Sentence examples for if sceptical from inspiring English sources

If sceptical Germans want an excuse to pull the plug on Greece's rescue, they will surely find it.

Duvalier's return offers the state a historic chance to pursue justice on its own terms and schedule, and in front of an international, if sceptical audience.

The 70 women who turned up to the event at the Media Museum were a polite, if sceptical audience, warned at the start to demonstrate the "Islamic etiquette of respectful dialogue".

Mr Bush pointed to school reform in Texas, which has raised the educational standards of minority students, and argued that "compassionate conservatism" offered a better alternative to poor blacks than traditional big-government programmes.The applause was diplomatic and the immediate response polite, if sceptical.

If sceptical politicians and voters have a chance to contemplate the ruinous alternative of a euro break-up, they will come round to mutualisation and federation, just as they have put up with bigger transfers of money and sovereignty than ever seemed possible at the outset of the crisis two years ago.

He writes as if the sceptical or "minimalist" side has decisively won that intellectual war.

If this sceptical foursome wins over another justice, that will give them a majority on the nine-member court.

Barenboim has long maintained a quizzical, if not sceptical, attitude towards period performance but his views have softened.

Many who report ex-partners whose violence landed them in casualty are justifiably afraid of reprisal – especially if the police seem sceptical, if safe houses are unavailable or if rehousing is nearly impossible.

If you're cynical, if you're sceptical, you sound smart enough to pass muster.

If Tergat was sceptical, you could see why.