Sentence examples for some equivocation from inspiring English sources

Mr. Lazio, after some equivocation, stood by the letter, which bore his signature.

After some equivocation the Russian state usually pays up for fear of further rulings of non-compliance.

After some equivocation, they opted not to trust the other country — "This is business," said the Egyptian — pricing low at $10 a barrel.

Between that possibility, Mr. Obama's mediocre results in polls that do not call cellphone numbers, and the Gallup and Rasmussen trackers, the totality of the evidence continues to require some equivocation.

After some equivocation, Israel now prefers the devil it doesn't know to the one it knows; there is broad consensus among Israeli officials that the end of the Assad government would deal a blow to Iran and could dissolve the anti-Israeli axis binding Iran, Syria and Hezbollah, the politically powerful Shiite militant group in Lebanon.

Desmond and Moore (1991, p. 40), agreeing that Jameson was the author of the anonymous piece (as does Rudwick 2008, p. 245, n. 11 though with some equivocation), also add that the word "evolved" in the modern sense first appears in this 1826 essay.

MOSCOW — Russia interprets the latest round of United Nations sanctions against Iran as prohibiting all exports of major weapons systems to that country, President Dmitri A. Medvedev announced Wednesday, ending some Russian equivocation on whether an advanced air defense system would fall under the ban.

But although my admiration remains unbounded, I must confess to some slight equivocation, because in the pages of Emma, she offers this damning observation: "Birmingham is not a place to promise much.

How could that be?" One might suspect some sort of equivocation or ambiguity is at work, some oscillation between a shallow and a deep interpretation.

Laced with pithy writing and sly jokes about Shakespeare's works (some surprisingly snarky), "Equivocation" is sometimes more glib and flashy than probing, perhaps because it tries to probe too much.

In the second case, that of deliberate equivocation, some intention on the part of the speakers was involved, and the occurrences of the equivocal term could be related in various ways.