1887, A. C. Yate, England and Russia Face to Face in Asia, William Blackwood and Sons, page 443:…blame attaches solely to the Liberal Government then in power, for its tortuous and unstraightforward policy.
…I have been no kinder to IBM concerning IBM's abandonment of OS/2 (which is, in fact, what IBM is doing despite a superficial pretense at "continuing to support and enhance" the product) than I was concerning Microsoft's equally unstraightforward abandonment of OS/2 the winter of '90/'91.
2012, Peter Sayer, Ambiguities and Tensions in English Language Teaching, Routledge, ISBN 978-0-415-89773-0, page 2:The answer I will suggest to both questions is “yes,†although in rather surprising and unstraightforward ways.
