While Zuckerberg's letter is not particularly profound, his message is clear: Facebook, the great equivocator, is truly for everyone.
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Mr. Obama, now is not the time to follow the keep-quiet rules while the new administration plays moral equivocator to a much aghast nation.
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Strange but true: This self-proclaimed optimist worships at the altar of that ultimate equivocator Stephen Sondheim and is also a passionate devotee of Fred Rogers, the beloved children's entertainer.
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Facebook policy head makes a surprising cameo at the Kavanaugh hearing If there was a time when Facebook's relationship with Republicans was in fact strained, Silicon Valley's premier equivocator has swung fully the other way with help from Kaplan.
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Many people agree that Macbeth was written in the year 1606, citing multiple allusions to the Gunpowder Plot of 1605 and its ensuing trials. The Porter particularly (2.3.1–21) "devil- porter[s] it" and fancifully welcomes an equivocator and a farmer and a tailor into Hell (2.3.8–13), and this is believed to be an allusion to the trial on 28 March 1606 and the execution on 3 May 1606 of the Jesuit Henry Garnet, who used the alias "Farmer", "equivocator" here referring to Garnet's defence of "equivocation".
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Bush acknowledges climate change, but has equivocated about the degree to which humans are responsible.Rebecca Leber, Jeb Bush, Climate-Change Equivocator, New Republic (June 15, 2015). National Journal writes that Bush "does not acknowledge the scientific consensus that human activity drives climate change."Clare Foran, Jeb Bush is All Over the Place on Climate Change: The 2016 hopeful is "concerned" about global warming.
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Erwin's son- in-law, Charles Dickinson, became enraged and started quarreling with Jackson's friend, which led to Jackson becoming involved. Dickinson wrote to Jackson calling him a 'coward and an equivocator.' The affair continued, with more insults and misunderstandings, until Dickinson published a statement in the Nashville Review in May 1806, calling Jackson a 'worthless scoundrel, ... a poltroon and a coward.' The political atmosphere in Nashville was heated by ambition.
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Other casuists justifying mental reservation included Thomas Sanchez, who was criticized by Pascal in his Provincial Letters - although Sanchez added various restrictions (it should not be used in ordinary circumstances, when one is interrogated by competent magistrates, when a creed is requested, even for heretics, etc.), which were ignored by Pascal. This type of equivocation was famously mocked in the porter's speech in Shakespeare's Macbeth, in which the porter directly alludes to the practice of deceiving under oath by means of equivocation. "Faith, here's an equivocator, that could swear in both the scales against either scale; who committed treason enough for God's sake, yet could not equivocate to heaven." (Macbeth, Act 2, Scene 3) See, for example Robert Southwell and Henry Garnet, author of A Treatise of Equivocation (published secretly c.
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Notwithstanding Pearce's identification (above) of Shakespeare's King John as a reworking of The Troublesome Reign of King John, made to refute its anti- Catholic bias, strong examples of Protestant sympathies, such as the denouncement of the Pope as an "unworthy and ridiculous ... Italian priest" with "usurped authority", remain in the text.The life and death of King John: Act III, Scene 1 Yale's David Kastan sees no inconsistency in a Protestant dramatist lampooning the martyr Oldcastle in the play Henry IV (above): a contemporary audience would have identified Shakespeare's unsympathetic portrayal as a proof of his Protestantism because the knight's Lollardry was in the author's time identified with Puritanism, by then abhorred for undermining the established church. Stephen Greenblatt acknowledges the convention that the "equivocator" arriving at the gate of hell in the Porter's speech in Macbeth is a reference to the Jesuit Father Henry Garnet, who had been executed in 1606.Greenblatt (2004: 388) He argues that Shakespeare probably included the allusion for the sake of topicality, trusting that his audience would have heard of Garnet's pamphlet on equivocation, and not from any hidden sympathy for the man or his cause – indeed the portrait is not a sympathetic one.
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