In the first instance, North Korea becomes now not an ambiguous nuclear weapons state but an obvious nuclear weapons state, and the implications of that are that they will be thinking in some quarters elsewhere in the region about following suit.
Under Mississippi law, however, the deductible endorsement did not render the policy ambiguous or otherwise expand coverage for wind damage to include water damage as well, the Fifth Circuit found.
While it is true that the JCT assumed that dependents of such employees would not be eligible for the subsidy, the statute is ambiguous and the JCT interpretation does not have the force of law.
The government in Kabul has not yet confirmed the report, and the wording is ambiguous: it says the production of heroin is forbidden, but not the cultivation of the opium poppy, from which the heroin is extracted.
Not only do his contemporaries provide ambiguous and conflicting reports, but the basic facts are wanting.
First, it amounted to an unusual slap in the face: state courts are not supposed to make rulings so ambiguous that the high court cannot understand the basis for them.
And, on the political front, efforts to reform the constitution are stuck, with Mr Moi still ambiguous about whether or not he plans to step down, as he is constitutionally expected to do, when his current term expires in 2002.
Unfortunately, not only do entrepreneurs face complex, ambiguous problems, they also have an above-average dose of confidence.
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"All things being equal, we should read ambiguous statutes as closing, not maintaining, tax loopholes, " he wrote in a dissent.
It's not easy to interpret and define strange, ambiguous lyrics that could really be about anything.
The next day David Axelrod was somewhat ambiguous or ambivalent about whether or not the White House backed such legislation.
Moreover, the ambiguous role of the state, as not only a regulator but often a shareholder in Asian companies, creates conflicts of interest and gives too much power to politicians.
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Mr Olens said that the laws, which had not been overhauled in many years, had grown convoluted and ambiguous.
The plan quickly faltered when the U.S. and Russia could not agree on al-Assad's role, a detail left purposefully ambiguous.
Threats became more ambiguous, political support for military spending waned, emerging enemies did not try to match U.S. military technology, and the economy lost strength.
Public opinion is ambiguous: voters tell pollsters they dislike bail-outs, but do not want to see the euro destroyed.
The original pair may have subliminally interpreted ambiguous information in a way helpful to the prosecution, even though they did not consciously realise what they were doing.
The constitution is ambiguous about how binding the transitional deadlines are: failure to abide by them does not necessarily mean a crisis.
Mr Simpson himself, who was found not guilty of murder but liable for two deaths in a later civil trial, has often been a more ambiguous figure.
As the brain does not have direct contact with the world, but only an image of the world on the retina which is ambiguous, it has to call on the statistics of how it behaved in the past to understand how to behave in the future.
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