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With his mild manner and fluent English, Prince Salman may be merely the monarchy's friendly face, skeptical analysts say.

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Vice President Dick Cheney will be touring the region in the coming week and is expected to face skeptical governments that believe that the United States could do more to combat terrorism if it was doing more to prompt the Israelis and Palestinians to stop killing each other.

But he faced skeptical questions from lawmakers on the structure and purpose of the fee.

As a new firm, not to mention one run by a woman, Solera faced skeptical investors as it tried to start its first fund.

Mrs. Clinton faced skeptical questioning from the two audiences of Pakistanis she arranged to meet to make her case to the broader public here.

Other affluent districts that have traditionally passed their budgets without much question are also facing skeptical taxpayers taking a harder look at how money is spent.

Talking up the country as an investment destination late last year in Boston and New York, she found herself facing skeptical audiences after her boss, Arnaud Montebourg, the industry minister, publicly castigated the steel maker ArcelorMittal over plans to close unprofitable blast furnaces.

Gen. Charles F. Bolden Jr., the administrator of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, faced skeptical, sometimes hostile questioning on Thursday from members of a key House committee who said they opposed the Obama administration's plans to revamp the nation's human spaceflight program.

Facing skeptical Senate Democrats, Gale A. Norton presented herself today as both a conservative and a conservationist and said her past legal views would not prevent her from enforcing environmental laws if she became secretary of interior.

How much of a cushion do I have?' " As a former chairman and chief executive of Goldman Sachs, Mr. Paulson faced skeptical questions about the so-called shadow banking system, the network of investment banks, insurance companies, hedge funds and other institutions that largely went unchecked by a regulatory system designed to focus on deposit-taking banks.