Examples of doubtful

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In case b, a person is doubtful about a law.
However, we shall see that it is doubtful that materialism cannot explain the universe.
Since the cognitive science of religion is a naturalistic research programme, it is doubtful that its proponents can remain neutral on important ontological questions.
Unless women can overcome significant collective action problems, it is doubtful whether democracy can influence women's education through voting in elections.
In addition, their reliability is doubtful since the newspaper admitted that they were based on hearsay.
One example suggests that this may be doubtful.
They struggled with the definitions, especially for ' indirect ' age discrimination, but three-quarters believed that it existed in their services, while a quarter were doubtful.
However, the homology between the dinosaurian structure and the mammalian fossa subarcuata is doubtful.
Furthermore, it is doubtful whether the distinction between symmetrical and asymmetrical growth failure adds any clinically useful information.
Considering the period under study, it is doubtful that the sacrament of baptism would be ignored.
Although conceptually simple, this would be computationally demanding and of doubtful practical value.
In the light of these quotations, the identification between literalism and fundamentalism seems doubtful, and probably wrong.
The result is a kind of matrix (tabular epistemology) that does not mistake the existence of numerous cases, whether marginal or doubtful.
Another feature of transformational syntax which is of doubtful descriptive status is the notion of underlying structures.
In addition, it is doubtful that the equilibrium is unique16 ; again, this is a largely unexplored issue in the literature.
Similarly, it is doubtful that acupuncture is particularly valuable.
Questioning design and method research are adopted that give the control back to practitioners, it is doubtful that research will ever truly in uence practice.
In fact, it is doubtful that any typological endeavour, no matter how sophisticated, can encapsulate these complexities.
Host records considered to be doubtful are quoted in square brackets and are discussed.
After the disaster, everyone is suddenly an amateur naturalist, and often newly doubtful of expert opinion.
In fact a reading of the entire debate leaves one very doubtful about the received interpretation.
In doubtful cases, the amplifications were repeated, and the patterns were compared after comigration on the same agarose gel.
Rather than producing volume contraction, however, the two-kidney/ two-clip preparation would produce volume expansion, so that the applicability of this preparation to pre-eclampsia seems doubtful.
The predictive value of cervical dilatation is not reported by others, and its practicality is doubtful.
The utility of some of the sources cited in fact seems doubtful.
In cases such as this, it is doubtful what positive effects could be brought about for the individual through system reform.
As mentioned earlier, however, the general assumption that increasingly complex environments can only be tamed by increasingly complex strategies is doubtful.
Contrary to revonsuo (sect. 3.2), however, it is doubtful that dreams have any adaptive function.
Furthermore, it is extremely doubtful that action potentials are of much significance in the direct link to perception.
The effectiveness of these algorithms when set learning tasks that do not share these characteristics is doubtful.
However, it was never again recovered and it is doubtful whether the parasitoid is established.
Survival of any biological material is thus, at first glance, doubtful.
Indeed, it is doubtful if even seasoned researchers can truly have intuitions about interpretability in the absence of an explicit theory.
Indeed, if these regulations do not suggest a supranational structure, it is doubtful if such an ' 'animal' ' exists at all.
Given the inconsistencies in the data of the other two insurers, it is doubtful whether the data of the third insurer would be more reliable.
The effects of psychological disturbances and menorrhagia are rather doubtful, she claims, and a definite association with sterilization still has to be confirmed.
Many such special-interest groups could no doubt be distinguished, but whether they would bear much relationship to traditional concerns of class analysis is rather doubtful.
Records considered doubtful and requiring confirmation in italics and marked with a question mark.
In the case of the ' not keen ' option : when indicating that they were doubtful about a food item, their intonation did not convey this.
In addition, it is doubtful that the behaviour of stock market returns has remained constant over this long period.
However, the tumor continued to grow, and a complete cure was considered doubtful.
By contrast, there are inclusions of doubtful value in a book of this type.
If the former cannot be implemented effectively, it seems doubtful that the latter can.
First, it is doubtful whether outside institutional investors will come in.
Authorities sought to prevent individuals of "doubtful" character or background from entering the force.
The estimated equations as presented on pages 123-9, have very doubtful results.
He is sympathetic to the provision of public grants as "seed money" to challengers, but is doubtful that this can be enacted.
Such an assumption is of course at least doubtful.
Nonetheless, we took a conservative approach in our assessments in the field: any doubtful signs of specialist attack were not scored.
The assertion that tradesmen were often skilled in more than one craft is doubtful.
In any case, it is doubtful whether a patient's consent constitutes a genuinely free choice that reflects her individuality and character, or that it should.
The only value, and that a doubtful one, is the postponement of the attacks to the nonepidemic season.
The feeling that all doubtful subjects were tainted by association with each other was very strong among scientists.
The overall positive effect of these guidelines has been doubtful, however, especially since very few drugs with mainstream indications are affected.
Once he established himself as a man of letters, he adopted other pseudonyms to conceal his incursion into doubtful fictional genres.
While democracy has to be embedded into the fabric of local governance, it is doubtful if chieftaincy can be modernized.
Whether the envisaged (re ?)-construal of omniscience is strong enough to capture the intuitive notion of omniscience is doubtful.
38 ditions when voltage-clamp studies are applied to the soma make this approach of doubtful value.
In this study, no weight will be put on a doubtful construction of a word that seems to have confused the scribe.
The question of the national specificity of the selected texts remains doubtful, too.
However, it is doubtful whether this factor has much more than marginal importance these days.
Resulting views of invariance in the sequence of the life course, however, are doubtful.
Whether seventeenth- and nineteenth-century assumptions and models about society and language are suitable for solving our twentyfirst century problems seems very doubtful indeed.
Moreover, even if the empirical retort just mentioned is correct, its importance is doubtful.
Even here, however, key elements of the original reform had to be modified while the mixed results to date make the model's global applicability doubtful.
A key precept was quite doubtful: that material and technological development rapidly altered social relations and cultural practices.
The relevance of the latter results to the ability of populations to evolve is doubtful as fitness was reduced in these studies.
On the basis of the behaviour of known gases, it seems doubtful that (3.15) can hold without at the same time (3.24) being true.
Any doubtful values are highlighted by the system.
Doubtful if we can get out this season, but we hope it is not as bad as that.
Because of this exception, and because of the other factors just mentioned, the prediction of essential equality by 2022 must be regarded as rather doubtful.
Without the strong theoretical claims as a challenge, it is doubtful that the word-learning issue would have generated as much scholarly interest.
The problem is that it is doubtful that standard linguistic deictics are spatial locators in the first place.
Repeated injection of histamine beneath ticks attached in vivo did not inhibit their growth, but it is doubtful whether these injections simulated the natural conditions.
Is it not doubtful that either they or even some of their more dubious concitoyens would have opted for the terms of cultural relativism ?
Moreover, it is doubtful that such personal wishes could have transcended her brother's needs of state.
Moreover, it is doubtful that he wanted to.
Similar findings were noted when a comparison was made between doubtful and positive ruminants, whatever the intensities of hepatic lesions.
Risks in pregnancy associated with chickenpox are widely known and a lowered threshold for consultation especially in doubtful cases among young pregnant women could occur.
Nevertheless, it is doubtful that the repeated use of "false" or "wrong" enunciations by itself is enough to rescue tongzhi from pejoration.
Several factors cast a doubtful shadow on the intrinsic value and singular role of crime in shaping the agenda.
The character of the speaker himself is too doubtful.
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