Sentence examples for vacillation from from inspiring English sources

So Mr Miliband took his time – and was lambasted for weakness, incoherence and vacillation from all corners of the political spectrum.

On Saturday night Mr. Pavarotti withdrew at the last hour, and after much vacillation, from performing in "Tosca" at the Met's season-end gala.

For President Obama, there is no vacation from vacillation.

Whatever his shortcomings, he doesn't suffer from the vacillation and lack of vision that plague his party these days.

His vacillation to the middle from the mania of his Tea Party positions was palpable.

This suggests that changes of mind induced by outside events may represent a slightly different process from spontaneous vacillation.

After an initial vacillation, during which he went from condemning the attacks and US foreign policy to espousing outrageous conspiracy theories, he settled on a fairly consistent position against the war in Afghanistan.

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.

Instead, he led from behind, creating the perception of weakness and vacillation allowing other powers, especially Russia and Iran, to fill the vacuum he created, raising serious doubts in the minds of America's allies whether the US is still up to the task.

First mooted in 1974, then formally considered from 1989 onwards, Crossrail became a byword for government vacillation.