Sentence examples for acknowledged doubts from inspiring English sources

The remaining 29percentt support capital punishment but acknowledged doubts and reservations.

As defence secretary under presidents John F Kennedy and Lyndon Johnson, he was instrumental in pushing the US into Vietnam and managing the war, even as he privately acknowledged doubts about its ability to defeat the insurgent nationalists who had driven out the French.

I saw a president who very much acknowledged doubt, but who also very much stands by decisions he was forced to make, in the context of information available at the time.

Moreover, although you acknowledge doubts about the credibility of your industry, you don't address them.

So the hired expert who presents his data with certainty and determination is more likely to win over a jury than the more hesitant doctor, scientist or expert who is prepared to acknowledge doubt.

Mr. Cohen acknowledged having doubts over the years about whether the measure would ever pass.

But an Obama administration official, who was not authorized to speak publicly on the subject, acknowledged some doubts.

He acknowledged occasional doubts about the sanity of the enterprise, but added: "Us Ziolkowskis will continue to work as long as we can".

"All of us on this see through the glass darkly," said Mr. Gephardt, Democrat of Missouri, who acknowledged some doubts even though he supports the White House.

Bryant, who rarely acknowledged having doubts, wrote a first-person article for Dime magazine in 2006, saying that "my biggest fear is not winning another title" and that his mission had made him "an outcast my entire life".

Sighing with the weariness of a man who knows he has been given an impossible task, the tourism secretary, Mr. Akhtar, acknowledged the doubts and said there was much work to be done.