I was starting to feel a little doubtful of my previous thoughts, but wasn't completely sure either way. |
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Still doubtful, Meybodi grabbed a piece of fruit from a wooden tureen sitting on the nearby coffee table. |
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It is doubtful which gave the simple hearted little man most joy at the moment, the gaining of the treasure, or the recovery of the donkey. |
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A lender doubtful of the borrower's ability to repay may take security over some or all of the company's assets. |
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It is doubtful that any other area of the country boasts a league with so many teams and players. |
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These letters are merely intended to wreck our solidarity and create an impression that we are doubtful of our stance. |
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It is doubtful, however, that Edwards' work would have anticipated modern historiography as some claim. |
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Remember also that most people, despite their confident appearance and demeanor, are often as scared as you are and as doubtful of themselves. |
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They should refrain from overinvesting in the doubtful securities that proliferate in this country. |
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After she was told about the fierce competition in the modeling world in Jakarta, Nike, was briefly silent and seemed doubtful of her plans. |
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Only the faintest hint of green remains, the same doubtful color you see in leaves pressed between the pages of a book. |
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But an American official who has been privately doubtful of the Administration's commitment to the peace process now echoes this view. |
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This far northeast, leagues from the Dragon's Jaw, it was highly doubtful that any dragons in the area were of the friendly sort. |
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It is doubtful that much more than 50 percent of the Dolly Varden live to spawn a second time. |
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At the time of writing the score was four yeses to five noes with six doubtful. |
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And listen, between you and me, it's very doubtful they'll give you the bullet. |
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Initially doubtful, Bird was eventually won over and took control of the project. |
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Also, the bag is mildly odiferous, so it's doubtful you'd forget about it for too long in a household environment. |
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However, currently it is doubtful whether a single international agency has the capacity or the moral authority to produce such a framework. |
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The applicability of this submission to the present case, under a different piece of legislation, seems doubtful to me. |
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Whoever owned this house was stinking rich, but it was doubtful that they were more wealthy than the Loires. |
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And unless it is comprised of people with very strong nerves, success is doubtful. |
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Firstly, it is doubtful whether there is such a shortage of cash, given the eye-watering additional amounts now being pumped into the system. |
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His mind hovered for a moment round the doubtful date on the page, and then fetched up with a bump against the Newspeak word doublethink. |
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The possibility is still open to his characters, but in an increasingly equivocal and doubtful way. |
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It is doubtful there could ever be a comparable level of certainty with dementia patients. |
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While her efforts to escape may serve to evade death, it is doubtful that she has the concepts of life and death, and the desire to live. |
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Whether even that can be achieved must be doubtful in a period of massive social transformation, generating profound dislocation and insecurity. |
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This deeply dishonest way of putting things is crammed with doubtful assumptions. |
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It is doubtful that anyone will tell the senator that the emperor has no clothes. |
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It is doubtful that this can all happen through the pure play of marketplace forces. |
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The author renders the word tradition into a signifier of doubtful intentions, a glyph whose meaning has yet to be ascertained. |
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It is doubtful whether the functionaries of the Maharashtra government have read it either. |
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Yet whatever currency such views have gained, it is doubtful if he himself would have recognized them. |
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And it's doubtful that decisions to ratify international covenants on the subject involve much public consideration either. |
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Though The Times continued dutifully to print a court circular, it is doubtful whether it was as much read as the sports page. |
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The lady was doubtful, but at last decided on Guinness, and the gentleman wanted a gin and it. |
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I am doubtful that he will be picked for the upcoming test series against Zimbabwe, where pitch invasions take on a whole new meaning. |
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It is doubtful whether he had any particular control over the course of events. |
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Whether the soft pizzicatos made it to the audience all the way in the back is doubtful. |
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Mind you it is doubtful we will see a shallower, more insipid attempt at shifting the blame from the attacker to a victim. |
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However, it is doubtful that such a move would be well-received by students and academics. |
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However, in light of past practices, it is doubtful whether they will live up to those pledges. |
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The lost syllable of each dipody may be doubtful, which explains why the last foot of each dipody may be a spondee. |
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It is doubtful if there will ever be a conclusive judgement about colonialism. |
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Controversy is an inevitable element of medical progress, but sometimes it degenerates into doubtful disputations. |
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It is doubtful that their Adoptionism was derived from the Bonosians, who were biblical unitarians. |
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After discounting doubtful data, C-values for 62 pteridophyte species remained acceptable for analysis. |
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The on-loan Belgian had not trained since then and was rated highly doubtful for tonight. |
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Aidan O'Mahony sustained a thigh injury in the drawn encounter, and is rated doubtful. |
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Colm Picked up an injury in training last Saturday and is rated very doubtful. |
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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. |
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It also did not make clear that doubtful or disputed cases should be referred to the courts. |
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It is doubtful whether it would have made any difference in the face of greatly superior British ship handling and gunnery. |
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He had expressed genuine remorse and it was doubtful he would be appearing in court again. |
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Because his own title to the crown was doubtful, he laid claim to that of France. |
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However, it is doubtful whether any privately financed development scheme would be viable. |
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But when you ask it citizens, they tend to be rather doubtful whether it is actually going to work. |
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And with school districts already pinching their pennies, it's doubtful whether they'll pony up the dough. |
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It's doubtful if either of the two gentlemen have the chops for such clownishness, although they both are reputed to have fierce tempers. |
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Harrow petitioned for leave to appeal to resolve this doubtful point of law and leave, I assume, was given on that basis. |
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Borland is part of the Eclipse group, although it's doubtful whether the company revels in this situation much. |
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It's doubtful if either has the chops for such clownishness, although they both are reputed to have fierce tempers. |
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Without official status or a whopping pot of prize-money and appearance fees, it is doubtful whether this event could have been staged. |
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Whether royal servants consistently made fortunes from fees and peculation seems doubtful. |
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However, it is doubtful even with the enthusiasm of a small number of professional librarians and archivists that this will be successful. |
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It is doubtful that the US can successfully arrogate this privilege only to itself. |
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Mobile's storyline is rather predictable and it's doubtful whether the show would work as a stage-bound, non-mobile monologue. |
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The book sold well and rapidly became fashionable, but was assailed in various critical pamphlets for length, tedium, and doubtful morality. |
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Jenna shot a doubtful glance at the lumpy, brown couch in the corner of the room. |
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Tilloid is a term used for till-like deposits of doubtful but probably non-glacial origin. |
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While in high school, Hyman was originally doubtful about the validity of palm reading. |
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Now we see companies with doubtful credentials entering tech ventures for the sake of attracting investment. |
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It is doubtful, however, whether the management accounting techniques employed by the company were tailored to detect high overheads. |
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The cause is of doubtful origin at the moment and it's too early to say if it was arson. |
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Who wants stuff of doubtful or bad quality, even if it's given for half the price? |
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It wasn't March Madness, but it's doubtful there ever has been a better two-day stretch in November for college basketball. |
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The design director, a masthead editor or the news desk should be consulted on doubtful cases or proposals for exceptions. |
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It was doubtful, she knew, but nevertheless, she wished things had not ended the way they did. |
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The existence of chinkara, flying fox, wolf, clawless otter, leopard cat and long-tailed tree mouse is doubtful, says the report. |
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The result is a sublime and surreal saga of self-discovery and personal growth, of existential doubt and doubtful existences. |
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Upon evidence, licences will be taken from companies alleged of dealing with goods of doubtful and undeclared origin. |
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Yet I previously accepted as wholly certain and evident many things which I afterwards realized were doubtful. |
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Now it seems he may have been bluffing all along, thus the efficacy of such a coalition seems doubtful. |
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Many arrests proved doubtful with large numbers of detainees held on flimsy evidence after politically motivated tip-offs by local rivals. |
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They are doubtful of her being reunited with Ollie, after waiting more than two weeks for his return. |
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Whether a cycle lane is beneficial to cyclists is doubtful as there are cars parked in the cycle lane most of the time. |
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Whether he can realistically hope to overturn the sizeable Labour majority in Barking is perhaps doubtful. |
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When they finally arrived on the twenty-fifth floor, the couple stepped out hesitantly, doubtful of good news. |
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It is doubtful that trade suspension by Japan will lead to North Korea's collapse or deal it a severe blow, forcing it to yield and change its policy. |
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Hobson was always doubtful after jarring his knee in last week's friendly with Manchester United while Jones suffered bruised ribs in Tuesday night's game with Middlesbrough. |
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Since the other boys are doubtful, Finn takes off his clothes, climbs the tree and gleefully jumps off one of its branches, landing in the river below. |
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These were youths of noble birth and of doubtful education who would serve in the ranks and then receive commissions after two or more years' service. |
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Whether Keynesian spending is the cure-all seems doubtful, however. |
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Whether the vote in a rump referendum over the weekend genuinely reflected public opinion in the eastern-most regions is doubtful. |
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But it is doubtful anyone will ever prove who poisoned Arafat, if poisoned he was. |
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It's doubtful there would have been enough fortification and firepower under any circumstances. |
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The deliberately miswritten order has its uses, making it even more important that orders be strictly adhered to and doubtful ones rigorously banned. |
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The eleven poems not definitely known to be by writers other than Shakespeare are included in the Oxford edition, with a statement that the ascription is very doubtful. |
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And sometimes the elders I work with, who are all native speakers of English as well as Salish, see connections between English and Salish that strike me as doubtful. |
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The identification is doubtful, but the scholiast knew Varus' origin. |
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More arrogant, to me, is the author who keeps his distance from these giants, having a doubtful reservation, than those of us who openly accept them. |
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Whether or not these beakers were used for wine is doubtful but 18th century French beakers with their characteristic plinth feet may well have been. |
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However, it is doubtful whether the bank could practice this expansion for too long since it runs the risk of not being able to clear its checks and thus go belly up. |
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Will children born from such Gittin, and from the Gittin of such Beth Dins that permit fiscal coercion be considered mamzerim or doubtful mamzerim? |
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It is doubtful that he trusted Jude with the key to the post office box. |
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Papino, the last to leave the ring, casts a doubtful look at nino, clearly worried about what mischief may soon ensue. |
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To be fair, it is not the only company which will be cutting payouts this year, although it is doubtful many will engage in quite such a drastic slash-and-burn exercise. |
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But from the moment the osce team arrived at the site, it began to look doubtful the inquiry had any chance to succeed. |
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Even had he the benefit of the scaffolding erected behind Firhill's western end, it is doubtful whether he would have been able to do the needful. |
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It is likely to deprive the side of a key player and, with Vaughan doubtful, thrust a fresh burden on Andrew Flintoff, who is next in line to take over the captaincy. |
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The appointment was unanimous and, given the nature of humanities studies, it is doubtful that the department would overlook something as important as equity policies. |
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It is far more doubtful whether any system of public coercion can respond to those cases without overshooting the mark and creating collateral disabilities of its own. |
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The guy pauses a moment, then grants that this proposition seems doubtful. |
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It was doubtful whether the serious traveller bothered himself too much about such things as power failures, which were part of life and can happen anywhere. |
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Generalisations of doubtful validity still hold the field in many instances, crying out for a new generation of detectives, scholars, and writers. |
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In fact, looking at the porky physiques on parade at the Lakeside, it's doubtful whether they could even manage a hop or a skip, let alone the jump. |
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Even after Lincoln's election and the secession of the cotton states, many Virginians remained doubtful about the desirability of Southern independence. |
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The impressive group of works which forms the core of the exhibition is accompanied by others less prepossessing and of sometimes doubtful relevance. |
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It is doubtful if any left the hotel gastronomically unsatisfied. |
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Greenough discusses an affiliation with Pre-Raphaelitism, but it is doubtful that Fenton shared the Pre-Raphaelites' then-controversial goals for artistic reform. |
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Danny Farthing, who was making his Town comeback, looks likely to miss out with a dead leg, while Nick Richardson and Scott Bonsall are also doubtful. |
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It is doubtful that the knowledge revolution will let developing countries leapfrog to higher levels of development, as many technologists and Internet evangelists assert. |
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I'm very doubtful of an intervention scenario, if he truly is bipolar. |
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It was clear that she was doubtful of our ability to win, as well. |
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I'm still wavering, still feeling incredibly doubtful of the situation. |
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I'm also doubtful of so many things that I previously thought were true. |
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Today's doctors, in contrast, are uncertain of their role and doubtful of their abilities and are viewed with increasing suspicion by the population. |
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She was very doubtful of her own abilities, always had been. |
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He is equally doubtful of my assertion that the modern knowledge society can go on satisfying growing human wants, including our aspiration to preserve a liveable environment. |
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We shot him doubtful looks, certain that the country that gave the world the deep-fried pizza would be incapable of producing anything near the standard of a Mint Slice. |
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It is doubtful whether all the ministers or other public men and officials have been submitting mandatory annual statements of their income and assets to the government. |
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It is doubtful whether future funding would allow both Cross-rail and the electrification of the Caldervale lines to be simultaneously undertaken. |
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It is doubtful whether tomorrow's victor will reach quite those lofty heights, but No Kidding is a horse with a bright future, nevertheless, and he is fancied to oblige. |
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Referring to the incident, he says he enjoys the camaraderie his readers share with him, but he is doubtful whether a writer should instantly react to issues like this. |
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Important though parish and town boundaries are for many reasons, it is doubtful whether occupants of vehicles are interested in where these boundaries lie. |
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In a city where almost roadside bin is overflowing with uncleared garbage, it's extremely doubtful whether the authorities will be successful in implementation. |
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And it is doubtful whether the beach will ever regain its Blue Flag status unless the sewerage facility in the seaside town is brought up to standard. |
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But I am very doubtful about whether the ongoing debate, in the blogs and mailing lists and conferences, is actually taking us anywhere interesting. |
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It is doubtful whether our younger generation can figure them out. |
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It is doubtful whether the minister's plan to find, train, equip and deploy retirees was superior to boosting the resources of the regular police to perform the same function. |
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This edict was itself of doubtful legality, for it revoked an 1865 law, but was signed by the Tsar on presentation by the minister of the interior. |
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Whether the reasonable person standard serves the interests of patients who know little about their informational needs or the medical system is doubtful. |
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That authentic manuscript sources do not exist and that Handel never recycled any material from these works make their authenticity doubtful. |
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Injured pair Craig Jones and Jamie Petrie are definite non-starters and player-manager Mark McGregor regards several others as doubtful. |
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On-loan Sheffield United defender Ben Starosta makes his Bradford debut but striker Peter Thorne is doubtful. |
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This is a fighter who has been in plenty of slugfests, so it's doubtful he suddenly lost his heart. |
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The pupils of her great eyes were large in the doubtful lamplight, swallowing their green fires in deep pools of mystery and darkness. |
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Others were languaged in such doubtful expressions that they have a double sense. |
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If the laws and medicine do not discriminate between a seeing-eye dog and an emotional-support cat, however, it is doubtful if anyone should. |
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Candida is often present in the specimen, but its role as a causative agent is doubtful, and it is more likely to be a saprophyte. |
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First a case is appointed to be mooted by certain young men, containing some doubtful controversy. |
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Prognosis for the Lab was doubtful considering a littermate had been euthanized for the same condition. |
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Ryan Baldachino continues in his bid for full fitness and he must again be doubtful for tonight's tie. |
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The seventh volume of the Opera Philosophica contains the doubtful and spurious works. |
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It is doubtful whether the extremely impoverished flora of Antarctica is sufficiently well developed to be considered as blanket bogs. |
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James, doubtful of his brother's chances of regaining the throne, considered taking a Spanish offer to be an admiral in their navy. |
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The Public Accounts Committee claims that plans to improve mental health services have a doubtful future due to uncertainties over funding. |
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Since Melbourne's mother had numerous lovers, it is very doubtful that he was in fact the first Viscount's son. |
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This was not medieval practice, and it is doubtful whether any writ was ever issued with the intent of creating such a peerage. |
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Despite the doubtful evidence, the Rugby World Cup trophy is named after Webb Ellis. |
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However, the Constitutional Law Committee of the parliament reviews any doubtful bills and recommends changes, if needed. |
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The articles were claimed to have received the authority of a Convocation, although this is doubtful. |
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However, it is doubtful Columbus actually signed the original letter that way. |
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It is doubtful whether perfumes qualify as appropriate copyright subject matter under the US Copyright Act. |
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Ibn Battuta also mentions visiting Sana'a, but whether he actually did so is doubtful. |
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There are also six surviving charters, though some are of doubtful authenticity. |
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The condition of our own ships was such that it was very doubtful what would be their fate. |
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Apocrypha are works, usually written, of unknown authorship or of doubtful origin. |
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Three of the four are hale and hearty today, and it is doubtful they have forgotten a single detail of that event. |
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Thus, it remains doubtful whether there is any historical basis for the famous ride. |
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This suggestion is still met in contemporary writing, but there is no proven connection and the etymological connection is doubtful. |
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It is doubtful that reprocessing makes economic sense in the present environment of cheap uranium. |
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The candidate gave lip service to fixing the problems, but it is doubtful that he will do much. |
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Whatever the case, David's claim to be heir to the Scottish kingdom was doubtful. |
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It seems to me doubtful that the tools incising one set could have incised the second. |
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Besides it's doubtful if even those who live there have ever thought of Oban as an erogenous zone. |
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Carlisle v Exeter Brad Potts and Danny Kearns are doubtful for Cumbrians but Danny Grainer returns. |
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Little is known about this in Toxorhynchites rutilus septentrionalis, but it seems doubtful that diapause as eggs would be possible. |
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Shaw has discovered, with characteristic sense, that it is very doubtful whether any existing human being with two legs can be progressive at all. |
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In addition, he suffered from arthritis, which at one point was so severe that it was doubtful that he would be able to play guitar for much longer. |
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With doubtful patriotism he left the Danes for a while unpursued, attacked Meath, overran and wasted Connaught, and returning suddenly burnt the royal stronghold of Tara. |
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Therefore, if a man died leaving a son and a tumtum or a hermaphrodyte, the son inherits everything, since the heirship of the tumtum or of the hermaphrodyte is doubtful. |
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Whether this effort to avoid being tracked at sea will be more effective than changing the registration of NITC vessels to flags of convenience is doubtful. |
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Some made doubtful claims to direct descent from Roman aristocracy. |
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That the victor of Agen was still alive in 58 BC or, if yes, that he was physically still capable of undertaking such a journey at all, seems more than doubtful. |
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It is doubtful whether the Tudor kings used the name on the throne. |
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However, it is doubtful that they were dedicated specifically to Thor. |
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A lighthouse crowns a lofty cliff on the north-east extremity, and though of doubtful value as a sealight forms a good mark for entering Clew Bay. |
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It is the ambiguity of language only which can make this proposition appear either doubtful or paradoxical. When properly explained and understood, it is almost self-evident. |
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It is doubtful that Busbecq could have had the tulip bulbs harvested, shipped to Germany and replanted between March 1558 and Gessner's description the following year. |
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Papponymy is not documented among Israelites. The only exception, Tahat son of 'Elyada' son of Tahat is doubtful and is not a papponymy sensu stricto. |
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Henry IV's action was of doubtful legality, as the Beauforts were previously legitimised by an Act of Parliament, but it further weakened Henry's claim. |
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If the current trend continues, it's doubtful the DOS market for tax software will be big enough within two or three years to justify its continued support. |
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Could I convert virgins to nymphomania? Masturbators to rakehood? Faithful wives to adulteresses? Seducers to ascetics? Very doubtful. But possible. |
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Their value as a block to invasion is doubtful, as their situation would have allowed supervision but they lacked the manpower to deter anything but cattle rustling. |
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That seems doubtful in the face of strong public concern over GM food and the political risk of inciting a larger anti-WTO, antiglobalization, and anti-EU backlash. |
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