Sentence examples for ambivalent ties from inspiring English sources

This year is the 24th anniversary of the bloodshed, and the first under a party leadership dominated by officials with such intimate and ambivalent ties to the events of 1989.

"When you look at how people cope with their ambivalent ties, there's not a lot of direct coping like that – often we lie to them, ignore them or simply avoid them".

Even Myanmar's generals are said to be ambivalent about their close ties to Beijing.

Second, Day's description of her time at Ms. in "Ghost Waltz," though the magazine isn't mentioned by name, is ambivalent at best, and ties in with the memoir's other primary preoccupation: a relentless examination of her own anti-Semitism.

(We're ambivalent about ambivalence).

Cruyff is ambivalent about the final, so tied is he to the Netherlands, the country of his birth, and Spain, his adoptive home.

Its mood of romantic despair is as thick as chicken fat; it runs on an extraordinary combination of sentimental sweetness and wild frustration, and few films offer such a complex and ambivalent view of family and its ties.

Austen is jazz-like in her complexity: "One can say that she is anti-slavery, but she seems ambivalent toward empire -- she is tied to the navy as an alternative community (as in Persuasion).

From long, hard exposure to the Western environment, officers developed a profound tie to nature and felt ambivalent about the civilian society.

The ambivalent effects of the four mechanisms reveal the bi-functional character of ties in an interorganizational context.

Many Afghans, including some who are ambivalent about the American presence, believe that the country's survival is tied to having such an agreement with Washington.