster of "basic laws" to outline the workings of government, leaving in place Zionist institutions and their ambiguous relationship with the new Israeli state.

The assumed social contract that undergirds government and corporations, that assures that each member of society feels a responsibility as part of a community to work together with others for a common good, and to do his or her duty, have grown weak and the function of institutions has grown ambiguous.

(They left out one Scripps Research Institute because that institution classifies postdocs in ambiguous ways).

Unfortunately, the genetic history of mutant mice is often ambiguous when mice are shared between institutions (Sellers et al. 2012).

Innovation is often ambiguous.

Her ends are achieved by such morally ambiguous means that marriage seems at best a precarious institution on which to base the presumed reassurances of romantic comedy.

The notion of definition here has to be taken as a heavy-weight notion: 'bank' is ambiguous even though you can 'define' it as 'financial institution or river side'.

The public debate of the issue has demonstrated the enormous difficulties experienced by political institutions in grappling with the complex and ambiguous ethical problems raised by the question of abortion.

This paper investigates the effectiveness of such institutions when normative conflict makes contribution norms ambiguous.