Across Europe, among the sceptics and the doubters and the out-and-out protesters, a pernicious process of elision is taking place. |
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But it was destroyed by doubters and the internecine strife between Edinburgh and Glasgow. |
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Since then the pessimism has subsided and he hears less from the doubters telling him he made one huge mistake in leaving Liverpool. |
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The coaching staff and players finally proved any early season doubters wrong about their ability to succeed this season. |
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As the author notes, Maria's case was championed by the Jesuits, while her doubters were the secular or parish clergy. |
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I guarantee that I'll be back winning shows again, and then all the doubters are going to have to eat crow for dinner. |
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Had the mission ended in catastrophe, the cast of doubters and second-guessers would probably be much larger. |
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The whole package amounts to a curious blend of high power and domesticity which she hopes will win over doubters. |
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These are the wreckers of outworn empires and civilizations, doubters, disintegrators, deicides. |
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Some doubters hold that it, too, must have been a splake instead of a brook trout. |
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Brown insists his doubters are wrong, and that he will pursue the path of continued reform. |
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From here on the doubters began to pipe down and make very rare appearances to throw in their twopence worth. |
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Once again, the people proved all the skeptics, all the doubters, all the detractors, wrong, that democracy can work in this part of the world. |
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He accepts there remain sceptics and doubters concerning the present Dublin side. |
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When a great new revolutionary idea hits the public, there are always doubters, raising niggling ifs and buts. |
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There are more trusters than doubters, but the gap is perilously close for such a high-risk war plan. |
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A big World Cup would be a slap in the face for the doubters, not to mention providing a huge boost for the chances of the Wallabies. |
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The real debate now centres on how businesses can demonstrate that they are operating ethically to win over the doubters. |
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Now he will have to face the ambitious doubters in his party and deal with pointed questions about his leadership style. |
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The cynics and the mockers and the doubters can say what they like, but that's what these protests are about. |
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These theological doubters and decriers had questioned John the Baptist about the validity of his mission. |
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You must convince the doubters that under your leadership Europe can live up to the high expectations you set for us. |
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There were no doubters in the prisons and gulags, where dissidents spread the news, tapping to each other in code what the American President had dared to say. |
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Maybe not too bad, so long as the enthusiasts for bold economic and social reform were able to join forces and shove aside the doubters. |
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He has proved doubters wrong by progressing as far as he has, in spite of his flip-flopping, his woodenness, his wealth and his Mormon faith. |
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Openness about those problems and the measures taken to tackle them will make us better able to reassure the doubters. |
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For example, will the successful introduction of the euro in France and elsewhere have a positive psychological effect on doubters? |
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Inevitably, as enlargement approaches reality, the voices of doubters are beginning to be heard. |
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Again, a total moratorium is recommended, which should make the doubters realise that measures really must be taken. |
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Congratulations to all of you for proving to the nay-sayers and doubters out there that this recession can't hold us back! |
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Those who doubt Korean reunification should now be reminded that there were doubters back then too. |
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I have had many doubters through out my career and have had to prove a lot of people wrong. |
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Some might say that they are over-ambitious and these doubters we must prove wrong. |
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Time and time again the European Union has confounded doubters and critics by taking bold action to secure its future. |
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Mauresmo realizes she has doubters, but is not letting herself be distracted by all the fuss. |
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There are always enough doubters to compensate for the occasional chaser of rainbows. |
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Like other barrier-breakers before him, Colfer suffered his share of doubters. |
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Even the photographs of those who believe MMR to be safe and effective show them to be unsmiling, in contrast with the smiling, benign expressions of the doubters. |
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Full marks to John Gilhooly, director of the Wigmore, for coming out of his corner to belabour the doubters and purveyors of shoddy goods. |
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Mr Aznar is also proud of bringing the peseta into Europe's single currency at its outset, in defiance of many doubters at home and abroad. |
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Before the recent military operations began in Afghanistan doubters claimed that the enterprise would end in disaster, but the coalition's aims were all met. |
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They may prove to be that, though the doubters about Labour's NHS plans include all the health thinktanks, such as the King's Fund. |
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There have always been doubters and naysayers when it comes to agriculture in Canada. |
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That specific form of European integration based on the Treaty of Rome has been more successful than its doubters and detractors had envisaged. |
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And in case there are any doubters here in the crowd, students of human history know that what goes down comes up again. |
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It silenced his critics, confounded his doubters and forced those knife wielders to return those implements to their dusty habitats for another day. |
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If there had ever been any doubters, they were silenced once and for all. |
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The evidence is based on long-term observations and very complicated procedures and of course there are some doubters, some scientists who have a different opinion. |
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Any doubters can look at the policy of the centre-right government in my home country, Sweden, if I can be allowed to be a little patriotic at the end of this debate. |
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Roger Federer says that, whatever the form book or the doubters say, Rafael Nadal is his favourite to win the French Open, which starts on Sunday week. |
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In opening the minds of the doubters on all sides, they have improved the prospects for Terena youth in Brazil, and equipped them for a better future. |
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Instead, the doubters tend to be softhearted dupes. |
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By passing the bill, if we need to communicate to doubters in the international community that we are serious about dealing with this issue, fine. |
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Many doubters must now recognise that these things are perfectly possible. |
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There were doubters and those who wanted proof. |
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But even then there were doubters and challengers. |
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They are vocal in rebutting the carmaker's doubters, who are also not hard to find. So far Tesla is using only a quarter of the Fremont plant's vast area. |
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Anselm intervened with some of the doubters, emphasising the religious importance of their loyalty to Henry. |
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Well, that's one in the eye for the nay-sayers, the doubters, the cynics and assorted tosspots what make up the media and that. |
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They considered themselves tough-minded realists, and regarded doubters as fuzzy-minded whiners. |
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Ten years later, in 2009, all the doubters have grown silent. |
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On the other hand, the Göteborg decision gives the candidate countries' parliaments and governments the necessary political tailwind to mobilise the whole country and confront the doubters, and doubters there are. |
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I understand the risks but I am determined to go through with it and show all the chauvinists and doubters. |
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His propensity for proving doubters wrong is already obvious. |
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The doubters in her own ranks appear to have been demoted or cast aside. |
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All the while, confident in the theoretical underpinnings of their inventions, they reassured any doubters that all this activity was not just making bankers rich. |
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The answer is cloudier than the ECB would wish. If the review is to quell the doubters it will identify a number of banks that are unviable as they stand. |
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A well-publicised visit by the prime minister, Romano Prodi, to gladhand rebel businessmen would help persuade the doubters that standing up to the mob is more than just brave eccentricity. |
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While the feeling undoubtedly remains that Ballance will eventually score more Test runs, Taylor deserves this latest opportunity to prove myriad doubters wrong. |
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The only official reaction so far comes from a spokesperson of the Bulgarian Foreign Ministry, who said Sofia would redouble efforts to reform its judiciary and convince doubters that it has made progress. |
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I know there are certain people, the moaners, the groaners, the doubters and the cynics, who will have a go and that is understandable because of the position we are in. |
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He was in agreement with Heath's policy on the EEC, and did much to persuade doubters on the right wing of the Conservative party of the desirability of Britain's entry. |
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Doubters and critics have poured scorn on our ambitious plans or urged speed when a more thoughtful approach was deserved and required. |
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