Sentence examples for doubtful in a from inspiring English sources

But that sounds doubtful in a country that also cracks down on its opposition press and where the president, Nursultan Nazarbayev, regularly claims more than 90% of the vote in elections.A growing number of such countries have an internet that each of them can call their own, walled off as much or as little as suits them.

The public seems doubtful: in a recent survey, conducted before the latest wave of dismal economic news, the Pew Research Center found that less than half of Americans expect that their children will enjoy a higher standard of living than their own.

It was also isolated from respiratory sources but the pulmonary infection was deemed possible to doubtful in a patient primary diagnosed with cancer [ 9].

Were the question wholly fresh, the conclusion would seem doubtful in any case that a later confession could be entirely voluntary and uncoerced, where an earlier one had been compelled.

For all the above reasons, we are reasonably doubtful in making a definitive diagnosis of mycobacteriosis for the Acipenser gueldenstaedtii specimens examined, although the presence of M. chelonae was detected by both tissue cultures and PCR-RFLP analysis.

If fusion was doubtful in any way, the patient was not classified as "fused".

Common-law courts often accept nominal consideration when used in a business context, such as in an option arrangement or a compromise agreement; its effectiveness is understandably more doubtful in the context of a gift promise, since such a transaction involves greater dangers for one party and is socially more marginal.

Indeed, it is doubtful whether, in a figurative sense, she has ever looked at a map in her life; she lacks a goal, a plan, an inner compass, anything resembling a sense of direction.

The assumption that this vessel was made for carrying water on the back seems a little doubtful in view of its shape and the disposition of the handles.

"The question, then, is whether being an 'individual' makes a difference anymore". It seems doubtful, in Lee's sombre future.

The notion of perpetual progress is not only doubtful in itself but is also compromised as a principle of classification because of its value implications.