As Lewinsky recounted in her TED talk about public shaming last year, public opinion about her was less ambiguous than opinions about the nature of the act that she'd performed: "I was branded... a tramp, tart, slut, whore, bimbo, and, of course, that woman".
The CAB expressed concerns about its role as being either too limited or too ambiguous because their opinions and input did not appear to influence the work of the research team.
Public opinion is ambiguous.
In Marmura's view, al-Ghazâlî never deviated from occasionalism, while he sometimes expressed his opinions in ambiguous language that mocked philosophical parlance, probably in order to lure followers of falsâfa into the Ash'arite occasionalist camp.
Considering observations that lack engagement partners' names in the audit opinions, and ambiguous matches between auditor expertise and name, and missing data to calculate control variables, the number of observations remaining in the unbalanced data sample is 1482 for 300 companies (see Table 1 for the sample selection process and the Appendix for variable definitions).
It has been shown repeatedly that attitudes (stated opinions) show ambiguous relations to behaviour [ 22, 23].
But Anthony M. Kennedy, who voted to strike down the tribunals in 2006, did not join that part of their opinion and made ambiguous comments about his views in his concurrence.
Bennett hasn't just expressed an opinion on an ambiguous topic, like, "Gee, the old days sure were swell" or "Today's Japanese role-playing games are all flash and no substance" or something like that.
And those economists who are prepared to express strong opinions on such inherently ambiguous questions command rapt attention.
Burt Lancaster is the creepy star columnist JJ Hunsecker, peddling celeb gossip and reactionary opinions, and convulsed with ambiguous protective concern for his sister; Tony Curtis gives the performance of a lifetime as Sidney Falco, the cringing, self-loathing press agent.
In our own study (the MedSeq Project) [ 3], we have found patients who expressed intentions to deal with any ambiguous genetic information by seeking second opinions and referrals to other clinicians.
