Sentence examples for proved skeptical from inspiring English sources

South Africans proved skeptical.

Investors proved skeptical, too, despite the bureau's streamlined permitting process.

Most traditional foundations also proved skeptical, if not openly suspicious, of the Internet, while younger cyber-riche philanthropists were already bored with it.

White tried to laugh about all this — "the editor who could spot a dubious verb at forty paces, the critic who was saddened because my innocent tale of the quest for beauty failed to carry the overtones of monstrosity" — but then Malcolm Cowley, reviewing the book in the Times, proved skeptical, too: "Mr. White has a tendency to write amusing scenes instead of telling a story.

White tried to laugh about all this—"the editor who could spot a dubious verb at forty paces, the critic who was saddened because my innocent tale of the quest for beauty failed to carry the overtones of monstrosity"—but then Malcolm Cowley, reviewing the book in the Times, proved skeptical, too: "Mr. White has a tendency to write amusing scenes instead of telling a story.

Scripps will need to prove skeptical investors wrong.

The goal was to maintain creative control and prove to skeptical TV executives that a Web idea could work in a traditional format.

The goal of the "Annoying Orange" pilot is to prove to skeptical television executives that "Annoying Orange" can "embrace the biggest audience possible," Mr. Boedigheimer said, while "maintaining the attitude and charm".

Between this 80s hair metal parody song and the Mini Cooper's "Defy Labels" commercial, it seems that 2016 is the year that car companies attempt to prove to skeptical consumers that their practical automobiles can be cool.

For the next 10 days, American commanders debated the fate of the bodies, caught between a desire to prove to skeptical Iraqis that the brothers were indeed dead and their reluctance to remind Iraqis so vividly of Mr. Hussein's government.

Because there I was, post-wedding-weekend, at a coffee shop somewhere off Highway 101 on my way back to Los Angeles, in the surreal position of proving to skeptical strangers on the other end of credit hot lines that I was who I said I was.