A sceptic might say that Russia is keeping its enemies closer.
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In 2017 Trump-sceptic citizens in Virginia Beach voiced four broad worries.
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I'm a sceptic...can you convince me that honey actually does rock?
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An argument between convert and sceptic wound on for over an hour.
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He was replaced in 2016 by a China-sceptic one, Tsai Ing-wen.
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Unlike his predecessors, Mr Trump is a long-standing sceptic of free trade.
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John Kasich, the moderate Republican left in the race, is also a sceptic.
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Mr Duque, once a sceptic of the peace deal, must now achieve that.
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Some exchanges are better than others, says David Gerard, a cryptocurrency-watcher and sceptic.
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Having in such a position an America-sceptic who actually studied there is unprecedented.
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"A sceptic might question the prospects for the success of this initiative," he said.
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And energy regulations are only obviously bad if you are a climate-change sceptic.
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On the Trump-sceptic right pundits call the president a tyrannical "child upon the throne".
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Mr Pruitt, a known climate-change sceptic, no doubt wishes that were not the case.
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De Gaulle, whom Monnet suspected of bugging his phone, was an early and enduring sceptic.
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"Retail investors are diving in a pool of sharks," says David Gerard, a bitcoin sceptic.
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The alternatives to his left-leaning coalition are either the intermittently euro-sceptic M5S, or a conservative government—led this time not by Silvio Berlusconi's centre-right Forza Italia party, but by the virulently euro-sceptic Northern League and its populist leader, Matteo Salvini.
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Now, the sceptic in me notes that publishers collectively can't mach the Facebook/Google/Amazon "triumvirate".
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The retreat is a sign of the EU-sceptic coalition government's need to regain investor confidence.
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Don Grubin, a forensic psychiatrist, was a sceptic when he first began researching polygraphs in 2000.
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"It supplies all the liquidity in the Bitcoin trading markets," says David Gerard, a cryptocurrency sceptic.
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A habitual sceptic, he turned bullish on banks in February last year before a big rally.
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A climate sceptic encircled by members of Extinction Rebellion might do the same thing in reverse.
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Thus this prominent climate sceptic will refight the old battles, dismissing the science to do so.
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The climate-sceptic-in-chief signed it into law last December with the pro-climate language intact.
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They had even recruited over 250,000 new and mostly GroKo-sceptic new members before the cut-off.
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A sceptic might retort that there's no trophy granted to the team with the best point differential.
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He is a sceptic, believing that LSD was not a "magic pill" that made the era creative.
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Justin Trudeau, the prime minister, sought to change that after his Liberals defeated climate-sceptic Conservatives in 2015.
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Even some of the sceptic-in-chief's fellow Republicans appear less averse to tackling the problem (see article).
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A former coal lobbyist, Mr Wheeler is also a climate change sceptic and considered an effective bureaucratic operator.
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It was then that Ridley Scott, at the time something of a science-fiction sceptic, got his chance.
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Iván Duque, the country's president since August last year, came into office as a sceptic of the peace deal.
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So far the China-sceptic, pro-independence DPP has won three times and the China-embracing Kuomintang (KMT) twice.
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Whether you're a firm believer in the spirit world or a total sceptic, you're going to want to see this.
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India, a perennial sceptic on free trade, has been dragging its feet and others are wary of China's export juggernaut.
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A few heroic analysts (one thinks of Richard Hannah, a long-term Eurotunnel sceptic) proved adept at exposing corporate flimflam.
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LIKE many old people new to social media, Hun Sen, Cambodia's longtime strongman, has swiftly gone from sceptic to oversharer.
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Mr Paulson says that American business has gone from "advocate, to sceptic and even opponent" of past American policies towards China.
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Joining me now for reaction is Glenn Greenwald, co-founder of the Intercept and a deep sceptic of the Intel communities.
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He is a sceptic of the H1-B visa scheme that helps companies recruit skilled foreigners, such as scientists or engineers.
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Some frontbenchers, such as Diane Abbott, the shadow home secretary, have refused to rule out the deselection of Corbyn-sceptic MPs.
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The threat of deselection, in which the local Labour Party kicks out its MP, has been levelled at Corbyn-sceptic MPs.
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In response, Malcolm Turnbull, the prime minister, communicated with Mr Musk and appeared to turn from pro-coal sceptic into battery believer.
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In recent years, China has reduced its military posturing ahead of Taiwanese elections, apparently to avoid boosting support for China-sceptic candidates.
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George Borjas of Harvard, an immigration sceptic, finds that immigration reduces the incomes of native-born American high-school dropouts by 1.7%.
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With a euro-sceptic government in Italy, the euro zone's third biggest economy, they could be effectively frozen, officials and economists said.
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Still, the rise of an EU-sceptic government in Rome embracing shaky budget policies could put a brake on global buyer enthusiasm.
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He has split responsibility for energy and the environment, giving the former to Angus Taylor, a climate-change sceptic who denounces renewable energy.
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Renowned short-seller Muddy Waters recently targeted the $9 billion Starbucks wannabe before frequent mainland sceptic Citron Research jumped in to defend it.
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This was not a modern internet-sceptic, but the anonymous author of the Epistle to the Hebrews, writing in the first century AD.
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Perhaps that is because Peter Navarro, a maverick economics professor and trade sceptic (see profile), is in the ascendancy in the White House.
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"We could feel Brexit in the air for a long time," said Kos, who lived in Lincolnshire, a relatively euro-sceptic part of Britain.
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But I would point out to the sceptic that the video title from Wheeler's own youtube channel insists that those knife attacks were full speed.
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The difference between a government led by Mr Tajani and one headed by Mr Salvini, a punchy, hard-right, populist Euro-sceptic, would be considerable.
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Read Trump-sceptic newspapers or watch such cable networks as MSNBC or CNN, and the evidence is stacking up of Russian collusion with the president.
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Signs of a sagging euro zone economy, together with worries about the rise of euro-sceptic political parties within member countries, have hurt the single currency.
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He campaigned as a sceptic of the peace agreement with the FARC, a guerrilla group that ended its 52-year war against the state in 2016.
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Signs of a sagging euro zone economy, together with worries about the rise of euro-sceptic political parties within EU member countries, have hurt the zone's common currency.
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The trouble is that after the projections were calculated, Donald Trump, who is both a climate sceptic and a fossil-fuel fan, was elected as America's next president.
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"At the end of the day, we need clean elections in Brazil," said Tenengauzer, although he echoed the sceptic sentiment of many Brazilians that this would actually happen.
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During his election campaign, Trump, a climate change sceptic, campaigned on a pledge to boost the U.S. oil and gas drilling and coal mining industries by slashing regulation.
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A sceptic would argue that universities do not increase their students' human capital, and simply serve as a filtering mechanism for employers to weed out weak job candidates.
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The stock had fallen more than 20 percent after climate change-sceptic Donald Trump won the race to the White House, raising uncertainty on U.S. energy and renewables policies.
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He has also appointed as director of the Environmental Protection Agency a climate-change sceptic, Scott Pruitt, who appears not to believe in regulating industrial pollution, which is not.
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But it is the opinion of Mr Andresen, who has collaborated with Mr Wright and considers himself a sceptic, that is likely to convince more than one bitcoin aficionado.
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Britain is the nation of the public school, the mining town, the football hooligan, the gentleman diplomat and the political sceptic; it was in the 1970s and remains so today.
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George Borjas of Harvard University, the leading sceptic of immigration among economists, recently described low-skilled migration to America since 1965 as "the largest anti-poverty programme in the world".
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Rome's EU-sceptic coalition partners – the 5-Star Movement and the League – want to boost the budget deficit to 2.4 percent of GDP in 2019 to fulfil expensive electoral promises.
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Mr Trump ran as a climate-change sceptic and made Jeff Sessions his first attorney-general; of course his environmental and civil-rights policies would be different from Barack Obama's.
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Italy's deputy prime minister, Matteo Salvini, said during a visit to Warsaw on Wednesday that Italy and Poland should join forces in a euro-sceptic alliance to contest the European vote.
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Chinese airlines have only bought five so far but the hope is they might buy more now that the country's aviation regulator, a noted super-jumbo sceptic, retired earlier this year.
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But now that the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is headed by Scott Pruitt, a climate-change sceptic who is friendly with fossil-fuel firms, the maths is likely to be redone.
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The EU's failure to draw up a coherent response to the broader migration crisis has invigorated anti-immigration, euro-sceptic parties across the bloc including France's own far-right National Front.
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At the Web Summit Margrethe Vestager, the European Union's competition commissioner and a GAFA sceptic, mused about the risks to democracy if tech firms become too powerful to oversee and regulate.
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The conservative parties are worried about a new climate-sceptic populist outfit, Forum for Democracy (FvD), whose leader, Thierry Baudet, spent the autumn baselessly claiming that the climate accord would cost €1tn.
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Although the euro sceptic government failed to buy a smaller bank from Austria's Raiffeisen Bank, the Pekao deal means Polish capital will control 53 percent of the sector, up from 43 percent beforehand.
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The film follows the relationship between Harbour's other son, Will (Jason Segel), a troubled sceptic of his father's discovery, and Isla (Rooney Mara), a traumatised woman he meets by chance on a ferry.
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But Boris Johnson, now a leading contender to be the UK's next prime minister, is a climate change sceptic: will he act on his conviction that all this global warming malarkey is piffle?
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"I bet you in a few years' time they will say global warming stopped in 2015 or 2016," Allen, who is not a sceptic and is senior author of U.N. climate reports, said.
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U.S. President Donald Trump, a climate change sceptic, has started the process to withdraw his country from the Paris accord - but it cannot leave until the day after the November 2020 presidential elections.
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Perry's views on the department's usefulness may evolve now he has been selected to lead it in a future Trump administration ("Trump picks climate sceptic Perry for top U.S. energy job", Reuters, Dec. 14).
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"When I experienced hackers in Fortnite, there was people across the entire map hitting me … and instantly killing me, which is pretty crazy," said Griffin "Sceptic" Spikoski, a 15-year-old e-gaming player.
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He was booted out of his job the following year, but pursued his vision (a socially conservative, globalisation-sceptic sort of Toryism) afterwards and in 2010 became work and pensions secretary under David Cameron.
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Tria, appointed early this month when Italian debt was under speculative attack over concerns about the new government's euro-sceptic stance, had also considered veteran Treasury official Stefano Scalera for the position, sources said.
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One legislator worries that its "totally unnecessary" introduction may provide a pretext for the government to disqualify China-sceptic members-elect who fail to demonstrate what it deems to be sufficient respect for the song.
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Meanwhile, the AfD has transformed itself from a simple Euro-sceptic party to one that skillfully foments fears of foreigners and infiltration from abroad, a dynamic that has become familiar across much of the West.
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The EU-sceptic Danish People's Party, which normally supports the minority government, said the proposal should be scrapped, arguing it could lead the Court of Justice of the European Union to lift the ban altogether.
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"In Deutsche Bank's current situation, what is needed is not so much visions as hard realism," said Klaus Nieding, vice president of shareholder lobby group DSW and a sceptic of a tie-up with Commerzbank.
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Italian numbers in particular ought to help sentiment towards a country that is due to hold a general election in less than a month, with euro-sceptic parties likely to be part of a new government.
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Investors have been even more enthusiastic in their appraisal since early August, when the anti-immigrant and EU-sceptic League party pulled its support for the coalition it put together a little more than a year before.
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But Italian Prime Minister Matteo Renzi is anxious to avoid unpopular belt tightening ahead of a December referendum on constitutional reform that could decide his political future, testing his popularity against the euro-sceptic Five Star movement.
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Dutch voters whose Hegel was shaky turned to Google to work out what the Eurosceptic, climate-change-sceptic foe of immigration was on about, and concluded that he was proclaiming the election a dialectical shift in Dutch history.
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London also wants to capitalise on its newfound freedom by striking agreements with other trading partners around the world, including the offer of a "massive" deal with the United States from President Donald Trump, a climate-change sceptic.
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Promising talks with Britain offers Mr Ryan, a leading advocate of free trade, a chance to stress that the Republican Party is larger than Mr Trump, its presumptive presidential nominee and a noisy sceptic about recent free-trade deals.
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The EU is desperate to avoid any repeat of 2015 and 2016, when more than a million refugees arrived on its soil, overwhelming security and welfare systems and fuelling support for euro-sceptic and nationalist groups across the bloc.
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ON DECEMBER 5th Al Gore, the former vice-president who has spent the last three decades warning about the dangers of global warming, took the lift to the top of Trump Tower to meet the world's most powerful climate-change sceptic.
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"Questions have to be asked: Is their over-reliance on renewable energy exacerbating their problems and the capacity to have a secure power supply," Australia's Deputy Prime Minister Barnaby Joyce, a climate change sceptic, told Australian Broadcasting Corp radio on Thursday.
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Global environmental governance is getting better—a bold claim, the author concedes, but not completely outlandish even in America, where many cities and states are setting carbon-reduction goals at odds with the climate-sceptic-in-chief in the Oval Office.
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Here are the respective country's prospects of an EU exit: The probability of the Netherlands exiting from the EU in the near term could hinge on the election chances of Geert Wilders, the leader of the euro-sceptic and populist group, Party for Freedom (PVV).
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A related example of the tension between knowledge and reality came with another thought experiment: a sceptic might wonder whether she were no more than a brain in a vat, artificially nourished, and stimulated with a bogus but utterly convincing version of the real world.
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Claudio Borghi, a Euro-sceptic League economist and close adviser to Mr Salvini who heads parliament's finance committee, has previously argued that mini-BoTs could be "spent anywhere to buy anything", raising suspicion that they would act as a parallel currency in preparation for leaving the euro.
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Military commanders thought attacking Auschwitz would be a distraction, and that the bombs and planes were needed for the only task that mattered, defeating Hitler (a leading British sceptic of targeting the camp was Charles Portal, chief of the air staff, and this reviewer's great-uncle).
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So it was noticed when in February he declared that, because China has been slow to open its economy since joining the World Trade Organisation in 2001, "the American business community has turned from advocate to sceptic and even opponent of past US policies toward China".
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Dallas Fed President Robert Kaplan, until recently a sceptic that rates should be cut at all, said he now thinks a "tactical" reduction of a quarter point could address the risks apparently seen by bond investors, who have pushed some long-term yields below shorter-term ones.
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Meanwhile, a fisking over on Github by Bitcoin sceptic Patrick Mckenzie calls Wright's claim "flimflam and hokum which stands up to a few minutes of cursory scrutiny, and demonstrates a competent sysadmin's level of familiarity with cryptographic tools, but ultimately demonstrates no non-public information about Satoshi."
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When Scott Pruitt, a sceptic on climate change who heads the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), tried to put off a regulation aimed at curbing emissions of methane, a powerful greenhouse gas, from oil and gas wells, a federal court found the decision to be "unreasonable", and blocked it.
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" "I'll admit it: I went into the Palace Theatre a sceptic – doubting that self-confessed "Potter-head" playwright Jack Thorne (working alongside Rowling) would have the magic touch to bring the story back to life, and pretty much convinced that whatever tricks director John Tiffany and illusionist Jamie Harrison had up their sleeves, it would be no match for the films' amazing CGI effects.
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