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  • Anyone with any sense could see that Obama was pressured into his so-callled "decision" by the military forces and that at best he is loaded with ambivalance about continuting a war that should have never started to begin with.

    CNN Poll: Americans mostly agree with Obama on Afghanistan 2009

  • Despite my ambivalance about Brokeback Mountain, Heath Ledger was always one of those actors that would sway me toward seeing a movie, because I knew he could act.

    2008 January | Peter Damien 2008

  • We should be able to discuss our ambivalance without being compared to “nazis”.

    I Want My Period, At Least Until Menopause 2006

  • Family secrets, loyalty conflicts, parental ambivalance about therapy, all can interfere with the development of an alliance.

    Clinical Work with Adolescents Judith Marks Mishne 1986

  • Hedge fund and other global speculators (cats) have been emboldened by the apparent ambivalance to the strong yen by the new government, evidence of a double dip developing in Japan's economy, and a year-end rush to issue new capital beginning with Japan's megabanks to short JGBs as well as major exporter and megabank stocks.

    SeekingAlpha.com: Home Page 2009

  • Hedge fund and other global speculators (cats) have been emboldened by the apparent ambivalance to the strong yen by the new government, evidence of a double dip developing in Japan's economy, and a year-end rush to issue new capital beginning with Japan's megabanks to short JGBs as well as major exporter and megabank stocks.

    SeekingAlpha.com: Home Page 2009

  • One wonders if the whole hoopla isn't in fact more than anything else a reflection of the collective sexual ambivalance and insecurity of the clergy in general and the bishops in particular.

    PageOneQ.com Latest 2009

  • Little must have had something like this ambivalance in mind when he wrote Soldier Songs, an evening-length multimedia performance piece, that will be staged Saturday at

    Sequenza21/ 2008

  • I’m getting better at ambivalance, but I think I still have a ways to go.

    The Perils of Teaching « Tales from the Reading Room 2009

  • But y’know, there’s a lot of ambivalance about that.

    What Some Feminists Demanded in 1967 2005

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