Further testing at a local scale is needed in order to explicitly consider context-specific objectives, indicators and data; stronger interactions among experts, citizens and stakeholders are needed in order to avoid the generation of equivocal results.
We excluded the few with equivocal results to avoid possible misclassification with resultant potential failure to identify significant predictive clinical features.
Britain's prime minister has a duty to urgently review the UK's equivocal position on Libya and avoid the damaging assertion, to which civil servants cling tight, that "there is no military solution to Libya, only political".
It has managed to avoid a rift so far only by adopting an equivocal stance, distancing itself from the Hizbollah attack while condemning Israeli aggression and calling for ceasefire.
We have previously shown that there is a need for an equivocal category in the reading of bone scans to avoid diagnostic misclassification [17]; we encourage the inclusion of this category for the classification of SPECT/CT images of the bone, as well.
A significant number of the scans are equivocal, and the doctors generally wait and repeat them, to avoid using the toxic drugs unless they are really needed.
If Porter's account is true — and he has no reason to misrepresent events — Cameron was happy to jettison a hugely respected and effective frontbencher like Graham Brady [who resigned as shadow minister for Europe in support of grammar schools] simply to avoid muddling the message from the party leadership when he was, at best, equivocal about the arguments.
Back then, the panel held an equivocal view, saying that while men over age 75 should definitely avoid PSA screening, the benefits for younger men were "uncertain".
To avoid overtreatment, caution should be exercised in initiating chemotherapy in stage IIA non-seminoma with normal markers and equivocal or minimally enlarged retroperitoneal nodes.
And by introducing a 28-member "brains trust" of local and international thinkers, then creating an online mechanism by which the public could submit and vote on questions to ask them, The Interrobang is itself equivocal: it invites randomness while in practice avoiding any unpleasantness on the day.
