Sentence examples for doubtful state from inspiring English sources

As a staunch conservative from a "doubtful" state, Fairbanks was chosen as Roosevelt's running mate in 1904 to balance the ticket.

— Peter Schjeldahl Lately, I've been looking for books that both recognize a turgid, doubtful state of mind and (somehow) make it seem possible that one's own doubtful turgidity can turn into something strong and beautiful and good.

The problem is, however, that in trying to dissuade people from using their cars, they should be offered a viable alternative, and the train system, once the best one in the world, is now in a doubtful state compared to other European countries".

After spending many hours visiting the former homes of lauded writers, such as the Emily Dickinson museum in Amherst, Anne Trubek, who began research for her A Skeptic's Guide to Writers' Houses in a suitably doubtful state of mind, concluded that "you see the profound emotional experience that visitors have in being in the room where, for instance, Emily Dickinson wrote.

This, then, creates a doubtful state of inaccurate and unrealistic data on numbers of out-of-school children, enrolment figures, learning centres, numbers of disabled children and so on.

One feature of the campaign noted by observers was the extensive use of money to influence the outcome; this was not a new phenomenon, but the spending of money to carry doubtful states and the apparent alliance between business and political bosses had never before been so open.

That's good news, but not for Oregon, as such an outcome makes it doubtful the state will receive anything near the full purchase price it paid, according to sources I spoke with who are familiar with the pharmaceutical returns industry.

But as a high-level meeting convened by the new session of the United Nations General Assembly gets set to discuss the rule of law, it is doubtful that states even agree what the term really means.

Late returns showed Illinois and Ohio, two of the doubtful Middle Western states with a total of fifty-five votes, favoring the President; the former by a majority of three to one and the latter by two to one.

On May 18 , 1860 he wrote to Abraham Lincoln of neighboring Illinois -- then a candidate for the Republican nomination for president -- that although he preferred Edward Bates, "I have had no doubt that your name was the most hopeful, around which to rally in the doubtful battleground states.

He noted that doubtful precedents stated that Congress, and not another part of the government had the power to regulate everything that a tribe could or could not do, which renders tribal sovereignty a "nullity".