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Even with all the misgivings , 43% of respondents said they were more likely to "like" David Cameron than Ed Miliband (just 34 % and 36% thought him more capable compared with the Labour leader.
The following morning, with just five hours of meditation under my belt, I am already experiencing misgivings.
His comments follow similar misgivings expressed by Walters, who said in January that if she were starting out today she did not believe she would make it because the studying involved would be financially prohibitive.
"The time [people such as Patrick and Lowitja] have invested in me requires me to put aside my own misgivings and get on with it," Hosch says.
More recently, Woman's Hour's Dame Jenni Murray, after worrying about class betrayal, decided that a damehood is worth the suspension of certain personal misgivings , an accommodation for which she was congratulated by Dame Joan Bakewell.
Her misgivings centre on the inequalities of a clandestine business.
Jacqueline Pata, executive director of the National Congress of American Indians, said the tribes have tried to assuage Congressional misgivings , expanding financing and capacity, bolstering indigent legal representation, and changing rules to ensure that non-Indian defendants would face a jury of their peers, Indian and non-Indian alike.
But the director used the press conference for his new movie, Irrational Man, to confess misgivings about his next project, a six-episode TV show for Amazon Prime.
Later, the same committee heard from Vince Cable, the business secretary, on a fiscally motivated takeover, about which he clearly has misgivings.
Solidarity's demands multiplied and Soviet misgivings intensified.
His misgivings about what the Islamic State has become led him to speak to the Guardian in a series of expansive conversations, which offer unique insight into its enigmatic leader and the nascent days of the terror group – stretching from 2004, when he met Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi in Camp Bucca, to 2011, when the Iraqi insurgency crossed the border into Syria.
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The primary grammatical function of "misgivings " is as a noun , typically used in the plural form. It functions as the object of a verb or preposition, representing feelings of doubt, hesitation, or apprehension. Ludwig provides numerous examples confirming its use in expressing concerns about future events or decisions.
Expression frequency: Very common
