No 10 refused all comment but there was no attempt in Whitehall to deny that, as reported, Mr Straw had written to John Prescott, voicing practical doubts on behalf of his department.
Apparently talks, which were reportedly initiated by privately-held Facebook, broke down because of doubts on behalf of Twitter investors and executives about the stock's actual worth, the usual concerns that arise when acquisitions are made (like integration, duration, costs, etc)., and a strong belief that Twitter will ultimately be able to weather the economic downturn on its own.
Because the same PR firms, front groups, and merchants of doubt fought on behalf of industries unwilling to sacrifice their profits in the name of safety, innovation, and public good.
Russia's stock-in-trade is sowing doubt, most recently on behalf of Syrian dictator Bashar al- Assad.
"No doubt," Mr. McCain said, "on behalf of several large, wealthy U.S. agribusinesses that will handsomely profit by killing competition from Vietnamese catfish imports".
Lord Lawson's climate-sceptic think-tank is under review by the Charity Commission, it has emerged, as one of its leading advisers was revealed in an undercover sting to have offered to write an academic paper casting doubt on global warming on behalf of a sham oil company.
Occasionally a story will refer to extremists of the right and the left, as though no reasonable person could possibly doubt the claims made on behalf of the Common Core.
Opponents will no doubt bring up his work on behalf of tobacco companies and ask, as others have, whether it impelled him to kill a statewide anti-smoking programme in 2006 and to twice veto a bill that would have replaced the state's grocery tax with a higher tax on tobacco.
It is abhorrent that it was under the US occupation that the death penalty was reinstated in Iraq.' Ms. Jagger and the BJHRF led the "Too Much Doubt" Twitter campaign with Amnesty International on behalf of Troy Davis, an innocent man who was executed by the State of Georgia, USA, on September 21st , 2011
Whichever way it goes, there is little doubt that the army chief acted on behalf of the palace and the powerful privy council.So what are the more immediate possible outcomes?
