Sentence examples for doubtful about it from inspiring English sources

The law "is paved with good intentions, but we are extremely doubtful about it," he said.

Susan still wants a permanent job but is looking more doubtful about it happening.

He seems as much beholden to some creaky idea of virility as he is doubtful about it.

The government scraped through a vote of confidence this week; the main opposition party has committed itself to voting against the austerity plan next week and a few members of the ruling Socialist party are also doubtful about it.

If in this view it pleases us, we are tolerably satisfied… if we are doubtful about it, we are often, upon that very account, more anxious to gain their approbation, and … we are altogether distracted at the thoughts of their censure, which then strikes us with double severity (Smith 1982, p. 109).

Would you feel comfortable and proceed with this intervention, or would you feel hesitant and doubtful about it?

Skeptics have been so doubtful about him, it has been said in jest that the epic works were not created by him but by someone else with the same name.

It survived but, as this special report has shown, it has changed: policymakers and the public are more doubtful about allowing it to develop without constraints and more anxious to shape the flows of trade, capital and people.

Tim McGuire, an academic and a former president of the American Society of Newspaper Editors, is doubtful about having it both ways.

When did you come here?" she asked, interested in Leonie's foreign background, but doubtful about mentioning it.

The recommendations and the report drew praise for their candor, but some here remained doubtful about whether it would really bring widespread change.