We have already described the man--with his effort to be at once loyal republican and master of Rome, with his vacillation and indecision, with his pliancy that concealed itself under the boasting of independent resolution.
Pompeius and the Gabinian Laws These measures of a man who had just given so striking proofs of his vacillation and weakness surprise us by their decisive energy.
Before parliament was prorogued the weakness and vacillation of the ministry had been very apparent.
Mr. Bright very ably animadverted upon the vacillation of Lord John Russell upon this subject, and the mischief inflicted upon the interests in question by the noble lord's indecision.
All this vacillation harmonised with the foreign and domestic policy of Sir Robert Peel, under whose instructions he acted.
Her face was thrust forward, her chin projecting, with tragic horror; but there was no vacillationeven in her chin.
Had the story been told in print, the friend who had listened with equanimity would have read of such vacillation with indignation.
Must he open to her eyes those hours of cowardly vacillation during which he had walked the Clifton Woods weighing I would against I dare not?
That's what I supposed," Brereton replied, not masking his contempt for the vacillationof those about him.
Still Alexander vacillated and hesitated, now giving way to bursts of furious passion, now yielding to immoderate terror; but that vacillation had now to give way.
But still with some vacillationof purpose, before the council rose he questioned De Vitry as to the nature and source of the intelligence he had received regarding the concentration of troops upon the Taro.
The anguish and vacillation of the prophet's mind is shown by the fact that for ten whole days no light came to him.
He entrusted the result to chance, with miserable vacillation of purpose; and the door of hope was closed upon him.
It has been said, frequently with truth, that they hamper the military operations, and by interfering with the generals, infuse a spirit of vacillation into the plans.
The first days of the session were critical; and any vacillation or delay in the Commons might probably have given time for some strong exertion of power to frustrate their designs.
He saw, on the contrary, in the perpetual jarring of kings and parliaments, a source of feebleness and vacillation in foreign affairs, and a field for intrigue and corruption.
His vacillation increased the suspicions of the chiefs, and they demanded the immediate evacuation of the cantonments, refusing to furnish provisions until that was done.
But the indifference, vacillation and delay of the British authorities greatly encouraged its rapid development.
This he did, not obtrusively, as though in fear of any falsehood or vacillation on the part of the viscount, but with that discretion and tact for which he has been so long noted.
Sowerby, who, having used his utmost efforts to obtain it, would have been more absolutely offended by such vacillation on the vicar's part than by any personal abuse which either he or Lord Lufton could heap upon him.
When he turned in, however, he reproached himself more forcibly than he had done yet, and his vacillation was by no means at an end.
His vacillation was especially irritating since he had learned that the ladies were at the point of joining Van Buren in New York.
Although in all this there is a contradiction which casts doubt upon the frankness of the official record, it may perhaps be explained by vacillation not improbable in his terrible position.
I knew His Majesty's weakness and vacillation too well to repose any confidence in him; if the King of Navarre also abandoned me, I was indeed without hope, as without resource.
It was his own vacillation between his hopes and fears that prevented him from making definite terms.
Napoleon distributed honours at the Prussian Court, and made generous offers of terms, but the deeply perplexed and anxious successor of Frederic the Great ended his long vacillation by concluding a treaty with his friend, the Tsar.
Some of them tried their best to confiscate the property; and once or twice, by weakness and vacillation in London, they almost gained the day.
You will secure yourself against vacillation by refusing, after it is thus closed, to wonder whether you have done the wisest thing, by resisting every temptation to open the matter for reconsideration.
No matter what fault you are trying to overcome or what good quality you are anxious to acquire there must be no weakness, indecision or vacillation in your affirmations or your efforts.
In other respects he was a cultured and experienced minister; his courage and honesty were proof against everything; and he was as incapable of vacillation as of treachery.
I found the former party leaders divided among themselves; and each of them, moreover, seemed divided also within himself, to judge by the incoherence of the language used and the vacillation of opinion.
There was the same vacillation and division of counsels in Jerusalem, the same dilatoriness on the part of Egypt, and the same futile effort to retrieve a desperate situation after the favourable moment had been allowed to slip.
There was an end of idealism in politics; and the ruling class in Jerusalem fell back on the old policy of vacillation between Egypt and her eastern rival which had always been the snare of Jewish statesmanship.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "vacillation" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
