Sentence examples for equivocal ideas from inspiring English sources

Like all ideologies, the media image of independence also has burrs and hooks that drag associated, less anticipated, and more equivocal ideas in their wake — for instance, the substitute of birth family, of relations between parent and child, and between siblings, for romantic relationships, as well as the economic implications of living alone.

And members of some groups who traditionally circumcise boys or teenagers as a mark of group membership seem equivocal about the idea of outsiders adopting the practice.

Scotland's pretty equivocal about the idea of the basic rate of income tax being different on the two sides of the border.

In fact, predators are expected to eat more defended prey when the availability of energy from alternative palatable prey is low (Brower et al. 1968; Turner & Speed 2001; Kokko et al. 2003; Sherratt 2003), but there has been equivocal support for this idea (Lindström et al. 2004; Rowland et al. 2010).

More generally, the limited data available on adult survival rates are equivocal in relation to the idea that long lifespan is linked to slow development, thus long EDPs and their predictors.

Never mind his equivocal use of "socialize".

So a round of equivocal applause to the men behind the imaginative idea that a few short videos can capture a worldwide adventure.

Because new research on human evolutionary history receives substantial media attention and because this coverage often highlights controversies, students may get the impression that scientists have little evidence for their ideas about human evolution or that the evidence is equivocal.

Another area in which Albert deviates from Ockham is his rejection of the idea that any distinction with multiple senses must have an equivocal proposition as its object.

The United States has generally leaned in the direction of confronting and rebutting those ideas rather than trying to suppress them, though it has been more equivocal in wartime and after terrorist attacks.

11 15 Results to date have been mixed; while patients and practitioners tend to respond positively to the idea of PROMs, the impact of PROMs on clinical practice has been equivocal.