Torture and the Politics of Ambiguity

Education in an Uncertain World

Opacity has grown with complexity.

He made up his mind to be a doctor.

Mass is the measure of the inertia of a body, characterizing the resistance of body to acceleration.

Basically you believe in complexity, but not in ambiguity.

In the end, the politics of ambiguity may fail Rumsfeld all those high resolution photographs from Abu Ghraib are anything but ambiguous.

What are the ingredients? Imagination, playfulness, novelty, curiosity, mystery.

But complexity is not the only reason for obscurity.

Over the past year, however, the shroud of mystery has begun to drop.

We would therefore like to avoid conceptual ambiguity in the Protocol.

I ask those who intended to come to Al Bawardi Mosque to donate not to tire themselves

Japan's own resolve towards that end remains strong and unchanged.

The outcome document reflects the joint resolve of the international community to fight terrorism.

Mystery is important. You fall in love with somebody who's somewhat mysterious, in part because mystery elevates dopamine in the brain, probably pushes you over that threshold to fall in love.

Syria may pay a heavy price for that ambiguity.

Moreover, DNA has acquired a certain mystique in popular culture.

The reasons behind moving the prisoners between the two locations remain unclear.

The preamble affirms the will of European States to commit themselves, in real and deep reconciliation,

The Treaty is especially ambiguous where it uses the language of constitutions.

The role of GFPs tends to be ambiguous and ill defined.

There was general understanding that ambiguities could provide a possible basis or excuse for manipulation by the powerful.

(c) The intention of the Government of the Democratic Republic of the Congo to suspend the moratorium on the carrying out of the death penalty

Multi stakeholder dialogues organized on the basis of modalities proposed by the secretariat of the United Nations Forum on Forests have been seen by non governmental organizations and other major groups as a way to segregate the input provided by those stakeholders.

I have no doubt regarding the determination of the Government of Israel to proceed unswervingly with disengagement.

This is a strong charge, especially given the huge uncertainties that central banks and treasury officials have been facing.

Understanding the intentions of Iran s leaders is not as difficult or as ambiguous as some believe.

Writers have, over several generations, insisted on the uncertainties which beset the topic.

The fugitives resolved to stay in the house and wait for the arrival of the King's men.

Saul cast his spear at him to strike him. By this Jonathan knew that his father was determined to put David to death.

And Saul cast a javelin at him to smite him whereby Jonathan knew that it was determined of his father to slay David.

Moreover, there are ambiguities in the trend lines for stock holding periods.

It is never a good idea to replace something with vagueness.

Part of the legend is almost invariably the mystery surrounding the circumstances of the leader s death.

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

To take the mystery out of this, let me say that the way we look at it is as follows.

Caught in the middle, Chinese increasingly sift for the truth on their own.

Achieving justice requires not only the will of the international community, but also resolve on the part of the States concerned.

Seventh United Nations Congress on the Prevention of Crime and the Treatment of Offenders, Milan, 26 August 6 September 1985 report prepared by the Secretariat (United Nations publication, Sales No. E.86.IV.1), chap. I, sect.

I commend the resolve that Council members are showing through the presidential statement under consideration today.

That is the ambiguity in my life that really disturbed me, and led me to write a book called Saving Fish From Drowning.

Both Jiang and Hu have faithfully followed Deng's dictum to Hide capacity and nourish obscurity.

VIENNA For those who still wondered who Vladimir Putin is, the mystery is over.

But myths are a collective and mysterious construction. Otherwise, they would be for sale.

But post modernism has itself been generated by technology, with which it has a deeply ambiguous relationship.