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"equivocal" Definitions
  1. (of words or statements) not having one clear or definite meaning or intention; able to be understood in more than one way synonym ambiguous
  2. (of actions or behaviour) difficult to understand or explain clearly or easily
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" The equivocal answer: "People must eat or they die.
Equivocal evidence linking exposure to malignant brain glioma in females.
Others were more equivocal, saying the changes weren't that noticeable.
He was very equivocal about whether the U.S. needs NATO.
But as the election approached, Mr. Trump grew less equivocal.
Sámi mythology, in particular, invests them with highly equivocal powers.
Between the covers, the reality is something decidedly more equivocal.
The lawyers were equivocal, saying it depended on the circumstances.
Younger Democrats have been far less equivocal than their leaders.
" Moller is less equivocal: "You would lose that hypothetical majority.
He has, in fact, spoken about Josh in less equivocal terms.
Mueller was equivocal about whether Trump's actions constituted obstruction of justice.
For Justice Ginsburg, the answer to the question never was equivocal.
As for Hyperborea, its epistemological status has proved far more equivocal.
Each group sees Ms. Krewson as frustratingly equivocal and insufficiently supportive.
Republicans have remained more equivocal, with only 55% seeing positive benefits.
But Citi was equivocal about how the wildcard could play out.
Trump offered an equivocal response Wednesday when questioned about his Tuesday comments.
The finance minister, for one, has sounded surprisingly equivocal about the increases.
Jullier was equivocal as to how much further equities had to run.
And some tech companies are taking an equivocal stance that is unsettling.
Antibody tests are not widely available and can also produce equivocal results.
But John McDonnell, Mr. Corbyn's long-term ally, was far more equivocal.
Scott Walker in Wisconsin, a vocal Trump critic, was far less equivocal.
The accusation followed equivocal remarks made by Stone about the Harvey Weinstein allegations.
His equivocal answer reveals how difficult of a question it is to untangle.
TauRx's first clinical trial in Alzheimer's, announced in 2008, also had equivocal results.
Mr. Pence at first gave an equivocal answer on Thursday regarding the senators.
But the evidence it worked in packs is still equivocal, Dr. Seymour said.
The data here is equivocal, as this 2009 review of the research notes.
Other justices followed up on the point, and Ms. Murphy gave equivocal answers.
Unfortunately, far too many people are being equivocal, including, most alarmingly, the president.
Beyond America's equivocal stand, only Pakistan, Qatar and Azerbaijan have endorsed the invasion.
She has been more equivocal on Bolivia in recent weeks after Morales' ouster.
Trump twice gave public remarks that were widely condemned as being too equivocal.
S. trade was "fair and equivocal" and criticized China's growing role in Southeast Asia.
The political betting markets were far less equivocal, showing a wide lead for remain.
But Tillerson was more equivocal, saying that the priority was the defeat of ISIS.
Only T-Mobile has seen equivocal stock gains, jumping 38 percent since last year.
"For some reason, people think I'm equivocal about this," he said during a Nov.
But Cruz wasn't equivocal, asserting that "foreign countries should stay out of" U.S. elections.
But the clearest and most comprehensive accounts of Charlottesville over the weekend aren't so equivocal.
Mr. Corbyn's office took hours to produce an equivocal response, before eventually issuing an apology.
Labour is equivocal on whether it wants to remain in the EU or get out.
The forceful statements stood in contrast with President Trump's more equivocal assessment of the violence.
His tweet provided a contrast to President Trump's equivocal responses to the protests in Charlottesville.
Privately, however, Trump has been more equivocal about answering Mueller's questions, depending on the day.
So it's encouraging that Cannold's approach, however equivocal, works even as well as it does.
But on Tuesday, Sarah Huckabee Sanders, the new White House press secretary, was more equivocal.
The most prominent similar study, the Oregon Health Experiment, was much smaller and more equivocal.
And it means calling out Mr Trump's equivocal statements for what they are: a moral abomination.
When I ask if McAndrew's ever been accused of as much, he is at first equivocal.
Shakespeare's reputation at that point had been equivocal: his romance didn't suit the Age of Reason.
He was very equivocal, and we will have to wait to see what he really meant.
And early state and federal cases are by turns equivocal and downright harmful to Gamble's position.
Both Republican and Democratic lawmakers criticized the president's response, which some viewed as muted and equivocal.
President Trump has been more equivocal on the question of foreign election interference, particularly from Russia.
The judge said in his ruling called Gold's deposition testimony "equivocal" and "inconsistent" with his declaration.
Clinton came across as more cautious and equivocal, but also more interested in nuance and policy.
Facts have become subjective, and truth equivocal, as TV "journalists," pundits, and bloggers place viewership above sensibility.
The link between DACA repeal and Trump's many anti-Mexican statements is more equivocal and harder to prove.
Republicans in Illinois are unlikely to be won back by the governor's equivocal support for President Donald Trump.
Yet in the local politics of those thriving places, this growth has been a much more equivocal force.
Elsewhere, too, the administration's record of taking action needed to stop carnage against healthcare is equivocal at best.
By only resorting to them in relationships, hook-ups provided an acceptable escape route out of equivocal pleasure.
Egyptian television channels, which are tightly controlled by the security services, offered equivocal coverage of Mr. Morsi's death.
I hate ending an article with such an equivocal statement, but there are a lot of moving parts here.
A 2150 meta-analysis of 90 studies on 55 species found only "equivocal" support for the good-genes hypothesis.
As to whether longtime firm president Gary D. Cohn could have ever succeeded him as C.E.O., he was equivocal.
They have sparked heated debate about the impact of climate change and the government's equivocal commitment to tackling it.
At 1900 MHz: Equivocal evidence of carcinogenicity in lung, liver and other organ tissues in both male and female mice.
Similar high doses to female rats, and male or female mice, produced at most equivocal evidence for causing such tumors.
The FOMC's statement is equivocal, and on recent precedent interpreting Powell's press conference may not provide a clear answer, either.
Well, various studies have attempted to evaluate the impacts of Superfund's massive and costly cleanups, but the results are equivocal.
Mr. Putin's spokesman, Dmitri S. Peskov, was even more equivocal, saying that there was no specific timetable for the withdrawal.
His equivocal response to a protest march by white supremacists in Charlottesville, Virginia, was designed to demonstrate where his loyalties lay.
Even a stunted, equivocal version of the 1999 market would make for meaningful upside, if not of the most durable kind.
The crisis was ignited by Trump's equivocal response to the violence at a "Unite the Right" gathering in Charlottesville on Saturday.
Many were privately taken aback at the equivocal remarks, though most have lost the ability to be shocked by Trump's behavior.
Note that while Trump leaves the door open to contacting the FBI if it happens, he's equivocal and dissembling at best.
The decisions come after widespread public backlash to Trump's equivocal statements on violence at a white supremacist rally over the weekend.
Beneath these seemingly equivocal results, though, were hundreds of individual political campaigns, each with their own ideas, ambitions, successes, and failures.
His initial, equivocal declaration merely stated that he "assumed the mandate" of an unauthorised independence referendum his administration held on October 1st.
"For some reason, people think I'm equivocal about this," the governor said during a news event at the Statehouse on Nov. 29.
"Everybody's frustrated, but some moved, some stayed the same, and some got more equivocal," said a GOP lawmaker who attended the meeting.
Fourteen Democrats just voted to confirm Mike Pompeo as head of the CIA, despite his equivocal position on the use of torture.
But Trump's calls to deport all estimated 11 million undocumented immigrants were anything but equivocal as he campaigned for the Republican nomination.
The president blamed both sides for the violence, including counter-protesters, sparking criticism from many who saw it as an equivocal response.
Director Comey's memory of these interactions was equivocal and speculative, while Mr. McCabe's recollection is clear, unequivocal and supported by documentary evidence.
Jayapal also introduced a resolution on Tuesday that condemned the violence in Charlottesville and the series of equivocal statements made by Trump.
More equivocal, Jan's ancestry story signals the difficulties of knowing your background and the resulting ironies any revelation about lineage can generate.
The group disbanded last summer as CEOs revolted against Trump's equivocal comments about white supremacist violence at a rally in Charlottesville, Virginia.
The Obama administration probably would have been more equivocal and called for restraint, but a major policy shift would have been unlikely.
Kamala Harris has offered full-throated support for the Green New Deal, using phrasing that's less equivocal than prior statements from her office.
For female rats, and male and female mice, the evidence was equivocal as to whether cancers observed were associated with exposure to RFR.
But Dr. Bucher said those findings were "equivocal," emphasizing that only the heart tumors provided evidence strong enough for the researchers to trust.
But the special counsel had been far more equivocal about whether Mr. Trump had illegally sought to obstruct that investigation, Mr. Barr wrote.
The play's questions of gratitude and ingratitude, and its exploration of the equivocal meanings of starting over, no longer felt rote at all.
His press secretary, Sean Spicer, was equivocal when asked last week about whether Trump views the BLS unemployment rate as a reliable indicator.
But as for the evidence we found, I hate to be equivocal about it, but I honestly still don't know what it was.
Poland has a history of Euroskepticism and was equivocal on joining the single currency even before the euro zone debt crisis of 2010 onwards.
President Donald Trump's equivocal response to the violence, including his defense of white supremacists, drew the ire of both Republicans and Democrats last week.
" She was equally equivocal speaking on Today: "We shouldn't be impeaching for a political reason, and we shouldn't avoid impeachment for a political reason.
And even with these unusually high levels of exposure, the links to cancer were still "mostly equivocal, or ambiguous," according to the FDA's statement.
"In Movement" (ECM) "Return" (Newvelle) There's a sly urgency in Jack DeJohnette's backbeat, which combines a strong forward pull with something cagey and equivocal.
A Kremlin aide was less equivocal on Sunday, saying such a summit was possible this year but that no date had yet been agreed.
The hateful behavior includes his shamefully equivocal response to the neo-Nazi march in Charlottesville, Va., last summer, after which a woman was killed.
Trump blamed both sides for the violence in August, including counter-protesters, which sparked criticism from many who saw it as an equivocal response.
But Trump has been much more equivocal on the issue, which arose again during a news conference with Polish President Andrzej Duda on Thursday.
This, in turn, helps explain why most elected Republican officials accepted Trump's equivocal response to the white supremacist marchers in Charlottesville, Va. last month.
Australia and Japan both banned Huawei from government contracts, but key allies such as the UK and Germany have remained equivocal on tha subject.
As president, Trump offered an equivocal response to racist violence from white supremacists in Charlottesville, Virginia, and has frequently targeted black athletes on Twitter.
He also noted that equivocal labeling of nicotine levels can misguide smokers and sloppy device standards can result in battery explosions and other safety incidents.
Scholz's main rivals in the leadership race have been more equivocal on staying in the coalition, however, and that could bode ill for the government.
While The Economist was clear in its aim to champion free trade and classical liberalism, the ideological bent of "A Christmas Carol" was more equivocal.
This may be the most concerning thing, for women and men, about the notion of Trump as president: He's equivocal about things that really matter.
Mr Trump felt similarly aggrieved when he was denounced for his equivocal response to a white-supremacist march in Charlottesville ("many sides" were to blame).
The President also has a long history of being equivocal on Russia's internationally condemned annexation of Crimea, which is central to the clash on Sunday.
Story at a glance Climate change has a history of being presented as something squishy and equivocal by those who seek to undermine its reality.
Put another way, 23 percent are equivocal between the two parties (the sum of the diagonal squares from the lower left to the upper right).
On the question of potential obstruction of justice, Mueller was equivocal, saying he had neither exonerated Trump nor concluded that he had committed a crime.
Christopher M. Curran, a lawyer for Sudan, was more equivocal but said his client was aware of the suit before the default judgment was entered.
Trump condemned the violence at a white supremacist rally in Charlottesville, Va., even as her husband made equivocal statements about the racists who were involved.
They linger, in memories, traditions, and in stories that mold an equivocal identity, a curiosity, and a desire to know more about who you are.
"Either way, the sum total of the January labor reports probably lowers the odds of a Fed hike in March," unless upcoming reports were more equivocal.
Labour's deputy leader Tom Watson said the party's equivocal stance on the issue was to blame and it now needed to urgently back a second vote.
Although being probably the most widely read of living psychoanalysts, the prolific British essayist Adam Phillips has always been a somewhat equivocal advocate for his profession.
He and the President worked closely on economic matters, but their relationship suffered after Trump's equivocal comments about racial violence in Charlottesville, Virginia, over the summer.
More than a dozen charity groups abandoned plans to host fund-raisers at Mar-a-Lago after Trump made equivocal remarks about racial violence in Virginia.
Now, as Trump faces similar blowback for his equivocal performance alongside Russian President Vladimir Putin last month in Finland, few expect a change in his behavior.
One democratic candidate was equivocal about the value of the seat he was pursuing, saying he felt that the local legislature was an increasingly powerless body.
While Mr. Trump's rhetoric has escalated of late, he has at times been more equivocal, especially when pressed on whether he wanted to see Roe v.
Mr. Trump, after two days of issuing equivocal statements, bowed to overwhelming pressure that he personally condemn white supremacists who incited bloody weekend demonstrations in Charlottesville.
And white women without college degrees, a group critical to Trump's 2016 success in the Rust Belt states that tipped the election, registered an equivocal reaction.
And by foregrounding the creature's experience and delaying the violence, Bernays solicits our empathy for him — a provocative choice, as Shelley skews a lot more equivocal.
The main opposition Labour Party, which is equivocal on Brexit, was pushed into an embarrassing fourth place, its vote share squeezed by the anti-Brexit alliance.
The main opposition Labour Party, which is equivocal on Brexit, was pushed into an embarrassing fourth place, its vote share squeezed by the anti-Brexit alliance.
Just over a week ago, the president began facing sharp criticism for his equivocal statements in the wake of a violent white nationalist rally in Charlottesville.
Last year he said he would not apply for the role, but was slightly more equivocal about what he would do if approached directly, as Carney was.
HTC is also showing off a semi-translucent option for the U11 Plus, however the company is equivocal about whether it will ever sell the latter model.
More equivocal is the claim to the garden of Anna (Vinnette Robinson), the ex-partner of Audrey's other child, an army captain blown up by an IED.
Frazier resigned last summer from Trump's manufacturing council in protest of the president's equivocal response to the racist-fueled violence during demonstrations in Charlottesville, Virginia, last summer.
In the case of "Me and My Girl," which opened on Wednesday evening in a pleasant enough revival at City Center, my answer, heading in, was equivocal.
All were focused on actions by the president that inflamed racial tensions, including his equivocal response to the white supremacist marches in Charlottesville, Va., in 2017. Rep.
Before last month's United States Open, Spieth, a two-time winner in 2016 who is playing in the British Open this week, expressed equivocal support for the Olympics.
This was nowhere more impressive than at the end of the opera, which the composer and librettist see as offering an equivocal kind of hope for the future.
By our analysis, 77 percent of Americans feel better represented by one party or the other, leaving only 23 percent who are equivocal between the two existing parties.
In that sense, Grace's connection to the Sabine women, and the equivocal lesson she eventually draws from them, are useful — and give the play an unexpectedly strong finish.
"Risk appetite remains equivocal with global cash balances still high at 4.9 percent despite clear inflection point lower in global growth/earnings per share estimates," the survey said.
And in his Wall Street Journal piece, Acosta is surprisingly equivocal on whether the rule will be repealed, writing only that it "may not align" with Trump's goals.
He sees trade as an area where he can rile up his base and position himself as the strong America-first leader, in contrast to the more equivocal Democrats.
After a grueling 2015 and global capital markets quaking, such equivocal confusion means few buyers are willing to take the other side of fearful liquidations from across the world.
"Until and unless that happens, though, there likely will be no formal resolution of the legal question -- and, thus, one more equivocal precedent in the separation of war powers."
Until and unless that happens, though, there likely will be no formal resolution of the legal question -- and, thus, one more equivocal precedent in the separation of war powers.
If McConnell's support for Trump is equivocal in any way, it's contingent not on Trump's views, but on his ability or willingness to express them in politically anodyne ways.
Puigdemont refused to clarify his government's intentions at an earlier deadline on Monday, at which point the Spanish government gave him one last chance to retract his equivocal response.
The memorial service was held just one day after Trump angrily defended himself against criticism that he was slow and equivocal in his response to the violence in Charlottesville.
It became more difficult for Trump to offer equivocal responses after Erdoğan delivered a highly anticipated speech, in which he promised to offer the "naked truth" about Khashoggi's death.
The majority issued no written ruling, but in a separate opinion Justice Scott Crichton said Demesme&aposs "equivocal reference to a &aposlawyer dog&apos" didn&apost merit stopping interrogation.
The potential implications of these results are both encouraging and equivocal, says J. Martin Wojtowicz, an emeritus professor of physiology at the University of Toronto, who oversaw the study.
Unlike the tedious, unreadable, and equivocal special counsel report, the whistleblower complaint makes a simple, compelling, and readable case for clear presidential misdeeds that is understandable to every American.
This equivocal stance on the EU, combined with Corbyn's fringe left-wing ideas and support base, have led to a collapse in Corbyn's personal approval ratings and Labour's poll numbers.
"In my view, the defendant&aposs ambiguous and equivocal reference to a &aposlawyer dog&apos does not constitute an invocation of counsel that warrants termination of the interview," Crichton wrote.
He weighed in on President Donald Trump's equivocal reaction to the gathering of the alt-right and white supremacists in 2017, though he did not mention the president by name.
He didn't respond directly to Trump's equivocal comments about white supremacist violence in Virginia, instead tweeting a quote from Nelson Mandela (the tweet became the most liked of all time).
Among white men without college degrees, Trump remained strong, drawing positive job marks from 70% of them in Pennsylvania, 65% in Michigan and a somewhat more equivocal 57% in Wisconsin.
Speaking at a corporate event in New York on Wednesday, the CEO of J.P. Morgan Chase offered an equivocal answer on the question of whether he would run for president.
Trump is also under fire for his equivocal response to the violent white supremacist rally in Charlottesville, Va., where a counterprotester was killed and many more injured over the weekend.
Mr. Trump's equivocal posture toward Iran, however, has raised doubts that the strategy would keep hard-liners in Tehran from taking more aggressive, or even violent, measures against the Americans.
There has been no visible effort among governors to lobby in support of the legislation, and most Republican governors have either remained silent or given equivocal statements on the bill.
He said Jews were appalled by the experience of rabbis in Charlottesville, who feared that they would become the targets of neo-Nazi violence, and by Mr. Trump's equivocal response.
Trump defended himself on Tuesday against bipartisan criticism that he was slow and equivocal in condemning neo-Nazis and white supremacists who incited violence during demonstrations in Charlottesville on Saturday.
But he has come off equivocal on the issue at times, including a November interview with a BBC reporter where he refused to apologize for anti-Semitism within the party.
Asked after the game if Kansas could be stopped, Purdue Coach Matt Painter was equivocal: "On a game where you get in a neutral site, anything can happen," he said.
The equivocal nature of the obstruction finding emphasizes the importance of publicly revealing as much of the report as possible, so that Congress and the public can make an informed judgment.
A few months later, the fight over Duke Lake came to an equivocal end: Consol paid the state a thirty-six-million-dollar settlement, without admitting responsibility for the lost lake.
His resignation came during a week when numerous private-sector advisers distanced themselves from Trump, in response to his equivocal comments in the aftermath of a white-supremacist rally in Charlottesville.
But others were more equivocal, saying Trump only expressed support for any bill that arrives on his desk -- either the compromise plan or a more conservative version whose prospects appear dim.
He had more equivocal words for some other potential running mates: Mr. Gingrich, he said, is a fearless attack dog but has "issues," according to people present for Mr. Trump's remarks.
The right-wing protests prompted intense criticism from both Democrats and Republicans but drew an equivocal response from Trump, who initially said that "many sides" were to blame for the violence.
" Shapira and others are committed to considering the fullness of VR's possibilities, without barring the way to free experimentation with forms by prematurely encumbering them with equivocal determinations like "empathy machine.
In Europe, Mr. Trump's willingness to flout trade rules has combined with his denunciation of the Paris climate accord and his equivocal support for NATO to force questions about America's reliability.
Republicans are floating a resolution to condemn the recent white supremacist protests in Virginia — a measure quickly hammered by Democrats who say the language echoes the equivocal response from President Trump.
During the briefing, Trump defended himself against bipartisan criticism that he was slow and equivocal in condemning neo-Nazis and white supremacists who incited violence during demonstrations in Charlottesville on Saturday.
"The administration has committed too many unforced errors and deserves most of the blame for its failures," Krein said, after the president's equivocal response to a white nationalist murder in Charlottesville.
And while he reiterated that the administration's goal is to help the middle class, he was slightly more equivocal about the enforcement of his rule and how it impact the upper echelon.
President Donald Trump's equivocal response to violent racism at a gathering of the alt-right and white supremacists in Charlottesville, Virginia, in 2017 was one of the low points of his presidency.
The New York Times on Saturday published the 20-page letter, setting off a ferocious, cable-infused debate about points even Giuliani, who joined Trump's legal defenders more recently, is somewhat equivocal.
The president also endured a storm of protests after he offered an equivocal response to the deadly protests over the summer in Charlottesville, Va., between white supremacist groups and those opposing them.
But others were more equivocal, saying the President only expressed support for any bill that arrives on his desk -- either the compromise plan or a more conservative version whose prospects appear dim.
American legislators from both parties remain incensed by the Trump administration's equivocal response to the grisly killing last October by Saudi agents of Jamal Khashoggi, a Washington Post columnist and Virginia resident.
The self-described "elephant queen" Eureka made the equivocal choice of white-girl rapping her verse, and was slightly off-tempo at first, but the production team quickly got her on beat.
How puny is my vocabulary in Hindi, I realized, how muddled my thinking, how equivocal and hesitant I become; it's as if something of myself as a child has been preserved there.
As Mr. Trump stood by his equivocal comments on Charlottesville and business leaders left presidential advisory panels in protest, Mr. Cohn told The Financial Times, he felt "enormous pressure" to step down.
The White House this week shot down rumors that Cohn was planning to leave after he was reportedly infuriated by Trump's equivocal response to the white nationalist protesters that marched in Charlottesville.
" Northern Ontario MP Charlie Angus was more equivocal about Mulcair's chances: "I have absolute confidence that Tom is going to go into that meeting in April and do a bang-up job.
Many analysts expect, though, that if she speaks about monetary policy she will take a more equivocal line - that it is data-dependent and a rate hike this year is just a possibility.
Many analysts expect, though, that if she speaks about monetary policy, she will take a more equivocal line: that it is data-dependent, and a rate hike this year is just a possibility.
His comments received criticism from both sides of the aisle at the time, and since Trump has become president, top officials in his administration have taken a more equivocal position on the issue.
Donald Glover is taking an equivocal approach on the meaning behind his new music video, saying it's not up to him to tell you what message to extract ... so, figure it out yourself.
Trump's comments were more equivocal than that of his then-Secretary of State Rex Tillerson, who on Monday agreed with Britain's assessment and said that those behind the crime must face serious consequences.
He criticized decisions to withdraw from the Paris climate accord and repeal Obamacare, but did not directly address Trump's equivocal comments about white supremacists in Virginia, even as others reacted with withering criticism.
In that news conference, the president defended himself against criticism that he was slow and equivocal in his condemnations of the violence that left one dead and at least 19 injured on Saturday.
But Trump didn't pick Romney, and Romney criticized Trump harshly over his equivocal response to the 2017 violence in Charlottesville involving protests by neo-Nazis and white supremacists and those opposed to them.
President Trump, who has made the crown prince a pillar of his Middle East policy, has been equivocal, at times raising questions about Saudi Arabia's culpability and resisting calls from Congress for sanctions.
" Lyft CEO Logan Green was less equivocal: "Throughout our history, Lyft has worked hard to create an inclusive, diverse and conscientious community where all of our drivers and passengers feel welcome and respected.
His previous remarks, in the aftermath of Mr. Trump's equivocal response to the bloodshed in Charlottesville and in defense of Secretary of State Rex W. Tillerson last week, were deliberate and carefully planned.
A drop in oil prices, poor U.S. retail earnings, declining Japanese exports and an equivocal reaction to the UK election's first live TV debate all added to a note of caution on Wednesday.
The change we have seen, thus far, has mostly been relatively subtle, reflecting in part the fact that President Obama's efforts to distance the United States from these regimes were, themselves, quite equivocal.
Of all his campaign promises, Trump's mantra to "build the wall" has been his most enduring and least equivocal, and he has repeatedly stressed it would be a physical wall paid for by Mexico.
This portrait either predates the less equivocal ban in 21870 on wearing swords in public for all except members of the new armed forces and police, or was taken immediately afterward as a keepsake.
In the two cases involving Goldman and its executives, there was no "right" or "wrong" decision to be made because the evidence of violations was equivocal, so choosing not to proceed is certainly defensible.
Earlier this year, National Economic Council head Gary Cohn was considered a favorite for the post, but his standing plummeted after he distanced himself from Trump's equivocal remarks about white supremacist violence in Virginia.
Ms. Sanders was left this week to offer the equivocal statements from the White House lectern about giving the best information she had even if she was not 100 percent certain it was correct.
What's missing are the textures and confusion and unfinished business of real life, as if Gilbert were pushing these out of sight so as not to come off as dull or equivocal or downbeat.
And now there is political violence on the streets, as white supremacists and neo-Nazis attack, and even kill, protesters in Charlottesville — while the president issues evasive and equivocal statements from a golf course.
After Trump's equivocal statements in the wake of violent white nationalist protests in Charlottesville, Va.,  in August, Corker said the president has not demonstrated the "stability" or "competence" necessary to be successful in office.
If the men are making Forster an honorary member of their not-so-merry queer band, that's an equivocal gift; history in "The Inheritance" is a one-way street pointing only toward the present.
" McEnany, the "Work in Progress" co-creator, hasn't been equivocal about her feelings on Pat; in her act, she has told a story that begins, "Julia Sweeney's Pat made my life a living hell.
That did not reckon with America's next president being as equivocal about NATO as is Mr Trump, who has pledged an "America first" doctrine requiring countries under its security umbrella to make their own arrangements.
O'Connell acknowledges that Phillips "has always been a somewhat equivocal advocate for his profession," but his review fails to be adequately critical of the way Phillips "plays" not only with the reader but with psychoanalysis.
If the President's equivocal reaction to Charlottesville felt like an inflection point a year ago, it's now become one in a string of controversies for the White House that appears to have had few consequences.
Trump's statement was perhaps his most equivocal since it was revealed more than two months ago that Pruitt had leased a Capitol Hill condominium linked to a prominent energy lobbyist for just $50 a night.
While the Treasury Department imposed sanctions on 17 Saudis accused of being involved, President Trump issued an equivocal statement about Mr. Khashoggi's death, ignoring the C.I.A.'s conclusion that the crown prince was directly responsible.
" When I asked her whether Duterte's rhetoric was encouraging the killings, she was equivocal: "It's so difficult sometimes to try to interpret what he's saying, because one time he says, 'I'm not for human rights.
Trump would later be pilloried for saying there was blame to go around "on many sides," an equivocal response to the racially charged violence that is widely viewed as a low point of his presidency.
Some pundits view that as a disgracefully equivocal stance from the leader of a party, the Liberals, and the son of a former prime minister, Pierre Trudeau, that enshrined minority rights in Canada's modern Constitution.
Investors were wary of Yellen hinting at a near-term interest rate hike, which could divert some of the liquidity that has underpinned riskier assets worldwide, though others predicted she would strike a more equivocal note.
Watergate journalist Bob Woodward reports in his White House tell-all "Fear" that Kelly had threatened to quit the job before over Trump's equivocal response to a white-supremacist rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, in summer 2017.
Once among Trump's most trusted aides, Cohn is said to be out of favor in the White House after he openly aired his disagreements with Trump over his equivocal comments about white supremacist violence in Virginia.
Unfortunately, most people fail to wear a mask faithfully enough to achieve this degree of protection, and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention remains equivocal about the use of masks outside of health care settings.
Mr. Frazier announced Monday morning that he was resigning from the American Manufacturing Council — the first of three chief executives who quit the advisory panel on Monday — to protest Mr. Trump's initial equivocal statements on Charlottesville.
Blindsided by skewed bookmakers' odds and equivocal opinion polls, financial markets ended up on the wrong side of Britain's vote to leave the European Union in June and Donald Trump's surprise U.S. election win last month.
"Where is this Gary stuff coming from?" he asked, referring to Cohn, a Democrat and former Goldman Sachs executive who has clashed with Trump in the past over his equivocal comments about racist violence in Virginia.
" Feeley wrote, too, that the President's equivocal reaction to white supremacists protesting in Charlottesville made him realize he could no longer represent Trump "personally and remain faithful to my beliefs about what makes America truly great.
Earlier Monday, Trump lashed out at Merck CEO Kenneth Frazier for stepping down from the American Manufacturing Council over the president's equivocal response to a white nationalist protest that turned deadly in Charlottesville, Virginia, on Saturday.
Trump's equivocal response to the racially charged violence in Charlottesville, Va., in mid-August had tangible negative political consequences for Trump and appears to have dragged him to the low point of his presidency so far.
He's been equivocal and evasive on the question of whether Stewart will campaign with him, caught between the perception that Stewart is toxic and the reality that he can't afford to alienate his party's electoral base.
In the speech, Obama made two related arguments about the prominence of racial conflict in the Trump era that reflected not so much new ideas as new-again ideas that party leaders have become equivocal about.
Norway's arms-length relationship with the European Union is popular among British politicians looking for an alternative to full membership — but the Nordic country's prime minister is equivocal about whether the U.K. should look to imitate it.
The equivocal results touched off a fierce debate in other countries with struggling centre-left parties, such as the Netherlands, where the Labour party's share fell from 25% in the 2012 election to just 6% in 2017.
Given that the Republican Party, the closest thing to a vehicle for the promotion of conservative ideas, is in the business of gathering votes, the equivocal feelings of some conservatives about the demos are usually kept quiet.
He has made clear his goal to reunite the Slavic lands that were once part of the U.S.S.R. In 6900, Russian forces invaded and occupied South Ossetia and Abkhazia in Georgia, and the western response was equivocal.
The company looked more at home in Christopher L. Huggins's "Latched," but that was a gain of equivocal merit since the work is at once mawkish and blunt, tonally matching the electronic melodrama of music by SOHN.
In August, amid rumors that he might resign in the wake of Mr. Trump's equivocal response to white nationalist violence in Charlottesville, Va., stock prices fell before an administration spokesman said that Mr. Cohn planned to stay.
More recently, the alliance showed how Russia-linked accounts promoted alt-right conspiracies about the violence in Charlottesville, Va., as well as stories that slammed those — like Senator John McCain — who had criticized Mr. Trump's equivocal response.
Sticking to the script A round of statements from countries represented on the UN Security Council either condemned Russia or were cautiously equivocal, depending on how much each country has to lose from falling out with Moscow.
Corbyn's offer of a radical agenda of failed to win over voters, while his equivocal position on Brexit left many angry and confused, especially in Red Wall areas where large majorities had voted for Brexit in 2016.
The Democrats have sent letters, called for hearings, launched campaign ads and promised resolutions of censure and impeachment designed to highlight the firestorm set off by the deadly protests in Charlottesville, Va. — and the president's equivocal response.
" She pointed specifically to Trump's equivocal reaction to racist violence in Charlottesville, Virginia, in August 22018, where he was hesitant to condemn the events that happened there and declared that there were "very fine people on both sides.
In the wake of his equivocal response to a violent far-right rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, in which a young woman was killed, we argued that America's president was "politically inept, morally barren and temperamentally unfit for office".
But after the killing of Mr. Khashoggi, a Virginia-based columnist for The Washington Post, lawmakers on both sides of the aisle, livid at the administration's equivocal response, signaled a new willingness to reconsider the relationship with Riyadh.
It is quite possible — or even likely — that hearings won't prevent Brett Kavanaugh from being confirmed given the equivocal evidence against him and, perhaps even more important, the number of Republicans and red-state Democrats in the Senate.
WASHINGTON — President Trump, whose evolving and sometimes equivocal assessments of moral responsibility for the deadly violence in Charlottesville, Va., have won him little but criticism, fundamentally altered his approach Monday night during a prime-time address on Afghanistan.
As Trump offered a series of equivocal statements on the Charlottesville violence this week, it became clear that condemnation would be swift even from members of his own party, who have rebuked the President with varying degrees of severity.
The push for impeachment has ebbed and flowed since Trump took office, gaining momentum after particularly controversial episodes — like Trump's equivocal response to last summer's violent white supremacist marches in Charlottesville, Va. — only to fade when those headlines dwindle.
But moderate Democrats fear the political blowback of a holiday crisis, and equivocal statements by top Democratic leaders are giving the left reason to believe that the party will lend enough votes to keep the government open past Dec.
Months ago, Cohn -- whose fellow globalists include first daughter Ivanka Trump and her husband, Jared Kushner -- nearly quit in protest over Trump's controversial remarks, which many called hesitant and equivocal, about violent protests by neo-Nazis and white supremacists.
About half of both Republicans and Democrats fall between 0.39 and 0.66 on the scale, indicating that they are mostly equivocal, though perhaps slightly more pessimistic than optimistic (and also that distribution of responses are remarkably similar across parties).
Corker's criticism of Trump has increased since he announced he would not seek a third term next year, but they had clashed before, including after Trump's reaction to a white supremacist rally in August that many viewed as equivocal.
RIVERA: Did he or did you ask him whether the kind of equivocal answer that Putin gave when asked the question, "Do you have any dirt on President Trump," did President Trump say, "I wish he had been more definitive"?
And a key administration shepherd of the efforts, National Economic Council chairman Gary Cohn, is openly airing his displeasure at Trump's equivocal statements about white supremacists and neo-Nazis even as he pushes forward with crafting the outlines of a plan.
Correction: This article originally stated that you could stack the $100 discount and $100 accessories voucher, however HTC has clarified the equivocal language in its press release and now says you can only do one or the other, not both.
" The New York Times praised George W. Bush for leading the condemnation of former KKK leader David Duke in 85033, and then accuses President Trump of being "equivocal in his public or private statements against white nationalists and other racist organizations.
More recently as president, Trump has come under fire for an equivocal response to the deadly violence at a white supremacist marches in Charlottesville, Va., and for his handling of recovery efforts after Puerto Rico was hit by Hurricane Maria.
Since then, however, he and his staff have been more equivocal, much like he was after a similar televised meeting with lawmakers on immigration that seemed to open the door to a compromise only to lead to more partisan crossfire.
"Those who cause violence in its name are criminals and thugs, including the K.K.K., white supremacists and other hate groups," he added — in response to bipartisan condemnation of his more equivocal statements during the first 48 hours of the crisis.
After days of genially bombastic interactions with the news media on North Korea and the shortcomings of congressional Republicans, Mr. Trump on Saturday condemned the bloody protests in Charlottesville, Va., in what critics in both parties saw as muted, equivocal terms.
The Trump administration has left civil rights advocates feeling as if they are under attack, from its decision to ban transgender people from military service to the president's equivocal comments about white supremacists and those protesting them in Charlottesville, Va., last month.
While the White House scrambled to put a good face on President Trump's equivocal and inadequate response to this weekend's violent white nationalist rallies in Charlottesville, Va., some Twitter users began publicly revealing the identities of the white supremacist "Unite the Right" protesters.
One year in, however, after divisive controversies like Trump's equivocal response to racially motivated protests in Charlottesville, Virginia, and his assault on legal and judicial institutions amid the Russia probe, it would be more difficult to make a similar case for Tuesday's appearance.
" He said after Mr. Trump's equivocal response to the white supremacist march and clashes in Charlottesville, Va., "I'm proud of the fact that he stood up and calmly looked into the camera and condemned this violence and bigotry in all its forms.
The Pew Research Center's polling and the General Social Survey suggest it is, while Gallup's data is more equivocal: But whether 43 percent or 34 percent of the population owns guns, it still suggests that gun-owning households have, on average, more than one gun.
Green's articles accused the president of inciting racial divisions across the country, pointing as evidence to Trump's ban on travelers from several predominately Muslim countries and the president's equivocal response to racist violence in Charlottesville, Va., in the summer of 2017, among other incidents.
WASHINGTON — The House and Senate have unanimously passed a joint resolution urging President Trump to denounce racist and anti-Semitic hate groups, sending a blunt message of dissatisfaction with the president's initial, equivocal response to the white nationalist violence in Charlottesville, Va., last month.
But far from being expressionless, these faces seem to register complex or even equivocal emotions — hovering between stoicism and disappointment, say ("Pale Blue Portrait Bust with Dark Drips," 2018), or between incomprehension and muted chagrin ("Portrait Bust with Amber Shirt and Lavender Hair," 2016).
Trump takes advantage of any occasion "to stir racial, religious, or ethnic strife," the board wrote, noting his exploitation of Monday's attempted terrorist attack in New York City to tout his anti-immigration policies and his equivocal reaction to racist violence in Charlottesville, Virginia, this summer.
Working in Paris in the racy 1920s and '30s alongside Surrealist artists and writers, long before the rise of the gender-neutral "they" as a pronoun and the advent of terms like transgender and queer theory, Cahun created stark, sometimes playful, but deliberately equivocal photos of herself.
But a narrow plurality of Republican women said the changes had made it more difficult for marriages to succeed and blue-collar white women rendered an equivocal verdict as well, with just above a third saying things were easier and slightly fewer saying they were more difficult.
Yet when Jemele Hill, a host on the Disney-owned ESPN cable network, called President Trump a "white supremacist" in a tweet after Mr. Trump's equivocal comments on the white nationalist march in Charlottesville, Va., in August, ESPN called it "inappropriate" but made no move to discipline her.
Here's what you need to know: • Trying to stop the fallout over President Trump's equivocal response to this weekend's bloody rallies in Charlottesville, Va., the White House condemned "white supremacists" for inciting violence during the protests over the removal of a statue of Robert E. Lee, the Confederate general.
"If officers are not trained to get the message that a positive drug test is more equivocal than the label would make you think, you'll have police officers thinking, 'Positive means it's definitely drugs,'" said Carl Takei, a senior staff attorney at the ACLU's Trone Center for Justice and Equality.
Mr. Bharara, 48, had a somewhat more equivocal greeting for the city that has provided him fodder for some of his highest-profile triumphs, including, most recently, the convictions of the former speaker of the State Assembly, Sheldon Silver, and the majority leader of the State Senate, Dean G. Skelos.
This one was a kind of proto-Trumpian affair — Make New York Great Again — in which Mr. Giuliani played on white anxieties over the spread of drugs and Mr. Dinkins's equivocal response to the Crown Heights riots in 1991, which pitted blacks and Ultra-Orthodox Jews in Brooklyn against each other.
The recent announcement by Joon H. Kim, the acting United States attorney in Manhattan, about the decision not to charge any crimes involving fund-raising by Mayor Bill de Blasio of New York that may have involved pay-to-play contract awards shows how equivocal evidence of wrongdoing can be.
" It took one part-time writing class for Li to change her professional course irrevocably, but the decision is threaded through with a troubled and deeply equivocal relationship with the self: "When I gave up science, I had a blind confidence that in writing I could will myself into a nonentity.
With a small but influential group of MPs within her own party rebelling against the deal, and several other parties from all sides — the staunchly pro-EU Scottish National Party, the largely pro-Brexit Democratic Unionist Party (DUP) of Northern Ireland and the more equivocal Labour party voicing their disagreement with the deal.
In their book "Rational Choice and Democratic Deliberation: A Theory of Discourse Failure," Guido Pincione and Fernando R. Tesón discuss the problems created by the confusing and equivocal terminology used to describe positions in political philosophy, its tendency to elide the various senses in which one might employ a particular descriptive term.
Those who made a point of skipping the president's speech — including John Lewis, the civil rights leader and Democratic congressman from Georgia — cited his equivocal remarks after the summer's racially tinged violence in Charlottesville, Va., and described Mr. Trump's policies toward Mexicans, Muslims and other minorities as an insult to the museum's purpose.
Biden issued a statement that was more equivocal — trying to neither apologize to Flores nor call her a liar, while also addressing the larger question without really saying anything about it: In my many years on the campaign trail and in public life, I have offered countless handshakes, hugs, expressions of affection, support and comfort.
"Although the evidence that Roundup causes cancer is quite equivocal, there is strong evidence from which a jury could conclude that Monsanto does not particularly care whether its product is in fact giving people cancer, focusing instead on manipulating public opinion and undermining anyone who raises genuine and legitimate concerns about the issue," Chhabria wrote.
Inconsistent messaging over how dire a failed Brexit deal could be for the U.K. saw foreign secretary Boris Johnson's view that it would be "perfectly ok" contradicted by trade secretary Liam Fox's opinion that it would be "bad" and prime minister May's equivocal statement that "no deal would be better than a bad deal".
Faced with equivocal or negative findings of health benefits from supplements, in 2013 the United States Preventive Services Task Force, an independent group of physicians who base their advice on solid evidence, opted not to recommend the regular use of any multivitamins to prevent cardiovascular disease or cancer in people who were not nutrient deficient.
The focus on race in the opera houses comes after a white nationalist march in 2017 in Charlottesville, Va., was met with an equivocal response from the president; a series of scandals about state officials wearing blackface or using images of it in their yearbooks; and a stream of shootings of black men by the police.
But those divisions have only grown since 2016, and Mr. Trump has continued to embrace and aggravate them, from his equivocal response to a white-supremacist gathering in Charlottesville, Va., to his mockery this week of the #MeToo movement and Christine Blasey Ford, the woman who says Judge Kavanaugh attempted to rape her as a teenager.
" But Crichton noted in a concurring opinion the court has held that police are not required to stop an interview if a suspect makes a reference to an attorney that is "ambiguous or equivocal in that a reasonable police officer in light of the circumstances would have understood only that the suspect might be invoking his right to counsel.
The committee majority report, which has yet to be released but which members of the majority have begun to tease out in recent days, is an attempt to defang the first question, finding against all evidence that the Russian attack was not intended to help Mr. Trump (though a few members of the majority, including Representative Trey Gowdy, have been more equivocal).
"As this court has written, &aposIf a suspect makes a reference to an attorney that is ambiguous or equivocal in that a reasonable police officer in light of the circumstances would have understood only that the suspect  might  be invoking his right to counsel, the cessation of questioning is not required,&apos" State Supreme Court Justice Scott J. Crichton wrote in his opinion, the Times-Picayune reported.
These include his muddled and initially equivocal response to praise from a white supremacist veteran of the Ku Klux Klan, and a double flip-flop over torture, when he seemed to say that as president he would order torture in defiance of international law, changed his mind to say he would heed the law and then changed it again to say that laws against torture needed loosening.
He has allowed top advisers to denounce Moscow for its interference in American democracy, but when it comes to his own Twitter posts or comments, he has largely stuck to equivocal language, seemingly reluctant to accept the consensus conclusion of his intelligence agencies and intent on voicing no outrage or criticism of President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia, for whom he has expressed admiration.
"I told the president that there's tremendous distrust in our caucuses, in our constituencies and in the public, and I mentioned a litany of things such as the Muslim ban and Charlottesville," Mr. Schumer said, referring to the president's travel ban on immigrants from six Muslim-majority nations, and to Mr. Trump's equivocal remarks about white supremacists after the violence in Charlottesville, Va. _________ The Word of the Day and the quiz question have been provided by Vocabulary.com.
"I told the president that there's tremendous distrust in our caucuses, in our constituencies and in the public, and I mentioned a litany of things such as the Muslim ban and Charlottesville," Mr. Schumer said, referring to the president's travel ban on immigrants from six Muslim-majority nations, and to Mr. Trump's equivocal remarks about white supremacists after the violence in Charlottesville, Va. "And I said for us to get something done we need to establish some trust," Mr. Schumer added.
Schiff offers bill to make domestic terrorism a federal crime New intel chief inherits host of challenges MORE (D-Calif.) President TrumpDonald John TrumpTrump pushes back on recent polling data, says internal numbers are 'strongest we've had so far' Illinois state lawmaker apologizes for photos depicting mock assassination of Trump Scaramucci assembling team of former Cabinet members to speak out against Trump MORE has been equivocal at times over whether he agrees with the assessment of the intelligence community — including his own senior officials — that the Russians interfered in the 2016 election.
Interviews over the last week with Kennedy Center officials and others involved with the awards shed more light on Mr. Trump's rare decision to cede ground rather than fight his critics — in this case, some of the honorees who planned to shun a reception at the White House to protest the president's equivocal remarks about white supremacists in Charlottesville, Va. Advisers to the first lady, Melania Trump, had been in close contact with officials at the Kennedy Center as the furor over Charlottesville unfolded, and both sides were concerned about protecting their interests.
Memories will return to others of all the books on the titanic figure of the Commandante, from interview compilations like Fidel and Religion by liberation theologian Frei Betto or One Hundred Hours with Fidel (translated into English as Fidel Castro: My Life: A Spoken Autobiography) by the Galician Ignacio Ramonet, to confessions in the worst sentimental style, such as those in Alina: Memoirs of the Rebel Daughter of Fidel Castro, or brainy and equivocal analysis, such as Castro's Final Hour by the once very famous and now almost forgotten Argentine American journalist Andrés Oppenheimer.
Pramila JayapalPramila JayapalMedicare for all: fears and facts House Democrats urge Trump to end deportations of Iraqis after diabetic man's death 'KamalaCare' fails to address big problem: That we cannot trust insurance companies MORE (D-Wash.) introduced a resolution Tuesday condemning the breakout of violence in Charlottesville, Va., over the weekend during demonstrations by white nationalists, as well as a series of equivocal statements made by President TrumpDonald John TrumpTrump pushes back on recent polling data, says internal numbers are 'strongest we've had so far' Illinois state lawmaker apologizes for photos depicting mock assassination of Trump Scaramucci assembling team of former Cabinet members to speak out against Trump MORE in the immediate aftermath of the violent protest.

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