The phrase "ambivalent states" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe situations or feelings that involve mixed emotions or conflicting attitudes towards something.
Example: "The ambivalent states of the voters reflected their uncertainty about the candidates in the upcoming election."
Alternatives: "conflicted feelings" or "mixed emotions".
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.
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.
Fearful-Avoidant Attachment A person with a fearful-avoidant attachment lives in an ambivalent state, in which they are afraid of being both too close to or too distant from others.
They felt trapped in an ambivalent state between a desire for status achieved through biomedical knowledge, technical skill and adherence to routines, and their professional perception of good care, which included marginalised nursing perspectives.
However, it may be resolved by recognizing that H3K4me3 at highly recombining regions do not indicate active chromatin state per se, but more ambivalent chromatin states where various histone tail modifications cooccur (Bernstein et al. 2006; Mikkelsen et al. 2007).
