Vacillation

His comments come after Johnson, writing in the Daily Mail, accused the West of "vacillation" and “sucking-and-blowing-at-once" in its handling of Putin over two decades.

But Kirkpatrick’s plans—and his ability to place himself in the position of a European audience—present a stark contrast with today’s post-referendum vacillation and insecurity.

In many recent loanwords, there is vacillation between representing an original voiceless consonant as single or geminate: this is the case for example kalsium (~ kalssium) and kantarelli (~ kanttarelli).

Puccini saw Sardou's play when it was touring Italy in 1889 and, after some vacillation, obtained the rights to turn the work into an opera in 1895.

Reflecting this vacillation, some Chinese soldiers were quite liberally firing at foreigners under siege from its very onset.

This vacillation between meter and word stress highlights the fact that Latin literature was still in its infancy, and that there was not yet a standard way to write verse.