Sentences with phrase «with equivocal»

A seller is guilty of fraud if he responds with an equivocal, evasive, or misleading answer calculated to have a false impression, even though the answer may be literally true.

In those animals with an equivocal change in basal hormone level, the responses to challenge by exogenous thyrotropin or adrenocorticotropin are subnormal, owing to the hypoplasia or atrophy of the thyroid gland and adrenal cortex.

I came back I think in 2009 with the equivocal Giardia infection.

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.

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

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.»

Not exact matches

Trump responded with a more equivocal statement, claiming he was repeating information provided to him by his «generals.»

To begin with, the authors are equivocal about what they consider the morally (as opposed to statistically) normative family form.

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.

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

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.

The evidence for the risk associated with multiple abortions is more equivocal.

However, the evidence for this hypotheses is equivocal as the stacked benthic foraminifera δ18O record, which is thought to represent global climate, may [14] or may not [1] contain temporal signatures associated with key events in hominin evolution.

* Duration of a few weeks * An average dose more equivocal to a «loading» phase than a «maintenance phase» * A larger dose for potential responders who lack natural, dietary creatine * A smaller dose for potential non-responders with a significant amount of existing dietary creatine intake * A training protocol that emphasizes all phases of muscular energetics to take advantage of the ATP - CP, glycolytic, and oxidative effects of creatine supplementation (HIIT is ideal for cardiovascular exercise when supplementing creatine, due to the repeated bouts of high intensity work) * A training protocol that incorporates negatives in order to stimulate satellite cell fusion, as per Dr. Hatfield's theory of holistic training * A training protocol that emphasizes repeated bouts of work per the results of creatine studies * A nutrition protocol tailored to reduce post-workout cortisol levels, which would involve a post-workout shake and possible glutamine supplementation * A nutrition protocol that takes advantage of carb - load (super compensation) near the end of the cycle

Adal ambles through the exchange with an air of equivocal malleability, vaguely sceptical and vaguely conspiratorial at the same time, and the ambiguity of his characterization is an example of what «Homeland» as a show does best — taking superficially innocuous scenes (in this case, the camera lingers on Adal as he pours Lockhart a cup of coffee) and planting seeds of doubts in the viewers» minds as to the exact intentions of the actors in them.

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?)

The worst idea is its attempt to give Gerry depth with a family in peril it promptly relegates to the sidelines before reintroducing at the end in what feels like every bit the equivocal band - aid that it is.

Those decisions suggest an equivocal relationship with movie stardom that may be tested again.

«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.»

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.

While dogs with cTLI values in this «equivocal» range do not meet the criteria for a diagnosis of EPI, some (especially at the low end of the range) may still benefit from pancreatic enzyme supplementation.

certainly, if there is kidney disease present the recommendation is less equivocal as these low salt diets are designed with other features more specifically for kidney disease.

A private Facebook message from Lucia Diego, director of LD50 (a small gallery in the East End), voiced vague equivocal support for alt - right principles and Donald Trump — «I'm not even sure if I disagree with the Muslim ban» — and led to a mass of Facebook responses when artist Sophie Jung (who was rightfully alarmed by Deigo's far - right leanings) posted it online for pubic view.

The lower gallery is occupied by Looking for One (2015), a 120 x 405 x 195 cm white ceramic tile intervention reminiscent of a toilet or shower area featuring a still life (comprising a polished steel laptop - shaped item, an ashtray with cast popcorn sprouting from it and a multi-purpose cleaner cast in resin) and Taken by Your Equivocal Stance I, II and III (2015), three metal and glass installations framing hoodies and puffer jackets, adorned with eggs balanced on the edges of the sculpture.

Because Ralph Humphrey is saddled anew with the unfortunate appellation «'70s painter» each time his work is rediscovered — as happens seemingly once a decade — the results of these excavations have typically been equivocal.

His focused, unencumbered brushwork and equivocal dark and light saturations of color resound with a clarity of purpose.

This conceptual, electoral parody was co-exhibited with a «killer's row» of framed drawings, arranged along axes of the «Equivocal» and the «Absolute», depicting the most frequently cited luminaries accompanied by representative texts taken right from the ballots.

In the second space is a conflation of Grosz's preposterous angst with a contemporary, fully equivocal maleness, Forties Man: Fashions in Trauma 1948 - 2009.

This amounts to a success of the economic interests behind the contrarian position, as the public is left with a far more equivocal view of the situation than the science actually indicates.

The IPCC report was quite equivocal about the hurricane link, so this recent article by Emmanual is actually in line with mainstreaam opinion in the scientific community.

With respect to soil carbon in particular, Briske et al. correctly make realize that the work they have evaluated in inconclusive: «The response of SOC to stocking rate is equivocal, based partially on the limited number of investigations conducted» (Briske et al., 2008).

The evidence is «equivocal» because it does not agree with limited land based observation of cloud — something that may be a little shortsighted as these changes seem significantly to be associated with sea surface temperature in the tropics and the influences of the northern and southern annular modes.

But because most reporters don't have the time, curiosity, or professionalism to check out the science, they write equivocal stories with counterposing quotes that play directly into the hands of the oil and coal industries by keeping the public confused.

Does a more equivocal statement by one scientist, communicating outside his normal channels of communication, with justifiable concerns that a lay audience would read too much or too little into his words and not approach them with the nuance a scientist is trained to do, communicating his own personal views at a time when this acceptance was developing, mean he is guilty of deliberate dishonesty.

The new position statement is equivocal, beginning with the observation that «the AAPG membership is divided on the degree of influence that anthropogenic CO2 has on recent and potential global temperature increases», and going on to say «Certain climate simulation models predict that the warming trend will continue, as reported through NAS, AGU, AAAS, and AMS.

Currently available proxy data are equivocal concerning a possible increase in the intensity of the meridional overturning cell for either transient or equilibrium climate states during the Pliocene, although an increase would contrast with the North Atlantic transient deep - water production decreases that are found in most coupled model simulations for the 21st century (see Chapter 10).

Even Yvonne Bambrick, who has written the definitive Urban Cycling Survival Guide, is equivocal about this, showing this drawing and writing «to indicate a right turn there are two options: extend your left arm with your elbow bent and your forearm and hand pointed up, or extend your right arm out to the side.»

Confronted with the letter, Blount was equivocal.

In response to Section 702, a contentious loophole in the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) that comes with a nasty side effect of accidentally surveilling American citizens, Wray's answers are less equivocal.