Sentences with phrase «skeptical questions»

She is the most political of Mercer's three daughters, largely directing where the family puts its resources, and is known in conservative circles for her unyielding and skeptical questioning of candidates and established political operatives.

I hear skeptical questions from the back of the room: but what about marketing information, reading levels, testimonials from my high school English teacher, my experience as a teacher in a special school for the double - jointed?

Andy Pincus, a partner at law firm Mayer Brown, who also filed an amicus brief on behalf of marketplace eBay Inc., says it's hard to tell which way the justices sway, based on the «many skeptical questions by many justices.»

To read the tea leaves — which is to say, the seemingly skeptical questions by the judges to the UC lawyers — Team Doudna / Charpentier had a rough day yesterday.

He asks skeptical questions, feeds Jack some overly symbolic lamb stew and offers pithy insights: «You can not deny the existence of hell,» he says, «You live in it.»

ALBANY — After testifying about the need for a tax increase to accompany his pre-kindergarten proposal, New York City mayor Bill de Blasio fended off skeptical questions from legislators and the press about why his plan should take precedence over a competing proposal proffered by Gov. Andrew Cuomo.

«I am confident that the Russians meddled in this election, as is the entire intelligence community,» CIA Director Mike Pompeo said Thursday, with a note of agitation in his voice in the face of skeptical questioning.

That suggests a natural progression of religious philosophy from dominating myth to skeptical questioning to conscious abandonment for science and logic.

Though one can understand the reasons for the rise of this Christian pragmatism, it remains a dubious thing, giving birth to all sorts of skeptical questions.

Jesus eschatological assertion was a response to a skeptical question raised by Sadducees during his last week in Jerusalem.

A lawyer for former Senate Republican leader Dean Skelos told three appeals judges on Thursday his client deserved a new trial on corruption charges based on a more demanding legal standard adopted by the Supreme Court, but faced tough and skeptical questions from the panel.

And if you heard the skeptical questions from the justices during oral arguments, today's conclusion comes as no surprise.

Black lives do matter, but I personally can forgive someone if they need to sit down and talk about why and have some, ahem, skeptical questions.

For over 30 years, German painter Albert Oehlen (born 1954) has been building a body of work distinguished by its skeptical questioning of painting as a medium.

For real science, you need something besides a blog open to all sorts of knee - jerk political ideologies, but it also has to be objectively open to any skeptical question that makes sense.