In 2015, she sustained doubts about CRISPR ever being safe enough for clinical trials, but she has come to embrace editing of the human germ line — inheritable DNA modification — once it is proved safe.
To be immune from doubt does not mean simply that you do not doubt a proposition, or even that it resists a momentary attempt to doubt; the real criterion for truth is that the content of a proposition is so clearly perceived that the will is drawn to it in such a way that the will's affirmation cannot be shaken even by the systematic and sustained doubts of the Meditations.
In fact, however, as the history of Big Tobacco makes so clear, sustaining doubt about the known — for example, whether cigarettes are linked to lung cancer — was a deliberate, extremely well-financed and well-organized campaign.
Perhaps because the process for achieving knowledge of fundamental truths requires sustained, systematic doubt, Descartes indicates that such doubt should be undertaken only once in the course of a life (7:18; 3 695).
As soon as she heard Jackie's astonishingly detailed account of the rape — seven men in a dark room, blood-chilling words, a shattered glass coffee table, a bottle used for penetration — Erdely became so invested in it that she never allowed herself to sustain any doubts.
As soon as she heard Jackie's astonishingly detailed account of the rape seven men in a dark room, blood-chilling words, a shattered glass coffee table, a bottle used for penetration Erdely became so invested in it that she never allowed herself to sustain any doubts.
Some citizens have doubts about an economic model that both relies on immigrants to sustain growth and, increasingly, benefits immigrants.
Whether the fourth-quarter recovery will be sustained is in doubt, however: industrial production in January fell by a whopping 3.9%.
At the end of which the summer now seems set fair for a sustained and no doubt deeply agonising restaging of cricket's most waspishly familiar fraternal rivalry.
But they did express concern about the decline in exports, which if sustained, could cast doubt on the strength of economic recovery from the Asian financial crisis of 1997-1998.
His activities were underpinned by his Christian beliefs which, except for a short period of doubt, sustained him through his life.
