Sentences with word «equivocation»

At best, conservatives feared that any hint of compromise was really a form of equivocation on their nonnegotiable doctrinal principles.

Since Jesus makes the following clear and concise statements without equivocation about the efficacy of prayers from believers,

Alas, as I've written before, such equivocation on the part of educators constitutes a win for the climate - denial movement, which has largely moved beyond characterizing climate change as an elaborate worldwide hoax and is now willing to settle for convincing people — in perpetuity, apparently — that the jury is still out.

The problem, I believe, derives from an unexamined equivocation in his concept of covenant: it refers both to historical events of pact - making and, metaphorically, to divine - human relationships.

«There is no room for equivocation here: the evil on display by these perpetrators of hate should be condemned and has no place in a country that draws strength from our diversity and humanity,» Dimon added.

What is more, the manner of the assassination of the treaty — a brief statement late on Friday last by the State Department in Washington and equivocation from David Maclean, the British minister in Rio — poisons the atmosphere of the summit.

There is no room for equivocation here: the evil on display by these perpetrators of hate should be condemned and has no place in a country that draws strength from our diversity and humanity.»

And after much equivocation over the bar with the android — he knows it's not a very nice thing to wake her, but — Jim rouses Aurora to join him for the next 89 years.

This is not equivocation.

No such equivocation here.

But if we can not first affirm his existence univocally, it is hard to see that there is any escape here too from pure equivocation.

Cooper exhausts himself trying to render Hostiles politically correct, though the film would be more convincing and vital if he'd indulged his genre - fueled fantasies without so much equivocation.

Previous schemes for preventing equivocation simply stored such signatures in the annotations of transaction records.

Bailey's poetic equivocations invite this in peaceful contemplation.

Consequently, it also precludes equivocation within the block.

Compared to the unremitting dismay emitting from the majority of the conservative blogosphere this morning, Bernstein's equivocation sounds positively gushy.

Here's hoping against hope that thinking adults, Christians especially, can sustain meaningful discourse without resorting to name - calling or cowardly equivocation.

As to the other replies, you have to understand that we regularly hear words like «faith» and «religion» used to describe atheists as closet religioous people, but the reality is that the Fallacy Of Equivocation only makes it seem they are the same thing.

It would be easy for a campus ministry group to wink and nod toward their evangelical ancestors, pointing to a doctrinal statement that doesn't exactly say the right things but doesn't contradict them either, while buying political protection and cultural shelter through equivocation and virtue signaling.

Continue reading «Disassembling the Mantra: Part / Whole Equivocation in the Category of the Ultimate»

Joseph Heller's comic novel Good and Gold suggests our human equivocation:

Instead he gave us the art of the public equivocation.

But differences between «nations» (ethnos in the Greek) in redemptive history and modern nation - states are significant enough that Christians should avoid facile equivocation.

Eurosceptic troublemakers have forced David Cameron into a reluctant equivocation which collapses under scrutiny.

Their cautious conclusion, based on comparisons with Scotland and local government, and stated with all due equivocation and every possible reservation, is that «the data examined here broadly seems to point to a more middle of the road conclusion that UK central government «cost a bit more and worked a bit worse» over the thirty years considered here».

As a crunch period approaches, in which Britain's future trade agreements with the EU must be agreed one way or the other, the time for judicious equivocation is almost over.

Johnson could not survive in No 10 because the Conservative party needs an obfuscator in charge, someone to protect the straining extremes of its moderate and right - wings from each other with highly polished equivocation.

That is what makes Charles Moore's suggested equivocation of Mughal and the English Defence League so obnoxious.

After seemingly interminable equivocation over whether he would like to see his own party fully in charge of Albany, Gov. Andrew Cuomo conceded under questioning yesterday that full Democratic domination of the State Senate would be an «optimal» — if unlikely — arrangement.

The soft left view at the leadership election can be characterised as apathy at Yvette's establishment, Brownite grind; an allergic reaction to Liz's late - Blair confrontation and scepticism at Andy's reprise of Ed Miliband's muddled equivocation.

Earlier systems have used the Bitcoin machinery to guard against equivocation, but for verification, they required the download of the entire blockchain, which is 110 gigabytes and growing hourly.

To prevent equivocation between blocks, it's still necessary to confirm that the bitcoin that the Catena user spends in one block is the same one that it spent the last time it made a public assertion.

Equivocal phrases like «underlines how important cholesterol is» is a dishonest equivocation.

As the film progresses, it becomes clearer that the road to hell is littered with these kinds of quailing equivocations and troubling self - delusion.

Pitched as a Falling Down urban angst actioner, Changing Lanes may have trouble finding an audience, but it deserves consideration and discussion despite the vapid equivocation of its rabble - pleasing finale.

It's the O.J. trial in a nutshell, from gentrified equivocation to a grassroots eruption burning down its own house.

One might also sense such an answer is less meaningful to Haneke than having achieved his patented form of sadistic equivocation.

It is one of the terrible beauties of Hollywood genre filmmaking that it remains committed to the cause of ideological equivocation, even while seeming to attempt to confront the Realities of Globalization, Extremism, and Socio - Political Anxiety in the Post-9 / 11 World: it is consistency amidst chaos, perpetuating chaos.