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Nevertheless, through the Delphic oracle, the polis could ensure some, if ambiguous, assurance of the correctness of its religious discourse.
In the recognition of ambiguous and multivocal model, the perception of the human will oscillate.
In the UK, although the legal situation is somewhat ambiguous, it appears that all forms of aconite are effectively banned for internal use.
The judgment was ambiguous over the adjoining 1.8 square mile plot, opening the way for both sides to claim it.
However, Sutley has created a platform wherein his actors can create fully realized and rounded yet ambiguous characters.
The plot is sufficiently ravelled for the entry to Valhalla to have only ambiguous significance.
But in the following passage the syntax is such that the referent of the word lap is ambiguous.
To be a Yiddish poet is to enter a curiously ambiguous position between tradition and private experience.
For the record, I say to the House this law is ambiguous in terms of its interpretation.
Had it been seen abstracted from that context by the US public, there would have been a more ambiguous reaction.
Mr Sumption says, if necessary, that in the present case the phraseology is both obscure and ambiguous.
Much of the report is hard to read and contains many ambiguous or misleading statements.
This can result in obscurity or in a ruling which is ambiguous on matters of importance.
Either way, you just can't be quoted saying such amazingly ambiguous statements.
It is inherent in their task which involves applying rules stated in words that are often ambiguous.
But what elevates the novel beyond the genre is the ambiguous, enigmatic voice of Mary herself.
Once more, the evidence is ambiguous and interpretations have become polarized.
Others are more enigmatic and ambiguous in both their origins and meanings.
They considered the Act to be ambiguous and open to interpretation on this point.
But even this latter assertion is somewhat uncertain and ambiguous for several reasons.
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I suspected him of being too anxious to rid himself of the ambiguous trust imposed upon him without so much as a by-your-leave.
The relationship between the output of capital goods and that of consumer goods is equally ambiguous.
Language is ambiguous, imprecise, and not neutral in respect to the phenomena observed and accounted for.
In return for all this solicitude the lawyer had an unaddressed and ambiguous scrawl in his possession.
While the terms of the question remain ambiguous, it is uncapable of an answer.
That in this case the word church or church form is certainly ambiguous and not univocal.
An ambiguous, prepotent figure had come to disturb the ancient, subtle, and jealously guarded balance of the English Constitution.
The legal status of therapy is still ambiguous in many states.
The underlying phonology of the sound marked by the upsilon of sun is ambiguous.
They are somewhat ambiguous as to their susceptibility to comparison.
An ambiguous and enigmatic figure, Sui functions outside the norms of conventional morality, and yet, is intensely principled.
A human other is more convincing and less ambiguous, and will teach us humaneness not by invective but by example.
Over time, I learnt how to incorporate ambiguous lyrics so my songs became a bit more etherial and not too literal.
The rank, wealth, and eminent character of the deceased must have insured the strictest scrutiny into every ambiguous circumstance.
A cold, ambiguous smile was the only reply he received to this speech.
Although much of the story remains ambiguous, the action, much of it terrifying, lends the story palpability.
Let the ambiguous procession of events reveal their own ambiguousness.
Her face was the oddest mixture of youth and maturity, and beneath her candid brow her searching little smile seemed to contain a world of ambiguous intentions.
By way of answer to this, it has been triumphantly asked, Why not in the first instance omit that ambiguous power, and rely upon the latter resource?
The pretty little girl held her mother by the hand, and it was easy to see that the lady had quickened her pace somewhat at the child's ambiguous phrase.
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