Sentence examples for ambivalent understanding from inspiring English sources

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.

The Ministry of All-German Affains in particular, which had a great store of experience from the last few years, sometimes displayed a very ambivalent understanding of democracy.

(We're ambivalent about ambivalence).

Furthermore, those scientists who felt that the local population had inaccurate views about the challenge of understanding the volcano tended to be more ambivalent about issuing warnings.

In contexts where ambivalent attitudes towards the new drugs prevail, enhancing FLs understanding of ART's strengths and pitfalls is an essential step to engage them as active partners in ART scale-up programs.

In contexts where ambivalent attitudes towards the new drugs prevail, enhancing FLs understanding of ART's strengths and pitfalls is an essential step to gain their support and engage them as active partners in scale-up programs.

It is precisely a misunderstanding of reality [or a partial, possibly biomedical, understanding] that often reinforces the apolitical (or politically ambivalent) position of some health professionals.

The results of this study also provide new grounds for understanding trophic interactions at the regional scale as well as the ambivalent effect of landscape complexity on pest and natural enemy populations.

Despite understanding the rationale behind the register and being willing to register participants were ambivalent about making open-ended commitments.

By understanding the oldest old as technology users, we can appreciate elders as savvy tech-operators, ambivalent users, and non-users.

In her book Understanding Parricide, Heide suggests that "men who commit matricide often reported feeling that their mothers were either ambivalent toward them or excessively domineering.