Sentence examples for widely doubted from inspiring English sources

Even the original Shiva hypothesis is widely doubted.

The claim of the Wright brothers to have flown was widely doubted during the years 1906 07.

Mr. Gore has said he had only learned of the fund-raising after the fact, a statement widely doubted by critics of the administration.

When the president of the Philippines, Joseph Estrada, brusquely rejected that demand, they announced that they had beheaded two hostages, a claim that is widely doubted here.

That put so much time between the natural disaster and the Minoan decline that the linkage came to be widely doubted, seeming far-fetched at best.

Only by bowing out (or, just possibly, running for re-election) on a rising tide of prosperity will Mr Yeltsin finally secure democracy in a country where liberal values are still being learnt and their efficacy is still widely doubted.

Whether that view is realistic or not, Mr. Assad's opponents inside and outside Syria widely doubt that he is willing to make meaningful concessions — doubts he reinforced in the interview, refusing to recognize any element of the armed opposition as representing legitimate Syrian demands or even to talk to the rebels unless they disarm.

It is a widely disputed and doubted figure and would not be a solid basis for policy".

His first column, a widely criticized piece that doubted climate science, prompted some Times readers to cancel subscriptions.

In fact, "the little guy" won bigger than even he had expected: his Liberals took 172 seats, a comfortable majority in a House of Commons of 301, and a remarkable advance on the 155 seats they won in 1997.Mr Chrétien's decision to call an election less than four years into his five-year mandate was widely criticised, and its wisdom doubted by many of his own MPs.

I first elaborate on the widely felt doubts about monopolistic self-regulation.