If Macbeth, rather than Malcolm, is Prince of Cumberland then Macbeth would be next in line to the throne and no coup would be needed, effectively removing this ambiguity from Banquo's character.

There was ambiguity in their ideas as to where to draw a line on " species ", " created kinds ", and what events and lineages fall within the rubric of microevolution or macroevolution.

Generally, there is ambiguity as to where they draw a line on " species ", " created kinds ", etc.

If V is defined in terms of the line integral, the ambiguity of V reflects the freedom in the choice of the reference point

Because of the ambiguity as to which line was to run west, and which northwest, this charter gave the Virginia Company either about of eastern North America, or about one-third of the entire continent, extending to the Pacific Ocean.

One character ’ s line might fade into the next, as though the second person knew exactly what he was going to say ; sometimes a character will slip into a memory and partially relive a former or younger self in a monologue ; and over the course of the show, there is a definite ambiguity as to whether they are speaking to one another or to the audience.

All religions debate the orthodoxy or heterodoxy of ambiguity.

All three factors must be present for an individual to qualify under the legal definition of Métis, but there is still a great deal of ambiguity.

All this, along with the book's ambiguity and paradoxical nature, has helped its eventual enthusiastic reception by the reading public, but has frustrated academic attempts at analysis ( as Nietzsche may have intended ).

To Simon Leng, " All Things Must Pass " is " a classic of Harrison's lyrical ambiguity, in essence a hopeful song, without sounding so " and " one of his lyrics that approaches Bob Dylan standard ".

The number of distinct glyphs was reduced tremendously at the cost of increased ambiguity.

The term octet was defined to explicitly denote a sequence of 8 bits because of the ambiguity associated at the time with the term byte.

This ambiguity of character was further exacerbated by his remoteness, and as he grew older, he increasingly displayed a preference for solitude, which may have stemmed from his isolated upbringing.

The Trojan Women for example is a powerfully disturbing play on the theme of war's horrors, apparently critical of Athenian imperialism ( it was composed in the aftermath of the Melian massacre and during the preparations for the Sicilian Expedition ) yet it features the comic exchange between Menelaus and Hecuba quoted above and the chorus considers Athens, the " blessed land of Theus ", to be a desirable refugesuch complexity and ambiguity are typical both of his ' patriotic ' and ' anti-war ' plays.

Due to its ambiguity, the letter was a cause of debate during the British and later American struggles over the abolition of slavery.

The ambiguity in his belief in religion mirrored the dichotomies between his public and private lives: Stephen Ingle wrote that it was as if the writer George Orwell " vaunted " his atheism while Eric Blair the individual retained " a deeply ingrained religiosity ".

There is debate as to whether Samoa is / was an elective monarchy or an aristocratic republic, given the comparative ambiguity of the title O le Ao o le Malo and the nature of the head of state's office.

Because of the ambiguity surrounding Louis Napoleon's political positions, his agenda as president was very much in doubt.

In some circumstances handfasting was open to abuse, with persons who had undergone " troth-plight " occasionally refusing to proceed to a church wedding, creating ambiguity about their former betrothed ’ s marital status.

Though he did vote against the admission of Missouri as a slave state, and though he would be the nominated presidential candidate of the Free Soil Party, an anti-slavery political party, in 1848, there was no ambiguity in his position on the abolition of slavery during his term of office.

The ambiguity with regard to flag-burning statutes was eliminated in Texas v. Johnson,.

Beginning with Windows 2000, a header was defined which specifies multiple audio channel data along with speaker positions, eliminates ambiguity regarding sample types and container sizes in the standard WAV format and supports defining custom extensions to the format chunk.

Handling this ambiguity was an early problem of the theory, reflecting the modern use of both Boolean rings and Boolean algebras ( which are simply different aspects of one type of structure ).

It was meant to also reduce ambiguity, and to support the Russian language in addition to Mongolian.

Writer – director Robin Hardy has stated that the ambiguity was intentional, but that fans of The Wicker Man will immediately recognise Lee's character as Lord Summerisle.

Newman believed the score helped move the film along without disturbing the " moral ambiguity " of the script: " It was a real delicate balancing act in terms of what music worked to preserve.

The Grand Union Canal was also the original name for part of what is now part of the Leicester Line of the modern Grand Union: this latter is now generally referred to as the Old Grand Union Canal in order to avoid ambiguity.

Major-General J. Davidson, Director of Operations at GHQ wrote in a memorandum that there was " ambiguity as to what was meant by a step-by-step attack with limited objectives " and suggested reverting to a 1, 750 yard advance to increase the concentration of British artillery.

About Amalric's son Baldwin IV, however, " there was no ambiguity ".

To add further ambiguity to the title, Archbishop Bourdin was declared excommunicate by the Pope in April of 1117, before Pentecost but after Easter.

Furthermore, Fett " is cool because he was designed to be cool ", presenting a " wicked ambiguity " akin to John Milton's portrayal of Satan in Paradise Lost and Iago in William Shakespeare's Othello.

It was more likely a result of ambiguity between hiem and him etc.

Under a rule forbidding distribution of the joint possessive, writing " Jason and Sue's children than " Jason's and Sue's children " died in the crash " eliminates the implication that Jason lost children of whom Sue was not the mother, but it introduces ambiguity as to whether Jason himself was killed.

Stammering or repetition of I, you, he, she, et cetera may signal ambiguity or uncertainty.

Groucho Marx's classic joke depends on a grammatical ambiguity for its humor, for example: " Last night I shot an elephant in my pajamas.

This term, it is true, has sometimes been used, and is still sometimes used, in almost as restricted a sense as that of Tamil itself, so that though on the whole it is the best term I can find, I admit it is not perfectly free from ambiguity.

# This version is a play on the use-mention ambiguity exploited by other versions: I know two words that end in " gry.

I think that S, M, L, XL has one beautiful ambiguity: it used the past to build a future and is very adamant about giving notice that this is not the end.

For example, he could use the ambiguity of the word " a " ( meaning " any " or " one ") to say " I swear I am not a priest ", because he could have a particular priest in mind who he was not.

One source of mistakes is the ambiguity of the verb ' to be ', which is sometimes used as a copula (" I am hungry ") and sometimes to designate existence (" I am ").

I wrote it that way on purpose, leaving some intentional ambiguity, because I wanted it to lie somewhat between both camps and not entirely in either.

He also cited the Metal Gear series as an influence on his screenwriting, stating that " Kojima and I have different styles ," " but I've certainly learned things from him, especially about ambiguity and telling a story without giving all the answers.

) and ambiguity ( e. g. " I purchased a bat " could have many meanings ).

The Synod ( council ) rejected the king's initial candidate, taking advantage of the ambiguity of name, and chose Gregory of Seleucia, who became Mar Gregorius I.

I want the work to complicate these positions and offer an ambiguity and ambivalence rather than concrete and sure answers .”

In this way, the interrupts from all I / O cards in the system could be distinguished with no ambiguity.

Despite this ambiguity, monasteries in the West and the Eastern Empire permitted the conservation of a certain number of secular texts, and several libraries were created: for example, Cassiodorus (' Vivarum ' in Calabro, around 550 ), or Constantine I in Constantinople.

I believe that this ambiguity itself has been a major reason for his continued use of the medium, for it allows pictorial events which can be light-hearted and ephemeral, and at the same time brooding and mysterious.

The letters " I ", " O " and " Q " are not used to avoid ambiguity.

The initials AGO stood for either Actien-Gesellschaft Otto or Aerowerke Gustav Otto – there seems to be some ambiguity – but the company mostly license-built Otto Flugmaschinenfabrik designs ,( as did Pfalz Flugzeugwerke ) during the early years of World War I.

This ambiguity noted, Hornsby then points out that if A V < sub > T </ sub >- s B, then A caused B to V < sub > I </ sub > ('< sub > T </ sub >' and '< sub > I </ sub >' serving to disintguish between transitive and intransitive uses of the relevant verbs ).

In his statements he left an ambiguity in his policies, exemplified in 1972 when a journalist questioned his loyalty and his first allegiance, to which his reply was, " I have been a Pashtun for six thousand years, a Muslim for thirteen hundred years, and a Pakistani for twenty-five.