Sentence examples for was irresolute from inspiring English sources

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was irresolute

adjective

Undecided or unsure how to act

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under siege from spectators, who threw objects at him dispelled for the moment the notion that he was irresolute.

Sparta, resolute in war as it was irresolute in politics, scored a crushing victory over its enemies.

Mr. Bush's problem, it seems, was not so much that he was dissolute as that he was irresolute.

He recognized that when he was irresolute it was in response to his upbringing, but caution, in general, paid off for him.

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To waver in coming to a conclusion, to be irresolute; to hesitate, delay.

But at a moment calling for decisiveness, he is, in Churchill's phrase, "resolved to be irresolute".

He is irresolute and avoids accountability as in summer of 2017 when he tried to get Secretary of Defense James Mattis to make the decision on increasing troop strength in Afghanistan.

She can't quite make out what she wants, apart from a baby, and Frank, wounded and defensive after a failed marriage, is irresolute and changeable, too.

"Enactment of this Kosovo provision would send the message to NATO that the United States is an unreliable ally, to Slobodan Milosevic that the United States is irresolute," the senators said.

Brainstorming for keywords is used in retrieving patent documents, but even experienced engineers are irresolute in dealing with this critical issue.

Once again, Mr. Derrida was accused by critics of being irresolute, this time for failing to condemn Heidegger's fascist ideas.

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