Sentence examples for equivocation on the from inspiring English sources
This risk has been most evident with US equivocation on the Falkland Islands.
For example, in the mid-90s, there was his pathetic equivocation on the issue of Nike using Asian sweatshop labor.
Operatives in both parties agree that John Kerry's apparent equivocation on the Iraq war damaged his 2004 campaign.
And the president's equivocation on the Keystone XL pipeline, which was going to carry oil from the Canadian tar sands to the Gulf of Mexico but has now been stymied, was a textbook example of how to evade hard decisions in an election year.On the main question, however, Mr Obama has the better of the argument.
But none of these looks like a big vote-winner, and the government's equivocation on the Kyoto protocol ended with a compromise in Bonn that should please voters.Mr Koizumi already has a record five women in his 18-member cabinet, including his entertaining foreign minister, Makiko Tanaka.
After two years of equivocation on the subject of civil rights, Kennedy had finally sought to mobilize that vast body of Americans who had long considered segregation immoral, and who were certainly unprepared to countenance the most extreme forms of discrimination".
Mr. McCain, who has cited his own equivocations on the issue in 2000 as one of his failures of political courage, was met at several stops by flag-waving protesters.
Despite the double talk, there can be no equivocation on what the intentions of Kostunica and his government are.
Hillary Clinton's equivocations on the subject of Spitzer's plan, in the previous debate, had wounded her campaign.
A central promise of Donald Trump's campaign – to deport 11 million undocumented people – came into question on Sunday, with a series of conflicting reports and equivocations on the Republican nominee's long-held, hardline stance on immigration.
As a result, it is often difficult to reason with the apparatus of natural language, "since it is full of innumerable equivocations" (On the Universal Science: Characteristic (undated); G VII, 205 (S, 18)).
