| 1. | " Yet, for this reader at least, too
much of her book is taken up with highly abstract assertions about
multiplicity, ambiguity, destabilization, or absence of meaning as
values in..."
| Source: | Kronenfeld, Judy. "Medieval Venuses and Cupids: Sexuality, Hermeneutics, and EnglishPoetry" Renaissance Quarterly v51.n2 June 22 1998: 690-692
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| 2. | " Ambiguity often presents itself in all aspects of the human
condition and is culturally celebrated as the negotiation of a
multiplicity of diverse and shifting classificatory schema. [2] In this
paper I will suggest that the magico-seductive prowess ascribed by many
Kelantanese (Thais, Chinese,..."
| Source: | JOHNSON, IRVING CHAN. "Seductive Mediators: The Nuuraa Performer's Ritual Persona as a Love Magician in Kelantanese Thai Society" Journal of Southeast Asian Studies 30.2 Sept. 1 1999: 286
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| 3. | " The vignettes used here were
designed to present relatively clear cases of one or another kind of
causation and thus do not capture the ambiguities, contradictory
evidence, and multiplicity of causal pathways often present in a real
case record."
| Source: | Wakefield, Jerome C.,Kirk, Stuart A.,Pottick, Kathleen J.,Hsieh, Derek. "Disorder attribution and clinical judgment in the assessment of adolescent antisocial behavior" Social Work Research 23.4 Dec. 1 1999: 227
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| 4. | "... of the body; the unselfconscious privileging of desire that is
class ... the list goes on and on. The essential ingredient, however, is
the compelling ability of a privatized and fetishized discourse to
dishonor real-time biography, ambiguity, multiplicity, and change."
| Source: | GOSLINGA-ROY, GILLIAN M. "BODY BOUNDARIES, FICTION OF THE FEMALE SELF: AN ETHNOGRAPHIC PERSPECTIVE ON POWER, FEMINISM, AND THE REPRODUCTIVE TECHNOLOGIES" Feminist Studies 26.1 Mar. 22 2000: 113
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| 5. | " A
collective preference for homogeneous work groups mentioned earlier can
be understood as a force that pushes for less multiplicity and less
ambiguity."
| Source: | Bond, Meg A. "Gender, Race, and Class in Organizational Contexts" American Journal of Community Psychology 27.3 June 1 1999: 327
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| 6. | "... to several criterial demands at once.
`Clarity' and `precision'--like their antonyms,
`ambiguity,' `vagueness,' and `indefiniteness'--may refer
to coherence or differentiation. `Power' may refer to coherence,
differentiation,..."
| Source: | Gerring, John. "What Makes a Concept Good? A Criterial Framework for Understanding Concept Formation in the Social Sciences" Polity 31.3 Mar. 22 1999: 357
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| 7. | " A multiplicity of courts of last
resort created still further opportunities for ambiguity and conflict
over the implementation of that tradition."
| Source: | Dresscher, Seymour. ""There Are No Slaves in France": The Political Cultureof Race and Slavery in the Ancien Regime" Journal of Social History v31.n4 June 22 1998: 980-982
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| 8. | " For example, which behaviors
along the continuum from subtle verbal manifestations through blatant
physical abuse should be included and how can the definitional ambiguity
surrounding issues of power be resolved?"
| Source: | SCOLLAY, SUSAN J. "Confronting Sexual Harassment: What Schools and Colleges CanDo" Journal of Higher Education 71.1 Jan. 1 2000: 108
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| 9. | "
Paulinus's contemporaries idealized him, creating verbal icons that
smoothed over the tensions and ambiguities of his life and conversion."
| Source: | HARMLESS, WILLIAM. "PAULINUS OF NOLA: LIFE, LETTERS, AND POEMS" Theological Studies 61.2 June 1 2000: 358
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| 10. | "... materialized the ambiguities of
the Medusan 'reve de pierre' which Baudelaire would
subsequently enshrine in a verbal image in 'La Beaute' (1961:
20)."
| Source: | Kidd, William. "Marianne: from Medusa to Messalina: psycho-sexual imagery and political propaganda in France 1789-1945" Journal of European Studies 34.4 Dec. 1 2004: 333-349
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| 11. | " There are some
very subtle ambiguities that are involved in verbal communication, and
few really plumb the depths."
| Source: | Probert, Walter. "Law talk and words consciousness" ETC.: A Review of General Semantics 51.4 Dec. 1 2004: 621-630
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| 12. | " For example, one of the most characteristic
aspects of mesmerism, as Winter frequently reminds her readers, was its
"flexibility," its open-endedness--the multiplicity of
alternative meanings that different participants could impose on any
mesmeric encounter."
| Source: | Dror, Otniel E. "Mesmerized: Powers of Mind in Victorian Britain" Journal of Interdisciplinary History 31.1 June 22 2000: 95
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| 13. | " White
would later say in a statement that he'd been "tired and
confused" while testifying and didn't mean to suggest that the
pages of the Examiner could be "influenced." He was suspended
indefinitely..."
| Source: | Rasky, Susan. "BAD BLOOD" American Journalism Review 22.6 July 1 2000: 52
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| 14. | " Even less is
federal habeas a means by which the defendant is entitled to delay an
execution indefinitely."
| Source: | Kappler, Burke W. "Small favors: Chapter 154 of the Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act, the states, and the right to counsel" Journal of Criminal Law and Criminology 90.2 Jan. 1 2000: 467
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| 15. | " By being
both of the past and of the present, we would claim that it enriches our
understanding of both in a recognition of the multiplicity of meanings
in a particular place and a particular landscape."
| Source: | TILLEY, CHRISTOPHER,HAMILTON, SUE,BENDER, BARBARA. "ART AND THE RE-PRESENTATION OF THE PAST" Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute 6.1 Mar. 1 2000: 35
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| 16. | " As I r ead and reread the essay, I recall
what essayer means in French--"to try"--and thus I value
Cronon's effort to insist on a multiplicity of voices and images
about..."
| Source: | McQuillan, Gene. "The Forest Track: Working with William Cronons The Trouble with Wilderness" College Literature 27.2 Mar. 22 2000: 157
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| 17. | "... reader's. In the last essay, "The Postmodern in Feminism:
A Response to Mary Joe Frug," Johnson invokes the multiplicity of
the postmodern to acknowledge that the term woman designates no
predetermined meaning."
| Source: | Tate, Claudia. "The Feminist Difference: Literature, Psychoanalysis, Race, andGender" African American Review 34.1 Mar. 22 2000: 159
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| 18. | "
This system meant that, unless a club was prepared to release a player,
he was tied to the club indefinitely."
| Source: | DOBSON, STEPHEN,GERRARD, BILL,HOWE, SIMON. "The determination of transfer fees in English nonleague football" Applied Economics 32.9 July 15 2000: 1145
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| 19. | " The
concept of l'exclusion is meant also to describe a multiplicity of
situations in which the individual is prevented from participating, even
temporarily,..."
| Source: | BELAND, DANIEL,HANSEN, RANDALL. "Reforming the French Welfare State: Solidarity, Social Exclusion and the Three Crises of Citizenship" West European Politics 23.1 Jan. 1 2000: 47
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| 20. | " Just because the concept of the price-to-earnings ratio comes
out of a textbook you haven't deigned to open doesn't mean you
can ignore it indefinitely."
| Source: | Stross, Randall E. "Fluid mechanics 101" U.S. News & World Report 128.17 May 1 2000: 49
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| 21. | " That money will have to be made up
somehow--current revenue surpluses will not continue indefinitely--and
that means that those less able to pay will be asked to pay more at a
time when the well-off have never had it so good."
| Source: | . "The cost of democracy" Commonweal 77.13 July 14 2000: 5
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| 22. | "... those
fundamental rights as being "more tedious than difficult to
enumerate."(62)
In fact, for John Bingham, the central champion of the Privileges
or Immunities Clause, the Clause's "`euphony and
indefiniteness of meaning were a charm.'"(63) It was Bingham
who initially..."
| Source: | Shaffer, Derek. "Answering Justice Thomas in Saenz: granting the Privileges or Immunities Clause full citizenship within the Fourteenth Amendment" Stanford Law Review 52.3 Feb. 1 2000: 709-1459
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| 23. | "
Legislation to store all fuel rods centrally at Yucca Mountain, Nevada,
has stalled in Congress, meaning Calvert Cliffs will be stuck with this
problem indefinitely."
| Source: | Mangano, Joseph J. "Nuclear Power Play" Nation 270.14 Apr. 10 2000: 24
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| 24. | "
According to Mr. Qian, Mr. Deng stated in October 1984 that
"non-peaceful means" would never be abandoned in reunifying
Taiwan.
"What do we do if the Taiwan authorities indefinitely..."
| Source: | Gertz, Bill. "Beijing is warned to ease rhetoric" Washington Times Mar. 1 2000: 1
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| 25. | " It is at once literal ... expressive ...
ironic ... and in contradiction." This multiplicity forces the
reader to defer some quick alliance to a single meaning."
| Source: | RADTKE, JENNIFER. "Do The Right Thing in Black and White: Spike Lee's Bi-Cultural Method" Midwest Quarterly 41.2 Jan. 1 2000: 208
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