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Shutdowns, built into the system as a sanction against irresoluteness, cost money.

From Fox News • Dec. 12, 2018

There can be no room ... for pusillanimity or for the irresoluteness of those who believe they can serve two masters.

From Time Magazine Archive

His friends are more worried than his foes about a seeming irresoluteness on occasion, a remoteness from the events over which he should be exercising command.

From Time Magazine Archive

But the characteristics that men really recognize are neither noble aspirations nor irresoluteness: men see, in fact, their own traits of taint and corruption.

From Time Magazine Archive

His very melancholy, and the dejection of spirits he had so long been in, produced an irresoluteness and wavering of purpose which kept him from proceeding to extremities.

From Tales from Shakespeare by Lamb, Mary