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Sherlock Holmes's certainty in The Sign of Four that he could divine a suspect's character from the way he formed his letters ("There is vacillation in his k's and self-esteem in his capitals") was a habit of his times.
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He says there are vacillations in the number of road deaths about every 18 months, though the general trend is sharply down.
Where you would expect to see determination and resolve, there is only vacillation and delay.
"There was no vacillation as there has been with previous governments," said Nilan Fernando, the country director for an American nonprofit, the Asia Foundation.
When Britain was the premier military power there was considerable vacillation between what came to be called a "forward policy," i.e. an aggressive desire to extend British control over the world's surface, against a less aggressive imperial stance.
For President Obama, there is no vacation from vacillation.
There is confusion, uncertainty and vacillation between optimism and pessimism.
If a question be found contrary to reason, faith and belief in it are impossible, and there is no outcome but wavering and vacillation.
In the language of the Sermon on the Mount, there is what seems a strange vacillation between promising, on the one hand, to "the poor in spirit" "the kingdom of heaven," and, on the other, to "the meek" that "they shall inherit the earth".
We agree with the reviewers that there is one dataset for which vacillations were somewhat stereotyped (J2-S; Figures 2H and 4B).
Then there is Joe's daughter, Abigayle (Vinessa Antoine), who thinks her father is on a business trip and who after much vacillation agrees to go out with Dexter (Armando Riesco), a basketball star at her high school.
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Since I tried Ludwig back in 2017, I have been constantly using it in both editing and translation. Ever since, I suggest it to my translators at ProSciEditing.

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