vacillation

How To Use vacillation In A Sentence

• But behind the scenes there has been vacillation, from politicians and civil servants alike, over costs and funding and location.
• In most of them, however, there have been periods of stalemate and vacillation followed by periods when the party in power rode roughshod over the protests of many minorities, disregarding the fact that such action was not legitimatized by traditional morality. Energy and Society~ Chapter 13~ The Enlargement and Concentration of Political Power
• Most people admire decisiveness and despise vacillation.
• Let's have no more vacillation - if the Government can't decide, the people should.
• His constant vacillation made him an unfit administrator.
• Which suggested she should treat his current vacillation with some degree of magnanimity. ON A WICKED DAWN
• The word “if” in the original passage is only a polite expression and does not denote any kind of vacillation or option. Archive 2007-05-01
• After some vacillation, sister Agatha decides to give them a place to hide.
• Early in the day his supporters had thought little of this, attributing the fall to that vacillation which is customary in such matters; but towards the latter part of the afternoon the tidings from the The Way We Live Now
• What we call vacillation is to have no fixed opinion, to be influenced at once by the opinions of others. The Foundations of Personality