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There was also an assumption that … we could take our sweet time, there was also some ambivalence in the Biden administration. – Vice President Daniel Runde	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
Equity markets are in a state of ambivalence, they should find their footing as the week develops, expectations for the non-farm payroll (data) are relatively subdued given that we are in the process of re-opening the economy. A lack of surprise will comfort the market that tapering is only slowly coming. – Sebastien Galy	Found on Reuters 2 years ago
Sabism is a dualism and a polyvalent sign of ambivalence, bipolarity and synthesis. – Vladan Kuzmanović	added by vladan_k 3 years ago
Anyone who states- my country is not so innocent- may be stating a truth which goes not only to his feelings about patriotism, but speaks to his state of mind and ambivalence as to what he will do should he gain an office of power and control. For such is the hallmark of demagogues. – RAS CARDO REGGAE	added by anonymous 4 years ago
There has been a lot of talk in the last 24 hours about one of our presidential candidates and his seeming ambivalence about David Duke and the KKK, so let me make it perfectly clear, that is not the view of Republicans who have been elected to the United States Senate, and I condemn his views in the most forceful way. – Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell	Found on CNN 8 years ago
Amongst people in cities that have more access to foreign information and are the most switched on, there is likely more ambivalence or even cynicism over the use of precious resources for things that bring no tangible benefit to the people and cause worsening relations with the outside world. – Sokeel Park of the Liberty	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
There was a part of me that really wanted to explore something I'm calling the 'cult of ambivalence' that I feel now permeates America. – Ben Watkins	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
You have this odd combination here for ambivalence on the part of prosecutors and juries and a statute that permits the imposition of death in most murders, in some cases it was lack of resources, in some cases it was the belief that a jury wouldn't impose it. – Sam Kamin	Found on FOX News 8 years ago
Now that we're in this age of ISIS and so forth, Republicans have lost their ambivalence toward interventionism, it can be difficult for candidates to make news anyway during these summer months, and with Trump there, it makes matters worse. In some ways maybe it's unfair to judge him to see what happens in the fall. But that overarching problem is something he has yet to solve. – Dante Scala	Found on CNN 8 years ago
It did stir a lot of ambivalence and even outright criticism from people who say, 'Well you know, ISIS is bad but at least ISIS is standing up to the Shiites and the Iranian menace,' now this war on the Houthis is a godsend to them because they are able to stir up this new Saudi nationalism, this pan-Sunni fervor, and it's to show they are defending the Sunnis... for domestic benefit. – Fredric Wehrey	Found on FOX News 9 years ago
Clips you showed demonstrate the ambivalence of this administration about what is the nature of the war on terror and whether it’s actually still going on. – Charles Krauthammer	Found on FOX News 9 years ago
For a mother the project of raising a boy is the most fulfilling project she can hope for. She can watch him, as a child, play the games she was not allowed to play; she can invest in him her ideas, aspirations, ambitions, and values -- or whatever she has left of them; she can watch her son, who came from her flesh and whose life was sustained by her work and devotion, embody her in the world. So while the project of raising a boy is fraught with ambivalence and leads inevitably to bitterness, it is the only project that allows a woman to be -- to be through her son, to live through her son. – Andrea Dworkin	added by anonymous 9 years ago
The ambivalence of writing is such that it can be considered both an act and an interpretive process that follows after an act with which it cannot coincide. As such, it both affirms and denies its own nature. – Paul de Man	added by anonymous 9 years ago
Modern science knows much about such conflicts. We call the mental state that engenders it ambivalence: a collision between thought and feeling. – David Seabury	added by anonymous 10 years ago
Men are confused. They're conflicted. They want a woman who's their intellectual equal, but they're afraid of women like that. They want a woman they can dominate, but then they hate her for being weak. It's an ambivalence that goes back to a man's relationship with his mother. Source of his life, center of his universe, object of both his fear and his love. – Andrew Schneider	added by anonymous 14 years ago

There was also an assumption that … we could take our sweet time, there was also some ambivalence in the Biden administration.

– Vice President Daniel Runde

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

Equity markets are in a state of ambivalence, they should find their footing as the week develops, expectations for the non-farm payroll (data) are relatively subdued given that we are in the process of re-opening the economy. A lack of surprise will comfort the market that tapering is only slowly coming.

– Sebastien Galy

Found on Reuters
2 years ago

Sabism is a dualism and a polyvalent sign of ambivalence, bipolarity and synthesis.

– Vladan Kuzmanović

added by vladan_k
3 years ago

Anyone who states- my country is not so innocent- may be stating a truth which goes not only to his feelings about patriotism, but speaks to his state of mind and ambivalence as to what he will do should he gain an office of power and control. For such is the hallmark of demagogues.

– RAS CARDO REGGAE

added by anonymous
4 years ago

There has been a lot of talk in the last 24 hours about one of our presidential candidates and his seeming ambivalence about David Duke and the KKK, so let me make it perfectly clear, that is not the view of Republicans who have been elected to the United States Senate, and I condemn his views in the most forceful way.

– Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell

Found on CNN
8 years ago

Amongst people in cities that have more access to foreign information and are the most switched on, there is likely more ambivalence or even cynicism over the use of precious resources for things that bring no tangible benefit to the people and cause worsening relations with the outside world.

– Sokeel Park of the Liberty

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

There was a part of me that really wanted to explore something I'm calling the 'cult of ambivalence' that I feel now permeates America.

– Ben Watkins

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

You have this odd combination here for ambivalence on the part of prosecutors and juries and a statute that permits the imposition of death in most murders, in some cases it was lack of resources, in some cases it was the belief that a jury wouldn't impose it.

– Sam Kamin

Found on FOX News
8 years ago

Now that we're in this age of ISIS and so forth, Republicans have lost their ambivalence toward interventionism, it can be difficult for candidates to make news anyway during these summer months, and with Trump there, it makes matters worse. In some ways maybe it's unfair to judge him to see what happens in the fall. But that overarching problem is something he has yet to solve.

– Dante Scala

Found on CNN
8 years ago

It did stir a lot of ambivalence and even outright criticism from people who say, 'Well you know, ISIS is bad but at least ISIS is standing up to the Shiites and the Iranian menace,' now this war on the Houthis is a godsend to them because they are able to stir up this new Saudi nationalism, this pan-Sunni fervor, and it's to show they are defending the Sunnis... for domestic benefit.

– Fredric Wehrey

Found on FOX News
9 years ago

Clips you showed demonstrate the ambivalence of this administration about what is the nature of the war on terror and whether it’s actually still going on.

– Charles Krauthammer

Found on FOX News
9 years ago

For a mother the project of raising a boy is the most fulfilling project she can hope for. She can watch him, as a child, play the games she was not allowed to play; she can invest in him her ideas, aspirations, ambitions, and values -- or whatever she has left of them; she can watch her son, who came from her flesh and whose life was sustained by her work and devotion, embody her in the world. So while the project of raising a boy is fraught with ambivalence and leads inevitably to bitterness, it is the only project that allows a woman to be -- to be through her son, to live through her son.

– Andrea Dworkin

added by anonymous
9 years ago

The ambivalence of writing is such that it can be considered both an act and an interpretive process that follows after an act with which it cannot coincide. As such, it both affirms and denies its own nature.

– Paul de Man

added by anonymous
9 years ago

Modern science knows much about such conflicts. We call the mental state that engenders it ambivalence: a collision between thought and feeling.

– David Seabury

added by anonymous
10 years ago

Men are confused. They're conflicted. They want a woman who's their intellectual equal, but they're afraid of women like that. They want a woman they can dominate, but then they hate her for being weak. It's an ambivalence that goes back to a man's relationship with his mother. Source of his life, center of his universe, object of both his fear and his love.

– Andrew Schneider

added by anonymous
14 years ago

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