A more sceptical film might have allowed Desmond some internal conflict.
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But Mr Netanyahu himself is more sceptical, say those who know him.
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And yet the Supreme Court seems ever more sceptical about capital cases.
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Environmentalists and water experts at home and abroad are more sceptical, however.
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Mr Albright remains more sceptical that the North has mastered two-stage technology.
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When Barack Obama was president, Republicans were much more sceptical of the numbers.
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Israeli sources, however, were more sceptical, insisting that the two main obstacles remained.
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Other studies that have appeared since the AfDB report have been more sceptical.
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But within Catholicism, there are certainly maverick voices which take a more sceptical view.
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The young are more sceptical than the old, which bodes ill for democracy's future.
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Nobel Prize winning Keynesian economist Paul Krugman is far more sceptical – condemning it as "evil".
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"When you go to a new field ... maybe you are a bit more sceptical," said Kokk.
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In hindsight, traders should have been more sceptical that a Beltway outsider could radically shake up Washington.
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More sceptical observers might ask whether Mr Xi will use his extraordinary power for good or ill.
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Economists are much more sceptical, and most do not expect rates to rise at all next year.
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What more sceptical sorts must now recognise is that Brexit would also weaken Europe and the West.
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Men were also more sceptical than women that greater gender balance in research teams would improve economic knowledge.
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Northern Trust Capital Markets head of tech research, Neil Campling, was more sceptical of Delivery Hero's investment case.
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IN HINDSIGHT, motorists (your correspondent especially) should have been more sceptical about Volkswagen's claims for its small diesel cars.
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Shaddick said his team would be more sceptical but surveys still remained the best way of gauging public opinion.
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Democrats have barely changed their views on #MeToo over the past year, even as Republicans have grown more sceptical.
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Nicolas Veron, a research fellow at economic thinktank Bruegel, said Italians need to be more sceptical of their banks.
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Ideally, people will adapt, becoming more sceptical, and the world will be quick to apply the lessons from "fake news".
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On the left, a lot of Americans are more sceptical than they used to be about capitalism (see chart 22011).
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The worsening outlook for the world economy has made markets much more sceptical that the Fed will continue raising rates.
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Mr Skou, who has worked in shipping since he joined the group in 1983, is believed to be more sceptical.
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Analysts are more sceptical though, and say without vehicle financing becoming cheaper and easier the chances for that are low.
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But the academic literature has been far more sceptical of such arguments, generally finding little-to-no evidence of such externalities.
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It demonstrates that those harbingers of openness, young people, are in fact much more sceptical about democracy than are their seniors.
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PO lost power last October to PiS, which takes a more sceptical stance on EU matters and espouses traditional Catholic values.
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Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker was quoted saying he was "leaving Downing Street 10 times more sceptical than I was before".
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Still, some market players said Trump's comments fitted an established pattern of optimistic rhetoric being followed by a more sceptical tone.
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But they dipped slightly in Asia on Thursday as the market grew more sceptical about how OPEC would implement the plan.
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Yet surveys suggest that this year-long storm of allegations, confessions and firings has actually made Americans more sceptical about sexual harassment.
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After the death in 2017 of one gung-ho justice and missteps by investigators, the court became more sceptical of Lava Jato.
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While the United States unambiguously blamed Iran, specifically its Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, others - including America's European allies – are openly more sceptical.
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Making money from healthcare is where the pendulum swings and people are more sceptical of the wealth it creates than are supportive.
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Carney had seemed more sceptical but on Wednesday he did not repeat previous comments that now was not the time for a hike.
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The green paper is more sceptical than encouraging about another headline idea, forcing companies to publish the ratio of CEO to average pay.
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Will the sophisticated computer-aided gerrymanders face a more sceptical audience this time round, with Justice Brett Kavanaugh in Justice Kennedy's old seat?
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By contrast, "Europe is philosophically more sceptical of firms that have market power," says Cristina Caffarra at Charles River Associates, an economics consultancy.
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The researchers from Dalhousie University suggest that American respondents tend to be more sceptical about the role played by government in reducing inequality.
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VDMA's chief economist Ralph Wiechers said investors had grown more sceptical in the second half of the year, quashing hopes for an improvement.
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It is also no secret that Jeff Sessions, the attorney-general, is more sceptical of race-based affirmative-action policies than some predecessors.
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Just as uncertain magicians often fail to pull off their tricks, so central banks are finding their audiences in an ever-more sceptical mood.
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Still, some market players said Trump's comments fitted an established pattern of optimistic rhetoric from the U.S. president being followed by a more sceptical tone.
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That reflects its confidence it can continue to grow income enough to support the payouts, something which some analysts of the bank are more sceptical of.
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While lenders are "reasonably hopeful" a bidding process for an up to 75 percent stake in the airline will end successfully, analysts are much more sceptical.
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Young people are more sceptical than older ones: one poll showed 27% of 18-29 year-olds favour "Polexit", compared with 9% of those over 60.
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"Opinions in the Bundestag, if anything, have become more sceptical on Europe and the majority they (the coalition parties) have now is much smaller," he added.
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While some fans can't wait to dive further into the world that Bong Joon Ho and "Parasite" so beautifully painted, other fans, including myself, are more sceptical.
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That is, Republicans are far more likely to be sceptical of evidence-based research and scientific methods than Democrats, just as Brexiteers are more sceptical of authority than Remainers.
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Yet others are more sceptical, arguing that many overestimate the sums that China is investing in or lending to Africa, because they add up pledges rather than actual flows.
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While the undulating manicured tea bushes, extending as far as the eye can see, evoke painful memories for the elderly, the younger generation are more sceptical about the case.
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Male economists are more likely than female ones to prefer market solutions to government intervention, are more sceptical of environmental protection, and are (slightly) less keen on redistribution (see chart).
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Today that tradition lives on in coverage of illiberalism in the region and in suggestions that Europe's future involves a permanent and exclusive integrationist vanguard, and a more sceptical outer layer.
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Oil futures retreated in Asian trade as the market grew more sceptical of the deal, pondering how the group agreed to limit production and how OPEC would implement such a plan.
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In attempting to understand Pleasants' decision to join the British Free Corps and the Waffen-SS, we can either take his explanation at face value or come to a more sceptical conclusion.
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Merkel has already said she favours, in principle, granting China market economy status at the World Trade Organization, and Beijing hopes she can encourage more sceptical EU voices to accept the move.
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Financial analysts are even more sceptical about direct capture from the air, although scientists say it could help to curb global warming, blamed for causing more heatwaves, wildfires, floods and rising sea levels.
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Others, such as SteppenWolf Capital's co-founder Phoebus Theologites and Anthilia Capital Partners' Chief Investment Officer Andrea Cuturi, were more sceptical that a merger would make much change in terms of their day-to-day trading.
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Ludovic Phalippou, also of Oxford, is more sceptical; he argues that when you control for the size and type of asset the funds invest in, their long-term results have never looked better than market-tracking indices.
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A study published in 2006 found that women start introductory economics courses more sceptical about the subject than men, and the difference increases between the start and end of the course, despite no differences in their performance.
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"While some European officials are still sounding optimistic that an EC-UK deal can be struck in the coming weeks, the market has grown more sceptical," said Marc Chandler, chief market strategist at Bannockburn Global Forex LLC.
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"He added that the steps businesses take to prepare for no deal were ultimately out of the government's hands and that businesses were now more sceptical about the need to prepare, having "seen government cry wolf twice before.
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A brief survey of the 2015 Edge question shows that hardcore scientists and technologists tend to give at least some support to the possibility of singularity happening in our lifetime, whereas social scientists, philosophers and intellectuals are more sceptical.
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Women within economics have different opinions from men: in 27 a survey of American economists found that men in the field were more sceptical of regulation and high minimum wages, and less likely to favour redistribution, than women were.
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People in Peterborough have seen the cost of unrestricted immigration and, as a result, are more conscious than most of the benefits or otherwise of Britain's membership of the EU. Is it any wonder that they are more sceptical?
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While Irish Prime Minister Leo Varadkar said on Tuesday that he believed a no-deal outcome was still avoidable, D'Arcy struck a more sceptical tone, warning that an abrupt departure of Britain from the European Union was very likely.
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Others, more sceptical, see the 20 years as evidence that even if such therapies can eventually be produced they will always be complicated affairs, and therapies "matched" to the immune system will of their very nature have to be handcrafted.
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A French official close to Macron rejected the notion that the French president and Merkel were engaged in a coordinated "good cop, bad cop" act with Trump, and noted that the chancellor had to take her more sceptical public into account.
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A similar study of American economists by Ms May and others also found men more sceptical of government regulation, more comfortable with drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, and more likely to believe that a higher minimum wage would cause unemployment.
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The British prime minister also said he would offer new proposals to strengthen the country's sovereignty — a clear bid to try to keep the more sceptical lawmakers in his Conservative Party on board with his campaign to keep Britain in the bloc.
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European bourses looked set to take a more sceptical view of the deal, with pan-region Euro Stoxx 50 futures down 0.05% at 3,778, German DAX futures up just 0.01% at 13,493, and FTSE futures eking out a 0.02% rise to 7,610.903.
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The currencies of oil-exporting countries such as Canada and Norway surged after the deal late on Wednesday, but were all slightly down on Thursday, mirroring a dip in oil prices, as markets grew more sceptical on how OPEC would implement the planned output cut.
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The currencies of oil-exporting countries such as Canada and Norway surged after the deal late on Wednesday, but were slightly down on Thursday, mirroring a dip in oil prices, as markets grew more sceptical on how OPEC would implement the planned output cut.
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The yen firmed 0.23% to the dollar at 107.6 yen as investors grew more sceptical about the possibility of a speedy resolution to the trade war, especially given U.S. President Donald Trump's comments that any deal would have to be tilted in favour of the United States.
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In an attempt to capture some of her newfound support, the KMT's presidential candidate, Han Kuo-yu, is trying to sound a bit more sceptical about China (earlier in the year some Taiwanese criticised him for a chummy meeting with mainland officials in Hong Kong, ostensibly to promote trade).
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WEAK DOLLAR The yen firmed 0.23% to the dollar at 107.6 yen as investors grew more sceptical about the possibility of a speedy resolution to the trade war, especially given U.S. President Donald Trump's comments that any deal would have to be tilted in favour of the United States.
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"Nothing fundamental has changed about the outlook for the dollar, namely that the market has become more sceptical about the Fed's intention to raise rates in the near term and Thursday's inflation data may bolster those bets," said Antje Praefcke, an FX strategist at Commerzbank AG in Frankfurt.
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Even as the U.S. Federal Reserve prepares to raise interest rates for the third time this year at the end of a two-day policy meeting in the day, traders are a bit more sceptical that policymakers will flag more rate hikes next year than the current two increases currently priced into markets.
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There was a fear that parents, upset by the wasted purchase, would become more sceptical about purchasing computer games in the future.
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Gibbs-Smith also investigated reports of the paranormal, including ghosts, flying saucers and parapsychology. He defended his studies among more sceptical colleagues.
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Others were more sceptical, noting very leading questioning, and suspecting the picture of misery to be too highly coloured, but they still concluded the factory system was little better than slavery, and legislation was urgently needed.
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423 The victory that year against the Volsci opened the Pomptine region for further Roman inroads.Oakley (1997), p. 349 Forsythe (2005) takes a more sceptical view. He believes only the existence of three golden bowls dedicated by Camillus to Juno to be historical.
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When Kantakouzenos heard the news he marched towards Constantinople, urged by his supporters, who expected that the death of Apokaukos would result in the collapse of the regency. Kantakouzenos was more sceptical, and indeed the Patriarch and Empress Anna quickly brought the situation under control.
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Rick is slightly more sceptical of new ideas, taking some convincing from Kris before he's fully on board. Although he is a hard worker, he also likes his leisure time which makes Kris sometimes think he doesn't pull his weight. He leaves for unexplained reasons and is replaced by Rosco. Rick appears to be in his early 20s.
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The first superintendent was psychiatrist Edward Mapother, while Frederick Golla took over the running of the pathology lab from Mott. Both were more sceptical of the Kraepelinian categories of diagnosis, and took a more pragmatic and eclectic view on causation and treatment. Psychiatrist Mary Barkas worked here between 1923 and 1927 in the children's department established by William Dawson.
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Alongside the passion for merging that marked Romantic love,Irving Singer, The Philosophy of Love (2009) p. 40M a more sceptical French tradition can be traced from Stendhal onwards. Stendhal's theory of crystallization implied an imaginative readiness for love, which only needed a single trigger for the object to be imbued with every phantasised perfection.Irving Singer, The Nature of Love (2009) p.
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In the 2009 election to the European Parliament, he was elected an MEP and left the Riksdag. Svensson, whose leadership of the Christian Democrats lasted over three decades (1973–2004), is a firm supporter of the European Union and its Economic and Monetary Union, unlike many of his voters who are in general more sceptical about the introduction of the euro.
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11Tacitus, Annals, IV.8 Claudius Drusus also died before reaching adulthood. Ancient sources suggested that the cause of Drusus' death was poison, whereas modern authors like Barbara Levick are more sceptical, suggesting it may have been illness. The death of the Younger Drusus left no immediate threat to Sejanus. Ultimately, his death elevated Nero and his brother Drusus to the position of heirs.
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Programmer Oliver Purkiss was hired to program the villagers. He and Molyneux "worked tirelessly" to give the villagers autonomy and individuality without using too much processor power. Purkiss said that they did not want players to believe that villagers were worthless. Afterwards, it was decided that the villagers should have different belief levels, so the player would need to impress more sceptical ones.
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The English History Play in the Age of Shakespeare. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 12–27. In this respect, they reflect clearly the influence of Marlowe, particularly of Tamburlaine. Even in his early work, however, Shakespeare generally shows more restraint than Marlowe; he resorts to grandiloquent rhetoric less frequently, and his attitude towards his heroes is more nuanced, and sometimes more sceptical, than Marlowe's.
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103 Of TB/LNNK's predecessors, For Fatherland and Freedom was more sceptical of the free market, while the LNNK supported full privatisation, within the context of a welfare state and protectionism.Eglitis (2002), p. 69 After the merger, the party adopted free market economics as one of its main emphases, advocating a swift transition to a market economy. The party held an anti-federal, soft eurosceptic position.
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In the 16th century Paracelsus suggested it might be a physical disease, but in the 17th there were further outbreaks such as the Loudun possessions and those leading to the witch trials at Salem and Würzburg. Later outbreaks were dispersed by more sceptical and humane means. ;Chapter 17 From Babel to Comparative Philology Every people held that its language was given to it by its own deity.
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Unlike Mosley, who felt that British society was in rapid decline, Jenks felt that the country was in a slow Spenglerian decay. Neither did he share the BUF leader's unbounded faith in modern science, instead taking a more sceptical stance. Despite these disagreements Jenks had a personal loyalty to Mosley, describing him as having "twice Cobbett's intellect and none of Cobbett's bigotry".Skidelsky, Oswald Mosley, p.
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A major victory by Camillus in this year would explain why no further fighting is recorded on Rome's Etruscan frontier until 358. Forsythe (2005) takes a more sceptical view. He believes only the existence of three golden bowls dedicated by Camillus to Juno to be historical. From these ancient writers have invented a series of lightning victories against the traditional enemies of Rome at the time of Camillus—viz.
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The point was that a widespread belief in the conspiracy of witches and a witches' Sabbath with the devil deprived women of political influence. Occult power was supposedly a womanly trait because women were weaker and more susceptible to the devil. However, after the publication of Daemonologie his views became more sceptical, and in the same year he revoked the standing commissions on witchcraft, limiting prosecutions by the central courts.
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The unique soundscapes that she chose do nothing but accentuate her very unique style," concluding it's "a very clean, concise listen." The Guardian called the mixtape "forward thinking" whilst HNHH noted that "Azalea's musical situation is improving with every new release, and Ignorant Art will most definitely help the cause." RapReviews.com were more sceptical, stating in their review of the mixtape that "'ignorant' probably isn't the right word.
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Menius was born in Fulda to poor but respectable parents. Entering the University of Erfurt in 1514, he received his bachelor's degree in 1515 and his master's degree in 1516. At this time, in association with the keen humanists Conrad Mutian, Crotus Rubeanus, and Eoban Hess, Menius became more sceptical. Moving to Wittenberg in 1519, he became evangelical under the teaching of Philipp Melanchthon and the preaching of Martin Luther.
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Price challenges biblical literalism and argues for a more sceptical and humanistic approach to Christianity. Price questioned the historicity of Jesus in a series of books, including Deconstructing Jesus (2000), The Incredible Shrinking Son of Man (2003), Jesus Is Dead (2007), and The Christ-Myth Theory and Its Problems (2012), as well as in Jesus at the Vanishing Point, a contribution to The Historical Jesus: Five Views (2009).
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In 2012, while at the Artificial Intelligence Laboratory of the University of Zurich Kaufmann initiated and developed a humanoid robot called Roboy, with Prof. Dr. Rolf Pfeifer. Roboy combines the latest insights from the field of embodied intelligence research and the most recent advances in the field of robotics. Kaufmann takes on a more sceptical view on the current state of AI, in particular about the analogy that the brain is comparable to a computer.
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By the late 1960s, science fiction and fantasy began to reflect the changes prompted by the civil rights movement and the emergence of a counterculture. Within the genres, these changes were incorporated into a movement called "the New Wave," a movement more sceptical of technology, more liberated socially, and more interested in stylistic experimentation.Marchesani, p. 3 New Wave writers were more likely to claim an interest in "inner space" instead of outer space.
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Later Ricardians have also either accepted it as fact, or argued that Richard sincerely believed it to be true. It is also commonly argued by Ricardians that Stillington was imprisoned by Edward IV in 1478 because he incautiously spoke of the precontract to George, Duke of Clarence.John Ashdown-Hill, Eleanor, the Secret Queen: The Woman Who Put Richard III on the Throne, The History Press, 2009. Other historians have been more sceptical.
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In 1940 the British public in 1940 was even more sceptical, if not outright hostile to Belgian refugees. The common perception was that Belgium had betrayed the Allies in 1940. A British Mass Observation report noted a "growing feeling against Belgian refugees" in the United Kingdom, closely linked to Leopold III's decision to surrender. The Belgian government in exile was also thoroughly involved in the provision of social, educational and cultural institutions to Belgian refugees.
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As a three- year-old in 1956, Gilles de Retz was given a rating of 132 by the independent Timeform organisation, making him the equal top-rated three-year-old in Europe alongside the Prix du Jockey Club winner Philius. In their book, A Century of Champions, based on a modified version of the Timeform rating system, John Randall and Tony Morris were more sceptical, rating Gilles de Retz an "inferior" winner of the 2000 Guineas.
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324 He lived at the plantation while he waited for funds for his college to arrive. The funds, however, were not forthcoming. "With the withdrawal from London of his own persuasive energies, opposition gathered force; and the Prime Minister, Walpole grew steadily more sceptical and lukewarm. At last it became clear that the essential Parliamentary grant would be not forthcoming"Geoffrey J. Warnock, Introduction to: George Berkeley "A Treatise Concerning the Principles of Human Knowledge", Open Court La Salle 1986, p.9.
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Further, their study also suggested that trait cynicism is facilitator of moral disengagement. "Individuals high on trait cynicism have an underlying distrust of other people and therefore are more sceptical about motives of others, including targets of harm, and will be more likely to think that such targets deserve their fate". Therefore, trait cynics' lack of trust in others makes the process of distancing themselves from and diffuse responsibility to others easier. The same applies to blaming and dehumanising victims.
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Flights from Cambridge never started, nor did flights from Jersey, but Halstead then unveiled a new plan for Alpha One Airways, this time working from a base at Southampton Airport and commencing operations on 7 November 2005 with flights to the Isle of Man. During this time, press reports appeared largely uncritical, focusing on Mr Halstead's age, his plans, or his personality. A more sceptical note was sounded by Cambridge University student newspaper, Varsity. In October 2005, it reported Halstead's claims that he had twenty employees.
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In a review of the exhibition catalogue edited by Wells, Robert Bearman writes: "It is strongly argued that there is a striking resemblance between the newly discovered portrait (or, rather, a copy) and the Droeshout engraving of Shakespeare, and that the painting might itself have been used by Droeshout." Bearman also expresses scepticism about the link with Shakespeare's patron Wriothesley.Robert Bearman, Shakespeare Quarterly, 60, 4, pp. 483–487 (2009) Other experts are even more sceptical, and suggest that even the circumstantial evidence is weak.
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During coalition of Law and Justice, Self-Defence of the Republic of Poland and League of Polish Families the euro was not a priority on Poland's agenda. In 2006 the premier Kazimierz Marcinkiewicz stated that the accession to euro area was possible only after 2009, as it would be possible that Polish deficit decreases to 3% of GDP until the end of 2007. Till then the negotiations on Poland in the eurozone have been postponed. Even more sceptical position held the premier Jarosław Kaczyński.
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The judge was clearly more sceptical than the jury of the evidence presented. When an accusation of flying was made, the judge remarked there was no law against doing so. Some historians such as Keith Thomas have suggested, taking this case is an example, that there was generally a difference in attitudes towards supposed witchcraft between educated and less educated people, the latter being more credulous. However, the Wenham case is arguably more complicated than this distinction might imply, as Henry Chauncy, for example, was well educated.
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Marsden (2003), pp. 7–8. Several years later, while sailing between Dover and The Downs, Vice-Admiral William Fitzwilliam noted that both the Henry Grace à Dieu and the Mary Rose performed very well, riding steadily in rough seas and that it would have been a "hard chose" between the two.Marsden (2003), p. 14. Modern experts have been more sceptical to her sailing qualities, believing that ships at this time were almost incapable of sailing close against the wind, and describing the handling of the Mary Rose as being like "a wet haystack".
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As soon as she saw his face, Lady Tichborne accepted him. At Holmes's behest she lodged with the British Embassy a signed declaration formally testifying that the Claimant was her son. She was unmoved when Father Châtillon, Roger's childhood tutor, declared the Claimant an impostor, and she allowed Holmes to inform The Times in London that she had recognised Roger. She settled an income of £1,000 a year on him, and accompanied him to England to declare her support before the more sceptical members of the Tichborne family.
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Before the 2011 election, SF announced that its goal was to be part of a cabinet consisting of SF, the Social Democrats, and the Social Liberal Party. While the Social Democrats were positive to the idea the Social Liberals were initially more sceptical, due to differences in economic policies. This became a reality with the formation cabinet of Helle Thorning-Schmidt: For the first time, SF was part of a cabinet, with six cabinet ministers. In September 2012 Villy Søvndal announced that he was stepping down as chairman of the party.
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Bertie was reassured, but had his own critics who were most disparaging of his performance, and failure to keep abreast of modern developments of politics and strategy. Bertie was an old school diplomat, admired protocol and court precedents, was reluctant to go beyond his own prescribed powers. In a series of letters at the end of 1911/12 he found to his cost that francophiles were dead set against Metternich's 'satanic invitation.' In fact as time went on he became more sceptical of the Haldane Mission as foolish because it threatened the "excellent position" in Paris.
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They identified two versions of the novel: one unfinished, of 1804, published in 1805, and the full version of 1810, which appears to have been completely reconceived in comparison to the 1804 version. Whereas the first version has a lighter, more sceptical tone, the second one tends towards a darker, more religious mood. In view of the differences between the two versions, the 1804 and 1810 versions have been published as two separate books; paperback editions were issued in early 2008 by Flammarion. The first English-language edition, published in 1995, was a translation of Radrizzani's edition by Oxford scholar Ian Maclean.
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Head of No Name City's police force, he often employs Rat-Man in missions and is a friend of his, although he is a lot more sceptical of his abilities than Brakko. When Rat-Man started to become a superhero, he was the only one in the police force to correctly identify him as an aid and not a threat to crime-fighting. During the second coming of the Cat, he willingly abandoned the city to train with the Light, the organization bent on stopping the Shadow. His return to the city is instrumental in saving Rat-Man from his own dark side.
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The Herald's main political commentator is Iain Macwhirter, who writes twice a week for the paper and who is broadly supportive of independence. Columnist and political pundit David Torrance, however, is more sceptical about the need for – and prospect of – a new Scottish state. Other prominent columnists include Alison Rowat, who covers everything from cinema to international statecraft; novelist Rosemary Goring; Marianne Taylor; Catriona Stewart; former Scottish justice secretary and SNP politician Kenny MacAskill; Fidelma Cook; and Kevin McKenna. Foreign editor David Pratt and business editor Ian McConnell, both multi-award-winning journalists, provide analysis of their fields every Friday.
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It is now 1971 and the protoplasmic lifeform, now nicknamed "Cyclops" on account of its giant eye, continues to grow. Fleming has become ever more sceptical about the project, certain that the computer has its own agenda. He comes to realise that two terminals positioned either side of the computer's main display have the ability to affect the brainwaves of those who stand near it. His warnings are not heeded, however, and Christine, mesmerised by Cyclops and by the machine, is compelled to grasp the two terminals – she falls to the floor, killed by a massive electric shock.
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Little is known about the real Alban (estimated to have died c. 209 – 305 AD, depending on interpretations), as there are no contemporaneous accounts of his martyrdom and the major sources on his life were written hundreds of years after his death, containing wondrous embellishments, which may or may not refer to real events. Saint Alban was long regarded as a genuine martyr saint, the protomartyr of Britain, and for much of the 20th century controversy centred on the date of his martyrdom (see further 'Dating controversy', above). More recently, however, some researchers have taken a more sceptical view about his historicity.
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Opinion polls during the campaign showed Papadopoulos with a significant lead over Klerides. The ongoing negotiations over the Annan Plan for Cyprus dominated the campaign with Klerides being seen as more favourable to the plan than many voters and this contributed to the more sceptical Papadopoulos pulling ahead. Papadopoulos called for the Annan plan to be amended and said that Klerides was giving away too much in negotiations. However Papadopoulos emphasized that he would negotiate for a deal if he was elected and ran television adverts which attempted to reduce voter concerns over his previous nationalist stance.
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Some scholars have proposed that the figure mentioned in both of these references is one and the same as the Hengist of the Hengist and Horsa accounts, though Horsa is not mentioned in either source. In his work Finn and Hengest, J.R.R. Tolkien argued that Hengist was a historical figure, and that Hengist came to Britain after the events recorded in the Finnsburg Fragment and Beowulf. Patrick Sims-Williams is more sceptical of the account, suggesting that Bede's Canterbury source, which he relied on for his account of Hengist and Horsa in the Ecclesiastical History, had confused two separate traditions.Wallace-Hadrill (1993:215).
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Kists (about 7,100 people) are mainly Sunni Muslims with a Georgian Orthodox minority when Bats approx. 3,000 people are Christian (Georgian Orthodox) By rite, most Chechens are Qadiris, with a considerable Nakshbandi minority. There is also a tiny Salafi minority (Sunni sect)., by Brian Glyn Williams, The Jamestown Foundation, October 2, 2003 The two main groups (Salafism is more of a modern introduction to the region, and is still considered to be completely foreign) have often had divergent responses to events (for example, the Qadiri authorities initially backing the Bolsheviks after the promised to grant freedom to the Chechens from Russia; while the Nakshbandis were more sceptical of the Bolsheviks' sincerity).
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While performing as Carlos, Alvarez was prompted by Randi using sophisticated radio equipment. According to the 60 Minutes program on the Carlos hoax, "it was claimed that Alvarez would not have had the audience he did at the Opera House (and the potential sales therefrom) had the media coverage been more aggressive (and factual)", though an analysis by The Skeptic's Tim Mendham concluded that, while the media coverage of Alvarez's appearances was not credulous, the hoax "at least showed that they could benefit by being a touch more sceptical". The hoax was exposed on 60 Minutes Australia; "Carlos" and Randi explained how they had pulled it off.
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The three story buildings had only two stairwells, which made them easy to deploy in the uneven terrain, while the flats reaching through the buildings made it easy to orient the buildings in different directions. The heights were used for panoramic views, and the roads were made to follow the terrain. On its completion, the district was described as an "ideal society" and named "The White city" (Den vita staden), but its first inhabitants were more sceptical, complaining on inadequate services, high rents, and the long distance to the city centre. Many of those who did move in did, however, end up living their entire lives in Hammarbyhöjden.
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In particular, the informant championed Liddell's claims that Crowley had been an initiate of one of Pickingill's covens. By the time of her 1989 book The Rebirth of Witchcraft, Valiente was more sceptical of Liddell's claims, noting that any supporting evidence was "still sadly lacking". Lois Bourne (pictured in 2010) is one of the prominent Wiccans to have criticised Liddell's claims. Another of Gardner's High Priestesses, Lois Bourne, asserted that she was "as sure as I can be" that Gardner had nothing to do with any witches from Canewdon and that if they existed in the first place, then they must have belonged to a tradition distinct from Gardnerian Wicca.
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The more senior of the two men – Detective-Inspector Verrall – seems interested in Anthony's story while his subordinate – Detective- Sergeant Carter – is more sceptical. Anthony persuades the two men to take him back to his flat where the porter confirms his identity and then they go up to his rooms. Leaving Carter to conduct a search of his rooms to finally establish the truth of his identity, Anthony pours a whisky for himself and Verrall and hears the story of Conrad Fleckman. It goes back over ten years and involves the sale of a Spanish shawl from the impoverished family of a man called Don Fernando to Anna Rosenborg.
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Lennon was complimentary about Harrison's progress, saying: "The way George is going, he'll be flying a magic carpet by the time he's forty." Boyd recalls that she and Harrison each achieved an "out-of-body experience" through meditation but that, because their individual practice disturbed the other, they decided to move into separate rooms. While Lennon was "evangelical in his enthusiasm for the Maharishi", according to his wife Cynthia, she was "a little more sceptical". Cynthia later wrote that she "loved being in India" and had hoped she and Lennon would "rediscover our lost closeness"; to her disappointment, however, Lennon became "increasingly cold and aloof".
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Apocalypse Cow (Channel 4 2019 documentary) In 2019 Solar Foods told it was aiming at developing carbon neutral food production so that agriculture would no longer be needed to produce food and the land freed from agriculture could be reforested and converted into carbon sinks. According to them this would also reduce agricultural nutrient pollution and subsequent water supply problems. It's been estimated that the land efficiency for Solar Foods methods would be about 20,000 times greater than for conventional farming. In 2020, Michael Le Page for the New Scientist took a more sceptical view, noting that the x20,000 improvement only applies to the factories themselves.
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For some participants, "Liberation, at least in its sexual form, was a new kind of imposed morality, quite as restricting" as what had gone before—one that "took very little account of the complexity of human emotional connections"Jenny Diski, The Sixties (London 2009) p. 62. New, more sceptical currents of disenchantment with perversion emerged as a result (alongside more traditional condemnations) in both the French-speaking and English-speaking worlds. Lacan had early highlighted "the ambivalence proper to the 'partial drives' of scoptophilia, sadomasochism ... the often very little 'realised' aspect of the apprehension of others in the practice of certain of these perversions".Jacques Lacan, Ecrits: A Selection (London 19960 p.
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They know they can come through and that interested people make sure the paper enters the political realm.” When asked about the publication in the Spring of 2003 of a revised version of the paper at the center of the Soon and Baliunas controversy, Boehmer-Christiansen said, "I'm following my political agenda -- a bit, anyway. But isn't that the right of the editor?" Part of the journal's official mission statement reads: "E&E; has consistently striven to publish many ‘voices’ and to challenge conventional wisdoms. Perhaps more so than other European energy journal, the editor has made E&E; a forum for more sceptical analyses of ‘climate change’ and the advocated solutions".
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In his first autobiography Tenzing said that he believed the Yeti was a large ape, and although he had never seen it himself his father had seen one twice, but in his second autobiography he said he had become much more sceptical about its existence. Purported Yeti scalp at Khumjung monastery During the Daily Mail Snowman Expedition of 1954, the mountaineering leader John Angelo Jackson made the first trek from Everest to Kanchenjunga in the course of which he photographed symbolic paintings of the Yeti at Tengboche gompa. Jackson tracked and photographed many footprints in the snow, most of which were identifiable. However, there were many large footprints which could not be identified.
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During the 1970s and 1980s, some British sociologists took a more sceptical approach to the question of the sixties 'permissive society', noting that it actually resulted in only partial and amended regulation of previously illegal and or stigmatised social activities. For example, the Sexual Offences Act 1967 decriminalised homosexuality but at an unequal age of consent, 21 (although it was subsequently reduced 18 (1994) and, finally, 16 (2002), additionally, the 1967 act decriminalised homosexuality only under limited circumstances. Similarly, the Abortion Act 1967 did not allow to abortion on request but required obtaining medical permission, with time limits. Furthermore, as with the case of cannabis decriminalisation, some instances of liberalised social attitudes were not met with legislative change.
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The Piltdown case is an example of how racial and nationalist factors shaped some science at the time. Piltdown's semi-human features were explained by some scientists using reference to non- white ethnicities whom some Europeans and Americans of that time considered a lower form of human. The influence of nationalism is clear in the differing interpretations of the find: whilst the majority of British scientists accepted the discovery as "the earliest Englishman", European and American scientists were considerably more sceptical, and several suggested at the time that the skull and jaw were from two different creatures and had been accidentally mixed up. Regarding the sex of the find, it was discussed as a male, although Woodward suggested that the specimen discovered might be female.
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The New Flemish Alliance (N-VA) is a soft euro-sceptic party in the Dutch-speaking region of Belgium. Before 2010, the N-VA was pro-European and supported the idea of a democratic European confederation, but has since altered this policy to a more sceptical stance on further European integration and now calls for more democratic transparency within the EU, changes to the EU's common asylum policy and economic reforms to the Eurozone. The N-VA has obtained 26.83% of the votes or 4 seats of the Dutch-language college out of 12 (21 MEPs for Belgium) in the 2014 European Parliament election. In April 2019 it stood in European Conservatives and Reformists of the European Parliament, and can be considered a moderate Eurosceptic party.
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Tony Inglis with J. H. Alexander, David Hewitt, and Alison Lumsden (Edinburgh, 2009), 426–29. The History of England by David Hume (1754‒62), which Scott admired above all others, gave him most of what he needed for the historical background, though for many details he was able to draw on his profound acquaintance with the literature of the seventeenth century. For the goings-on at Woodstock Manor he was familiar with two accounts accepting a supernatural explanation in Satan's Invisible world Discovered by George Sinclair (1685) and Saducismus Triumphatus by Joseph Glanvil (1700). He also knew, though not necessarily at first hand, the version of the story in The Natural History of Oxford-shire by Robert Plot (1677), adopting its more sceptical approach to the business.Ibid.
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Barratt's daughter believed the vessel to be "completely seaworthy", while Rainbird surmised that it might have drifted southwards, out of fuel or with incapacitated engines, towards the Channel Islands. The coxswain of the Fowey lifeboat said, after 15 hours of searching, that "there was nothing to suggest that a boat had been wrecked out there". Others were more sceptical: Steve Gifford, who had briefly owned the boat, was appalled that 31 people were aboard a vessel that was simply not strong enough to meet the heavy seas it must have encountered, and thought it likely she would have broken up and sunk very quickly. This view was shared by Corke, the surveyor, who felt that Darlwyne was not seaworthy for the weather conditions that developed while it was at sea.
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Once Elizabeth woke she began to cry, and once reassured that she was safe admitted that she was afraid for her father, "who must needs be ruined and undone, if their matter should be supposed to be an imposture." She also admitted that although she had appeared to be asleep, she was in fact fully aware of the conversation going on around her. Initially only the Public Ledger reported on the case, but once it became known that noblemen had taken an interest and visited the ghost at Mr Bray's house on 14 January, the story began to appear in other newspapers. The St. James's Chronicle and the London Chronicle printed reports from 16 to 19 January (the latter the more sceptical of the two), and Lloyd's Evening Post from 18 to 20 January.
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During the July Crisis on 6 July 1914, Jagow was confident that an Austro-Serbian war would be localized, and that Russia was not yet prepared for a continental war. This belief was incorrect: the Chancellor was more sceptical, which indirectly led to the outbreak of World War I.Stevenson, First World War and later Politics, p.27 But by 29 July he was "very depressed" that Austria's Note policy of duality had hastened war.Austrian Red Book, II, p.461 After the war, Jagow attributed deeper reasons for the outbreak of war to "this damned system of alliances." He had tried before war's outbreak to persuade the Chancellor to allow a debate the Reichstag on war aims in 1916, but a veto was imposed, and a ban on all criticism of the government.
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Unlike Radrizzani's 1989 edition of the Manuscript Found in Saragossa, Rosset and Triaire's edition is based solely on Potocki's French- language manuscripts found in libraries in France, Poland (in particular, previously unknown autograph pieces that they discovered in Poznań), Spain and Russia, as well as in the private collection of Potocki's heirs. Rosset and Triaire identified two versions of the novel: one unfinished, of 1804, published in 1805; and the full version of 1810, which appears to have been completely reconceived in comparison to the 1804 version. Whereas the first version has a lighter, more sceptical tone, the second one tends toward a darker, more religious mood. In view of the differences between the two versions, the 1804 and 1810 versions have been published as two separate books; paperback editions were issued in early 2008 by Flammarion.
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Wheen (2001), p. 13 Other friends and colleagues were more sceptical. According to ex-Labour MP Reginald Paget, not even the security services were "lunatic enough to recruit a man like Driberg", who was famously indiscreet and could never keep a secret.Wheen (2001), p. 10 Mitrokhin's "blackmail" story is questioned by historian Jeff Sharlet, on the grounds that by the 1950s and 1960s Driberg's homosexuality had been an open secret in British political circles for many years; he frequently boasted of his "rough trade" conquests to his colleagues.Wheen (2001), p. 188 The journalist A. N. Wilson quotes Churchill commenting years before that "Tom Driberg is the sort of person who gives sodomy a bad name". Pincher, however, argued that as homosexual acts were criminal offences in Britain until 1967, Driberg was still vulnerable to blackmail,Pincher (1982), p.
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Lucas Thomas from IGN and Scott Marriott from AllGame both commended the game's advanced visual techniques and expressed surprise that Nintendo's 16-bit system could deliver such vitality, while GameSpot's Frank Provo felt that Donkey Kong Countrys graphical prowess rivalled that of the forthcoming 32-bit consoles. Nadia Oxford from USGamer similarly acknowledged that the game's visual allure helped Nintendo save face in a period of uncertainty for cartridge-based games and gave praise to Rare's execution of 3D rendering. Michel Garnier from Jeuxvideo said the rendering offered a new depth of realism. In retrospect, Nintendo Life's Alex Olney said the pioneering graphics would survive the test of time, while Oxford was more sceptical, saying that despite the "unholy coupling" of Donkey Kong Countrys pre-rendered graphics and the SNES processor, the game featured a variety of "paper thin" backgrounds.
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The party's leader, Roy Jenkins, managed to retain his seat at Glasgow Hillhead, but SDP President Shirley Williams was defeated at Crosby (which she had won at a by-election in November 1981) as a result of unfavourable boundary changes. Labour Party leader Michael Foot, who resigned within days of the election, was critical of the SDP–Liberal Alliance for siphoning support away from Labour, allowing the Conservatives to win more seats and secure a triple-digit majority, while Labour was left with 209 seats in Parliament. The MP for Plymouth Devonport, Dr. David Owen (who had been a Labour Government Minister under Harold Wilson and James Callaghan between 1974 and 1979), took over as SDP leader after the 1983 general election. He was more sceptical about close relations with the Liberals than his predecessor Roy Jenkins, and favoured retaining the party's distinct identity.
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For centuries those of the countries surrounding Palestine were studied in comparison to each other, but never those of Palestine itself. But the legends such as the pillar of salt said to be Lot's wife, near the Dead Sea, were universally believed in Christendom, from St. Jerome to Sir John Mandeville. Yet from the 16th century, travellers from Pierre Belon were more sceptical, culminating in the visit of Lieutenant Lynch of the US Navy who sailed on the Dead Sea in 1847 and claimed justification for the Biblical story, but described the pillar of salt as a superstition. White welcomes the change by theologians and concludes "the worst enemy of Christianity could wish nothing more than that its main leaders should prove that it can not be adopted save by those who accept, as historical, statements which unbiased men throughout the world know to be mythical".
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His comments regarding the Hebrew knowledge of the Beta Israel of that time is very significant: it could not have come from recent intercourse with Jews elsewhere, so it indicates deep antiquity to Beta Israel traditions, at least at that time, before their literature was taken away from them and demolished by the later conquering Christians. (The more sceptical school of historians, whose views are discussed above, deny that the Ethiopian Jews ever knew Hebrew; they certainly have no Hebrew texts remaining, and have been forced in recent centuries to use the Christian "Old Testament" in Ge'ez after their own literature was destroyed.) It is also of interest that he mentions more Jewish communities dwelling beyond Ethiopia in the Sudan. As so often in such medieval hearsay accounts, however, loose claims are made that may not be accurate. The Beta Israel were not predominantly of the Arabic race, for instance, but he may have meant the term loosely or meant that they also knew Arabic.
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See Stephen J. Shoemaker,The Death of a Prophet: The End of Muhammad's Life and the Beginnings of Islam, University of Pennsylvania Press, 2011. According to Sunni Muslim tradition it was Abu Bakr (r. 632-634), the first caliph, who compiled The Quran, and Uthman who canonized the standard version of Quran since accepted and used by all Muslims worldwide; then he commanded that all previous versions be burned. In the University announcement, Muhammad Isa Waley, Lead Curator for Persian and Turkish Manuscripts at the British Library, said: David Thomas, professor of Christianity and Islam at the University of Birmingham said: Saud al-Sarhan, Director of Center for Research and Islamic Studies in Riyadh, has been more sceptical, questioning whether the parchment might have been reused as a palimpsest, and also noting that the writing had chapter separators and dotted verse endings – features in Arabic scripts which are believed not to have been introduced to the Quran until later.
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On the other hand, with the flare up of the Sino-Indian War, the leftist section of the Communist Party was portrayed as "pro–china" by their opponents from both within and outside the party. Before the outbreak of the war, the section had taken the stance that dialogue and diplomatic partnership with the Chinese would resolve the disputes, however Basu himself was more sceptical and advocated for the adoption of a twin strategy of maintaining the border outposts inside Tibet and then engaging in talks using the outposts as a form of leverage ahead of any commencement on a new treaty. The leftist section continued to oppose the Chinese stand on the India-China frontier but was also opposed to providing unconditional support to the Nehru government because of its "class character" contrary to the rightist section which had declared outright support for the central government. This stance of the leftist section came as dissatisfactory to the Nehru government which had imposed a state of national emergency and introduced the Defence of India Ordinance, 1962, and henceforth utilised them to imprison various opposition leaders and activists as well as Chinese Indian citizens.
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He championed the Army Bureau of Current Affairs (ABCA), which produced fortnightly pamphlets on current developments to provide officers with material for compulsory discussion groups with their men. He and other senior officers recognised that the call of "King and Country", which had been so powerful in 1914, was not enough for a more sceptical generation; a citizen army had to be encouraged into battle, not just ordered. However, the "Theirs not to reason why, theirs but to do and die" attitude was still widespread almost a century after the Battle of Balaclava, and the leftward swing in British public opinion during the war years that resulted in a landslide for the Labour Party in the 1945 general election was blamed by some Conservatives on the ABCA, a charge Adam considered absurd. The ABCA discussion groups substituted the "habit of rational argument for the anarchy of the barrack-room argument", he told the British Institute of Adult Education in 1945. On an inspection tour of the Middle East Command in November 1943, Adam, by pure chance, encountered men who had been condemned to death and penal servitude for their part in the Salerno mutiny.
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