ANC, as opposed to the NNP's "tergiversation", DA leader Tony Leon said on Friday. From Wordnik.com. [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference
'tergiversation' is a long and yet far from exhaustive list. From Wordnik.com. [Samuel Rutherford and some of his correspondents] Reference
I said, getting quite impatient at his tergiversation. From Wordnik.com. [She and I, Volume 1] Reference
I can decipher your tergiversation of trivia to your detriment. From Wordnik.com. [Think Progress » Media More Interested In Laura Bush’s Skin Condition Than Iraq] Reference
Shimo is to answer the questions -- without tergiversation or lying. From Wordnik.com. [Bakemono Yashiki (The Haunted House), Retold from the Japanese Originals Tales of the Tokugawa, Volume 2] Reference
This is not the place such an historical tergiversation of historical facts. From Wordnik.com. [11/27/2005 - 12/04/2005] Reference
I must tell you, however, in confidence, I suspect Tabby of tergiversation. —. From Wordnik.com. [The Expedition of Humphry Clinker] Reference
The voice of thy brother's blood Moses shows that Cain gained nothing by his tergiversation. From Wordnik.com. [Commentary on Genesis - Volume 1] Reference
But when the power immediately commanding is sovereign and absolute, there is no room for tergiversation. From Wordnik.com. [Pneumatologia] Reference
Twitter photos love-notes e-mail design hosted tergiversation: desertion of a cause, position, party, or faith. From Wordnik.com. [natinski Diary Entry] Reference
Hence it was just as well to go to the end of her logic, where reasons for tergiversation would be most pronounced. From Wordnik.com. [The Hand of Ethelberta] Reference
Leon said the tergiversation began when the NNP's leaders decided, for their own self-seeking reasons, to abandon the DA. From Wordnik.com. [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference
Standing up to present his Memorial against tergiversation of OLD MORALITY, DE LISLE could not help dragging in head of CHARLES. From Wordnik.com. [Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 100, February 7, 1891] Reference
To fully describe his conduct in denouncing Arnold and Arnold's tergiversation and intrigues against him would lead me far afield. From Wordnik.com. [Colonel John Brown, of Pittsfield, Massachusetts, the Brave Accuser of Benedict Arnold] Reference
Why, he knows, as well as you do, of the tergiversation that has distinguished the entire political career of the Risque-tout Prime. From Wordnik.com. [She and I, Volume 2 A Love Story. A Life History.] Reference
The honorable member then adverted to that tergiversation of principle which the career of political individuals so often presented. From Wordnik.com. [Historical Documentation Concerning the Radical Piracy of _Wat Tyler_] Reference
The statement, therefore, is nothing but the typical tergiversation of trivia resorted to by the bushco to adumbrate their inefficacy. From Wordnik.com. [Think Progress » Rice Falsely Claims Clinton Administration Did Not Leave A ‘Strategy To Fight Al Qaeda’] Reference
We may hence learn, that we gain no advantage by tergiversation, when the Lord reproves us, because he will immediately dispatch our case with a single word. From Wordnik.com. [Commentary on Genesis - Volume 1] Reference
She was conscious of gross tergiversation, of having ratted shamefully; for that merry party in the afternoon, as they stood in the camp of Rockcliffe overlooking. From Wordnik.com. [Belles and Ringers] Reference
His tergiversation of mood proves only that there were two. From Wordnik.com. [The Art of Letters] Reference
What was Howe's explanation of his Lordship's tergiversation?. From Wordnik.com. [The Tribune of Nova Scotia A Chronicle of Joseph Howe] Reference
Such tergiversation in times of civil discord was nothing new. From Wordnik.com. [The History of England, from the Accession of James II — Volume 4] Reference
"I will have no tergiversation," replied Bonaparte with warmth. From Wordnik.com. [Memoirs of Napoleon — Volume 03] Reference
Orange deemed such tergiversation paltry, but controlled his anger. From Wordnik.com. [PG Edition of Netherlands series — Complete] Reference
Froude's specific charge of rapid tergiversation is disproved by dates. From Wordnik.com. [The Life of Froude] Reference
His cynical tergiversation at the end makes his previous conduct ridiculous. From Wordnik.com. [The Life and Works of Friedrich Schiller] Reference
"Yes, dear," said Mrs. Harkutt, with sympathetic but shameless tergiversation. From Wordnik.com. [A First Family of Tasajara] Reference
Innuendo, political intrigue, diplomatic tergiversation -- in all these he was a master. From Wordnik.com. [Prince or Chauffeur? A Story of Newport] Reference
"Whose tergiversation and ambidexterity have alike excited our ridicule," replied Prudence. From Wordnik.com. [Swallow Barn, or A Sojourn in the Old Dominion. In Two Volumes. Vol. II.] Reference
Lincoln would not allow himself to be swerved from the main issue by any tergiversation or personal attacks. From Wordnik.com. [Abraham Lincoln] Reference
Neither she nor Abraham deemed it important to speak the truth when any form of tergiversation might serve them. From Wordnik.com. [The Woman's Bible] Reference
Boniface; and, after a long period of mutual tergiversation, it was agreed in the end to let bygones be bygones. From Wordnik.com. [A Popular History of France from the Earliest Times, Volume 2] Reference
Marius taking the oath, clapped their hands and applauded, but the nobility were much dejected and hated Marius for his tergiversation. From Wordnik.com. [Plutarch's Lives, Volume II] Reference
Just in the same way, the violent and prolonged debates, the intrigue, the tergiversation, which attended the acceptance of the famous Bull. From Wordnik.com. [Diderot and the Encyclopædists (Vol 1 of 2)] Reference
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