It moves so slowly through the muddy water you might even think it has its doubts about whether to go or stay.
In the classified version of a National Intelligence Estimate prepared by intelligence agencies last fall, the allegation about Iraq's activities in the African nation of Niger was included along with a footnote that said the State Department had its doubts about whether it was justified by the evidence.
If the FCC had its doubts, why did it not say so instead of risking withering criticism by avoiding the question for months on end?
When such grave remedies as corporate amputations were in the offing, it was right to heed its doubts, however late in the day.
The right wing of the party, which splintered its vote among the also-rans, has its doubts about Mr. Bush, but it abominates Mr. McCain.
Though the IMF has its doubts about the approach (and it is not alone), a tax on transactions would be easier to collect than one extracted from individual institutions.
It hung there for years, Vanity Fair reported a few weeks ago, until the Diebenkorn estate noticed it in 2006 and told the museum of its doubts.
THE Broadway stage has seen celebrities come, and it has seen them go, but it may just have to get up off its doubts for Chaka Khan.
It's understandable that the public is beginning to have its doubts, and not just because those invisible gods somehow demand sacrifices only from workers, never from the wealthy.
But it does, of course, please the Republican base, which has its doubts about Mr McCain and which may be tempted to stay at home in November.Mr McCain has been throwing other bits of red meat rightwards as well.
The market has certainly indicated its doubts by paring the deal, valued at $184 billion when it was announced, to $104 billion on Jan . 11 the day this so-called merger of equals was approved by the Federal Communications Commission.
