Since then, regulators reinterpreted an ambiguous provision in the bailout law and spent $8 billion to $10 billion that was to have been held in reserve.
It was never fully respected by the Russian authorities, and increasingly its liberal but ambiguous provisions became manipulated, avoided and violated by the government.
The basic policies of this revision were to perform no changes the character set, to clarify ambiguous provisions, and to make the standard relatively easier to use.
One might put in that category an ambiguous provision of a complex statutory regime - the Internal Revenue Code, for example.
Reno has apparently construed this ambiguous provision in the only way one sensibly can.
However, parties must be sure not to include ambiguous or contradictory provisions.
But officials of the rescue, using an ambiguous provision in the bailout law, spent $8 billion to $10 billion that was to have been held in reserve.
Deference to a reasonable agency interpretation of an ambiguous statutory provision often makes sense, but not always.
This ambiguous provision seems to disallow the use of state funds for a course on religion that does not study all religions simultaneously.
This deliberately ambiguous provision is sometimes known as the Second Missouri Compromise.