Translations for „fence-sitting“ in the English » Chinese Dictionary

fence-sitting N

fence-sitting

骑墙观望 qíqiáng guānwàng

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English

This is not a time for fence-sitting.

news.nationalpost.com

Such protracted fence-sitting means a significant opportunity loss.

business.financialpost.com

You get used to listening to political fence-sitting when you do interviews about whatever it is the province is cutting this week.

planetsmag.com

There are many ways to bend the numbers but a reasonable fence-sitting estimate is that we overshot that by around 20%.

hackaday.com

Too many former sportspeople assume that fence-sitting, cliches and banalities will suffice.

www.telegraph.co.uk

The electorate was puzzled by the general's fence-sitting, and never again regained full confidence in his political abilities.

en.wikipedia.org

And for those who are fence-sitting, it should provide compelling evidence to persuade you to become a sceptic.

www.thecommentator.com

The problem with so many of the commentators here is that they have absorbed neo-liberal economics so profoundly that they think fence-sitting is virtuous.

www.universitytimes.ie

It is not a time for fence-sitting or navel-gazing from the world's only superpower.

blogs.telegraph.co.uk

Theirs is a world of fence-sitting, not-knowingess, but not-trying-ness either.

religion.blogs.cnn.com