In the past, Mr Brahimi himself has expressed scepticism about the chances of reaching agreement, and especially about the idea of a temporary UN administration backed by peace-keeping troops.
Norton himself has expressed scepticism on this line (Norton 2007).
Boris Yeltsin, Mr Putin's erratic predecessor, was adept at deflecting international scepticism about his rule by portraying himself as a bulwark against a communist revival.
During my brief tenure as Mirror editor in 1990 I recruited Wallace as a showbusiness reporter and, against some scepticism from other executives, he showed himself to be a shrewd, if somewhat lackadaisical, operator.
This ecumenical attitude was not entirely artistic: as depicted in the recent film Hitchcock, about the making of the horror movie, the director had financial problems caused by having, due to studio scepticism, to part-fund the film himself.
Outside mining areas, antagonism – more against Scargill himself than his members – encouraged scepticism about police brutality and the manufacture of evidence against peaceful pickets.
And any future England-based artwork with a resurrection theme would surely have to feature Peter Crouch, who has overcome scepticism, hostility and outright scorn to establish himself as a key member of the squad.
Though appealing to the authority of Hume in this defence, Jacobi however also forcefully distanced himself from the latter's scepticism by declaring the sense in which he was rather a realist.
Interestingly, Strawson himself soon devised a different response to scepticism, but it is also true that the anti-sceptical approach that Strawson developed here remains appealing to a range of epistemologists, and this debate continues.
However, where one father (F4) refers to reincarnation, he does so with scepticism, 'if you believe in reincarnation', implying that he himself does not.
It nicely sums up his attitude to himself – a seriousness (comedy no laughing matter) and scepticism.
