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It is doubtful that anyone will tell the senator that the emperor has no clothes.
However, it is doubtful that such a move would be well-received by students and academics.
However, in light of past practices, it is doubtful whether they will live up to those pledges.
It is doubtful if there will ever be a conclusive judgement about colonialism.
It is doubtful that their Adoptionism was derived from the Bonosians, who were biblical unitarians.
The on-loan Belgian had not trained since then and was rated highly doubtful for tonight.
Aidan O'Mahony sustained a thigh injury in the drawn encounter, and is rated doubtful.
Colm Picked up an injury in training last Saturday and is rated very doubtful.
And with the best will in the world, it is doubtful that the number of spaces will be increased so greatly as to compensate for this.
It is doubtful whether it would have made any difference in the face of greatly superior British ship handling and gunnery.
Because his own title to the crown was doubtful, he laid claim to that of France.
It's doubtful if either of the two gentlemen have the chops for such clownishness, although they both are reputed to have fierce tempers.
Borland is part of the Eclipse group, although it's doubtful whether the company revels in this situation much.
However, it is doubtful even with the enthusiasm of a small number of professional librarians and archivists that this will be successful.
It is doubtful that the US can successfully arrogate this privilege only to itself.
The book sold well and rapidly became fashionable, but was assailed in various critical pamphlets for length, tedium, and doubtful morality.
Jenna shot a doubtful glance at the lumpy, brown couch in the corner of the room.
Now we see companies with doubtful credentials entering tech ventures for the sake of attracting investment.
It is doubtful, however, whether the management accounting techniques employed by the company were tailored to detect high overheads.
Who wants stuff of doubtful or bad quality, even if it's given for half the price?
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Examples from Classical Literature
Darwin afterwards gave a doubtful explanation of this, and concluded that the ovary is dimerous.
And yet it is doubtful if he would have been recognised, so direly had tribulation altered him.
It was a look deliberate and scrutinizing, in a sense doubtful, and yet not unkindly.
The marble lavabo in the sacristy of San Lorenzo is also a doubtful piece of sculpture.
Then there is double-entendre, implying a secondary meaning of doubtful delicacy.
It is doubtful if it was mentally prepared to entertain it, or evolve the idea.
If Macklin had not been required to submit copies of his plays to the licenser, it is doubtful that as much would have survived.
The taxonomic validity of Pseudoficimia pulcherrima remains doubtful, for only minor characters distinguish it from P. frontalis.
I was a little doubtful about that point, for at Taylorville we called one another by our first names.
A document of Kaufbeuren on linen paper of the year 1318 is of very doubtful genuineness.
A quoter is either ostentatious of his acquirements, or doubtful of his cause.
A form of a very doubtful Pantheism might be reached in this way, but not theism.
Nevertheless the bipartition of the stars into two such distinct classes must be considered as vague and doubtful.
He was doubtful whether Mr. Edmund de Valera would consent to be a toparch under Danish suzerainty.
It is doubtful whether he did not belong to another school, and may have been omitted by malvasia as a foreigner.
All that is now doubtful concerning this man is, whether he was a coward or a traitor.
It is doubtful, for the marque stood in between and the French did not leave it unguarded.
The writer considers as very doubtful the formula for Dx, which is the same as that for W1, already discussed.
It is doubtful whether even the great Tragic poets could have made the trimeter tolerable as the vehicle of a long story.
It does seem doubtful whether the State can ab initio be the proprietor of a copyright.
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