Sentence examples for underlying ambivalence from inspiring English sources

The battle over the potential sale of Banespa, formally known as Banco do Estado de Sao Paulo illustrates an underlying ambivalence in Brazil about the benefits of privatization, which began in 1994.

As the movie compares Stephanie's sullen evasiveness and her impulse to protect her privacy to the underlying ambivalence of Lydie, who professes to be thrilled by her pregnancy while suspecting her distant architect husband, Paul Timothy Huttonn), of infidelity, the teenager and the psychologist are sisters under the skin.

Nor has the Bradley effect been in evidence to indicate a significant cover-up of an underlying ambivalence.

We think that despite the supportive poll numbers, there is an underlying ambivalence on this issue among many Americans, and that ambivalence is rooted in one simple but important concept: joining versus changing.

These findings reveal an underlying ambivalence among many providers about how they regard the interface between criminal law, coercion and public health.

The ethos of neutrality in medicine underlies the ambivalence inherent in the approach of 'inclusion and difference'.

Underlying these factors was a deep, abiding ambivalence about paper money.

But underlying all of them was America's own ambivalence.

Underlying these factors was the profound feeling of ambivalence that is marked, on one hand, by an aversion to medications because of the anticipated side effects, and on the other, by a fear of the potentially crippling effects of an uncontrolled disease.

Future qualitative research is required to explore thoughts and beliefs of chronic smokers and patients with COPD, to understand any ambivalence towards smoking consequences and to investigate the underlying reasons.

Carbunariu has some valid points to make about the false hopes of beleaguered Romanians and about the sexual ambivalence that underlies macho values.