It is easy to forget that Blair's unambiguous intention when he became prime minister was to take Britain into the very heart of the EU, not least by joining the single currency.
Judge LaBarga said a revote was impermissible because "it was the clear and unambiguous intention of the framers of the Constitution that presidential elections be held on a single day throughout the United States".
"Given the uniqueness of presidential elections and the undue advantage a revote or new election may afford one candidate over the other(s), it was the clear and unambiguous intention of the framers of the Constitution of the United States that presidential elections be held on a single day throughout the United States," Judge LaBarga wrote.
I choose to interpret that as an unambiguous statement of intention to bring back the brand.
On this view, the intention is unambiguous; the observed cost simply reflects imperfect implementation of that intention.
The United States argues that unless a suspect gives an unambiguous declaration of his intention to invoke his right to remain silent, he has not invoked such a right.
The court would not read the 1996 act to foreclose all judicial review, just as Justice Stevens said, unless Congress made that intention "clear, unambiguous and express".
Any public statements against future bid intentions must be unambiguous, otherwise the individual or group would, under the Takeover Panel's rule 2.8, be prevented from making a formal move for six months.
But until this week the International Atomic Energy Agency IAEAA), jealous of its credibility as a non-political, science-led body, said it had no unambiguous proof of Iran's intention to build a bomb.
The Takeover Panel's rule 2.8 stipulates that statements against future bid intentions should be as "unambiguous as possible" but in his announcement Usmanov intended to retain enough latitude to make a move.
Chief Justice Gleeson, in dissent, said that in interpreting legislation, the courts "do not impute to the legislature an intention to abrogate or curtail certain human rights or freedoms (of which personal liberty is the most basic) unless such an intention is clearly manifested by unambiguous language".
