9.When the use of the preposition produces ambiguity or harshness, let a better expression be sought.

It is hard to be as vigilant when danger is remote as when it is near at hand; and until heresy has actually wrested them to its purpose it is morally impossible that the words of ecclesiastical and religious writers should be so delicately balanced as to avoid all ambiguities and inaccuracies.

If this was Shelley's original meaning, he probably observed after a while that the words 'as they go' seem to follow on with 'they fawn,' and not with 'the proud feet'; and, in order to remove the ambiguity, he substituted the expression 'lying low.

When power is denied, can and not are now generally unitedperhaps in order to prevent ambiguity; as, "I cannot go."

It is desirable to clear up this moral ambiguity, as I may call it, and to show that the real method of securing the legitimate effect is not to aim at it, but to aim at the truth, relying on that for securing effect.

Feuerbach, however, uses the concept of sensibility in so wide and vague a sense that, supportedor deceivedby the ambiguity of the word sensation, he includes under it even the most elevated and sacred feelings.

And for that reason I defend the ambiguities too.

But I deny both the ambiguity and the difference of meaning which these critics profess to find among the said phrases.

"Teach me," he says, "to despise pleasure and glory; afterwards you shall teach me to disentangle difficulties, to distinguish ambiguities, to see through obscurities; now teach me what is necessary."

It is, likewise, to be considered, that contracts concerning boundaries are often left vague and indefinite, without necessity, by the desire of each party, to interpret the ambiguity to its own advantage, when a fit opportunity shall be found.

It differed only in introducing a certain ambiguity from which the original was free.

Why do they maintain a threatening ambiguity towards Germany on all these matters?

"By this means all ambiguity and controversy is avoided on this point.

The common way of showing up the sophism here is by pointing out the ambiguity of the expression 'never can overtake.'

The only person who kept cool was Mrs. Riddel, and it was quite clear to the beholders that she had realized neither the ambiguity of her question nor the meaning of her opponent's reply.

By the Franco-German treaty of 1911 Germany had finally agreed to recognize the French protectorate in Morocco; but in spite of an apparently explicit acknowledgment of this right, Germany, as usual, managed to slip into the contract certain ambiguities of form that were likely to lead to future trouble.

The same six versicles are used as an example by Prof. Fowler, who, without admitting any ambiguity in the measure, introduces them, rather solecistically, thus: "Each of the following lines consist of a single Anapest.

It is difficult to understand the ambiguity here used, unless we suppose that the station of Montij was on the right bank of the Dnieper; while certainly that of Corrensa was on the left or north-east bank.

He hopes that, by comparing the works of Shakespeare with those of writers who lived at the same time, immediately preceded, or immediately followed him, he shall be able to ascertain his ambiguities, disentangle his intricacies, and recover the meaning of words now lost in the darkness of antiquity.

He knew it was unfavorable to their wishes, but could not comprehend its meaning or expressions, and immediately attributed their ambiguity to the strange conference he had witnessed between Denbigh and the military stranger.

The pronominal adjectives and the personal pronouns are especially likely to be used in such a way as to cause ambiguity.

I went back and corrected the ambiguity.