The word "vacillation" is correct and can be used in written English.
It is a noun that usually refers to wavering back and forth between two opinions, decisions, or actions. Example sentence: After much vacillation, the student decided to pursue a degree in engineering.
Popular suspicion of genetic engineering, matched by regulatory vacillation, has spread rapidly across Europe, partly because Britain's mad cows and France's contaminated blood have shaken public faith in regulators and scientists.
This was not the obvious one of his resignation on June 2nd, for all the vapidity and vacillation of the less-than-nine months he was in office.
Yet the government has been dithering about whether or not to levy fines on companies that have not filled their training quota.This vacillation, combined with sudden U-turns and a cacophony of conflicting proposals, characterises the government's approach to the reforms.
The left wing of the party resented her for different reasons, one of which was her decision, albeit after a good deal of vacillation, to oppose the cherished "public option" in the Democrats' health-reform legislation last spring.Taking positions like these may have been nothing more than prudent for a Democratic senator who is approaching a testing mid-term battle in a conservative rural state.
No matter what their mandate, there are not nearly enough of them to guard the estimated 1.5m Darfuris who have been driven from their homes by the janjaweed, nor to pacify an area the size of France.The Sudanese government, emboldened by the UN's vacillation, has sent out mixed signals.
France's Nicolas Sarkozy, as holder of the EU presidency, may be preening himself over the new ceasefire deal he struck with Russia's Dmitry Medvedev on September 8th, but in truth the war with Georgia has shown up the EU's vacillation.
This admission ended the decade of vacillation and prevarication by ministers and their advisers, that followed the first identification of bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE) in cattle.
Mr Blair has the chance to end half a century of vacillation about Britain's relations with the European mainland.
The Labour bias of the electoral system gives him hope, as does the electorate's vacillation – more than a third of voters were yet to make up their minds as the campaign wound down – and his own vigorous campaigning at the death.If no party wins an overall majority in Parliament, the election will mark a beginning as well as an end.
He has seen at close hand the American president's disastrous vacillation over Syria, culminating in the scuttling away from his own red line declaring punishment for the Assad regime if it used chemical weapons.
He contrasted Mr Hague's vacillation with his own swift eviction of Enoch Powell from the shadow cabinet 33 years ago for the infamous "rivers of blood" diatribe against immigration.Mr Hague has long denied moving his party to the right.
