Sentence examples for vacillation on from inspiring English sources

Obama's vacillation on Syria, in Saudi eyes empowering Bashar al-Assad's Iranian ally, angered King Abdullah.

Howard told the audience in London that Kevin Rudd's vacillation on an ETS was a "foolish" political move, which ultimately lead to both his downfall and the election of Abbott.

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".

Urban was faced with three tasks: freeing the Kingdom of Sicily, a papal fief, from domination by the Hohenstaufen dynasty of the Holy Roman Empire; reasserting papal influence in Italy, where it had diminished because of Alexander's vacillation on the Sicilian problem; and restoring order in Rome, which suffered such civil unrest that Urban never resided there as pope.

After what many Democrats, including Dr. Dean, described as vacillation on the subject, Mr. Kerry is now standing by his decision to vote for the war in Iraq, arguing, "I didn't take the easy road, but I took the road that I thought was correct".

After a few recent articles pointed out this vacillation on Comcast's part, I asked the company for comment.

But it thought "his very public vacillations on Europe have hardly lived up to the character of his biographical hero Winston Churchill".

Sullivan became an early supporter of Barack Obama, and he has stuck with his man, even while criticizing, often ferociously, the President's vacillations on marriage equality and torture accountability, as well as the depredations of the surveillance state.

He said there was no better example of the president's vacillation than on the question of federal spending, especially on Medicare and other entitlement programs.

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.

In the language of the Sermon on the Mount, there is what seems a strange vacillation between promising, on the one hand, to "the poor in spirit" "the kingdom of heaven," and, on the other, to "the meek" that "they shall inherit the earth".