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Equivocal in sentence

17 examples of Equivocal in a sentence

The equivocal nature of Iran’s alliances, however, can be a mixed blessing.
On the issue of Iran’s nuclear ambitions, the Iranian government’s equivocal position also is a source of growing concern.
The results of quantitative easing in the United States and the United Kingdom have been equivocal.
Against the background of an equivocal United States policy, Russia’s calculated intervention in the Syrian civil war is a rare case in which a limited use of power in the region resulted in a major diplomatic shakeup.
The commitment of Sudan’s government to the CPA has always been equivocal.
Unfortunately, the answer here is much less equivocal.
Many Poles are wary of the Church's equivocal attitude towards democracy, and are allergic to its aggressive presence in politics.
Finally, product labels must reflect negative or equivocal results, not just those that are positive.
This man, as will easily be understood, belonged to a condition in life which rendered him the least reluctant to appear in so equivocal a character.
There was so much that was equivocal in his movements and manner, that often, when, in the privacy of their household, she was about to offer a philippic on Washington and his followers, discretion sealed her mouth, and distrust beset her mind.
Laura Lyons, of equivocal reputation, a long step will have been made towards clearing one incident in this chain of mysteries.
Elizabeth saw directly that her father had not the smallest intention of yielding; but his answers were at the same time so vague and equivocal, that her mother, though often disheartened, had never yet despaired of succeeding at last.
But there was less equivocal testimony, which the credulity of the assembly, or of the greater part, greedily swallowed, however incredible.
He made a curious grimace--one of his strange and equivocal demonstrations--threw down his cue and followed me from the room.
This cell, with the exception, possibly, of some glass phials, relegated to a corner, and filled with a decidedly equivocal powder, which strongly resembled the alchemist's "powder of projection," presented nothing strange or mysterious.
It was this deficiency, I considered, while running over in thought the perfect keeping of the character of the premises with the accredited character of the people, and while speculating upon the possible influence which the one, in the long lapse of centuries, might have exercised upon the other—it was this deficiency, perhaps, of collateral issue, and the consequent undeviating transmission, from sire to son, of the patrimony with the name, which had, at length, so identified the two as to merge the original title of the estate in the quaint and equivocal appellation of the “House of Usher”—an appellation which seemed to include, in the minds of the peasantry who used it, both the family and the family mansion.
I learned, moreover, at intervals, and through broken and equivocal hints, another singular feature of his mental condition.