In his 1958 Holmes Lectures, for example, he voiced doubts about the constitutionality of the Warren Court's civil rights rulings.
Though Afrit's cluing style is at times prolix and his grids seem a little odd by today's standards (ignoring digraphs, for example), he was without doubt a major figure in the early development of cryptic crosswords and is acknowledged as such by most major setters.
Asked if he envisages any change in the presenting team of the Today programme over the next 12 months, for example, he replies: "I severely doubt it.
It is not clear, for example, whether he really doubts that the Holocaust occurred or merely why such an event should have been allowed to justify Israel's creation.
"For example, I doubt that any of us have all the answers on issues like plural marriage.
The main difference is that even when Conservative policies are more popular, on tax for example, voters doubt that the party will deliver them.An extra reason for Labour to fight a dirty, personal campaign may be to stave off what might be well-founded complacency among its supporters.
If, for example, I doubt that it is rational to accept the claim that God exists, then you can be quite sure that I will doubt that it is rational to accept the claim that either 2+2=5 or God exists.
They might, for example, doubt categorical or absolute moral beliefs without doubting weaker kinds of moral beliefs.
He doubted, for example, that the human eye makes naturally correct judgments about the shapes, sizes, positions, and distances of objects.
When the Irish Free State (later Ireland) was set up in 1922, for example, no one doubted that the UK continued to exist.
