The plan to merge the OTS out of existence prompted its head, John Reich, to write to employees declaring his opposition though Christopher Cox, head of the SEC, which faces the same fate, has reacted more equivocally.
Although treated equivocally by Louis XII of France, he did find service with Louis's successor, Francis I, who saw fit to use him as a weapon in his complex diplomacy.
Later, when the war went badly and the Brissotins, anxious to wield executive power, acted equivocally in their relations with the king, the Jacobins turned on them.
Then, in August, at a test screening in suburban Phoenix, the audience responded equivocally.
Writer points out that 600,000 civilians were killed in the raids and gives rubble statistics... Apart from Heinrich Böll, only a few other writers-among them Hans Erich Nossack, the author of "Der Untergang" ("The End")-ventured to break the taboo on any mention of the inward and outward destruction, and generally did so rather equivocally.
This longing drew him, slowly and equivocally, to hashish.
Although Hawthorne gives the tale an equivocally happy ending, he follows it with a frank declaration of its darker purpose: "Amid the seeming confusion of our mysterious world, individuals are so nicely adjusted to a system, and systems to one another, and to a whole, that, by stepping aside for a moment, a man exposes himself to a fearful risk of losing his place forever.
Women turn up in these movies as predators, mommies and scolds, but most frequently as idealized romantic partners, who laugh at the guys' jokes and guarantee their deliverance, sometimes equivocally and at the last minute, from loserdom.
Spanish leaders have to wrestle with wrenching economic problems and cannot afford to tie themselves in knots over equivocally worded cease-fire declarations.
Are these terms said equivocally in both cases, like the "bark" of a tree and the "bark" of a dog; or do they share something, historically and conceptually, in virtue of which they are called by the same name?
The "Field Dances" have already made those connections, but it's Mr. Wilson who makes them light up — equivocally, as transcendence or nuclear apocalypse.
