vacillation

vacillate | American Dictionary

vacillate
verb[ I ]
us/ˈvæs·əˌleɪt/
to be unable to decide something and esp. to continue to change opinions:
The president continues to vacillate over foreign policy.

vacillate | Business English

vacillate
verb[ I ]
uk /ˈvæsɪleɪt/us
FINANCE
if prices, rates, etc. vacillate, they keep rising and falling by small amounts:
After weeks of vacillating around $75 per barrel, the price of crude closed at $85 barrel.
to be uncertain about what to do or to keep changing your opinion about something:
vacillate between sth (and sth)The election result was in the hands of voters vacillating between two parties.

Examples of vacillate

vacillate
However, he fails to see that even in a silent film the visual language of cinema can be equally vacillating and ambiguous.
The creaking of a door, the cracking of the tone produced by a badly handled bow on a string instrument are examples of vacillating sounds.
Overall, political parties appear to vacillate between officeand policy-seeking motivations.
Social policy itself was increasingly vacillating between seeing older people as dependent social casualties, and seeing them as individuals capable of exercising choice.
Not only did he vacillate about the nature of the reality of race.
Interestingly, the extremes of the diagram meet: vacillating sound objects and accumulations can be very similar.
From there on we proceed to increased spectral differentiation, inclusion of elements of contrasting sound spectrum, eventually spectral fluctuations with increasingly irregular pulse, until we arrive at the vacillating object.
Furthermore, they may apply to some of the same sets of verbs and arguments, so that the child will vacillate between competing ways of saying the same thing.
Françoise often vacillated between periods of immense suffering and periods of relative calm, in which she felt she had recovered fully.
She thus notes that children may sometimes have constructions that are somewhat incompatible with one another, so that they will vacillate between competing ways of saying the same thing.
Grant vacillated about patronage recommendations, first submitting a name, then withdrawing it, then promising to make a change only to break his word after visits from the other camp.
They have pleaded and pleaded, while others have marked time, vacillated and discouraged.
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