The remarks by Ayatollah Khamenei, who has the final word on affairs of state, appeared to reinforce his policy of absolute defiance in the face of Western pressure, and offered a hint that some officials in Iran are ambivalent about that strategy.
But, Fisk warns, Pamuk's novels and, by extension, those of other canny authors of global literature are too ambivalent in their representational strategies to allow such readings.
Without improvement in these negative interaction cycles, for example, through early interventions, there is a greater likelihood for infants to develop an insecure-avoidant or an insecure-ambivalent or disorganized attachment strategy during the first year of life [ 33, 34].
Moreover, the mutual alliance strategy as well as the ambivalent alliance strategy incorporate certain elements of patient-centredness such as finding common ground regarding management and enhancing the doctor-patient relationship [ 48].
Hence, they ended up with a twin-track-policy seeking to increase the potential of military and diplomatic pacification strategies, yet making them profoundly ambivalent too.
GPs were ambivalent towards prescribing benzodiazepines and inconsistently applied strategies for managing their use.
Specifically, in the setting of HPV, brief motivational interviews have been suggested as a strategy to engage families who are ambivalent [ 21].
GPs were ambivalent in their attitude towards prescribing benzodiazepines and inconsistently applied management strategies for their use.
This appeal to a shared yet ambivalent understanding, a use of shorthand to invoke all manner of stereotypical images, has been a strategy of racist discourse since at least the 19th century.
