The territorial claim by the Republic of the Marshall Islands on Wake Atoll leaves a certain amount of ambiguity regarding the actual or hypothetical role of the US military, responsible under agreement for the defense of Marshallese territory, in the event of any strategic crisis or hostilities involving Wake.

The use of ambiguity, symbolism, irony and other stylistic elements of poetic diction often leaves a poem open to multiple interpretations.

The end of the novel is famous for its ambiguity, which leaves open the possibility that Irene has pushed Clare out the window, or that Clare has committed suicide.

Lymantria dispar covers many subspecies, subspecies identification such as L. d. dispar or L. d. japonica leaves no ambiguity in identification.

This leaves areas of ambiguity that could criminalize some people for simple mistakes, such as accidental hiding of a small item or forgetting to pay.

This ambiguity leaves it difficult to distinguish between two competing hypotheses: that microphylls evolved via the reduction of megaphylls, and that they evolved independently, from enations.

The nature of the nephilim is complicated by the ambiguity of Genesis 6: 4, " the sons of God joined with the daughters of mankind, who bore them children — they were the heroes of old, the men of renown ", which leaves it unclear whether they are the " sons of God " or their offspring who are the " ancient warriors ".

The ambiguity leaves open future uses not approved by the donors and child.

This choice leaves more room for situational factors that are not taken into account in the chosen method, but will result in ambiguity when questions arise in the execution of the implementation process.

This still leaves much ambiguity in the actual cardinality.

This ambiguity leaves the possibility of an old earth and a young earth is wholly excluded.

The poor, crazy lady in the hair-dresser's is a schematic and surely rather portentous case in point ; so is the Zoo, and Harrods, Jo's gloomy hats, and that windmill love nest, and the tiresome ambiguity of that psychiatrist off to Tenerife ( is he perceptive, or unsympathetic, a good doctor or just a fashionable one ?).

Because of this ambiguity, it is a good idea to specify whether it is the image or the codomain being discussed.

Although much like the gods, these figures were not always depicted without considerable moral ambiguity: “ On this account, the other traditional notion of the daemon as related to the souls of the dead is elided in favour of a spatial scenario which evidently also graduated in moral terms ; though says nothing of that here, it is a necessary inference from her account, just as Eros is midway between deficiency and plenitude … Indeed, Xencrates … explicitly understood daemones as ranged along a scale from good to bad … speaks of ‘ great and strong beings in the atmosphere, malevolent and morose, who rejoice in days, religious festivals involving violence against the self, etc., and after gaining them as their lot, they turn to nothing worse .’… The use of such malign daemones by human beings seems not to be even remotely imagined here:

In the end Vir represents the good and innocent person who has been placed into a difficult position of moral ambiguity, and his struggle to deal with this situation is a running theme for the series five seasons.

This corresponds with the ability to tolerate ambiguity, to see that both the " good " and the " bad " breast are a part of the same " mummy.

While some would see this as necessary, and good, others think the opposite, hence the film's opinions on large scale American marketing campaigns, such as Coca Cola's, are embodied in Joe's ambiguity as a character ... is he an all American hero, or just a shameless shill and coward?

They probably express better the kind of ambiguity towards it, going from " consistently good " and " must-have for anyone's collection ", to " U2 clone " with " its moments of mimicry " and " not the Delirious?

The US HDTV standard is particularly good for passive radar, having an excellent ambiguity function and very high power transmitters.

A hearing with a judge declares that McCoy pushed the envelope of good law practice, but that the ambiguity of the law did not prove his actions were unethical.

As a result, Inuit in different places use different words for its own variants and for the entire group of languages, and this ambiguity has been carried into other languages, creating a great deal of confusion over what labels should be applied to it.

There is a great deal of ambiguity in the ways " secular " and " traditional " are used in Israel: they often overlap, and they cover an extremely wide range in terms of ideology and religious observance.

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.

In addition, the situation can be confusing because of the different parties and the effort by many groups to deal with the controversy through a policy of deliberate ambiguity.

This led other AI researchers to excessive optimism which was soon lost when later systems attempted to deal with more realistic situations with real-world ambiguity and complexity.

There remains a great deal of ambiguity in terminology regarding mottled dogs, which are called roan, ticked, mottled and belton depending on the context.

Interpersonal skills training can help employees recognize and improve their ability to determine appropriate self-behaviour, cope with undesirable behaviour in others, absorb stress, deal with ambiguity, structure social interaction, share responsibility, and interact more easily with others.

Later that year, he signed a new deal with Northern Records and released a second full-length album, titled The Imposter, said to " contain ... a sound that recalls the passion of early U2, the soul of Jeff Buckley, and the ambiguity of Blur, on October 18, 2005.

Since Cortázar ’ s death in 1984, there has been a great deal of ambiguity regarding the classification of the ‘ novel without genre .’ Works such as William S. Burroughs ' 1962 novel, The Ticket That Exploded, and Thomas Pynchon's V., published the same year as Hopscotch, have earned similar reputations.

There is much debate as to the exact size and composition of the imperial tagmata, owing to the inaccuracy and ambiguity of the few contemporary sources ( military manuals, lists of offices and Arab accounts, primarily from the 9th century ) that deal with them.

This, along with the intentional ambiguity of the finale caused bafflement and a great deal of anger amongst the public and McGoohan claimed he was ‘ hounded ’ out of the country after the episode was shown.

There is room for ambiguity over what constitutes a link between two authors.

It may be preferable to write " Fuming, she left the room ", to eliminate the ambiguity and make clear that " fuming " modifies the subject of the sentence (" she ").

Critics argue that this merely reflects an ambiguity in our language rather than a dialetheic quality in our thoughts ; if we replace the given statement with one that is less ambiguous ( such as " John is halfway in the room " or " John is in the doorway "), the contradiction disappears.

For these critics, there was no room for ambiguity in their literary taxonomy because these categories were thought to have innate qualities that could not be disregarded.

Philosophers ( and other users of logic ) spend a lot of time and effort searching for and removing ( or intentionally adding ) ambiguity in arguments, because it can lead to incorrect conclusions and can be used to deliberately conceal bad arguments.

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

* vowel marking for a short or neutral vowel such as schwa ( with ambiguity between no vowel and that short or neutral vowel ),

However, this ambiguity has been the source of controversy, particularly among Latin Americans, who feel that using the term solely for the United States misappropriates it.

The evaluation order does not affect the value of such expressions, and it can be shown that the same holds for expressions containing any number of operations .< ref > Thus, when is associative, the evaluation order can be left unspecified without causing ambiguity, by omitting the parentheses and writing simply:

The trade-credit must not only be known and guaranteed, but also be valued in an amount the media and advertising could have been purchased for had the " client " bought it themselves ( contract to eliminate ambiguity and risk ).

To resolve this ambiguity, the term at most countable is sometimes used for the former notion, and countably infinite for the latter.

A meta-analysis of research literature by Jost, Glaser, Kruglanski, and Sulloway in 2003 found that many factors, such as intolerance of ambiguity and need for cognitive closure, contribute to the degree of one's political conservatism.

It may also be deployed as intentional ambiguity, or reversal of meaning ( for example, naming a state of war " peace ").

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.

Without ambiguity, for all in, we denote by the unique inverse of.

However, it is not clear what should be considered to be valence electrons for the d-and f-block elements, which leads to an ambiguity for their electronegativities calculated by the Allen method.

The Extrasolar Planets Encyclopaedia includes objects up to 25 Jupiter masses, saying, " The fact that there is no special feature around 13 MJup in the observed mass spectrum reinforces the choice to forget this mass limit ," and the Exoplanet Data Explorer includes objects up to 24 Jupiter masses with the advisory: " The 13 Jupiter-mass distinction by the IAU Working Group is physically unmotivated for planets with rocky cores, and observationally problematic due to the sin i ambiguity.

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.

Impalement replaced the earlier dimidiation – combining the dexter half of one coat with the sinister half of another – because dimidiation can create ambiguity between, for example, a bend and a chevron.

One inevitable ambiguity about these structures relates to the strong evidence that channels change conformation as they operate ( they open and close, for example ), such that the structure in the crystal could represent any one of these operational states.

Nevertheless there are many instances of ambiguity in the corpus, some of which may be intentional, and some evidence that, rather than merely accepting it from expediency, skalds favoured contorted word order for its own sake.

The choice of 50 % lethality as a benchmark avoids the potential for ambiguity of making measurements in the extremes and reduces the amount of testing required.