The declaration by Mr. Medvedev ended equivocation by Russian officials about whether the sophisticated advanced air defense system would fall under the sanctions ban.
His legacy will no doubt be affected by that equivocation.
In upstate Ohio, the irrepressible future president James Garfield was an idealistic state senator whose sense of Emersonian independence was increasingly affronted by the equivocation, self-censorship and unsavory compromises required to keep the slave states from seceding.
My questions were met by sighing equivocation but at least I had discovered where I needed to wait: in the tomb-like basement with grey plastic chairs, bare magnolia walls and a tiny wall-mounted TV with a red-speckled screen.
The latter, like the new film, was a richly researched exercise in tension, gathering to a head in the hours of darkness, and it was fortified, rather than hindered, by its equivocation in regard to torture; as you followed Navy seals in their task the elimination of Osama bin Laden you felt a squirm of disquiet about the tactics that had led to this exhilarating quest.
In this model, the confidentiality is measured by the equivocation rate, that is, the mutual information between the confidential message and the eavesdropper's observation.
EQUIVOCATION By Bill Cain; directed by Garry Hynes; sets and costumes by Francis O'Connor; lighting by David Weiner; sound by David Van Tieghem and Brandon Wolcott; fight director, J. David Brimmer; production stage manager, David H. Lurie; general manager, Florie Seery; associate artistic director, Mandy Greenfield; production manager, Kurt Gardner.
That, in the heat of a campaign, might be construed by an opponent as an equivocation by Mrs. Clinton.
Yushchenko, then, is on the defensive, harassed by a telegenic former partner who stands to represent those Orange Revolutionaries disappointed by the allegations of corruption in his camp and frustrated by his equivocations.
Often Burghley was frustrated by the equivocations of the Queen, but he came to accept her good fortune as the care of Providence for Protestant England.
