I have a built-in skepticism of dogma".
Whatever Obama's personal popularity, he could not count on his charisma to overcome the public's built-in skepticism of big government programs and intervention.
Growing up black in but-recently-desegregated-America also seemed to provide built-in skepticism about U.S. triumphalism.
The Postminimal design is clearly meant to advance the precedent formed by Maya Lin's great Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington, D.C., which overcame initial skepticism to emerge as the first powerful monument ever built in something other than a representational style.
It also builds skepticism towards the occurrence of a meaningful change, as social cognitive theory suggests, due to interaction between person's past experience, environment, and behavior [ 28].
That myth is built on a healthy skepticism that spending cuts made today are going to be implemented tomorrow.
While he points to them when he discusses the challenges of Academic skepticism, he does not systematically build upon them in refuting skepticism about sense perception, rational knowledge, and knowledge of testimony.
But, as when other doors were closed in his face, Ando persisted, overpowered skepticism, and built his project.
When he bought 304 acres in 1996 to build the club, he said, "skepticism was absolutely rampant".
Over the skepticism of other Northwestern officials, he built an executive education center 20 years ago that now brings in $93 million a year and has inspired similar versions at Stanford, Pennsylvania and other schools.
