Sentence examples for doubtful of success from inspiring English sources

Still, Rosario Crocetta would do well to heed Machiavelli: "There is nothing more difficult to carry out, nor more doubtful of success, nor more dangerous to handle, than to initiate a new order of things".

"We have numerous concerns with the clinical development of bapineuzumab, and what we viewed to be underwhelming top-line Phase 2 results make us highly doubtful of success," Mr. Aschoff wrote.

Even some of those trying to change the laws seemed doubtful of success, despite visible leadership from Russell Simmons, the founder of Def Jam records, who insisted until the end that the laws would be revised.

He quoted Niccolò Machiavelli in that speech to make a point: There is nothing more difficult and dangerous, or more doubtful of success, than an attempt to introduce a new order of things in any state.

It must be considered that there is nothing more difficult to carry out, nor more doubtful of success nor dangerous to handle, than to initiate a new order of things.

When I got back to Washington, I thumbed through the book until I found the rambling passage, and this is what it said: It must be considered that there is nothing more difficult to carry out, nor more doubtful of success, nor more dangerous to handle, than to initiate a new order of things.

The prospects of success seemed doubtful, and many – including the director general of the World Health Assembly – expected it to fail.

That type of messaging is passionate, but its chances of success are doubtful.

"I have seen all my life such selfishness and littleness even in New England, that I sometimes tremble to think that, although we are engaged in the best cause that ever employed the human heart, yet the prospect of success is doubtful not for want of power or wisdom but of virtue".

The rain was coming down harder and I was becoming increasingly doubtful of my chances for success.

The report concluded that there are "thousands of acres" of vacant or underused commercial property that could be developed to produce "needed jobs, housing opportunities and services to the community". But while the report identifies untapped potential for commercial development along Vermont, Grigsby remains doubtful of the area's success.