But he could never pledge himself frankly in one sense or the other, and this vacillation prevented him from attaining any decisive results.
There was a momentary vacillation even in Rome.
This vacillation put an end to all hope of a reconciliation of parties in the island.
After a period of vacillation Hanover threw in her lot with Austria, the decisive step being taken when the question of the mobilization of the federal army was voted upon in the diet on the 14th of June 1866.
The foreign policy of ViscontiVenosta may be said to have reinforced the international position of Italy without sacrifice of dignity, and without the vacillation and short-sightedness which was to characterize the ensuing administrations of the Left.