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The phrase "ambivalent statement" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a statement that expresses mixed feelings or contradictory ideas about a particular subject.
Example: "Her ambivalent statement about the new policy left everyone confused about her true stance."
Alternatives: "conflicted statement" or "mixed message".
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The closest he has come to admitting official responsibility was after the death of Nkomo in 1999, when he described the early 1980s as a "moment of madness" – an ambivalent statement not since repeated.
The record of a Charlton board meeting at the time contains the somewhat ambivalent statement, on 8 October 1946, that the manager, Jimmy Seed, offered Turner maximum terms and that he would be allowed to play for the first team "when he desired".
When, five weeks into the killing, leading Catholics and Protestants finally issued a statement condemning murders on all sides - a dubious document because it effectively equated deaths in war with the extermination of Tutsis - the Anglican archbishop refused to sign even that ambivalent statement.
The army's support for the current government is uncertain, with the army chief recently making an ambivalent statement about whether or not another coup could take place.
House Agriculture Committee Chairman Mike Conaway (R-Texas) has also said he supports what the Trump administration is doing, but his Senate counterpart, Pat Roberts (R-Kan)., put out an ambivalent statement.
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It was because she was foremost an artist and not a propagandist that she never represented a real threat to British security and that MI5 was never going to unearth any information more shocking than the ambivalent statements she was prepared to make in her published writing.
Thaksin sounded every bit the populist politician, even as he hedged his position with ambivalent statements.
To ambivalent statements made by Ahmedabad after the election, "this is not something to approach with a knee-jerk reaction", Obama comments.
This did not include ambivalent statements such as 'if you have problems call us'.
There is a big difference, and yet one sees such ambivalent statements all the time.
Repeated sabotage attacks on gas pipelines in Sinai and ambivalent Egyptian statements about the peace treaty have also rung alarm bells.
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