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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
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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.
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We should be able to discuss our ambivalance without being compared to “nazis”.
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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
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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.
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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.
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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
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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
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I’m getting better at ambivalance, but I think I still have a ways to go.
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But y’know, there’s a lot of ambivalance about that.
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