equivocation

• His equivocation is a tacit endorsement of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Lt. Col. Ralph Peters, a retired Army intelligence officer, said Thursday.
• Taking refuge in equivocation, our academic elite has put its very mandate at risk, classically defined by John Milton as: "Beholding the bright countenance of truth in the quiet and still air of delightful studies."
• After considerable equivocation, the regime took control of much of Chinese industry.
• The medieval Catholic Church elevated the idea of equivocation -- saying something true but meaning it one way rather than another, as in the Saint found who reported to would-be persecutors "That Saint is not far from here," -- to Clintonian heights. —  3quarksdaily
• Moral equivocation has been all the rage in our institutions of higher learning since the —  The Jawa Report

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