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Sentence Examples His intention to become ordained was thwarted when he was exposed as an agnostic and his religious scepticism caused suspicion in the university. In reality I knew the odds were long, and that my tendency towards scepticism would hold strong. That claim, by the Raelian movement, also met with scepticism from scientists and has not been backed since by essential DNA proof. Britain has an age-old tradition of Euro scepticism that goes back to well before the Second World War. It is not the reality of scepticism or of truth dissolving relativism, but the claim to truth of all formal argument that is affected. There is more to be said, particularly about the threats of relativism, nihilism, and scepticism, which still lurk. Surges of fashionable liberalism such as latitudinarian complacency in the early part of the century drew the fire of much satirical scepticism. The laudatory nature of this article was treated with some scepticism by many of the residents. Were anyone to make such claims nowadays, they would be treated with considerable reserve, not to say great scepticism. There is a lack of logic in certain passages which reveals a sense of scepticism towards determination. More than ever, external auditors will be conducting their examinations with an extra dose of professional scepticism. Such scepticism seems especially relevant where suicidal terrorists are concerned. Modern scholars have treated the tradition with varying degrees of scepticism. Against his mining record, scepticism about the sincerity of Reid's renewable energy embrace is perhaps not unwarranted. German public scepticism about monetary union placed the German government in a strong position to negotiate the detail of monetary union. The problem is, however, that such radical scepticism involves a performative contradiction. In a world in which knowledge is power, whether we like it or not, thoroughgoing scepticism is not an option. As a scientist, and as the leading theoretical biologist of our time, he had a healthy scepticism of theoreticians. The growth of scepticism about witchcraft was part and parcel of modern secularism. In fact, though the alarm has some basis in fact, it should be treated with scepticism. Show More Sentences This kind of scepticism is basic to the English political tradition, whose truths force themselves upon all governments. The clarity of the screen was perfect and although the image was shaded, it could still be identified without scepticism. In philosophical terms, deconstruction is a form of relativist scepticism in the tradition of Nietzsche. Some commentators have also expressed scepticism about the international courts, tribunals and committees which pronounce upon human rights. I found my scepticism about his blokeishness fall away, to be replaced by a desire to cheer him on. Despite this scepticism about mobile apps there's better news for makers of smartphones and PDAs from the survey. The validation of subjectivity, leads towards scepticism, but not onto nihilism. It seems a pretty harmless form of entertainment that may even encourage a healthy scepticism in its audience. It was clear that the evidence would be met with a huge helping of scepticism in Washington. From now on, any government urging military action for moral purpose will face hoots of derision and howls of scepticism. This initial scepticism was compounded by the suspicion that infections might actually provoke allergy. In few democracies is government regarded with such suspicion and scepticism. Even at the time this pledge was made, the reaction was one of scepticism and incredulity. In other words, scepticism is a serious problem only if it is not natural or intuitive. For anyone committed to human progress it is imperative to launch a counter-attack against growth scepticism. The stern and formulaic rules of American news reporting make scepticism difficult to express. And so, to distract from this pointless scepticism, I mention something cribbed from the Guardian. He already had his critics but the scepticism now permeates the public as it has not done before. In 1732 he published The Case of Reason, arguing faith against deistical scepticism. What unites them is a deep scepticism with the way that international markets and globalisation work. Show More Sentences There was widespread stockmarket scepticism that the demerger would succeed in increasing the value to shareholders. Today such sentiments tend to be treated with scepticism, if not depicted as elitist. Upmarket, the Times and Telegraph are platforms for higher but no less destructive forms of scepticism. Since no documentation is ever provided, this must be treated with scepticism. The great subverter of Pyrrhonism or the excessive principles of scepticism is action, and employment, and the occupations of common life. Instead, Hume recommends a more moderate or Academic scepticism that tempers Pyrrhonism. It is the third film in the gross-out comedy series, and, contrary to initial scepticism, is a worthy way to finish the trilogy. In this context, truth was elusory, and scepticism, cynicism, relativism and atheism were present under a veil of orthodoxy. The vendors are certain of its authenticity, for they have witnessed the signature in person, but to allay scepticism they often list the item with a photograph of the event. The optimistic vision was presented at a council meeting last week, but some of its 43 measures were met with scepticism and labelled as over-optimistic. The theory has, however, been greeted with scepticism by several experts. Such scepticism has been widely voiced in the public prints, and in our mailbag too, which expresses opinions ranging from the guardedly optimistic to the gloomy. How many times have you read those words, which have become a flippant phrase which contains a hint of both the scepticism and implicit faith we have in science? Not all athletes deserve our scepticism, and the Essendon captain, particularly, does not deserve a genuine goodness to be blotted by one misdemeanour. By most accounts, it drew a sleek crowd and a bit of scepticism. More than a year before his dream for the North was shot down in flames, Ministers were warned in focus group research that scepticism in the three Northern regions was rife. Despite her scepticism, she has nonetheless banished me to the camp-cot in the study so that my nocturnal hacking and spluttering won't interfere with her slumbers. Of course if we are logicists and think that mathematics reduces to logic, and logic to the application of a single rule, then scepticism is appropriate. Open scepticism rejects the demonstration of equipollence as itself dogmatic and emphasises the usefulness of refined elaborations of appearances. Nothing short of substantive and meaningful improvement in the material well being of ordinary South Africans will overturn this tide of distrust and scepticism. Show More Sentences Of the others, Royal Bank of Scotland and HSBC look the more likely, the former in spite of chairman Sir George Mathewson's scepticism towards bancassurance. Many Danes have a deeply ingrained scepticism about the European Union, seen as the bureaucratic and inefficient blueprint for a European superstate. But Hobbes did take both scepticism and philosophy seriously, and there was a kind of courage in his doing so which far outweighed his famous personal timorousness. The assumption that the Windsor matriarch, alone of her tribe, offered a symbol impervious to scepticism, reproach, censure, even simple boredom, has been dispelled. In fact, Sanskrit and Pali have a larger literature in defence of atheism, agnosticism and theological scepticism than exists in any other classical language. There was a degree of scepticism when we set out our stall in September that we would manage to deliver the deal to shareholders before Christmas, so it is gratifying. That means healthy scepticism about undemocratic centralism in Europe but, just as importantly, equal scepticism about American actions, interests and motives. Similarly, some newcomers will hide behind some very unfair scepticism. Irish financials have seriously underperformed due to ingrained scepticism on the part of some international investors about the Irish economy's ability to avoid a crash. On the mobile front there's downright scepticism about picture messaging. Put very crudely, familiarity and success bred scepticism and contempt. Suggestions that Burke was building a political war chest in anticipation of a bid to win a European Parliament seat have been greeted with scepticism. At most it counsels caution, prudence and a little more scepticism. These East Africans have a healthy, smart, informed scepticism and the media manages to remain admirably po-faced when dealing with delicate political issues. Perhaps my scepticism closes my mind to the possibility of ghosts and that's why I am among the 20 per cent of the population who cannot use divining rods. We don't believe there are enough positions to reallocate jobs to everyone, and these plans have been greeted with a huge amount of scepticism. As such claims were designed to buttress Welsh genealogy and land claims, they should be viewed with some scepticism. Hitler quickly developed scepticism toward strategic bombing, confirmed by the results of the Blitz. Dissenters such as Priestley who supported the French Revolution came under increasing suspicion as scepticism regarding the revolution grew. Hamlet reflects the contemporary scepticism promoted by the French Renaissance humanist Michel de Montaigne. Show More Sentences This may be the area of Hume's thought where his scepticism about human powers of reason is most pronounced. Since the weight of empirical experience contradicts the notion for the existence of miracles, such accounts should be treated with scepticism. In the political analysis of philosopher George Sabine, the scepticism of Hume extended to the doctrine of government by consent. The writings of Scottish philosopher and contemporary of Hume, Thomas Reid, were often criticisms of Hume's scepticism. Such interpretations continue to attract the popular imagination and the scepticism of academics. For all my scepticism, I had an unexpectedly romantic evening. This balancing act is potentially tricky, he argues, because thoroughgoing scepticism has a great potential to hurt others. But how could she have helped herself? I asked, imagining the sneers and the laughter, the adulation of the toadies, the scepticism of the professional poet. The construction of the Thames Tunnel showed that it was indeed possible to build underwater tunnels, despite the previous scepticism of many engineers. He was fighting against a great deal of scepticism in the British government, which saw Europe as the main venue of warfare and all other theatres as costly distractions. Coutts was originally press-ganged into playing the game by one of his former intermediate teachers. Despite some initial scepticism, he eventually became hooked. Bashir advised the political forces to join the electoral process and to stop scepticism, negativism and not prejudge the election results before it is held. As Hearst had previously been head of television arts features his appointment was seen with scepticism among the staff who viewed him as a populariser. The use of recorded evidence was combined with an increased scepticism about two of the most colourful chroniclers of John's reign, Roger of Wendover and Matthew Paris. Philosophically, Scottish Realism served as a rebuttal to scepticism while keeping with the influential teachings of Isaac Newton and Francis Bacon. Despite some apparent improvements, the ability of the device to alter the course of the illness has been met with scepticism from Alzheimer's researchers. He criticised those whose faith was shaped by books and fashion, drawing an analogy between the scepticism of educated men and the credulity of the masses. In most cases, comparison of an artist's piano roll with his or her gramophonically recorded performance of the same work leads to a measure of scepticism. His well-founded scepticism will of course apply to ostraka as well, regardless of the fact that the scribe in the case of an ostrakon is not necessarily a professional one. Examples from Classical Literature His scepticism exasperated a number of his companions, who challenged him to go to maki moor. The extent of unavowed or unconscious scepticism far exceeds that which is openly avowed or consciously felt. To believe that it did is the error of an impulsive and uninformed scepticism. His necessitarianism is modern, his scepticism is modern, and the difficulties in which it arises are modern too. Their scepticism about Universals thus overleapt itself, and fell on the other side, into obscurantist ecclesiasticism. Possibly this scepticism has never yet injured the cause of an innocent man. Have we, then, only escaped from positivism to fall into the abyss of scepticism? Sometimes he sews on to the sober gray of his scepticism a purple patch of theistic declamation. The three elder men were silent, but they seemed to receive what he said with scepticism. These are the sort of proofs that no scepticism is strong enough to resist. He who had chosen the broad, daylit, unencumbered paths of universal scepticism, found himself still the bondslave of honour. Affecting a scepticism I did not feel, I inquired dryly which journal Raffles had pretended to represent. There was a tinge of scepticism in his voice, though he tried to hide it. Let scepticism assert what it may, such is the nature of man. There is no scepticism among the labourers now, I assure you. He goes beyond facts in his scepticism, as they did in their idealism. I was so hurt by her coldness and scepticism, that the tears rose to my eyes. Had Filby shown the model and explained the matter in the Time Traveller's words, we should have shown HIM far less scepticism. The doubter can also be a bad role model for his or her juniors, radiating scepticism throughout the company. Tour de France farrago It's important to maintain a healthy scepticism when there's been so much cheating in the past. Show More Sentences Mayweather's claim he has no desire to eclipse Marciano has been met with widespread scepticism but Arum predicts he will soon hang up his gloves. Find more words! 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