Sentence examples for provokes doubt from inspiring English sources

But by continuing to promote a historical nonsense about the role of a predecessor who did more than enough to earn the title "Hitler's Pope", he provokes doubt about his judgment and his past.

A breakthrough for the Conservative campaign or a detail that provokes doubt about the findings?

Still, certain details of the story that had emerged thus far provoked doubt.

Initial reaction to a conventional trailer was flat, and response to a 3-D Imax preview provoked doubts about whether the picture was really a cinematic game-changer.

Jon Alterman, director of the Middle East program at the Center for Strategic and International Studies in Washington, said the attacks on military and civilian targets in Iraq are intended to provoke doubts about the American occupation at the White House, among the American people and among Iraqis.

Two soft-left presidential contenders also provoke doubts: Ciro Gomes with talk of a "voluntary" debt restructuring and Anthony Garotinho with extravagant spending promises.In this section The 685 billion reais question Critical threat Bitter pills Rebel mini-state ReprintsThe opposition candidates retort that the government is engaged in "economic terrorism", fomenting panic to cling to power.

Initial reaction to a conventional trailer was flat, and response to the 3-D Imax preview provoked doubts about whether Mr. Cameron's movie — which uses new technology to tell the story of a planet being assailed by humans — was really the cinematic game-changer that had been promised.

Watkins also provoked doubts about the methodological status of the principle by distinguishing between "unfinished or half-way explanations" of social phenomena, which might not specify an action-theoretic or individualistic mechanism, and so-called "rock-bottom explanations," which would (1957, 106).

It could be someone that provokes you, doubts you, inhibits you; it could be self-doubt, self-provocation, self-inhibition.

Such an outcome would provoke new doubts in Van Gaal about whether he is the man to take the club on, though Blind said the 64-year-old would be an ideal appointment as technical director of the Royal Dutch FA (KNVB).

Yet the signing, which feels to some like a matter of presidential prerogative rather than tactical necessity, has provoked significant doubts – not least because Barcelona's priority was a defender.