Vacillation

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Vacillation 2008

Let's take a look at what the frozen "Prince of Vacillation" has been doing while da Mayor has been travelling and fundraising and complaining and not controlling crime and hampering the Redevelopment Authority:

Archive 2007-06-01 2007

“The Elsinore Vacillation,” he replied — and I find I must stress this — in no more time than I have given you.

Christopher Hitchens on the cultural fatwa Hitchens, Christopher 2009

The last entry is over two months old, but in it Couhig sees fit to attack Mitch Landrieu, calling him the "Prince of Vacillation" because Mitch freezes "at the very time bold leadership is required".

Archive 2007-06-01 2007

The core followers embark on a search for equilibrium of the soul through a re-reading of Yeats's poetry, especially Vacillation.

Kenzaburo Oe: Laughing Prophet and Soulful Healer 2007

Vacillation of purpose was not at all unusual in her experience of her master.

No Name 2003

Vacillation would presently drive the Congregation to such a pitch of distrust that they would break with England in despair; whereas the primary object of interference had been to make sure of a powerful party which would be inevitably committed to forwarding Elizabeth's interests.

England under the Tudors

Vacillation prevented criticism, and we had to try the experiment again and again before we could arrive at the necessary equipose to indicate the right direction of taste and opinion.

Early Reviews of English Poets John Louis Haney

Vacillation, indecision, fitful outbursts of unhealthy activity followed by cowardly depression, selfish cruelty, and criminal weakness are characteristic of the public life of Greece from the struggle with Macedonia to the final conquest by the arms of Rome.

Birth Control A Statement of Christian Doctrine against the Neo-Malthusians Halliday G. Sutherland 1921

Vacillation, or fear, or incertitude, or indecision, were strangers to whom he would never be introduced.

T. De Witt Talmage As I Knew Him Mrs. T. de Witt Talmage 1867