Consider the stark contrast between the ambiguous language used to define legitimate targets and the specific technical means a military uses to neutralize these targets.
The term "consciousness" is notoriously ambiguous and difficult to define.
First, while we do not take a relativist position relating to the "truth" of the behaviours we are studying, it is clear that this truth is of a different order to the "fixed point" of the surveyors and navigators, and most of the key behaviours that we try to measure are ambiguous and difficult to define [43].
Further, some respondents who lived in the U.S. 15 years or more and who preferred to complete the interview in Spanish were also unfamiliar with the term 'Anglo' and provided ambiguous explanations when asked to define it.
The process began with the panelists again receiving training on how to use Co-Measure, including written descriptions to define potentially ambiguous terms such as "occasionally," "usually," "multiple paths," and "co-creates".
This broad range of stakeholders makes the role of KTOs more ambiguous, thus making it difficult to define their actions respecting both the necessary focus on private revenues of commercialisation and public access to research results (Owen-Smith 2011).
Demographic trends reveal an increasingly diverse and complex family life and a more ambiguous and fluid set of categories traditionally used to define the family (Cherlin, [2010]).
Sometimes this required way of behaving and speaking is given the false label of "professionalism", but usually when you ask people to define this required skill the response is ambiguous.
Either way, the election obliges Catalonia's often ambiguous politicians, especially Mr Mas's nationalist Convergence and Union coalition, to define themselves on the independence issue.
The fight revolves around how to define "affordable" under provisions of the law that are ambiguous.
Because of the highly stringent criteria used to define the above categories, there were many cases where ambiguous gene expression profiles clearly exhibited a response, but were undefined.
