The Wallachian revolutionaries maintained ambiguous relations with leaders of the Hungarian Revolution of 1848, as well as with the latter's ethnic Romanian adversaries in Transylvania.
Critical of aspects both in Protestant and Roman Catholic teaching, Kritopoulos maintained an ambiguous position in mediating the contrary theologies.
Jeremy Corbyn has sought to maintain an ambiguous position on Brexit for as long as possible, ignoring the views of a huge proportion of his party members.
A major player in the Labor party and adept in the debating skills and acerbic repartee required to shine in the British Parliament, Mr. Cook maintained an ambiguous stance toward Mr. Blair in the latter years of his career.
A major player in the Labor Party and adept in the debating skills and acerbic repartee required to shine in Parliament, Mr. Cook maintained an ambiguous stance toward Mr. Blair in the latter years of his career.
Like such other formerly radical Italian artists as Carlo Carrà and Gino Severini (and even the saintly still-life painter Giorgio Morandi), de Chirico maintained an ambiguous stance toward Italy's relatively permissive Fascist regime.
This was sometimes overplayed — as one audience member said of the crotch-grabbing, "I lost count at 10" — but an undercurrent of menace and fragility maintained an ambiguous tension.
The broader question is whether Pakistan's army, which fights the Pakistani Taliban yet maintains an ambiguous posture on other militant groups, will be able to exploit the growing leadership rift to weaken it militarily.
This year's election was being closely watched by American officials because, despite shaking off military rule in 1999, Nigeria has maintained an ambiguous, less-than-democratic status, undermined by large-scale corruption, fraud and an elections agency that appeared to increase rather than combat those flaws.
The consequences for Mr. Zapatero are also hard to predict, because he has maintained an ambiguous relationship with his Socialist counterparts in Catalonia, strained since a contested ruling last June by the Constitutional Court on a Catalan autonomy charter that had already been approved by Catalonia's 5.5 million voters and the national Parliament in 2006.
