Sentence examples for vacillation of from inspiring English sources

Many nations have been subject to constant change and vacillation of government.

He faces more even than the habitual vacillation of his allies who, having agreed a modest compromise after tortuous negotiation, are now trying to water it down again.

He privately lamented the "vacillation of purpose" that made him feel like "a frail man" while he longed to be "a strong steady man of purpose and decision".

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.

"Hamlet" provides a contrasting backdrop for an admiring sketch of Jeff Bezos of Amazon.com, whose focus, decisiveness and fleetness of foot compare so starkly with the breast-beating vacillation of the Prince of Denmark.

This paper discusses the vacillation of public support in recent decades and its ties to both media and scientific reporting.

This kind of vacillation is of a piece with the rest of the novel, which follows the jump-cuts of a mind riddled by apprehension and doubt.

Obama, meanwhile, would stay mindful of a central idea in Rules For Radicals: "Compromise is another word that carries shades of weakness, vacillation, betrayal of ideals, surrender of moral principles...

That, it insists, will be the best guarantee that they will not soon return to armed struggle.One adviser on the MILF side, Naguib Sinarimbo, says that government vacillation on some of these issues is "slowly eroding the trust between the two parties".

He accused the prime minister of "vacillation, loss of international credibility and timorous political manoeuvres that the public cannot understand".

Another critic, Barry Gardiner, lost his job as Mr Brown's special envoy on forestry after accusing him of "vacillation, loss of credibility and timorous political manoeuvres that the public cannot understand".