Sentence examples for sceptical stance from inspiring English sources

P&D had suffered in the previous few years for its sceptical stance.

The more positive engagement by BP and Shell compares with the more sceptical stance of US companies such as Exxon.

The country has maintained, with the US, a sceptical stance on the issue, and Mr Howard has refused to sign Australia up to the Kyoto agreement.

If they are ever discovered they risk execution by stoning or beheading for apostasy: something that is all too imaginable given their sceptical stance on modern religion.

His shows are part comedy, part densely packed lectures on history, politics or, in this case, neuroscience, towards the grand claims of which our host takes a sceptical stance.

THIS week, three leading green groups and some minor celebrities, including Bianca Jagger, launched a campaign to persuade drivers to shun Exxon Mobil until the oil company changes its sceptical stance on global warming and invests more in renewable energy sources.

Indeed, over the years the Netherlands has moved from a cosy pro-EU consensus to a sceptical, even antagonistic stance.

The report argued that "a more probing, sceptical and interventionist stance in the pre-crisis period could have delivered different outcomes".

With his distinctive public stance of sceptical support Corbyn might sway some doubters on the left and make more sense of his party's wider campaign.

She might embrace nominalism or might even adopt a sceptical or an irrealist stance on metaphysical questions, going so far as to dismiss as unanswerable or meaningless all "ultimate" questions about the existence of properties or universals or numbers or sets, along with others of their kind such as about past and future times, selves, free will or God.

To have a stance that is sceptical about any investment at all is to draw conclusion that is far too broad.