Sentence examples for ambivalent over from inspiring English sources

On Europe, Mr Rutte has often seemed ambivalent over the past two years, as his coalition depended on backing from the Eurosceptic Mr Wilders.

The public is ambivalent over the issue of a pre-emptive attack of the sort urged by Vice President Dick Cheney and Secretary of Defense Donald H. Rumsfeld.

Cowed by years of oppression, bitter over America's abandonment of them after the first gulf war in 1991, and in some cases ambivalent over the invasion itself, the Shiites did not rise up as some officials in Washington had expected.

His website, for example, says beards are obligatory, chess is "absolutely unlawful", and romantic chit-chat between young men and women, even by telephone, is forbidden until they are engaged.But his admirers seem ambivalent over whether his spiritual advice should necessarily be turned into law.

In a scathing report, the transport select committee said the Department for Transport had been far too slow and ambivalent over taking any action in the wake of the diesel emissions scandal, while industry regulators had "shown little interest" in whether the law had been broken.

And they underscored a problem that has dogged Mr. Gore throughout the campaign: he was ambivalent over just how to separate himself from Mr. Clinton and, in the end, was so determined to be his own man that he might have damaged his own cause by failing to take credit for his role in the administration's accomplishments.

That is, towards an ambivalent authority over her inherited household?

He is both the great ascetic and the master of fertility, and he is the master of both poison and medicine, through his ambivalent power over snakes.

But he sounded an ambivalent note over the re-arrest of loyalist leader Johnny Adair nine days ago, calling it akin to internment without trial.

The majority of online publications chose to take — at best — a morally ambivalent position over the hacks or — at worst — a supportive one.

His ambivalent jealousy over the success of his girlfriend Anya, a gorgeous Romanian refugee whose gritty memoir of life under Ceausescu has won her a high-powered agent, pales before his disdain for the man for whom she leaves him.