"They were not prepared to convict anybody on questions that contained ambiguous phrases."

You say that the closest I came to judgment was my ambiguous phrase "quintessentially of the 90's."

How, then, does one determine the original "meaning" of an originally broad and ambiguous phrase?

But it has often done this by discreet silences and ambiguous phrases.

Opt-out parents (surely an ambiguous phrase) lead to drop-out children, he says.

The rather ambiguous phrase "free school" has made me uneasy from the outset, suggesting the possibility of the alternative (in monetary terms) becoming the norm.

But there is another way to interpret that somewhat ambiguous phrase "green travel".

Admittedly it's an ambiguous phrase, which could refer to either new productions of foreign plays or productions from overseas.

Small print clauses and ambiguous phrases have provided insurance companies with enough wriggle room to refuse payment in too many cases.

La crise des banlieues turns out to be an ambiguous phrase.