Asked whether that meant there would be no more British money for the counter-narcotics ministry, Miliband provided a carefully hedged answer.
But despite this, during question time on Tuesday, Turnbull refused to say he backed the institution – instead hedging his answer and pointing out the government had been unable to get the Senate to agree to the CEFC's abolition.
And asked whether Mr. Gore had run an honorable campaign, Mr. Bradley carefully hedged his answer.
Except for a few occasions when I was especially tired and irritable, I tried to hedge my answer.
Asked if selling control of Warner Music might now mean selling at the bottom, he hedged his answer.
When the question of career goals came up as she was interviewing at various graduate schools, she dodged the question or hedged her answer, saying she hadn't fully decided what kind of career she wanted.
Asked if he would participate, Chavez hedged his answer.
And they can't hedge the answer by saying they're for "globalization with a human face," or some such fuzzy logic.
Zuckerberg hedged his answers to many yes-or-no questions with "generally" or "my team will get back to you" or concerns about working out "the details".
To understand more about the nature of student discussion, we characterized each transcript, using seven global codes that reveal how students use reasoning and questioning: Exchange of Quality Reasoning, Reasoning about Multiple Answers, Hedging a Reason, using Analogy or Example, Requesting Information, Requesting Reasoning, and Requesting Feedback (each described in detail in Table 3).
(Isn't that the sort of question a person's dermatologist should be able to answer without hedging?) The mayor of Los Angeles wondered if fans wouldn't like to chip in to help the city pay for the cost of crowd control.
