As a Manchu outsider himself, who mingled and negotiated with visitors, he felt in a precarious position among the Han Chinese (many of whom resented Manchu rule), and did nothing to restrain the angry public.Chonghou's equivocations were unhelpful.
You provided a balanced analysis of Hergé's ideological equivocations.
So its equivocations over Russian conduct in Chechnya, if no greater than those of many western governments, strike an unhappy note.
He admired Mr Blair's courage over Iraq, comparing it favourably with Michael Howard's lawyerly equivocations when the going became difficult.
It just goes to show that the Tory leader is a sheltered toff who is hopelessly remote from the reality of life as most people experience it, they think.Mr Brown is especially keen to contrast his toughness with Mr Cameron's equivocations.
The veiled style of Henry James, with its subtleties, equivocations, and qualifications, perfectly reflects his complicated and subtle mind and his abiding awareness of ambiguity in human motives.
Some blacks were alienated by Toussaint's perfidies and equivocations, his mysteriousness, and the occasional atrocities he thought necessary amid such dangers.
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.
"All of us, including me! It's why I put so many equivocations in what I write.
If these equivocations seem instructive of the sprint division overall, then none are required in saluting the way David Simcock has seized the biggest opportunity of his career to date.
