But Moscow and Beijing, two permanent members of the Security Council whose votes are uncertain, issued an equivocal statement on the question today.

Despite this papal condemnation, both Catholicism and Protestantism permit the use of ambiguous and equivocal statements in specific circumstances.

Today, a spokesman for the United States Central Command, which is overseeing the war in Afghanistan, offered a more equivocal statement.

Prominent amid the furious denials, however, was a more equivocal statement by the Finance Minister, Oleg Vyugin.

Hearing the translator's version, General Kim seemed irritated at the equivocal statement, but he said nothing.

It was precisely to give witnesses and defendants a way out of the perjury trap that theologians distinguished between a lie and a misleading or equivocal statement.

I was inclined to believe I had really heard his voice that day, for it was like Abdullah to throw out a tantalizing, equivocal statement instead of giving me a direct answer.

The silence or equivocal statements from the EU and some of its leaders with regard to this situation are shameful and regrettable.

I saw early on that General Clark made what might be called his equivocal statements about his support or his nonsupport of the war.

An equivocal statement is ineffective as a waiver and the police may not proceed with the interrogation until the suspect's intentions are made clear.