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• The relationship between magnetiser and subject remained therefore ambivalent: how could it be proved that the subject was not really duping the magnetiser?

• There has been an ambivalent attitude to the biological characteristics of racial hybrids apparent ever since the problem first arose.

• Additionally, the respondents expressed intense and ambivalent feelings and emotions about their personal experience of homelessness and often felt broken without hope.

• Marxism and nationalism were closely intertwined both by their contingent, ambivalent alliances and by their contingent conceptual affinities in many areas.

• The very limited amount of scholarly empirical work on this topic has produced ambivalent results.

• Yet the government's attitude toward the paramilitaries was ambivalent.

• But there were also numerous dissenting voices and the general attitude remained, all in all, ambivalent.

• She is an ambivalent figure because she is not the subject of power but its carrier (the connotations of disease are appropriate here).