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- adjective Not
ambivalent .
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The young person is described as unambivalent, secure, and joyful at finding “real answers to life’s dilemmas”; they are egocentric, often tolerant of parents fears, or derisive, angry, and impatient, without any genuine sensitivity or emotional empathy.
Clinical Work with Adolescents Judith Marks Mishne 1986
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The law, as articulated in rabbinic Judaism's founding document, is unambivalent: one does not negotiate with kidnappers.
Rabbi Bradley Shavit Artson: The Morality Of Redeeming Captives: Gilad Shalit And The Talmud Rabbi Bradley Shavit Artson 2011
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There was perhaps a moment when an unambivalent Israeli admission of responsibility for the original expulsion of the Palestinians could have had a healing and even cathartic effect.
Lost in the Levant 2010
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The law, as articulated in rabbinic Judaism's founding document, is unambivalent: one does not negotiate with kidnappers.
Rabbi Bradley Shavit Artson: The Morality Of Redeeming Captives: Gilad Shalit And The Talmud Rabbi Bradley Shavit Artson 2011
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State-run media has encouraged anti-foreign feelings, and most U.S. aid in the past has gone to the military, which many Egyptians have interpreted as unambivalent U.S. support for a regime that oppressed them.
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There was perhaps a moment when an unambivalent Israeli admission of responsibility for the original expulsion of the Palestinians could have had a healing and even cathartic effect.
Lost in the Levant 2010
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State-run media has encouraged anti-foreign feelings, and most U.S. aid in the past has gone to the military, which many Egyptians have interpreted as unambivalent U.S. support for a regime that oppressed them.
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There was perhaps a moment when an unambivalent Israeli admission of responsibility for the original expulsion of the Palestinians could have had a healing and even cathartic effect.
Lost in the Levant 2010
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State-run media has encouraged anti-foreign feelings, and most U.S. aid in the past has gone to the military, which many Egyptians have interpreted as unambivalent U.S. support for a regime that oppressed them.
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Council member George Leventhal (D-At Large) is unambivalent about the fee.
The ambulance fee debate: Not so black and white Keith Berner 2010
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