But some gay rights advocates said that Mr. Biden's remarks seemed to convey unmistakable support for biggest cause.
Using this, a sheaf of maps and a copy of "Celestial Navigation for Yachtsmen," he sets a course for commercial shipping lanes, hoping for rescue from the big boats that were, indirectly but with unmistakable metaphorical significance, the cause of his predicament.
In earlier years, he expressed unmistakable sympathy for the cause of Palestinian independence; but the story changed in 2008, as he entered the last leg of the race for president.
Both men pleaded their causes with unmistakable fervor.
But gay rights advocates, who spent Sunday morning parsing Mr. Biden's words, said the president's running mate had, in their analysis, conveyed new and unmistakable support for their biggest cause.
There is one sign the Soviets can make that would be unmistakable, that would advance dramatically the cause of freedom and peace.
His death caused a subtle, but unmistakable conversation about our feelings toward our gay and lesbian relatives, friends, neighbors and coworkers.
The fact that Chinese stocks were climbing ever higher while the Chinese economy was cooling should have been an unmistakable warning of a bubble, but it caused surprisingly little concern.
When a consumer injures himself by using a product -- or, as in this case, by altering it -- in violation of clear, unmistakable, and easy-to-follow warnings, it is the consumer's own conduct that causes the injury.
The discredit to the court caused by the toothless recusal rule is now unmistakable, as it faces the most controversial legal matter in the state since the budget-repair/collective-bargaining case.
Newt Gingrichitis caused the party become surly and uncooperative and to display an increasingly unmistakable tendency toward hypocrisy.
