(a.) Not resolute; not decided or determined; wavering; given to doubt or irresolution.
Example Sentences:
(1) The number of irresolute responses was significantly decreased following administration of diazepam, SZJ 3388 and Litoralon and was positively correlated with the TEE latency-decreasing activity of these compounds.
(2) Right-wing Catholics denounced him as irresolute on issues like Aids, the defence of Catholic schools, and political priests like Mgr Bruce Kent (who later resigned).
(3) The White House is considered irresolute on Guantánamo, lacking the force or the desire to impose a coherent policy upon the bureaucracy.
(4) At these patients we saw significantly more "valve groups", which witness to the irresolution in the instinctive motivations of behaviour.
(5) Smith and his cronies were kept in power by a combination of white redoubt solidarity in southern Africa, deep divisions among Rhodesian-African tribal groups and guerrilla movements, irresolution in London, inertia and insincerity elsewhere - and a small group of white Rhodesian, South African and British army officers, police, security men and sanctions-busters whose cunning knew no bounds.
(6) However, its influence on the development of breast cancer and cervical cancer remains irresolute pending further research.
(7) To be European is to be somehow effeminate, irresolute and, perhaps worst of all, socialist.
(8) Or are we going be profligate again, spend money we don’t have again, borrow forever, mortgage the future of children with the debts we could not pay ourselves, and consign Britain to a future of a high debt, low growth?” Describing Labour as the party of permanent fiscal irresponsibility, he said the charter would bear down on the “irresolution of politicians who lack the discipline to control public spending and deliver growth”.
(9) But these words – reconciliation and resolution – are also lies, for what I found, in the absence of reckoning for these refugees and survivors, was post-conflict irresolution.
(10) And veteran Observer readers, perhaps, may be forgiven for wondering what the Orwell of Homage to Catalonia would have said today as he surveyed such a panoply of irresolution.
(11) Harold Hobson declared that he had "never seen a Hamlet more shot through with the pale agony of irresolution."
(12) (The exhibition captioning and catalogue toy with this tactic extensively, if irresolutely, mythologically annotating every scribble and grunt: quite frankly, they're best ignored.)
(13) Many, although not all, of the challenges in communities today are informed by the irresolution of unfinished business.
Stalwart
Definition:
(a.) Alt. of Stalworth
Example Sentences:
(1) The expansion comes hot on the heels of another year of stellar growth in which Primark edged closer to overtaking high street stalwart M&S in sales and profits.
(2) Tim Hudson, a rotation stalwart for years, is now in San Francisco.
(3) The revelations haven shaken one of the stalwarts of Japanese industry.
(4) It is a classic, thoroughly researched South Bank Show, made by one of the series' stalwarts, Gillian Greenwood.
(5) I know several stalwarts but they are few and far between.
(6) Tselane Tambo, daughter of the late ANC stalwart Oliver Tambo, reportedly posted on a social networking site: "So the Pres JZ has had his portrait painted and he doesn't like it.
(7) But she saved a special salvo for Walker for failing to support student loan refinancing options – just as the rightwing stalwart showed signs of weakness in the first formal polls since the first Republican debate last week.
(8) I am a stalwart supporter of the British judiciary who are the best in the world.
(9) There is one very obvious potential role model, and it is emphatically not that of her histrionic late mother-in-law – rather the Windsors' stalwart, long-serving and self-effacing patriarch.
(10) It makes sense, with the Juve stalwarts Giorgio Chiellini, Andrea Barzagli and Leonardo Bonucci protecting 154-cap Gianluigi Buffon.
(11) Although magnesium and hydralazine remain the stalwarts of therapy, a number of other drugs have potential that may be realized in the future.
(12) The Democratic Alliance (DA) accused anti-apartheid stalwart Mamphela Ramphele of reneging on a deal to join the party before this year's elections and said "she cannot be trusted".
(13) Spencer Ackerman: ‘Eating with animal friends is heavenly’ Spencer Ackerman After 12 years of stalwart companionship, my dog Kingsley died on 21 March.
(14) High street stalwarts Next and Marks & Spencer have both shed 3.5%.
(15) Penny Mordaunt – defence secretary Mordaunt has been a stalwart on the airwaves for the leave campaign, is currently a defence minister and has been in the naval reserves.
(16) Ed has been a stalwart of popular music broadcasting for many years and over the past few Christmases, he brought back Junior Choice to the delight of millions of loyal listeners.
(17) But with the UK economy now growing again and the eurozone finally out of recession, investors are starting to look beyond stalwart stocks for slightly better, if riskier, prospects – hence the interest in Foxtons, Crest Nicholson and Zoopla, all linked to the housing market.
(18) So, Ukip is a party unable to agree on policy, split on ideological grounds, but also divided generationally, with the old stalwarts rejecting the tools of modern politics.
(19) "He's a good orator all right," said Des Pokrzywnicki, a Warburtons stalwart of 11 years.
(20) The debut of former English Premier League stalwart William Gallas for Perth Glory in Western Australia’s searing afternoon heat on Saturday marked the first time a Frenchman has taken the field in the A-League.