* Ambiguous statements ( it for excrement, the situation or " a girl in trouble " for pregnancy, going to the other side for death, do it or come together in reference to a sexual act, tired and emotional for drunkenness )

* The Dispossessed: An Ambiguous Utopia, 1974 ( Nebula Award winner, 1974 ; Hugo and Locus Awards winner, 1975 )

Indochina: An Ambiguous Colonization, 1858 – 1954 ( University of California Press ; 2010 ) 490 pages ; a history of French Indochina.

Ambiguous titles such as environmentally friendly can be confusing without a specific definition ; some regulators are providing guidance.

* Michael J. Hogan, The Ambiguous Legacy: U. S. Foreign Relations in The " American Century " ( Cambridge ; New York: Cambridge University Press, 1999 ).

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The Voice has also announced fictional advertisements for the " Ambiguous Party ", a fictional political party.

In gaming culture, such a character was called Ageless, Faceless, Gender-Neutral, Culturally Ambiguous Adventure Person, abbreviated as AFGNCAAP ( pronounced " afgan-cap "); a term that originated in Zork: Grand Inquisitor where it is used satirically to refer to the player.

* The Dispossessed: An Ambiguous Utopia ( 1974 ) by Ursula K. Le Guin

The Dispossessed: An Ambiguous Utopia is a 1974 utopian science fiction novel by Ursula K. Le Guin, set in the same fictional universe as that of The Left Hand of Darkness ( the Hainish Cycle ).

Ambiguous artificial-plus-ecological factors may reasonably be called " environmental ", and the term environmental selection may be preferable in these cases.

# Ambiguous illusions are pictures or objects that elicit a perceptual " switch " between the alternative interpretations.

* Jeffrey, Judith S. Ambiguous Commitments and Uncertain Policies: The Truman Doctrine in Greece, 1947 – 1952 ( 2000 ).

He wrote nothing better than the luminous Appendix to this work on Ambiguous Terms.

* Turk, Richard W. The Ambiguous Relationship: Theodore Roosevelt and Alfred Thayer Mahan ( 1987 ) online edition

Ambiguous words, equivocal sentence structures and negatives may cause misunderstanding, possibly invalidating questionnaire results.

Ambiguous, misleading, or poorly worded questions are par for the course.

Ambiguous promises of Allied support were made in exchange.

* 2010: Carly Wade, Denamite, Leska and Baker side project, Symbols from the Driveway, to release Ambiguous in January 2010.

A few campaign ads were created and aired for morning show listeners ' amusement in which The Voice tried to persuade listeners to vote for the Ambiguous Party.

Comparisons are made between the Ambiguous Party ( complete and utter fence-sitters on all issues ) and the current parties of the day.

Ambiguous situations may cause humans to affirm both a proposition and its negation.

* Ambiguous Middle Term, fallacyfiles. org

Trouble on Triton: An Ambiguous Heterotopia ( 1976 ) is a science fiction novel by Samuel R. Delany.

Delany has said that Trouble on Triton was written partly in dialogue with Ursula K. Le Guin's anarchist science fiction novel The Dispossessed, whose subtitle was An Ambiguous Utopia.

Ambiguous Relations: The American Jewish Community and Germany since 1945.

Rangecroft L, Brain C, Creighton S, Di Ceglie D, Ogilvy-Stuart A, Malone P, Turnock R. Statement of the British Association of Pediatric Surgeons Working Party on the Surgical Management of Children Born with Ambiguous Genitalia.

In reference to the above mentioned Jazzmatazz project, Elam told Pete Lewis of Blues & Soul: " Back around ’ 93 — when I first came up with the Jazzmatazz concept — I was noticing how a lot of cats were digging in the crates and sampling jazz breaks to make hip hop records.

The first written reference to Goa appear in Cuneiform during Sumerian times when the King Gudea of Lagash called Goa Gubio.

In The Publick Spirit of the Whigs, it may be noted, Swift himself contemptuously dismissed Steele's reference to his friend at court: `` I suppose by the Style of old Friend, and the like, it must be some Body there of his own Level ; ;

My memory has catalogued for easy reference and withdrawal the image of her pink, scented stationery and the unsloped, almost printed configurations of her neat, studious handwriting with which she invited me to recall our summer, so many sentences beginning with `` Remember when ; ;

Finally, it gives sanctity, more than human legitimacy, and even, through super-empirical reference, transcendent and supernatural importance to some values ; ;

Abdul is a common Arabic name component ( but never a name by itself ; additionally the ending-ul and the beginning Al-are redundant ), but Alhazred may allude to Hazard, a pun on the book's destructive and dangerous nature, or a reference to Lovecraft's ancestors by that name.

In Spanish, at least one reference reports estadounidense, estado-unidense or estadunidense are preferred to americano for U. S. nationals ; the latter tends to refer to any resident of the Americas and not necessarily from the United States.

* MLK refers to a major Canaanite deity probably named Moloch, in which case Abimelech means my father is Moloch-a reference to belief in semi-divine kings ; or

Arguments with reference to Anti-Realism may broadly be bifurcated for convenience ; Substantial Arguments and Structural Arguments.

She testified that after leaving the EEOC, she had had two " inconsequential " phone conversations with Thomas, and had seen him personally on two occasions ; once to get a job reference and the second time when he made a public appearance in Oklahoma where she was teaching.

Pragmatics involves considerations that make reference to the user of the language ; semantics considers expressions and what they denote ( the designata ) abstracted from the language user ; and syntax considers only the expressions themselves, abstracted from the designata.

The explanations below are for quick reference and do not fully or completely define the statistic ; for the strict definition, see the linked article for each statistic.

John Miles Foley held, specifically with reference to the Beowulf debate, that while comparative work was both necessary and valid, it must be conducted with a view to the particularities of a given tradition ; Foley argued with a view to developments of oral traditional theory that do not assume, or depend upon, finally unverifiable assumptions about composition, and that discard the oral / literate dichotomy focused on composition in favor of a more fluid continuum of traditionality and textuality.

Nineveh is ironically compared with a lion, in reference to the lion as an Assyrian symbol of power ; Nineveh is the lion of strength that has a den full of dead prey but will become weak like the lion hiding in its den.

Bliss found especially useful their " triangle of reference ": the physical thing or " referent " that we perceive would be represented at the right angle ; the meaning that we know by experience ( our implicit definition of the thing ), at the top angle ; and the physical word that we speak or write, at the left angle.

Many cover versions are in different languages rewritten to reference local units ; these include:

The World Factbook ( ISSN ; also known as the CIA World Factbook ) is a reference resource produced by the Central Intelligence Agency of the United States with almanac-style information about the countries of the world.

The codex holds considerable practical advantages over other book formats, such as compactness, sturdiness, ease of reference ( a codex is random access, as opposed to a scroll, which is sequential access ), and especially economy of materials ; unlike the scroll, both recto and verso could be used for writing.

To summarize, every established national group used cultural productions to assert and strengthen a sense of national unity and destiny ; less politically consolidated groups, especially those pursuing the goal of nationhood, used them in the same ways, though often with a note of determination that makes them easier to see from our contemporary point of reference.

In ancient literature, we find a reference to the workings of water-powered marble saws close to Trier, now Germany, by the late 4th century poet Ausonius ; about the same time, these mill types seem also to be indicated by the Christian saint Gregory of Nyssa from Anatolia, demonstrating a diversified use of water-power in many parts of the Roman Empire.

Source code for a Coral 66 compiler ( written in BCPL ) has been recovered and the " Official Definition of Coral 66 " document by HMSO has been scanned ; the Ministry of Defence patent office has issued a licence to the Edinburgh Computer History project to allow them to put both the code and the language reference online for non-commercial use.

" That is, whatever the force of the cogito, Descartes draws too much from it ; the existence of a thinking thing, the reference of the " I ," is more than the cogito can justify.