Sentences with phrase «seem skeptical»

But the consequences of filing seem skeptical.

Industry experts seem skeptical that BJ's would attract acquisition attention from such highly efficient operators, especially Amazon.

This is also why some might seem skeptical that the Galaxy S9 would debut during MWC 2018.

The CEO may seem skeptical about going for ICO, but Fernandes asserted that the digital currency is a tool to protect currency fluctuations (volatility) from overseas revenue.

And commentors at WSJ Blog seem skeptical: One asks about flexibility for working dads, while another comments that she achieved work - life balance only after leaving a large firm.

If you do meet with the staff and / or the member of Congress, you quickly learn that they may seem skeptical to take action on your cause, such as climate change.

Authors seem skeptical of the way they perfect their profession, make ends meet, and adapt to the new era of freely independent publishing.

It's no surprise then that the teachers in TNTP's study seem skeptical about the usefulness of the support they receive.

He doesn't seem skeptical enough, but that keeps this interesting.

You still seem skeptical.

The students, very few of whom are white, seem skeptical at first.

Investors have overreacted to one bad quarter, and many still seem skeptical of management after the «Shape - Ups» debacle in 2010/2011.

For his part, Sanders, a presidential contender in the 2016 election, said that he is «very worried about North Korea's nuclear capability» and seemed skeptical that Trump is taking diplomacy seriously.

A majority of the judges on a federal appeals court seemed skeptical of the government's defense for President Donald Trump's executive order restricting travel, during courtroom arguments Monday.

The network's anchor seemed skeptical.

Even after the Big 10 and the Big 12 started pulling out on Thursday morning and the SEC reversed field that afternoon, SEC commissioner Roy Kramer still seemed skeptical of the move, telling The Atlanta Journal and Constitution, «We can't sit in our living rooms watching television 24 hours a day.»

Hubby seems skeptical and observes the bowl for a moment, he says it «looks good and smells good» and then he goes for it.

But even Dr. Wolynn, who is also a certified lactation consultant, seemed skeptical when I related Kelly's tale — usually women struggle because they haven't had enough support in the first few days after giving birth, in his experience.

Judge Caproni, speaking to lawyers without the jury present, seemed skeptical that the panel had spent enough time deliberating to be truly at a dead end.

New York's top court on Tuesday heard arguments on the controversial issue of aid in dying, and judges seemed skeptical during questions from the bench.

When asked if this matter will be brought up at the next Common Council, Krasher seemed skeptical.

The court's three liberal members, Ginsburg, Stephen Breyer, and Kagan, seemed skeptical on this issue, too.

Like many patients, Michelle initially seemed skeptical about this high - fat, moderate - protein, low - carbohydrate diet.

Funny that nobody seems skeptical of technology.

Q. Back when you were quoted in SuperFreakonomics, you seemed skeptical, if not contemptuous, toward the «immediate and precipitous anti-carbon initiatives» pushed by climate activists.

Feminism in the Law - At the Feminist Law Profs Blog, Elizabeth Nowicki seems skeptical that Spitzer will actually be prosecuted for patronizing a prostitute.

«The vast majority have never heard of arbitration and some seemed skeptical about it and whether the decision would be the same as in court.»

According to the Times article, some of the judges seemed skeptical of the search program.

Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg and Justice John Roberts seemed skeptical that Aereo's technology makes sense outside of copyright law.

Considering City Hall's love of policing everything from restaurants being permitted to put tables outside to street food being licensed, the fact that a beacon could so easily collect and sell data on users with the city's permission seems skeptical.

Not exact matches

The numbers don't lie and you should be very skeptical when you see a proposal that doesn't seem to translate directly to your needed sales.

The dead - cat metaphor seems to be a popular one (it is taken from the investment business, where traders who are skeptical about a stock's rise will say that even a dead cat bounces a little when you drop it).

Given the painstaking frame - by - frame choreography of a film like this, it seems Anderson failed to entirely consider how this might come off to an even remotely skeptical viewership.»

Despite his sturdy self - confidence, he distrusts journalists and seems to be skeptical of strangers in general.

More traditional consumers might be skeptical of a mortgage experience with no face - to - face interaction, but Quicken's phone and web services seem to make up the difference.

First, I'm generally skeptical about boycotting an entire jurisdiction (as the original boycott of Alberta tourism seemed to intend) on the grounds that you don't like one particular business there.

Translating helpful developments into more substantive progress on inflation still seems a difficult task in the near term, and in terms of investment potential, we remain skeptical about Japan's fundamentals, given its elevated overall debt levels.

Why does it seem so surprising to religious people that we Atheists would be just as skeptical about someone making a claim like this as we are about the religion itself?

This assertion seems to draw a false dichotomy or partial dichotomy: «an analytical thinker (atheist) is more likely to be skeptical or critical, for example, whereas an intuitive thinker (Christian) is guided by emotion and certainty.»

In a culture where lobbyists and media conglomerates seem to have more influence over politics than the common person, it's easy to become skeptical.

Last year David Brooks offered a summary of the work while currently Ross Douhat and Damon Linker have reflected on whether or not Taylor's idea of the late - modern self as «buffered» describes our current predicament (Linker is unconvinced while Douhat seems open, but skeptical).

If two millennia of argument have not finished off Gnosticism, that most protean of heresies, it seems unlikely that contemporary arguments, no matter how persuasive orthodox believers may find them, will do the job with the unconverted, the skeptical, or the hostile.

We have our low hours — sullen, disillusioned, discouraged, skeptical, cynical — but we have inspired hours too when, as Emerson put it, «we wake and find ourselves on a stair; there are stairs below us, which we seem to have ascended; there are stairs above us, many a one, which go upward and out of sight.»

I have seen people, previously inclined to believe whatever «science says,» become skeptical when they realize that the scientists actually do seem to think that variations in finch beaks or peppered moths, or the mere existence of fossils, proves all the vast claims of «evolution.»

All doubts, however skeptical and cynical they may seem, are really a set of alternate beliefts.

New Age spirituality isn't really my cup of tea, and ever since I visited India I've been a bit skeptical about Eastern religions, as they seem to perpetuate a cultural indifference toward human suffering.

After a long personal and professional life spent reading philosophy and literature that pointed inevitably, it seemed to me, toward a secular vision, I was skeptical that forthright expressions of religious belief could compete in logic or intellect with Derrida, Foucault, Rorty, and other academic idols of the eighties and nineties.

Even though the voice's enthusiasm for the world of higher motion seems to have suspended my own doubts, it is disturbing to think how easily a skeptical oyster could argue from all this that ballerinas do not exist, but rather are nothing more than a distracting hypothesis invented by oysters who can not face the grimness of existence without flinching.

Consequently, radical empiricism fully conceived is not only an epistemological notion, but a pragmatic notion.3 (The pragmatic side of this lesson has been overlearned by most of today's neopragmatists, who are so skeptical of epistemological beginnings that they seem to treat knowledge as sheerly speculative and fasten to pragmatic tests to determine the viability of a speculation in a world that, for all they sometimes seem to know and care, is made only of words and wild guesses about how words might be newly arranged.)

I am very skeptical of this idea, in part for reasons which it seems to me are closely related to some of Hall's own views.