"The emperor had been in a state of pitiable vacillation" (William Hickling Prescott). Sometimes the terms connote contemptuous pity, as for what is hopelessly inept or inadequate.
You are expected to answer the call with immediate actions and not with vacillation.
Such splits have revealed themselves in the vacillation of the national bourgeoisie and the emergence of such anti-Japanese figures as Feng Yu-hsiang, Tsai Ting-kai and Ma Chan-shan, who have become popular for a time.
It is even more important to arouse people's national integrity, oppose vacillation and treason, heighten their courage to fight the enemy and foster their confidence in victory.
Analysis of vacillation mode in the atmosphere system with interaction between the basic flow and the waves
While it's important to take care over important decisions, Wang warned students against vacillation, because "it indicates a lack of career planning".
Once again my efforts to organize an effective war economy had been ruined by Hitler's vacillation.
We should adhere to the Basic line for a hundred years, with no vacillation.
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