Why not confront the growing international criticism and expressions of skepticism directly, and allow an investigation into the Army's possible role?
Joined by Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Justice Sotomayor said the case, as presented, provided no occasion for the majority's attack on the opt-out rule, let alone its expressions of skepticism about the constitutionality of the agency shop.
After a committee hearing that included bipartisan expressions of skepticism about the leasing plan, Mr. Warner issued a letter asking that the lease be cut back to only 25 tankers and that additional studies be done on the need for more tankers as well as possible alternatives to modernizing an aerial refueling tanker fleet that is now more than 40 years old.
The high prevalence of reported treatment failure may justify participants' expressions of skepticism as to the efficacy of modern medicine, although this remained by far the preferred treatment.
For other patients, though, the "Have you ever... .. question is less a therapeutic riddle to be solved — as it was in the case of Mr. B — than an expression of genuine skepticism that they can indeed be helped.
Liberals want badly to believe they aren't complicit in the Trump phenomenon, but what else was Trump but an expression of the same skepticism toward the actual work of politics that's currently fueling the liberal Oprah fantasy?
Margulies was game to answer my question ("It's silly gossip," she said), but, beforehand, across the table, she fixed me with a look that fans of the show would have recognized: the expression of appalled and disappointed skepticism with which Alicia so often faces her opponents in court.
That expression of faith in bipartisanship drew loud groans of skepticism, reflecting a growing sentiment among Obama supporters that he is too conciliatory toward Republicans.
Pruitt's previous expressions of climate change skepticism raised concerns among environmentalists ahead of Wednesday's hearing.
