Sentence examples for or equivocation from inspiring English sources

As a candidate in 2008, President Obama stated categorically, "We'll reject torture — without exception or equivocation".

There should be no doubt or equivocation about the implications of his words.

On my first day in office, I prohibited - without exception or equivocation - the use of torture by the United States of America.

Worse, each of these non-answers was surrounded by yards of scripted boilerplate, obfuscation or equivocation, occasionally interrupted by attempts (thankfully foiled by Mr. Russert) to introduce charts.

And that is why I can stand here tonight and say without exception or equivocation that the United States of Americadoes not torture".

"When Californians see something we truly believe in, we say so and act accordingly — without evasiveness or equivocation," Newsom wrote in a letter to supporters, announcing that he is forming an official campaign committee to seek the governorship.

It is also conceivable that the C.I.A. was haunted by its past failures and lacked the confidence to present its assessments without qualifiers or equivocations.

Yet what unifies all McEwan's fiction is his preoccupation with the randomness of human endeavour in a post-religious, Darwinian world: his novels invariably turn on one sudden, unaccountable, life-changing happening or fatal equivocation.

This view does not allow for much equivocation or compromise.

The score leaves little room for equivocation or excuse.

Mr. Miller said he had sensed no equivocation or back-pedaling in his 19-state coalition.