Maeve Middleton Liverpool The circumcision of male babies in the name of religion is certainly a morally doubtful practice, but at least Orthodox Judaism prohibits the castration of either humans or animals – whereas from the late 16th to the beginning of the 20th century Catholic churchmen approved the castration of small boys for the sake of the ensuing quality of their singing voices.
The effectiveness of other modalities such as antioxidants (e.g., beta-carotene), cysteine, narrow-band UVB-phototherapy, and oral antihistamines remains doubtful and is certainly not of benefit in all patients.
It is doubtful that Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld can counter entrenched interests deeply rooted in the country's political culture, although he is certainly trying.
Whether that slowdown will be sharp enough or sustained enough to meet the technical definition of a recession -- at least two quarters of actual economic decline -- is more doubtful, but it's certainly a possibility.
That is doubtful; certainly the capacities even of ordinary oral poets in this direction are constantly surprising to habitual literates.
Certainly it is doubtful whether added manpower does much to deter terrorist attempts.
Certainly it is doubtful if more than nine collision-type mountain systems can have been eroded away in one spot, even if it were possible for them to form there.
Certainly it is doubtful if more than nine collision-type mountain systems can have been eroded away in one spot, even if it were possible for them to form there. Landform evolution is an expression that implies progressive changes in topography from an initial designated morphology toward or to some altered form.
Still, even with a healthy Houston and Thomas, who is also doubtful for Game 4, the Knicks would almost certainly lose to the Nets.
Certainly, it would disappoint Thomas Jefferson, who once opined, "The benefit even of limited monopolies is too doubtful to be opposed to that of their general suppression".
