The defence offered by one of the latest care employers to be named and shamed, East Midlands Crossroads – Caring for Carers, that the rules are "complex, in parts ambiguous and open to interpretation", does not sound good.
Often the only source of emergency cash is loan sharks, increasingly big business in Kenya, with borrowers signing ambiguous photocopied contracts and tying themselves into interest rates of 50% or more.
The clause is sufficiently ambiguous to leave doubts over how the stalemate will be resolved.
As a writer she had an ambiguous relationship with her illness.
All too often when a singer confronts matters of the darkest heart – or in this case, a broken heart – they dress their songs in ambiguous poetry, the better to distance themselves, perhaps, from any lingering pain, and also to keep the private private.
David Cameron will today signal a sea-change in the government fight against home-grown terrorism, saying the state must confront, and not consort with, the non-violent Muslim groups that are ambiguous about British values such as equality between sexes, democracy and integration.
Best practice as an academic is to keep things ambiguous, up for debate, weighing all possibilities, consulting sources widely.
"It's a fairly common desire!" Homes discusses her writing process – "I think in imagery, I don't think in words at all" – and notes that she centres her work on such morally ambiguous questions because "moral dilemmas interest me a lot, but right and wrong is not something I can answer".
Hadi recently received a warning from his guild to stop producing the latest garment used to skirt what are often ambiguous restrictions: the "open" (i.e. unrobed), buttonless manteau.
But Cameron had left the precise terms of the deal ambiguous, and someone close to No 10 began briefing that Westminster rather than Holyrood might run the referendum – allowing Salmond to accuse the government of bullying and causing 24 hours of chaos within the coalition.
Du Maurier steps outside this by setting her classic in Cornwall, always a land apart, and making the eponymous object of her crippled heroine's obsession the ambiguous and cynical Richard Grenville.
