Sentence examples for ambivalent state from inspiring English sources

Hickenlooper could be described as an ambivalent leader of an ambivalent state.

These are called displacement behaviours, and they sometimes become ritualized into displays that appear to indicate the ambivalent state of the sender.

The flag‐lined, poolpunctuated avenlues of the 1939 World's Fair persistently impose their formal Beaux Arts layout on the moonworld confusion, and trick the visitor into an ambivalent '39'64 state of mind.

This ambivalent state of affairs would last until 1954, when the civil liberties faction prevailed, leading to the resignation of most of the anti-communist leaders.

We live in a really ambivalent state about this, so I really wanted it to be horrifying but also a little enticing.

An ambivalent State Board of Education discussed but took no action Wednesday on pursuing a temporary waiver from strictures of the No Child Left Behind law.

The main actors fall into three categories: open revisionists, like Russia and the Islamic State; those ready to fight to protect a minimum of order, such as the United States, France, and Great Britain; and ambivalent states -- including key regional players in the Middle East, such as Turkey and Iran -- whose actions fail to match their rhetoric.

The contrasting distributions of yeast and plant recombination hotspots to mammalian recombination hotspots may reflect the differences in chromatin states they represent, the active state represented by the former versus more ambivalent states represented by the latter.

Taken together, one might conclude that piloerection may represent a specific psychophysiological indicator designating the ambivalent emotional state of being moved.

They offered political positions to editors who supported it, and Seward hired disreputable lobbyists to secure the votes of resistant Democrats and ambivalent border-state Unionists.

Yunte Huang manifests an ambivalent attitude, stating that in the USA, Chan "epitomizes the racist heritage and the creative genius of this nation's culture".