Sentences with phrase «equivocal use»

This equivocal use of the language of faith never really served well to clarify the faculty's position, and it almost inevitably seemed to some to evade the issue of authority within the church.

Not exact matches

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).

Dr. Webbe: Both tests have been used on the sideline with equivocal results.

Mitchell offered a very equivocal form of clarification with a tweet which used the famous Michael Winner phrase «calm down dear».

Acting Supreme Court justice Roger McDonough branded evidence Dixon used to support his argument «equivocal and confusing.»

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 it.

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

I read a few articles on the use of Splenda, but the evidence for its negative effects on health is equivocal.

That's the basic premise of NBC's engaging, fed - up - with - sexism crime caper «Good Girls» (premiering Monday), which uses the word «good» in a bluntly equivocal sense, referring to three suburban women (why girls?)

«Because their mothers have already proven that daughters can provide their parents with old age support, and because singletons have no brothers for their parents to favor, daughters have more power than ever before to defy disadvantageous gender norms while using equivocal ones to their own advantage.»

Those researchers at Cornell claimed the earlier studies supporting the use of vitamin C were uncontrolled and the results equivocal.

«Based on these studies, and many others using fossil and historical records, we argue that evidence for the widely cited view that future climate change poses an equal or greater threat to global biodiversity than anthropogenic land - use change and habitat loss (Thomas et al., 2004) is equivocal: extinctions driven by the latter processes of habitat loss pose a far greater threat to global biodiversity.

Based on these studies, and many others using fossil and historical records, we argue that evidence for the widely cited view that future climate change poses an equal or greater threat to global biodiversity than anthropogenic land - use change and habitat loss (Thomas et al., 2004) is equivocal

The observational data were equivocal and could be used to support the schemes of Ptolemy, Tycho, or Copernicus.

The use of the equivocal term «and / or» has been often criticized....

Subsequently, when it came into the public domain in 2005, it revealed an equivocal conclusion: «I remain of the opinion that the safest course would be to secure the adoption of a further resolution to authorise the use of force.»

Nonetheless, early studies suggesting the importance of parent involvement are treated as definitive, regardless of the equivocal nature of the data, and they are used to support the position that all types of parent involvement are important.

The literature is equivocal regarding the role of internalizing problems in the etiology of adolescent substance use.

First, the direction of the positive association between fathers» internalizing problems and mothers» use of emotion talk is equivocal because both parental characteristics were measured at the same time.

Background: The Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale (HADS) is widely used but evaluation of its psychometric properties has produced equivocal results.