In addition, they did not see the West fundamentally shaping American exceptionalism, the existence of which they doubted in any case.
As his would-be rivals debated the seriousness of his deliberations (which remains unknown) and the odds he could prevail (which they doubted), they seemed to be uneasily calculating the impact of his potential candidacy on their own place in a large and unsettled field.
The League of Extraordinary Legal Rockstars was left gasping over the fate of the individual mandate, the relative constitutionality of which they never doubted.
The label assured me that most of these additives are organic, which they no doubt are, and yet they seem about as jarring to my conception of organic food as, say, a cigarette boat on Walden Pond.
You smile the family smile, and you try to get through the minutes, the seconds, until the helicopter takes off, and if people want to photograph that, which they no doubt will, they'll see nothing but a machine, rising, flying, becoming smaller, disappearing.
The London embassy sent a secret cable back to Washington last autumn reporting conversations with the two civil servants, Richard Freer and Judith Gough, in which they cast doubt on the significance of Brown's announcement at the UN general assembly that Britain might cut the number of planned new Trident submarines from four to three.
But I do think it's rather sad that the first experience these brand new year 7 children will have of secondary school – which they no doubt started with feelings of excitement and nervousness – is seeing treatment that is harsh and uncompromising.
If Ellsbury is on base and his league-leading 61 (and counting) stolen bases are a concern (which they no doubt are), then maybe a pitcher has to throw a few more fastballs to get the ball home more quickly — and fastballs are what hitters like Ramirez, Ortiz, Youkilis and Pedroia eat for breakfast.
But what ultimately binds them together are the ways in which they share doubt.
