No pun intended.

Torture and the Politics of Ambiguity

Curvy chicks in loincloths, double entendres,

This joke relies on a double entendre.

Hence the need for Orwellian doublespeak.

Consider, for example, that prince of ambiguity, the Duc de Talleyrand.

In future presentations, this ambiguity should be avoided.

There can be no ambiguity in fighting terrorism.

Mary explained to Tom that the joke relied on a double entendre.

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

The vague wording of that article showed how ambiguous the concept was.

None the less some areas of ambiguity remained in the text.

To be sure, the Bush doctrine is not stated starkly it is buried in Orwellian doublespeak.

As an example of ambiguity, suppose I were to write the sentence, there's a girl in a, the room with a telescope.

For those who benefit from the politics of ambiguity, international law is an indispensable prop.

Instead, Europe s interests would be best served by pursuing a course of strategic ambiguity.

Hanja are also often used in newspaper headlines as abbreviations or to eliminate ambiguity.

We do not see any scope for ambiguity in a draft resolution of this nature.

Such a convention should define the concept clearly to avoid ambiguity.

The New Yorker and I, when we made comments, the cartoon carries a certain ambiguity about what it actually is.

But the only sentence it can inflict is a forced absence from public life for a given time.

If someone has lied, or there are ambiguities, the case goes to a special court.

Care must be taken, however, to ensure that no ambiguity was allowed to arise with regard to the scope of the draft convention.

The draft resolution introduces welcome restrictions, but it still contains ambiguities, which should be removed.

It was therefore crucial that the text of the draft protocol should leave no room for legal ambiguity.

The less mandates are open to ambiguity, the better the chances costly mistakes can be avoided and overall goals achieved.

PRlNCE Seal up the mouth of outrage for a while, Till we can clear these ambiguities,

Most times on a test when they ask you, there's not going to be this ambiguity.

His delegation had been concerned at the ambiguity of certain resolutions on the regional commissions considered at the substantive session.

Future. Avoid ambiguity in matters of job security and career development promote life long learning and employability.

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

Some photographs were used because they were striking on their own, while others were used because of their ambiguity.

As an example of ambiguity, no one knows what is meant exactly by the word quot Jericho quot .

Therefore, it is urgent to remove those ambiguities that are preventing the international community from moving toward becoming the master of its own collective destiny.

That was how he interpreted the relevant provision in article 6, paragraph 1 (c) of the draft, which should be worded more clearly and unambiguously.

But Berlusconi is also a master of ambiguity, someone who appeals to liberal values while pursuing an anti liberal, populist, and corporatist agenda. Giulio Tremonti, Berlusconi's Economy and Finance Minister and ideologue of the alliance with Umberto Bossi's xenophobic Lega Nord , declared in a recent interview Let's be done with the utopia of privatization.

But Berlusconi is also a master of ambiguity, someone who appeals to liberal values while pursuing an anti liberal, populist, and corporatist agenda.

The original wording should be retained, to avoid ambiguity and confusion about who was to take a decision on the matter.

Programming languages, in contrast, are designed so that every well formed program has exactly one meaning.

Ultimately, what gives rise to abuses such as occurred at Abu Ghraib is a policy of deliberate ambiguity concerning how to handle detainees. The pressure in a war setting to get information that could save lives is immense.

Ultimately, what gives rise to abuses such as occurred at Abu Ghraib is a policy of deliberate ambiguity concerning how to handle detainees.

When the relevant group operations are unambiguous they are omitted and one writes formula_7Sometimes one can even simply write G H. Whether such a notation is possible without confusion or ambiguity depends on context.

Ambiguities in these areas will make a future MOTAPM instrument, as well as the CCW generally, more difficult to understand, promote and implement.

Such complexities and ambiguities can sometimes be humorous if they lead to interpretations that the author did not intend, as in these infamous newspaper headlines with multiple interpretations.

There is a need for the General Assembly to take action to terminate the membership of former Yugoslavia in the United Nations so as to eliminate any ambiguity concerning this issue.