Sentence examples for of the vacillation from inspiring English sources

The historical debacle of reason's conflict with itself provides Kant with a dramatic exhibition of the vacillation of reason between two alternatives, neither of which it can accept (or dismiss) without dissatisfaction.

We depend on the vacillations of technology – 15 years ago the internet began to eat into our workload, but nowadays the files coming out of Soho's edit suites are so big that it's quicker to download them to a hard drive and stick them on the back of a courier than to transfer them online.

The rebels' fate is perilously hostage to the vacillations of Western policies and the vagaries of regional politics, such as the current row between Qatar and Saudi Arabia.

Donizetti never got to finish writing Le Duc d'Albe, thanks to the vacillations of the Paris Opéra's impresario, Léon Pillet – something the composer regretted until his death.

The structure of the book allows Highsmith to jump from one character to another and put them in completely different parts of the country, but because of their relationship and the vacillation between the two storylines, they feel as if they are very close to each other.

He privately lamented the "vacillation of purpose" that made him feel like "a frail man" while he longed to be "a strong steady man of purpose and decision".

This paper discusses the vacillation of public support in recent decades and its ties to both media and scientific reporting.

Whatever his shortcomings, he doesn't suffer from the vacillation and lack of vision that plague his party these days.

The uncertainty in this respect is indicated by the vacillation in the use of capital letters in various languages.

However, during vacillation trials, firing rates tended to be slightly low relative to non-vacillation trials: 37% of units had lower-than-average firing rates during the vacillation, while only 27% were higher than average (p = 0.04 for J; p = 0.009 for N; Z-test for proportions; remaining units were in the normal range).

The result of this vacillation?