Sceptics include traditional conservatives, many Social Democrats and big unions.
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Sceptics of the megafund model still have plenty of ammunition.
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The former Terminator can hold his own with wonkish sceptics.
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Sceptics say Mr Hussain will never willingly relinquish his grip.
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It contains old studies already debunked, the sceptics pointed out.
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Not long ago sceptics dismissed Facebook itself as a fad.
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Sceptics called it a political stunt to woo hawkish voters.
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Sceptics of the megafund model still have plenty of arguments.
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Proposed safeguards, such as stricter disclosure rules, do not convince sceptics.
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Sceptics may wonder whether the poorest places have the necessary infrastructure.
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Sceptics remember Candidate Trump stoking sectarian rage on the campaign trail.
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I urge sceptics to take any issue that particularly affects men.
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Washington sceptics may dismiss Ms Harris as a typical Californian progressive.
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Sceptics will point out correctly that China's tightening is still new.
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Supporters and sceptics of the new model will continue to argue.
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Mr Kello lambasts such sceptics on both practical and theoretical grounds.
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How can liberals convince immigration sceptics that open societies benefit everyone?
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But sceptics fret that MBA courses distort the purpose of apprenticeships.
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Sceptics doubt whether participation is tightly linked to the economic cycle.
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Sceptics retort that Kirill Vladimirovich was not entitled to do so.
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But sceptics fear this would entrench an ethnically stratified labour market.
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Plenty of sceptics will fail to be convinced by this reasoning.
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So far, the commission has satisfied neither competition purists nor sceptics.
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Google's accomplishment is one in the eye for quantum-computing sceptics.
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Immigration sceptics will, of course, be hard to convince either way.
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No one, certainly not the sceptics, predicted the sudden change of tone.
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Sceptics in Myanmar shudder at the loans covering the government's 30% stake.
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Among contemporary Islamo-sceptics, that term has been used in two senses.
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Sceptics question whether the technology is yet anywhere close to mass production.
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Sceptics have even begun to doubt the existence of the natural rate.
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Lithium-ion technology nonetheless attracts legions of sceptics—and not just petrolheads.
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Sceptics might note that this interpretation relies heavily on a small sample.
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Sceptics of capitalism grumble that the scheme has enriched dodgy fund managers.
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He has positioned Slovakia as a 'pro-European island' among euro-sceptics.
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NFU-sceptics also point to the increasing potency of non-nuclear weapons.
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Sceptics will inevitably call the book's title, "The Islamic Enlightenment", naive or oxymoronic.
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Sceptics retort that it will destroy jobs, too, by increasing costs to businesses.
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At a time of sharp budget cuts, that may seem steep to sceptics.
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Sceptics were reluctant to challenge John F. Kennedy, the newly elected American president.
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So it seems odd that some prominent quant funds are machine-learning sceptics.
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Sceptics point to the lacklustre decarbonisation record of places that already price carbon.
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Charles Cooper, a Liberian businessman, speaks for many sceptics of the Bridge method.
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Some sceptics raise concerns about the economic ramifications if renewables' penetration rises substantially.
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Big rallies by money-losing companies touting unusual business models naturally attract sceptics.
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That has only made the EU more vulnerable to the barbs of sceptics.
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Peace-deal sceptics cheer on forced eradication; pro-deal politicians back crop substitution.
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Today, however, Skinner's heirs are forcing the sceptics to think again (see article).
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The second group of 1968-critics comprises Merkel-sceptics on the centre-right.
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For a time, sceptics of NS2 looked to the European Commission for salvation.
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Still, even the many sceptics say Mr Trump should accept the North's offer.
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Sceptics note that Mr Abiy is a product of the old political system.
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How did Mark Zuckerberg's company disprove the sceptics and become an advertising behemoth?
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Those sceptics, like so many others this election cycle, were quickly proven foolish.
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Sceptics should allow that welcoming migrants does not violate the precepts of patriotism.
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Even sceptics clever enough to spot what is going on will keep quiet.
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Sceptics of corporate social responsibility (CSR) say that such acts are mere marketing.
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ALLIANCE SCEPTICS Renault executives repeated assurances that the Nissan alliance was on track.
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Such sceptics have traditionally raged at the hypocrisy of American claims to moral superiority.
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So how do we convince sceptics that feminism is still necessary and, indeed, valuable?
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The 140-page MAC report contains hard truths for immigration sceptics and enthusiasts alike.
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Even if people got money for their data, sceptics say, they wouldn't get much.
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Alas, the industry generated far too few sceptics and far too many corporate cheerleaders.
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To sceptics, those changes might look like woolly political correctness, or tokenistic positive discrimination.
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On October 22th, however, IBM's quarterly results suggested that sceptics might just be wrong.
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Remarkably, however, many of the leading campaigners for Brexit are sceptics about climate change.
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The most extreme sceptics peddle conspiracy theories about how the Fed "debases" the dollar.
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Sceptics fear that California's new law will prompt a rush of medically assisted suicides.
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However, CSR sceptics will note that even the wokest companies give priority to profits.
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Sceptics doubt COMPASS can get its drug to market by 2024—if at all.
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Under the current planning system, there is little scope for winning round housing sceptics.
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But sceptics still rule the roost when it comes to goods made in high volumes.
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Today's sceptics also use the word to denounce Westerners who seem excessively deferential to Islam.
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And if sceptics can be won round, the AEA must then decide what to do.
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Initially dismissed as neophytes, the team has won over sceptics with its willingness to listen.
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The table is enough to make Trump-sceptics leap from their armchairs in happy vindication.
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OPEC agreed in November to cut production for the first time since 21, defying sceptics.
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Slovakia, one of biggest sceptics on Russia sanctions, takes over the EU presidency in July.
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That pushed sceptics like Mrs Merkel to accept the goal and other member states followed.
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But she is battling to throw off the "mini-Merkel" moniker bestowed on her by sceptics.
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Sceptics, however, note that the most successful clusters tend not to be creations of the government.
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Sceptics think drones will be a niche service, at best, and won't work in urban areas.
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Both federal appeals-court judges and the conservative majority on the Supreme Court are antitrust sceptics.
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They may be ignorant; sceptics worried about the scale of immigration tend to vastly overestimate it.
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Beyond dispelling ignorance and misperceptions, here are six quick suggestions to try to win over sceptics.
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But sceptics note that he showed no compunction about gaming term-limits when mayor of Davao.
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Paul Kagame, Rwanda's president and the host of the AU summit, had no time for sceptics.
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By the time he reaches working age, the fears of dam sceptics may have been realised.
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Contrary to popular belief, those involved in this effort avoid arguing with sceptics of the government.
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Mr Shanahan urges sceptics to wait for the 2020 budget, which he has called "a masterpiece".
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Even sceptics admit that the town has achieved its goal of mixing houses with local businesses.
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Sceptics might write such phenomena off as paranoia, but haunted houses do spook the property market.
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PRAGMATISTS AND SCEPTICS Across the EU, no government has yet imposed an outright ban on Huawei.
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Sceptics argue that a move aimed at saving lives might end up costing more of them.
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The young president's legacy will be secured if he can defy the sceptics on economic reform too.
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Look at Poland and Hungary, say sceptics, steadily dismantling the rule of law from inside the club.
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It was Mrs Merkel's pleasant habit of repeatedly winning elections that helped the sceptics overcome their doubts.
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Sceptics note that government data are unreliable and that questioning them could soon be a criminal offence.
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Sceptics abound, as do theories of how and how far the government's numbers stray from the truth.
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Dollar sceptics are concerned about the pace of future interest rate increases by the U.S. Federal Reserve.
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This was a speech that contained its own pre-emptive strikes against critics, sceptics and fact-checkers.
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In office Mr Duque has tried to please sceptics while taking steps endorsed by the accord's supporters.
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Officials can take other small steps to reassure sceptics, perhaps separating Ning Jizhe's dual roles, for one.
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Dollar sceptics are also concerned about the pace of future interest rate increases by the U.S. central bank.
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Sceptics have asked why, if he was so important to the case, only one bodyguard was protecting him.
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But it raises questions of the sort that help explain why economists are often sceptics about regional policy.
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Many sceptics dismissed the Vision Fund as a vast pot of tainted money squandered on hyped-up assets.
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Sceptics say e-cigarettes may promote or prolong tobacco use, rather than encouraging people to kick the habit.
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He may be mindful of the outrage that Mr Mnuchin's talk has stirred among China-sceptics in Washington.
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Trump-sceptics worry that his hunger to strike a deal could lead him to accept far flimsier terms.
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To Mr Trump's sceptics, it is as obvious that such an unprecedented summit would be a terrifying gamble.
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But sceptics say these and other measures aimed at appeasing ratings agencies could be too little, too late.
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Sceptics of the divisive-primary hypothesis counter that overcoming formidable opposition in the spring offers its own advantages.
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There are some left-wing Brexiteers but they tend not to be climate sceptics; Kate Hoey, for example.
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Some data-sceptics have turned to space, using satellite images of China's city lights to estimate its GDP.
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But sceptics point out that the majority of his audiences do not understand what he is singing about.
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But the plan will take time to pay dividends and sceptics say there is not enough new spending.
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Sceptics point to South Sudan, an oil-rich territory that won independence and then imploded, as a cautionary tale.
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Sceptics think the company is as big as it can get without becoming more like the multinationals it decries.
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Sceptics, though, observe that a lot of energy is needed to make a solar panel in the first place.
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Sceptics also note that, although those barely rested South Korean pupils do superbly in exams, they are often miserable.
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Sceptics argue that places with land-value taxes keep them low so that they do not attract political heat.
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AMLO sceptics had hoped that, in the absence of strong political checks and balances, financial markets would constrain him.
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Trump-sceptics still love it: a recent live reading of the script drew sell-out crowds in Los Angeles.
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SCEPTICS OF HIGHER education often complain that universities offer too many frivolous degrees with little value in the workplace.
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One commenter suggested that we follow Aristotle's advice and deploy reason, values and emotions to try to convince sceptics.
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On Thursday, in the concluding section, I will provide other suggestions for convincing sceptics of the value of immigration.
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Academic studies cast doubt on whether competition has really improved outcomes, yet even sceptics see virtues in the system.
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That is helpful, say sceptics, to rich-world governments with large debts which need to keep interest costs low.
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Sceptics say that those who stand to lose from globalisation are given little thought when trade deals are signed.
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And the highest praise he got seemed to come from Verstappen sceptics, who adopted Sainz as their "protest candidate".
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But sceptics point out that much of Brazil's border runs through rainforest that is impassable and hard to monitor.
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Climate-change sceptics point to cold snaps in North America as evidence that concern about global warming is overheated.
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Even some Merkel-sceptics like Mike Mohring, the CDU leader in the eastern state of Thuringia, have welcomed the package.
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While proponents of freeports argue they create new jobs, sceptics say they mainly redistribute economic activity within a given country.
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In their darker moments, sceptics should think of that far-off day when Mr Erdogan is no longer in charge.
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Sceptics in Hong Kong call it an expensive way to bind their city and its 7m people to the motherland.
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A company executive grumbles that Western sceptics seem to doubt that China is run according to the rule of law.
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Slowing growth, wobbling currencies and rising inflation upset the status quo and bolstered sceptics of Keynesian ideas, like Robert Lucas.
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Sceptics say buying ETFs in large volumes might help stop the rot, but could store up problems for the future.
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Sceptics, besides worrying about the business logic, feel that Mr Hayes may be biting off more than he can chew.
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If that is not enough, a dinner might persuade a reluctant MP. Former sceptics have been swept off their feet.
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This sort of insistence leaves an impression, even among sceptics of these arguments, that there must be something to them.
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He has defied sceptics and overcome setbacks over the years, all the while pushing on with innovations of improbable ambition.
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Go back to the dotcom boom and sceptics of those high tech valuations were told they "just didn't get it".
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But sceptics doubted such an orchestrated exercise would be much use if and when it came to a real war.
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Mr Comey offered a more nuanced view, but scattered crumbs to give Trump-sceptics hope, and the White House stomach-ache.
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But sceptics worry about the dangers of overreach and the potential for clashing with greater powers crowding into the Red Sea.
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Sceptics say Xinjiang, China's westernmost region, is still too poor for better transport links to make much difference to Pakistan's economy.
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Sceptics thought they were crazy—it was possible in theory, but it was unclear if it could be done in practice.
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Finally, an argument for the sceptics who don't oppose feminism, but simply feel that it has nothing to do with them.
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We are often encouraged to win over sceptics by imploring them to think of their sisters, their mothers, or their girlfriends.
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Sceptics wonder about the model's viability in an unsentimental, margin-driven property industry that is prone to painful ups and downs.
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Those who want Donald Trump's policies in Germany and climate crisis sceptics in the next government can vote for the FDP.
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Sceptics might argue that banning bump stocks now will accomplish little, since a large number of them are already in circulation.
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Sceptics who reject mainstream scientific findings about global warming often point to the expansion of sea ice around Antarctica as evidence.
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So long as it stays fresh in the eyes of consumers, Apple will be able to prove the sceptics wrong—again.
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Mr Gioia's job is to teach jazz-lovers how to assess the music and persuade sceptics to give jazz a go.
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Scientists working on climate change have an interest in perpetuating their case because of the research grants they receive, sceptics argue.
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Her determination to prove the sceptics wrong was reflected in her pride at having succeeded — in such extraordinary fashion — in both.
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It is a tidy solution, though sceptics argue that it would allow governments to avoid passing budgets and thus duck hard choices.
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Sceptics often argue that greed is too much a part of human nature to be tamed by mere rules and official expectations.
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Sceptics retort that they are merely unusually prone to whining: "Generation Snowflake" is a better description for these sensitive souls, they say.
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Perhaps young people trying to scrape together towering deposits to buy their first home should hope that the supply sceptics are right.
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Sceptics claim that the site amounts to a popularity contest for legal funding, in which only those with the most retweets succeed.
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But sceptics wonder how possible it is for even a well-intentioned firm to avoid forced co-operation with the Chinese government.
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Reports meanwhile emerged of a White House scheme to commission a panel of sceptics to attack the government's own National Climate Assessment.
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The experience is said to have reassured sceptics in the kingdom that it is safe to open the crown jewel to outsiders.
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The furious AfDers, chanting "We are the people", were a long way from the moderate Merkel-sceptics of the CDU and CSU.
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Sceptics point to past excessive exuberance in metallic bubbles such as rare earths as a warning of what may lie in store.
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Sceptics note that Hungary, which is far further down the path of illiberalism than Poland, has never faced serious repercussions in Brussels.
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Still, sceptics note that the firm will have hired temporary workers to cover for absent employees, which would have cushioned the blow.
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This bothers sceptics such as Norbert Schmacke, a professor of medicine and the author of a book explaining why homeopathy is nonsense.
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The Trump sceptics' case rested largely on "The Party Decides" (TPD), a political-science book about American presidential primaries published in 2008.
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Trade sceptics sometimes seem to suggest that workers were better-off before the 1980s, because protectionism was rife but growth stayed high.
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Sceptics of that argument point out that the productivity slowdown started before the crisis, suggesting that it is unrelated to labour-market conditions.
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The rhetoric was Churchillian; in the absence of Nazis, "sceptics and doubters", "negativity" and the Labour Party would have to do as enemies.
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The Global Financial Crisis (GFC) caused such dislocation between annual and spot prices that even sceptics such as Brazil's Vale joined the revolution.
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It has kept its technological cards close to its chest—to the point where some sceptics think that its technology has been oversold.
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Sceptics—and Republican partisans—might retort that these voters' distaste for Mr Trump did not extend to his party's congressional candidates in 2016.
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So when religion was fetishised in the White House, it was Sam Harris and Richard Dawkins who were fashionable because they were sceptics.
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Nearly a dozen experiments have yielded results which seem to confirm this theory, yet sceptics have criticised many of these studies as flawed.
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Sceptics argue that to work the sanctions need to be multilateral (and reversible if the regime engages in serious negotiations with the opposition).
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Sceptics noted that the bribes he allegedly demanded are modest compared with the graft that has made billionaires of some crooked Russian businessmen.
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Most are bonuses that amount to a small part of the total gains, leading sceptics to attribute the announcements to clever public relations.
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They should realise that executives like to build empires, and to be seen to be "doing something"; they should be the resident sceptics.
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In a country where secular sceptics and sharp-tongued clerics often have a kind of amicable, bantering relationship, things have suddenly become tetchy.
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Sceptics noted that Argentina had defaulted on its debts six times in the previous century, with the most recent such upset in 2014.
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Sceptics used to predict that collectors would be highly reluctant to buy online because they would want to inspect prospective purchases in person.
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Sceptics wonder whether local groups do much more than give existing foreign weapons systems an Indian veneer just thick enough to get contracts.
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THE announcement on September 9th by America and Russia of another partial ceasefire in Syria's five-year-long civil war had sceptics guffawing.
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A cottage industry has sprung up to cater to the sceptics, blending various indicators of economic activity to produce new gauges of growth.
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A small group of sceptics - some of whom are in the Trump White House - believe this is a hoax that could damage business.
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That may be why so many climate sceptics manage to cling to their beliefs in the teeth of overwhelming evidence to the contrary.
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Sceptics say bitcoin and its rivals are not particularly useful as currencies, as they are still volatile and not accepted by most merchants.
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Sceptics include the free-market FDP, right-wing AfD, the Bavarian CSU and most of Mrs Merkel's CDU, including Wolfgang Schäuble, her finance minister.
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His government's law is less about correcting the record than twisting Poland's national story into one of historical victimhood—and casting sceptics as traitors.
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Contemporary free-speech sceptics, by contrast, want to stop people from expressing ideas that could make others feel "unsafe"—a far more nebulous standard.
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"To the leaders, sceptics and cynics who told us to sit down, stay silent and wait your turn: Welcome to the revolution" he said.
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"You can't conduct intervention easily," Momma said, adding that Japan may need to convince sceptics of yen-selling action such as the United States.
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Sceptics suggest many of the London replicas lack the outside perspective from government, businesses and universities that helped to inspire change in the capital.
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Sceptics suspect there may be an "industrial agenda" at work, that favours Chinese equipment-makers and lowers the patent royalties these have to pay.
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One of the sceptics' biggest bêtes noires is the "selfie"—which is often blamed for fostering self-regard and an undue focus on attractiveness.
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And time and again – even the sceptics and doubters - by their powers to innovate and adapt the British people have showed the doubters wrong.
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Recession sceptics may also note that U.S. equities are not far off record highs and credit spreads have retraced most of their December losses.
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The Leave campaign was always an odd coalition between slightly eccentric back-bench Tories (who were also climate-change sceptics) and UKIP's nativist instincts.
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Yet Sophia Besch at the Centre for European Reform says German sceptics are more likely to be convinced by arguments couched in European terms.
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Sceptics insist that low-skilled migrants are substitutes for uneducated American workers, and so the presence of the former reduces the wages of the latter.
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Sceptics recall that much the same hope was expressed when a unity government was formed in 2009 after the brutally rigged election the year before.
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But then again, not so many years sceptics doubted that Africa's tech sector would ever attract big VC, blue chip IT companies, or produce unicorns.
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Sceptics about the Green Movement in Iran pointed out that many if not most tweets were in English and sent by people outside the country.
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He thinks they should avoid dismissing public anxiety by spouting facts and figures, which preaches to the converted but confirms sceptics' fears about detached elites.
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Antitrust sceptics see the Android case as yet more proof that such legal action is just not worth it in the fast-moving tech world.
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The same sceptics had, for security reasons, already warned about a decision to allow Huawei, a Chinese firm, to supply equipment for Britain's telecoms infrastructure.
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Even leading market sceptics, many of whom believe stock prices could start to drop, doubt that another extreme sell-off in equities might be imminent.
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In Zambia some sceptics are being won over: Alexander Chikwanda, the finance minister until last September, comments that fund staff are "not as theological" as before.
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Privacy critics and techno-sceptics are concerned about the unforeseen consequences, such as backdoor data intrusions, or a lack of institutional recourse if something goes wrong.
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Sceptics question whether a corporate culture built around Excel wizards can be retooled into one where marketers eke out incremental market-share gains, quarter after quarter.
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Some sceptics ponder how effectively the FA would manage its windfall and whether Mr Khan's bid should be used to draw out other, more lucrative offers.
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America is free to put missiles on Guam, although sceptics argue that ground-based missiles crammed onto a small island would be vulnerable in a war.
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Should these contributions be as brilliant as Mr Nakamoto's white paper, even sceptics may come to accept that Mr Wright is indeed the inventor of bitcoin.
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It already has the world's largest teahouse, mainly Chinese-financed and mostly empty; and an immense national library—sadly devoid of books, according to whispering sceptics.
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Among the sceptics are parishes in Britain which in 2009 lost a legal battle with the Moscow Patriarchate in the London High Court over church property.
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To such sceptics, it is absurd for Huawei to claim that it is a private technology company with no connections to the world of high politics.
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Sceptics have warned that a disputed result could lead to a dangerous political stand-off, with losers refusing to accept the outcome, as happened in 2014.
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Sceptics say the EU's poorest state and most corrupt country — according to Transparency International — will need more reforms before it can adopt the bloc's single currency.
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Sceptics are right to point out that with interest rates already so low, central banks are short of ammunition with which to fire up the economy.
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If they can gather impressive detection data from a third centre, this may help to convince remaining sceptics about the usefulness of the rats, hopes Christophe Cox.
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But an attempt to relaunch her European Union divorce deal with sweeteners aimed at winning over sceptics in her own party and opponents has been loudly criticised.
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But within the Department for International Trade (DIT) officials worry that Brexit and trade are mashed together in minds of Remain voters, turning potential allies into sceptics.
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SOME PEOPLE worry about robots taking work away from human beings, but there are a few jobs that even these sceptics admit most folk would not want.
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It is certainly true that, for sceptics and believers alike, religion and fear have always been closely intertwined, but not in the way the archbishop is proposing.
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For example, those who live surrounded by climate-change sceptics may avoid saying anything that suggests humankind is altering the climate, simply to avoid becoming an outcast.
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The problem for Turnbull is that a significant number of his party-room are either climate change deniers or sceptics, or strong promoters of the coal industry.
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"There are still some sceptics who are still not convinced that the Fed will take action (on rates) again this year," said Antje Praefcke, currency strategist at Commerzbank.
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Such arguments strike sceptics—countries like Poland and the Baltic states, energy experts at the European Commission, foreign-policy hawks and a handful of German renegades—as myopic.
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Sceptics replied that America does not have tanks to spare and that moving existing units eastward from Germany would make them a juicy target for Russian rocket artillery.
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As a possible probing attack, he has floated an idea for a sort of climate-focused Scopes Monkey Trial, a televised debate between climate change believers and sceptics.
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Sceptics tend to dismiss as far-fetched the idea that the rogue regime would knock out the electricity grid by detonating a nuclear bomb high in the atmosphere.
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If Mr Flannery can defy the sceptics and turn the firm around, he will deserve to surpass even the lionised Mr Welch in the annals of American management.
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But the real battle will take place in the muddy ground in between those two poles, occupied by the humanitarian sceptics, the economic pragmatists and the moderate opponents.
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Sceptics argued that people would rather keep cash in safes than lend money, if they knew they would be repaid fewer dollars or Swedish crowns than they provided.
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"There is a lively and ongoing debate taking place and it is clearly a part of that," May's spokesman said of Tuesday's report backed by the euro-sceptics.
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But, as the most cynical of natural sceptics, I will now only believe the talk of a hyped comeback of Silva's when I see it materialise for myself.
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While there are a few firebrands here and there, just as there are a few anti-protest sceptics, the majority of the fanbase seem to be reluctant rebels.
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Conservative Catholics, many of whom are climate change sceptics, have said the Church should concentrate on saving souls and not get involved in scientific debate about the climate.
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But of course many in the bipartisan establishment that Trump ran against will never admit the failures of globalization and instead like Obama, they choose to denigrate the sceptics.
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The American market is nothing like as highly valued as Japan's was in the late 1980s, when sceptics were told that Western valuation methods did not work in Tokyo.
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Sceptics point out that WhatsApp can afford to hinder the spread of information on its platform because it does not rely on the sale of advertisements to make money.
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Some sceptics will argue that feminism remains problematic because its true objective is not to achieve equality, but to advantage women at all costs, to the detriment of men.
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We can engage with sceptics, we can present them with the proof and try to convert them, but ultimately we will fight on, whether they join us or not.
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And at the end of the year, a half-time review clause in the coalition agreement provides the SPD's coalition sceptics with a formal platform to agitate for departure.
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The Sweden Democrats, who evolved out of neo-Nazi groups, have been shunned by every other party, silencing Sweden's conversation on migration—and driving sceptics to the extreme right.
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Sceptics doubt the weight problem can ever be properly overcome; cynics suspect that these projects are motivated by PR. But few people predictedthe pace of electrification in other areas.
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The internalisation model has had mixed results in other markets, with sceptics citing onerous risk and compliance systems which, combined with staff retention incentives, dent the expected net returns.
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Global foreign exchange Britain has defied sceptics and extended its lead in the global currency trading business in the two years since it voted to leave the European Union.
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Sceptics—among them Goldman Sachs, an investment bank—nonetheless argue that gold will fall for a fourth straight year in 2016, largely because of higher interest rates in America.
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Sceptics used to reply that talk was cheap coming from Germany, which had been spared major incidents of the sort that have struck America, France, Turkey and other countries.
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Sceptics argue that the size of the likely cuts will be dwarfed by the continuing roll-out of new capacity, particularly in the far-flung northwestern province of Xinjiang.
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The euro-sceptics complain that accepting free trade on goods with the EU would mean Britain had to sign up to EU regulations even after it leaves the bloc.
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Bigger chunks of debt are especially hard to trade without human finesse: sceptics compare it to how people might be comfortable buying a TV online, but not a house.
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I, for one, join the Andre sceptics outside of the venue and in a bizarre twist of events bump into Bradley from S Club 3 in the car park.
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Wirecard's shares rose earlier in Frankfurt after the company updated its forecasts, but ended the day down nearly 5% as sceptics questioned the validity of its long-range forecast.
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Bitcoin has soared more than 900 percent so far this year, the largest gain of all asset classes and prompting sceptics to say it is a classic speculative bubble.
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Sceptics say it is a classic speculative bubble with no relation to real financial market activity or the economy - most famously JPMorgan boss Jamie Dimon, who labelled it a "fraud".
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Sceptics say it is not clear whether DAFs actually increase the amount of money that reaches the needy, and that the tax breaks associated with them mainly benefit the rich.
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A rule-breaking, commission-defying government in Rome makes it infinitely harder to persuade such sceptics that the plans do not jeopardise the savings and budgets of thrifty northern Europeans.
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In addition, the Italian government's appointment on Thursday of two euro sceptics to head key finance committees reignited worries about anti-euro voices in the euro zone's third-largest economy.
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Zelenskiy has tapped into this anti-establishment mood, though his inexperience makes Western officials and foreign investors wary and sceptics question his fitness to be a wartime commander-in-chief.
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Zelenskiy has tapped into the anti-establishment mood, though his inexperience makes Western officials and foreign investors wary and sceptics question his fitness to be a wartime commander-in-chief.
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"To the sceptics among us, this will simply sound like a re-hash of the same old material we've been hearing about since December 2015," said Alan Cameron at Exotic Partners.
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"Even the sceptics would probably agree that Macau's grind/casual-mass segment features some of most attractive structural stories in China's consumer space," said DS Kim, an analyst with J.P Morgan.
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Turkey's shoddy treatment of some dual citizens, such as Deniz Yücel, Die Welt's Turkey correspondent, detained in Istanbul since February, has given German sceptics of liberal citizenship rules a fresh argument.
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As my colleague pointed out this week, immigration sceptics used to be found in both parties; they are now almost entirely found in one, which makes striking a deal much harder.
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Although Facebook says it has a working prototype, the technology is untested; sceptics doubt that a 100-node system, let alone a bigger one, could process thousands of transactions per second.
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Sceptics, however, doubt the practicality of a pan-African agency, given the lack of a common legal system or an equivalent of the European Court of Justice to arbitrate in disputes.
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Younger generations are "blowing a whistle" on global warming - which can be uncomfortable not just for climate change sceptics but for many older people in the environmental movement too, she noted.
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If, just if, the summit could have gone on one more day…that might have given the two leaders time to build their burgeoning rapport and overrule sceptics in their delegations.
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While the peer-reviewed research has drawn plaudits, with MIT's William D. Oliver comparing its findings in Nature to the Wright brothers' first flights, sceptics say Google is over-selling its achievement.
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With the window closing on Barack Obama's nomination of Merrick Garland to take Antonin Scalia's seat, the Supreme Court's balance of power between death penalty sceptics and supporters is unlikely to change.
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Sceptics, however, questioned the sense of building a new crossing to a busy part of the South Bank barely 300 metres from Waterloo Bridge, while east London remained short of river crossings.
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This further complicates the issue, given that climate sceptics can use this fact to start spreading the seeds of doubt as to whether human intervention is even causing climate change at all.
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The violence underlined why the draft agreement, which would cover an initial withdrawal of around 5,000 of America's 14,000 troops in Afghanistan within five months, has been cautiously welcomed by many sceptics.
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For years, sceptics cited the failure of baseball teams assembled by Billy Beane (the protagonist of Mr Lewis's book, "Moneyball") to win a championship as proof that statistics had no place in baseball.
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There's no evidence Labour would do better under a different leader Like other sceptics of Corbyn's leadership, I have long assumed that the party would be doing much better under an alternative leader.
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But while the clampdown is expected to continue, most analysts believe the moves will be cautious to avoid hitting economic growth, and some sceptics believe authorities will continue to put off more painful reforms.
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But the decision to hold fire, and the market reaction that drove the yen to an 18-month high, has strengthened the voices of sceptics who argue the BOJ's experiment has run its course.
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Observing this, some sceptics have gone so far as to suggest that if the motive for installing solar panels is environmental (which is often, though not always, the case), they are pretty-much useless.
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Sceptics of this display of national pride have a still simpler worry: that the world's most powerful armed forces are being summoned to celebrate not a country but one man, the commander-in-chief.
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Sceptics have long suspected that conservative Christians—and above all white evangelical Protestants, who are among his most loyal backers—are embracing the president for a mix of reasons, including worldly politics and tribal loyalties.
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If those scholars are wrong, however, then the new paper supports what sceptics have said all along: that higher minimum wages, by threatening the viability of some firms, dent employment opportunities for the low-skilled.
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And sceptics point out that the dual structure was no hurdle to Unilever reshaping itself after Kraft Heinz's approach, notably by selling its margarine business to a private-equity fund for $8bn in late 2017.
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"If we get a sufficiently strong surprise to the upside on both retail sales and CPI, the sceptics might have to capitulate and buy some dollars," said John Hardy, head of currency strategy at Saxo.
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SCEPTICS of evolution often point to the human eye and ask how such a complex object could have evolved when the imperfection of any part of it would cause the whole thing to be useless.
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Occasionally, sceptics will have a go at the "mainstream media" for distorting the facts, though in the case of the EU, the Times, Telegraph, Sun, Mail and Express are all broadly in the Brexit camp.
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Figures on both sides of the Channel—hard Brexiteers and continental Anglo-sceptics—may dream of a simple solution, of a "clean break" allowing both sides to get on and pursue their own separate paths.
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May's success has won her some respite at home from political in-fighting between enthusiasts and sceptics of Brexit in her ruling party, and has reduced the prospect of a disorderly departure from the bloc.
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Sceptics have asked why so many people, including military officers and a forensics expert specializing in autopsies, were part of the operation if the objective was to convince Khashoggi to return home of his own volition.
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HOLD ON A QUBIT While the peer-reviewed research has drawn plaudits, with MIT's William D. Oliver comparing its findings in Nature to the Wright brothers' first flights, sceptics say Google is over-selling its achievement.
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HOLD ON A QUBIT While the peer-reviewed research has drawn plaudits, with MIT's William D. Oliver comparing its findings in Nature to the Wright brothers' first flights, sceptics say Google is over-selling its achievement.
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Sceptics note that it is led by Mahathir Mohamad, a former five-term UMNO prime minister who pioneered many of the underhand tactics to which Mr Najib resorted in his failed bid to remain in power.
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Those sceptics will certainly point to the conviction of cardinal Pell, long the pre-eminent figure in Australian Catholicism, as further proof that the church cannot be trusted to police itself or clean up its behaviour.
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In its wake, Fever to Tell exceeded expectations while silencing the sceptics at the back who sniffed that Yeah Yeah Yeahs' beer-slick, lawless live shows served as a mere smoke-screen for style over substance.
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"As Lacker wasn't currently a voting member, Trump sceptics may be pleased to hear his departure doesn't provide Trump further control over reshaping the Fed," said Matt Simpson, senior market analyst at ThinkMarkets, in a note.
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Sceptics at the BOJ argue that tweaking the guidance too soon may backfire if subsequent data turn out weak, forcing the central bank to make an about-face that could undermine its credibility, the sources say.
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Sceptics in the European Parliament and key member states such as France, Germany and the Netherlands, where there is substantial public opposition to opening borders to more Turks, insist they will examine Turkey's compliance with a microscope.
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Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn said his party could not back May's new offer, calling it "largely a rehash of the government's position", and leading Conservative euro sceptics have also said they will vote against it next month.
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A slowdown in temperature increases after 20173 – described by most climate experts as a hiatus in a long-term rise - has been invoked by a small band of sceptics who say mainstream science has exaggerated the risks.
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Sceptics such as William Easterly, an economist, warned at the time that debt relief would simply encourage more reckless borrowing by crooked governments unless it was accompanied by reforms to speed up economic growth and improve governance.
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If "Anthropocene sceptics" gain the same momentum as climate deniers have enjoyed, they will sow seeds of confusion into what ought to be a mature public debate about how humans can transform their relationship with the Earth.
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On social media, sceptics wondered why Russia would take the risk—the logic used by Dmitry Kiselev, a Kremlin TV propagandist, who opined last month that since "only Britain stands to benefit", it must be to blame.
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" However, Euro-sceptics were quick to criticize the Royal's comments, with the leader of right-wing party UKIP Nigel Farage tweeting, "Clear that Prince William has been used by our Foreign Office and the pro-EU establishment.
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His 27 years with the CPD are seen as an advantage by his backers—and his greatest handicap by sceptics who believe that only an outsider can bring about the root-and-branch reform the CPD needs.
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A slowdown in temperature increases after 20173 - described by most climate experts as a hiatus in a long-term rise - has been invoked by a small band of sceptics who say mainstream science has exaggerated the risks.
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Harder for the climate sceptics to accept, perhaps, especially in this age of nationalism, is the potential loss of sovereignty involved in the sort of target-setting and politicking envisaged by Paris and other international climate accords.
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LONDON DOMINANCE The survey also showed the United Kingdom extending its dominance of the FX trading industry, defying sceptics who had predicted Britain's 212 referendum vote to leave the European Union would damage London's financial services sector.
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At 215 years old and bearing the scars from four different back surgeries, his sceptics could be forgiven for doubting whether Tiger Woods, the world's best-known and most popular golfer, would ever contend for a title again.
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Google's keys, however, are being built by a Chinese company and while Google is building its own firmware for them, there are plenty of sceptics out there who aren't exactly waiting for a key that was manufactured in China.
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Germans have been the biggest sceptics of ultra loose ECB policies as German banks are already awash with liquidity, unlike rivals in southern countries, and the biggest impediment to growth has been weak demand, not the lack of funding.
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As I initially pointed out, facts and rational arguments are often insufficient to sway sceptics; personal stories, social contact, appealing to emotions, emphasising what unites us, appealing to other people's values and addressing people's underlying concerns may also help.
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But sceptics are also right to fear that Mr Trump—a man who boasts about his television ratings, and who is bored by briefings and scornful of foreign alliances—could end up being played like a gold-plated violin.
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Talks at the EU level could also be derailed by the election of center-left trade sceptics, particularly in Germany, already ambivalent to T-TIP under Obama who could see a Trump-era T-TIP as a political loser.
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Some sceptics also question whether the Phase 1 deal can stick, partly due to the massive increase in U.S. agricultural imports China would have to make as part of the terms that Washington says is part of the deal.
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Some sceptics also question whether the Phase 1 deal can stick, partly due to the massive increase in U.S. agricultural imports China would have to make as part of the terms that Washington says is part of the deal.
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Sceptics point out that his approach relies on satellite measurements of carbon monoxide, which like methane is a by-product of incomplete combustion, but whose decline may be down to other things, such as the shift away from leaded petrol.
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The line-crossers included not just those usually found near the political centre, such as Susan Collins of Maine and Lisa Murkowski of Alaska, or habitual sceptics of executive power, such as Rand Paul of Kentucky and Mike Lee of Utah.
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May's government has tried to avoid directly criticising the sceptics in her party, while standing by its position that free trade for goods is necessary both to protect Britain's economy and ensure no hard border between Northern Ireland and Ireland.
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But debate continues between sceptics, often from traditional backgrounds in banking and money management who believe the new world of cryptocurrencies will come crashing back down to earth, and true believers who proclaim that bitcoin and associated technology will revolutionise finance.
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An approach that weakens the EU — and therefore other WTO Members' — ability to treat China as a non-market economy would clearly affect the view of trade sceptics in the White House and Congress about the U.S.-EU economic relationship.
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DAVOS, Switzerland (Reuters) - The world needs an open dialogue about climate change to heal the gap between sceptics and believers since time is running out to cut the emissions that drive global warming, German Chancellor Angela Merkel said on Thursday.
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Whereas Uber has yet to turn a profit (and, sceptics say, never will), Airbnb says it is already profitable (to be precise, EBITDA-positive) and has been since 2017, when it is thought to have earned $93m on revenues of $2.6bn.
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Even so, the market heeded sceptics including Stanford University Department of Medicine Chair Robert Harrington, who in a New England Journal of Medicine editorial said canakinumab's benefit "cannot justify its routine use" until safety, efficacy and pricing questions are answered.
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But on Wednesday, the man Hollywood and others love to mock proved sceptics wrong with what looks like the successful launch of a ballistic missile that reached an altitude of 1,000 km and got over half way to Japan's main island of Honshu.
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They included a medal with an olive branch and copies of his own writings, including Evangelii gaudium, in which he denounces many aspects of free-market economics; and Laudato Si, his opus on climate change, in which he chastises sceptics and their "denial".
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On November 27th a bipartisan group in the House of Representatives introduced a bill to tax emissions and redistribute the proceeds as a cheque to citizens, though this looks doomed so long as Mr Trump's fellow Republican climate sceptics control the Senate.
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Though some sceptics still argue that money spent on screening would be better deployed trying to stop people smoking—or, better still, preventing them from starting in the first place—the case for screening smokers for lung cancer now seems a good one.
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Sceptics about the extent of dematerialisation, Mr McAfee's central contention, go back to William Jevons, a British economist who argued in "The Coal Question", an essay from 1865, that more efficient use of the fossil fuel inevitably leads to higher total consumption.
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Italian government bonds have come under concerted selling pressure on fears the government will embark on a spending splurge that Italy can ill-afford and markets are wary that euro-sceptics within the coalition might try to push Italy out of the eurozone.
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But just when Indian sceptics began to wonder aloud whether their government was telling the truth, Pakistan sheepishly admitted that it had captured an Indian soldier on its side of the border, thus hinting that there had, after all, been some sort of incursion.
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Worryingly, it might also hesitate to use QE again if, as is likely, interest rates hit bottom once more during a future recession—especially if Mr Trump appoints other QE-sceptics, such as Marvin Goodfriend, a professor at Carnegie Mellon University, to the board.
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The sceptics are surely right that Mr Kim, like his father and grandfather before him, aims to drive a wedge not only between South Korea and its American and Japanese allies, but also into South Korean politics, which is still riven between conservatives and progressives.
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Speaking for the sceptics, Christopher Hitchens, a journalist, argued that: "There is...an unusually high and consistent correlation between the stupidity of a given person and [his] propensity to be impressed by the measurement of IQ." Like any assessment, IQ tests are not perfect.
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"It is time to address the sceptics who say a trade deal including financial services cannot be done because it has never been done before," he was due to say in a speech on Wednesday, excerpts of which were released to the media on Tuesday.
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Among the Merkel-sceptics at the top of the CSU, Mr Seehofer has declined to comment for the time being and Markus Söder, the minister president of Bavaria who has urged on the interior minister's brinksmanship, has merely called for calm reflection on the results of the summit.
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"Sceptics of this merger must consider the need for stronger capital markets in Europe - as well as the ways the alliance could in fact benefit competition by deepening access to capital on the continent," Blackrock Chairman Laurence Fink said in a speech at a Deutsche Boerse reception on Monday.
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The Frenchman will certainly have his sceptics based across the pond waiting for him to slip up against a wrestler or submission artist like they did with McGregor, though those detractors will surely act with less fervour as Duquesnoy is not nearly as abrasive as his Irish comparison.
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Why the arguments against immigration are so popular - The Economist, November 14th 2019 Governments need better ways to manage migration - The Economist, August 25th 2018 The way forward on immigration to the West - The Economist, August 25th 2018 Open Future: how to convince sceptics of the value of immigration?
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"Holders will be happy to receive another 60p special dividend ... thanks to good cashflow, but sceptics might not like a worse net debt position and what amounts to a challenging environment in which to be a retailer," Mike van Dulken, head of research at Accendo Markets, said in a note.
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The industry will most likely have to split itself into those miners committed to producing, in a carbon-neutral manner, the products needed to transform the world toward renewable energy, and those who tend to side with the climate sceptics and conservative politicians who largely reject the warnings of scientists.
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The industry will most likely have to split itself into those miners committed to producing, in a carbon-neutral manner, the products needed to transform the world toward renewable energy, and those who tend to side with the climate sceptics and conservative politicians who largely reject the warnings of scientists.
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And given Mr Trump's avowed dislike of America's global military presence, sceptics fear that he may be talked into lifting sanctions and reducing troop strength on the Korean peninsula in return for an end to the North's ICBM programme, leaving Japan and South Korea to contend with a de facto nuclear state.
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Sceptics worry that the new museum, housed in a converted brick warehouse just off the National Mall and to be topped with a swooping turf and glass roof to resemble an open book, will present a narrow, Sunday School vision of the Bible, downplaying debates about its origins, disputed passages and other ambiguities.
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Even some Merkel-sceptics in the chancellor's party have been horrified by the CSU's brinksmanship, which has served to rally the CDU behind her leadership: "unilateral rejections [of immigrants] would be the wrong signal to our European partners", read a declaration of the party's leadership after a meeting (postponed from last night) this morning.
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But another factor is surely a knee-jerk reaction to what sceptics see as the "liberal" consensus on climate change, and the mainstream political support for EU membership (the leaders of the Conservative, Liberal Democrat, Scottish National and Labour parties are all in favour of staying, albeit very weakly in the case of Jeremy Corbyn).
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There is no doubt that Theresa May has the toughest job in Britain, perhaps the toughest job of any EU leader, but her sceptics should be under no illusions about her steely determination to fight on, to get a Brexit deal through parliament and bring closure to Britain's erratic 85033-year relationship with Brussels.
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As of the end of last year, Carillion's accounts receivables stood at $1.6 billion, more than double its market value on Monday, according to Thomson Reuters data "Short interest itself remains very high so the sceptics are strong, and that is borne out in the profit warning," said David Lewis, an analyst at Markit, which tracks short-selling.
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A STUDY OF attitudes towards immigration in Germany, published in July last year by More in Common, a campaigning organisation, identified five distinct groups of broadly similar size: liberal cosmopolitans (all in favour), humanitarian sceptics (for an open-border policy, but concerned about integration), economic pragmatists (supporting it when it pays), moderate opponents (advocating full repatriation in due course) and radical opponents (strongly against).
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Sceptics of the JCPOA, from Democrats like Chris CoonsChristopher (Chris) Andrew CoonsThe United States broken patent system is getting worse Biden faces scrutiny for his age from other Democrats Democrats press FBI for details on Kavanaugh investigation MORE to Republicans such as Ed Royce, have made it clear: So long as Iran abides by the deal, let's stick with it (in Royce's words, "as flawed as the deal is, I believe we must now enforce the hell out of it").
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