Sentences with phrase «equivocal in»

It was found that the majority of the families (72.3 %) had low expressed emotion while only 25.3 % had high expressed emotion and only 2.4 % families were equivocal in this respect (Azhar & Varma, 1996).

That said, many other key members of the community have been quiet on the issue, or equivocal in whether they have a similar opinion of Wright.

Ultimately, the court concluded that the testimony of the expert witness presented by the plaintiff was equivocal in stating that the plaintiff's need for future medical treatment was due to the car accident.

Kanstroom, director of the law school's International Human Rights Program, is far from equivocal in his stance on waterboarding and on Mukasey.

He seems to have been much more equivocal in his paper Target CO2: Where Should Humanity Aim?

HTC was a little equivocal in the immediate wake of Google's Ice Cream Sandwich announcement, but today the company's returned with a concrete list of its smartphones that are set to receive the upgrade to Android 4.0.

In all, the Labour leader has been largely silent and at best equivocal in his approach to Putin and Russia.

The Irish bishops had always been equivocal in their support — some were openly hostile — and perhaps the dream of an English - speaking Catholic university was simply unrealisable within the United Kingdom at that time.

Not exact matches

Barra was on President Trump's Strategy & Policy Forum until its member CEOs all left en masse following his equivocal comments about the neo-Nazi rally in Charlottesville, Virginia.

Research into Airbnb's impact on housing availability in San Francisco and other inventory - constrained markets has been equivocal.

Trump has been more equivocal about an increase in the minimum wage: He has called at various times for eliminating it and raising it somewhat.

In the CNN interview, Zuckerberg offered equivocal and carefully hedged answers to two other questions.

There were also reports that he would leave after the president's equivocal reaction to racist violence in Charlottesville, Virginia, last summer, and media outlets speculated that he might leave after the tax bill was passed or when Trump passed him up as chair of the Federal Reserve.

After Trump made equivocal comments about who was to blame for violence at rallies held by white supremacists and neo-Nazis in Charlottesville over the weekend, Ken Frazier, the chief executive of pharmaceutical giant Merck, resigned from Trump's manufacturing council Monday.

We can no longer be equivocal about questioning the private ownership of the means of production, ideas etc., because this private ownership subjects us, in its name, to aggression every day.

The univocal and equivocal imaginations deny metaphor, deny that any new insight can come through the ordinary — the one flattens it to sameness, the other escapes from it — but what Lynch calls the analogical imagination delves into the mundane, for it is precisely in and through the complexities of historical, limited existence that insight comes, if it comes at all.

According to the first meaning (which follows automatically if one assumes that the perfect can have no potential states — an assumption not deducible from the mere idea of «none greater,» because of the latter's equivocal connotation) the perfect is unsurpassable in conception or possibility even by itself; according to the second meaning it is unsurpassable except by itself.

But then — in death, in death's decision, there is born a love that does not flame up, that is not equivocal, that is not — until death, but beyond death, a love that endures.

In a year that has witnessed a vigorous refurbishing of the aura of sainthood surrounding the Kennedys, it is useful to be reminded how equivocal they and most of their minions were in the face of the demand for black equalitIn a year that has witnessed a vigorous refurbishing of the aura of sainthood surrounding the Kennedys, it is useful to be reminded how equivocal they and most of their minions were in the face of the demand for black equalitin the face of the demand for black equality.

Not only are the terms which indicate what I have called the elements of time equivocal, but so is the notion of time itself multiply, but systematically equivocal inasmuch as it refers to different elements and different combinations of them in different contexts.

At the same time, Catholic professors criticized their institutions for intellectual mediocrity, redefined «academic excellence» in line with the standards of leading graduate schools, and turned (with equivocal success) to theology to provide what Holy Cross historian David O'Brien has termed «the bridge between the older Catholic identity and the newer, more excellent version of Catholic higher education.»

Alston (departing from Aquinas who, and not alone in my opinion, is terribly equivocal on this issue) says that God wills that creatures shall have freedom, so that their decisions are made possible, but not fully determined, by God.

Our affirmations about God and created things, then, are neither «equivocal» (using the same words very differently for things in no way alike) nor «univocal» (using a word in the same sense in both cases).

Ockham's approach, however, made an equivocal comparison between man and God, i.e. God and man were totally different and there was nothing in common between them.

Biblical faith could be the only connection to God because of the equivocal understanding of God's being and man's being, and the conclusion that it was not possible for man to do anything good or positive in any way without subtracting somehow from the power and glory of God.

As the book's equivocal subtitle, «A German Affair,» suggests, Romanticism does not just name an achievement but also an entanglement, a cultural development at once creative and obsessive, and a volatile turn in philosophy and the arts that, even as it opened new vistas, also wrought a troubled legacy.

While both of these factors — an inherited distrust of physical form, and a current focus on monetary economies — clearly shape our feelings and actions in relation to art, the equivocal nature of the Protestant relationship to the arts becomes ever clearer if we look at what lies behind the question of iconoclasm.

The 19th century also witnessed the growth of the Liberal movement, which campaigned for a separationist constitutional amendment but was undone in part by the unpopularity of it's equivocal position on obscenity.

This is in no way equivocal to faith - based belief in a deity who created the universe and all existence.

Said a somewhat equivocal Bear Bryant before Alabama took on Paterno's team in the Lions» fifth game of the season, «Penn State may be the greatest team in the history of college football — this year.»

If the level of hCG is determined to be between 5 and 25 mIU / ml, this is said to be an equivocal result, and another test should be performed in a few days to confirm pregnancy.

Local council election results in the wards making up Hallam constituency, while by no means good for the Liberal Democrats, paint a more equivocal picture than the polls, as a comparison of the 2010 local election results with those in the most recent local elections in 2014 shows.

The data in presidential election years is somewhat more equivocal.

Yet Labour's equivocal stance on further devolution to Scotland risks alienating its core vote; and recent polls suggest that the Party is on the verge of electoral meltdown in Scotland.

In the run - up to the 2011 Alternative Vote referendum, the party adopted an equivocal stance, advising its supporters, on 8 April, to «vote as you see fit».

People also know that he has an at - best equivocal attitude to some of the basics of defending the country and maintaining people's physical security; and they know that most of his colleagues in Parliament did not want him as leader.

Sure, together with the Scottish Greens there remains a pro-independence majority at Holyrood, but the Green manifesto was also equivocal when it came to #indyref2, so a renewed push in that context risks looking illegitimate.

While Lib Dems in government say the motion is evidence the party is not divided on the issue, Farron said its equivocal nature meant the Lib Dems had only proved they were «agnostic» on the issue.

AFL - CIO president Richard Trumka became the latest member of President Donald Trump's manufacturing to resign following the president's equivocal response to violence by white supremacists in Charlottesville, Virginia.

However, UK Foreign Secretary William Hague sounded more equivocal after Tuesday's conference on the future of Libya in London.

And MoveOn - which has launched ad campaigns in recent weeks pressuring equivocal senators to support the president's plan, and a public option - quickly turned its criticism on the White House.

Yet in his conclusion, Jefferson is less equivocal: «The remaining evidence suggests oseltamivir did not reduce influenza related lower respiratory tract complications.»

In equivocal cases, laparoscopy — a procedure in which a tiny camera and tools are inserted into the patient — can be used both to diagnose the site of the pregnancy and to treat iIn equivocal cases, laparoscopy — a procedure in which a tiny camera and tools are inserted into the patient — can be used both to diagnose the site of the pregnancy and to treat iin which a tiny camera and tools are inserted into the patient — can be used both to diagnose the site of the pregnancy and to treat it.

Loeb and Turner published their work online last fall and in the journal Astrobiology in April, but the astronomy community's reaction has been equivocal.

«Although the results are largely equivocal and in need of further study, studies have reported improvements in strength, muscle spasticity and pain in select populations.»

On the other hand, she says, «In laboratory studies, pH variability often limited the effects of ocean acidification, but the effects of temperature variability on responses to warming were equivocal.»

In response he issued an equivocal statement expressing sympathy for the parents» point of view: «To suggest that we should limit our students» access to specifically approved textbooks and instructional materials would not only inhibit self - directed learning but would also ill - prepare our young people for the challenges that will face them in the competitive global market of the 21st centurIn response he issued an equivocal statement expressing sympathy for the parents» point of view: «To suggest that we should limit our students» access to specifically approved textbooks and instructional materials would not only inhibit self - directed learning but would also ill - prepare our young people for the challenges that will face them in the competitive global market of the 21st centurin the competitive global market of the 21st century.

Matthew Johnson of the Perimeter Institute in Ontario conducted the most exhaustive survey last year, but his results have been equivocal at best.

The response ranged «Strong», leaves with an obvious visual response and significant reduction in Fv / Fm (generally less than a value of 0.5) to «Slight», leaves with an equivocal visual response and small reduction in Fv / Fm.

Frequency, Interobserver Reproducibility and Clinical Significance of Equivocal Peaks in PCR Clonality Testing Using Euroclonality / BIOMED -2 Primers.