Ambivalent Arabia

We're deeply ambivalent about the truth.

Putin s position on global warming would be less ambivalent.

Yet the World Bank s attitude toward the ICSID remained ambivalent.

Uzbekistan, especially, has presented an extremely cautious, even ambivalent, face in public.

Immediately following the coup, the European Union adopted an ambivalent position toward it.

The legacy of dead dictators from vanquished totalitarian regimes should no longer be ambivalent.

Four years ago, during the 2008 9 crisis, I was largely ambivalent about financialization.

Yet many in the Maghreb policymakers and the public alike remain ambivalent about regional integration.

Yet many economists are as ambivalent about global rules and institutions as ordinary people are.

The French are deeply ambivalent about globalization, as if it were yet another invading force.

On the other side stand the established democracies, hesitant and ambivalent in their support of the rebels.

As a result, the spread of the Colombia Plan, despite its meager and ambivalent results, has remained obscured.

Unfortunately, the language on the veto contained in the resolution of the group of four is still ambivalent.

And to this day, I am ambivalent, but when you have instead games like Flow, there's no doubt.

Some of this had to do with his ambivalent anglophobia and his distrust of his mother, Queen Victoria s daughter.

Today s flux in the Middle East is a highly ambivalent affair, because the situation can improve or (more likely) deteriorate.

We are disappointed at reported cases of non compliance with nuclear non proliferation commitments and an ambivalent commitment to disarmament.

And in fact, as man began to understand more his complex and ambivalent nature, harmony grew more complex to reflect it.

While the economic and social situation has improved on some fronts, in qualitative terms, the situation in the country has always been ambivalent.

Many men and women in the rest of the world especially in the developing world observe this in us and are ambivalent about it.

Connie in Morocco, a Peace Corps blogger, is ambivalent about the Christmas season torn between missing home and not missing the commercialism of American Christmas

From Israel s viewpoint, the rise to power of Sunni political Islam throughout the region over the past two years will lead to an ambivalent outcome.

But the double game proved unsustainable the Islamists were less inclined than their now ambivalent patron to draw sophistical distinctions between one kind of enemy and another.

Nor can we be oblivious of the fact that some nuclear Powers continue to oppose or at least to be ambivalent about a comprehensive ban on nuclear testing.

That prevalent sentiment was evident despite some ambivalent comments around the table on the draft outcome document (A 60 L.1) to be adopted by the Assembly later this evening.

The circumstances concerning the alleged deaths of the eight individuals mentioned, and concerning the two individuals of whom the Democratic People's Republic of Korea denies knowledge, remain ambivalent and equivocal.

Putin s position on global warming would be less ambivalent. With his country so totally indeed, embarrassingly dependent on oil and gas revenues, he is hardly likely to want to spark a big push towards energy conservation.

Yet many in the Maghreb policymakers and the public alike remain ambivalent about regional integration. So there is an urgent need to develop a political project that captures the imagination of the region s peoples and leaders.

Where does the EU end? It no longer dreams of becoming the United States of Europe, and Jacques Delors suggestion of the United Nations of Europe has remained too ambivalent, if not deliberately ambiguous, to be effective.

And finally, of course, I think it's fair to say that a large part of the reason why the public is so ambivalent about aging now is the global trance I spoke about earlier, the coping strategy.

But the downside of this aspirational language and philosophy can be a perpetual, personal restlessness. Many men and women in the rest of the world especially in the developing world observe this in us and are ambivalent about it.

Among them were cases of non compliance with nuclear non proliferation commitments, evidence of the existence of a clandestine nuclear network, ambivalent commitment to disarmament and the threat of weapons of mass destruction falling into the hands of terrorists.

Mr. AUSSERWINKLER (Austria) The preamble to the United Nations Single Convention on Narcotic Drugs of 1961 and the preamble to the United Nations Convention on Psychotropic Substances of 1971 both refer to the ambivalent properties of narcotics and psychotropic substances.

What is now done in the sky over Libya sanctioned by international law and, unlike in Iraq in 2003, with the ambivalent political support of the Arab League is fundamental if the Arab revolutionaries are to take a positive view of the West.

6. The human rights situation in El Salvador continues to evolve in an ambivalent manner. On the one hand, signs of improvement are continuing while, on the other, grave violations, especially in relation to the right to life, persist and are even growing worse.

As a physician and a government Minister of Health I am confronted daily with this ambivalent situation of licit and illicit use and like all representatives I am well aware of the urgent need for balanced global action in coordination with the United Nations.

4. The ambivalent human rights situation in El Salvador described in the eighth report, which was a cause for concern owing to the increase in arbitrary executions and the activities of illegal armed groups, including the so called death squads, took a serious turn for the worse between August and October.

Certainly, globalization continues to give rise to ambivalent feelings, on the one hand because of its ability to create wealth and improve the material well being of our societies, but, on the other, because of the phenomenon of exclusion that it creates. How can we diminish this exclusion? How can we move towards overall prosperity?

The basic trends noted during the months of February, March and April continue to point to the existence of an ambivalent situation, for although progress is being made, at the same time there are still incidents and situations some of them serious which disturb ONUSAL, the human rights community of El Salvador and the international community.

My point here is that the visibility of civil resistance actions allows them to attract more active and diverse participation from these ambivalent people, and once they become involved, it's almost guaranteed that the movement will then have links to security forces, civilian bureaucrats, economic and business elites, educational elites, state media, religious authorities, and the like, and those people start to reevaluate their own allegiances.