Sentence examples for doubtful given from inspiring English sources

Jermain Defoe's place must be doubtful given his recent slump in form.

It seems doubtful, given their delicate composition of floating crosses on white.

Doubtful; given the wildness of the 1960s, that would probably have happened anyway.

But it is doubtful, given Italy's military weakness, whether Italian neutrality would have stopped Hitler.

It is doubtful, given her immense competitive instincts, that anybody would underestimate her, least of all her fellow players.

Legal experts say the prospects of such suits are doubtful, given the admissions that the youths had gone to the park to mug people.

Many analysts were doubtful, particularly given that the Republicans' gains in Congress made it far less likely that the Obama administration would be able to embark on new programs to revive growth through government spending.

The paper aims not to provide accurate and robust estimates of investment elasticities (a doubtful task given the poor quality of the data sources and the modelling problems), but to develop and critically assess the validity of an empirical approach for characterising the production of science and its impact, from a comparative perspective.

Land-transfer programs remain perennially underfinanced by a government preoccupied with AIDS and crime, and doubtful that giving land to penniless peasants will do much to better their lot.

Member states of the European Union are also increasingly doubtful about giving corporations free rein to challenge public health and environmental safeguards in secret courts.

Intermediate and doubtful species gave a negative result, except for L. inadai, serovar Kaup, strain LT 64 68 that gave a positive PCR result and L. inadai, serovar Lincang, strain L14 and L. meyeri, serovar Perameles, strain Bandicoot 343 that gave ambiguous results.