Once again the British people will be plunged into a cycle of wild overpromising and inevitable disappointment, their scepticism confirmed".
Who knows, and a healthy level of scepticism is inevitable, but can India finally go forward to its past, when it cared about football almost as much as it did cricket?
If, on the other hand, the formal verdict matches the shadow one, people wonder whether judge and jury have been unduly swayed.And yet it would be wrong to dismiss scepticism of the legal system as inevitable, a reflection of the general scepticism of institutions engendered by the information glut.
Asked at a conference in Dubai about his efforts to clone humans, Antinori was quoted as saying: 'One woman among the thousands of infertile couples in the programme is eight weeks' pregnant.' Doctors have reacted with scepticism and outrage, but admitted human cloning was inevitable unless there was a worldwide ban.
Although O'Neill displayed a clear aptitude for club management, there was scepticism at the time of his appointment, which was perhaps inevitable considering his lack of experience at international level.
Given these antecedents – and the opposition of two US allies, Israel and Saudi Arabia – scepticism that any deal could be done with Iran was, perhaps, inevitable.
It was inevitable that Ridley Scott's venture into the Biblical epic genre would provoke both offence and scepticism.
Such healthy scepticism over this top-down branding of the "Silicon Roundabout" is welcome and inevitable – but it obscures the fact that there might actually be more to the initiative.
While it became a fixture of dinosaur books in the 1980s, the reasoning behind this idea – essentially, that a humanoid (or anthropomorphic) body shape is inevitable in a creature that converges on humans in terms of intelligence – was met with some scepticism.
Scepticism about "Abenomics" remains.
