How To Use Ambiguously In A Sentence
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And as long as we use the term ambiguously and fail to discriminate between conscience proper and the term as used in the looser, larger sense, we will have nothing but confusion.
To Infidelity and Back
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Second, cheap oil is unambiguously good for European consumers.
Times, Sunday Times
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Since individual univalents or bivalents in some nuclei may lie too close to each other to be resolved unambiguously, this method underestimates the frequency of achiasmate chromosomes.
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Our body image in fact is central, if ambiguously so, to our mental and physical well-being.
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It is therefore possible to unambiguously assign a vehicle to each ticket.
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In each case it was not possible unambiguously to align portions of the extreme amino and carboxyl termini of the sequences.
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The blocky, black, businesslike appearance of the stock pistol has been replaced by a two-tone visage that testifies unambiguously to extensive alteration.
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We can unambiguously conclude that there is a situation in which voluntarily oriented attention subserves feature integration when tested with multiple search items.
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It said the document must to'fully and unambiguously reflect the scope of uncertainty' over who is understood to be in charge after an indecisive outcome.
Times, Sunday Times
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As a general rule, for the movies they came up with lighter endings - most of his plays end ambiguously and darkly.
Reluctant Readers (copy)
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We have shown that phase-sensitive specular neutron reflectometry can be used to determine accurately and unambiguously the SLD depth profiles of biomimetic membranes with a resolution in the subnanometer range.
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The justices stated unambiguously that Quebec has no legal right to secede unilaterally and that only a process of constitutional amendment can change Quebec's legal status within confederation.
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But he was not an unambiguously good model.
The Times Literary Supplement
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What makes this hypothetical unusual and unrealistic is the unambiguously objective manifestation of intent in the advertisement.
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Rising living standards and well-being are ambiguously related at the best of times, and not simply for ecological reasons.
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Forgiveness was the punctum I found in Unforgiven and which is already there in the text, if ambiguously.
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Of course he used them ambiguously, contradictorily and dialectically, but use them he did.
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Only unambiguously aligned positions were considered in phylogenetic analyses.
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Soft chords formed a suspended background for loud attacks that took an eternity to die away, and the aptly titled ‘Ten Thousand Shades of Blue’ diminuendoed into ambiguously bittersweet dissonance.
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To clinch the argument, we needed a fossil that unambiguously showed a nonavian dinosaur with a feathery body covering.
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The reported information was of a factual nature, and so could be unambiguously coded.
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And what they celebrated, unambiguously, was their own content.
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Second, the results of standard cladistic biogeographic analyses, which may combine groups of different ages, cannot be unambiguously attributed to any particular cause.
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Nor were all these changes unambiguously for the better.
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He talked ambiguously, and was so apprehensive of what I might say that I had not the heart to catechise him.
Chapter 12: The Bishop
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Where the moral formation of a people is deficient, the general will malign, or historical circumstance unpropitious, democracy is quite unambiguously wicked in its results.
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Rosenbaum makes this more or less plain when he suggests that Encrypted within [Nabokov's] words, encoded indecipherably, ambiguously, is the equivalent of the secret of lightning.
The Biographical Fallacy
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Unfortunately, our modern consciousness wants to hypostatize nature - to grasp clearly and unambiguously what this ‘thing’ is so that we can preserve it.
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Its characters are presented ambiguously and their conflicts are not structured in terms of clear-cut oppositions between good and evil.
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Zaire's national conference on democracy ended ambiguously.
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I explicitly and unambiguously said the opposite.
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In the Anglo-Saxon legal tradition women were unambiguously bearers of such rights, whether as heiresses - in the absence of male heirs - or by right of marriage or as the beneficiaries of gifts.
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It is a surrealistic tale ambiguously told on the subject of alien abduction.
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Interpreters generally agree that it is the Levite who throws her to the crowd, though the text only states ambiguously that “the man seized his concubine, and put her out to them” (Judg 19: 25) without noting specifically which man is meant.
Concubine of a Levite: Bible.
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You don't realize how often we use terms ambiguously in our technical jargon ...
MSDN Blogs
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With the Scherzo we are back to bare unisons and octaves, though now assertive, but the G with which the music starts makes the key unambiguously clear as C major.
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They are accepted as an equivocal thing at worst, sometimes as unambiguously good.
Times, Sunday Times
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It again enumerated the difficulties with attribution, but again the report was preceded by a front end that ambiguously claimed that “The changes observed over the last several decades are likely mostly due to human activities, but we cannot rule out that some significant part of these changes is also a reflection of natural variability.”
Think Progress » Bush Brags He Kept Campaign Promise on Global Warming, Forgets Pledge To Regulate CO2
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The FSA also needs to make sure that it sets out its expectations clearly and unambiguously, which does not always happen.
Times, Sunday Times
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But it also jokes ambiguously about the plenitude of additional commitments that it would be possible to take on, and the importance one's works and days might then assume, if only the usual limits of time and space did not apply.
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We could ascribe unambiguously the content of each spermathecae to either of the two mates for only 12 females.
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The other question is whether the impact of cheap oil on the global economy will be so unambiguously good.
Times, Sunday Times
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Whether he be freeborn or a freed slave, Atistia's husband unambiguously constructs his identity, as well as his wife's identity, more generally as a Roman citizen on the monument's eastern facade.
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It's fun to have some words (those with which a tercet ends) hang ambiguously for a moment, and for others (those which begin the following tercet) come out of a silence.
Sheryda Warrener reads Karen Solie
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For ‘circle’ is used ambiguously, meaning both the circle, unqualified, and the individual circle, because there is no name peculiar to the individuals.
Metaphysics
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Rising living standards and well-being are ambiguously related at the best of times, and not simply for ecological reasons.
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He fluctuates ambiguously between sexual identities: On the one hand, he is hyperbolically heterosexual, with a voracious appetite for women; on the other hand, he is effete and always primped.
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this letter is worded ambiguously
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The trouble is that, since Lacan rejects both a biological account of how any erotogenic zone establishes itself (passim) and also a developmental account of how one zone succeeds another (Four Fundamental Concepts, p. 64), he is prevented from making the necessary distinctions which will allow us to see unambiguously whether he agrees with his predecessors or whether he thinks of the eye and the ear as erotogenic zones in their own right.
Lacan: An Exchange
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Being known as a bluffer, however, is an unambiguously bad thing.
The Reality-Based Community
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At first glance, Colossal Youth gives the appearance of being almost atemporal, with no clearly delineated narrative, a series of scenes that take place in ambiguously defined present.
GreenCine Daily: Same time next year?
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To unambiguously cover cases of retrodiction, the assumption is better put in terms of the unobserved resembling, in relevant respects, the observed.
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The removal of ambiguously aligned positions left 269 sites shared between all four protein families.
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Such poems as these complicitly and ambiguously critique racism, sexism, and violence.
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The double bond positions of 11 conjugated trienes were unambiguously located through a simple derivatization method amenable to nanogram-scale analyses.
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Pen and paper tend to inhibit the vigour of her views, but in one to one conversation she expresses herself most unambiguously.
THE INNOCENTS AT HOME (A SUPERINTENDENT KENWORTHY NOVEL)
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He has not recorded such a consistent display of unambiguously jazzy improvisation since the mid-1970s.
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If the skin looks great after dermabrasion or plastic surgery but the whites and pupils of the eye look more timeworn, that may make age seem more indefinite, but not unambiguously younger.
Shock of Gray
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_Ambifariam_ may mean "ambiguously" in the sense of involving both sides of a contradiction (i.e. both of two contradictory propositions).
The Apologia and Florida of Apuleius of Madaura
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The mock (and ambiguously historical) apocalypse provides the setting for the sexual thematics that comprise the main matter of Garter's book.
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He will insist that in some fantastic way his Auntie Flossie’s death is mixed up with our eggbeater, which is what we ambiguously call our magnetic fuse.”
Died in the Wool
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The LION database of English poetry has 144 instances of ‘under God’, and quite a few of them seem to me to be unambiguously locative adjuncts modifying noun phrases.
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Increasingly known as "moobs" which is short for man-boobs The ambiguously ambidextrous quality of the word makes it a very safe and PC term in public.
The Many Splendors of Boobs
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That's the silly thing about identity systems, their content is meaningless unless identity is assigned unambiguously and unchangeably at the moment of birth!
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If Curiosity has unambiguously detected them, it would force a complete reappraisal.
Times, Sunday Times
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Some words are ambiguously hyphenated in the original, for example compare "birdlike" (page 40) with "bird-like" (page 383).
The Guests Of Hercules
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The opposite of secret laws is openly specified, written down laws, and a strong form of that, which subsumes e.g. the rule of lenity and the prohibition on ambiguous criminal laws, is something like: nobody should be convicted of a crime unless it was unambiguously written in a law, which they could (at least in theory) read, that their behavior was criminal.
The Volokh Conspiracy » Debating Textualism
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Suitably chastened, may I humbly entreat him to, unambiguously and without obfuscation, answer a few pertinent questions?
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In several sculptures, painted yarn and spools of thread are made ambiguously tactile by offering hard surfaces on objects one knows to be soft.
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Rising living standards and well-being are ambiguously related at the best of times, and not simply for ecological reasons.
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It is precisely his tria nomina that signals unambiguously that he is a Roman citizen, whether freed or freeborn (slaves had only one name).
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The legislation had been ambiguously worded .
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Be in no doubt - it would be an unambiguously good thing.
Times, Sunday Times
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No hyphens at line divisions in this edition are authorial, except for seventy-three instances in which an authorial hyphen happens to occur ambiguously at a line division in this edition; those are identified, for convenience, in the appended ‘End-of Line Word-Division’, which also gives a list of the sixty-six instances of end-of-line word-division in the copy-text that could possibly affect hyphenation.
Collected Works of W. B. Yeats Volume III Autobiographies
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When the movie ends, as ambiguously as it began, the dominant note is not anger or even sadness, but a quiet feeling of brotherhood, a clearer sense of the ties that bind us together.
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In reality, it is often much harder to classify actual systems unambiguously than this simple dichotomy would suggest.
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No one had unambiguously located such genes in animals more primitive than the jawed vertebrates.
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The set of four gouaches on paper ambiguously stages tensions among the four men in a barren gray landscape.
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How ambiguously, that is, the two trends, empirical and metaphysical, were able to co-exist.
Psychology in Search of Psyches: Friedrich Schelling, Gotthilf Schubert and the Obscurities of the Romantic Soul
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It said the document must to'fully and unambiguously reflect the scope of uncertainty' over who is understood to be in charge after an indecisive outcome.
Times, Sunday Times
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Her first painting in an abstract style, A Quiet Place, suggests an ambiguously defined courtyard flanked by rectilinear columns and passageways.
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So they planned unambiguously, reserving their lives for each other and for the compensations of country-dwelling from which the average country-dweller is barred.
Chapter XXV
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To casually term her the "love" of a social inferior is playing fast and loose, or at the very least, unnecessarily ambiguously, with the evidence.
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Copyright law is unambiguously hostile to people who swap music files over the Internet.
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They suggest that female characters are often ambiguously placed as retributive agents and eroticized victims of violence.
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The painting is a self-portrait with the figure ambiguously caught somewhere in the mid-ground of opposing bedroom mirrors
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Extracts from the novel are included, which show somewhat ambiguously the conventionalism of the writer.
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This gives the composer plenty of opportunity to play with juxtapositions of high voices, and to set up Phaedra as an increasingly ferocious, death-dealing predator with designs on an innocent guy who just wants to be left alone with the ambiguously gendered Artemis.
Divided Inside, in Theme and Structure
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In the middle of the cinquecento, at least in certain cultivated circles, there was a taste for figures in paintings that ambiguously combined male and female characteristics.
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We are unambiguously in the overshot chicago airport limousine but openly it can be univocal that our new polish is nutrition enthrallingly nightmarish and heterogenous and at the ratty foolscap we are vibraphonist pejoratively it wharf footer to be as acarpellous and precooked as landward.
Rational Review
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In the defining moment of the film, Hedwig, a MTF transsexual played by a cisgender gay man, kisses Yitzhak, an ambiguously male character played by a cisgender woman.
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The word reprobation may be sometimes used ambiguously, but it was not so used by me: and, if it had been, blame for that thing ought not to be laid on me, who have used that word in the sense and according to the use of those, whose views I presented, but especially according to the sense in which it has been used by yourself, with whom I have begun this discussion.
The Works of James Arminius, Vol. 3
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All trees, both including and excluding gapped regions, found reciprocally monophyletic lineages for M. edulis and M. trossulus, with Baltic alleles falling unambiguously in both the M. edulis and M. trossulus clades.
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It said the document must to'fully and unambiguously reflect the scope of uncertainty' over who is understood to be in charge after an indecisive outcome.
Times, Sunday Times
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The opposite of secret laws is openly specified, written down laws, and a strong form of that, which subsumes e.g. the rule of lenity and the prohibition on ambiguous criminal laws, is something like: nobody should be convicted of a crime unless it was unambiguously written in a law, which they could at least in theory read, that their behavior was criminal.
The Volokh Conspiracy » Debating Textualism
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To Jack, Chris was not "jam-full of contradictions" but unambiguously treacherous.
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The noble falling fourths, echoed by the piano, re-establish the tonic key unambiguously.
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I left out the ad-hoc pronunciations for "pasta" because I don't know how to do it unambiguously, "serviette" because I don't know how to show /3:/ without implying rhoticity, and "napkin" because it's too bloody obvious -:
Languagehat.com: TRAI(T).
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Tragedy of the commons is the worst incentive problem provoked by ambiguously defined property rights.
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The trick is to make the meaning slide ambiguously from clause to clause, from sentence to sentence.
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The main theme is that the duties and responsibilities of each person in the organization are unambiguously defined.
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Haplotypes usually have to be estimated from the genotype data, with random assignation whenever the haplotype cannot be inferred unambiguously.
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Birt, a revolutionary technocrat who related ambiguously to artists, sent out conciliatory messages with his famously unstructured Armani suits.
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To be humane is an unambiguously good thing.
Times, Sunday Times
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This is much more sophisticated than your average slacker comedy, as it features, for a change, a female protagonist, the ambiguously named everywoman, She.
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When foggy preaching ambiguously handles the topic of social suffering, toughminded clergy bring a foghorn, exposing the policies and practices that, in part, contribute to disproportionately high levels of joblessness, foreclosures and poor health in black and brown communities.
Andrew Wilkes: Tough Minds And Tender Hearts: An Open Letter To Young Clergy
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For example, in relaxed myofibrils, it was unclear whether each Tmod striation could be unambiguously resolved into separate thin filament profiles.
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Her record company launched a campaign to re-situate her not as an Anglo singer with an ambiguously "foreign-sounding" last name.
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Endo is now being cited for the "clear statement rule" -- that in order to detain American citizens, the political branches must authorize such detention unambiguously.
Is That Legal?: Japanese American internment Archives
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As late as December, 1997 he was prating to MPs about the need for water in Scotland ‘to remain unambiguously in public ownership and to be clearly democratically accountable’.
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Every line, both verbal and musical, is ambiguously literal and self-critical.
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It unambiguously raises the effective cost of employment for minimum wage jobs.
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Even when Mr Obama has been unambiguously apologetic, his opponents often quote him out of context.
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Relevant theories are not developed to the point where they can be unambiguously tested against observations.
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Stalking customers after they signal their intentions unambiguously is a wheeze to hold on to someone who has taken a lot of trouble to break free.
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And so, you know, something like "Alex," where it's going along and it's sort of ambiguously island style and then all of the sudden the chorus is, you know, loud, downstroke kind of a thing.
Punch Brothers Serve Up A Bluegrass Cocktail
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There was a phrase cunningly introduced and ambiguously worded, which seemed to mean that he had come by his wound in her cause.
Saracinesca
