Sentences with phrase «somewhat skeptical»

We are considering providing the workshop material with a much lower level of facilitation; while we are hopeful that doing so will be highly effective, we are somewhat skeptical that the switch to PBS strategies will actually occur without direct facilitation and team time together.

All of which makes Celello somewhat skeptical of anything that promotes women as being able to save their marriage of they try harder:

I have to admit, I was a little nervous and somewhat skeptical on using the 30 / 60 / 90 - day plan.

We have been somewhat skeptical of the Galaxy Alpha based on the images we had seen previously, but the latest batch of pictures indicate Samsung has actually done a good job with its first metallic Android phone.

The US government, on the other hand, is somewhat skeptical of Bitcoin, still debating what it is and how to regulate it.

Michael Kaufman told a somewhat skeptical Jake Tapper that he might have been...

At the time I was somewhat skeptical.

We need to chunk down what can usefully be done by technology in its current form, and be somewhat skeptical of overly confident digital inevitability.

The Court's reduction of the punitive damages award from $ 100,000 to $ 15,000 could be taken, without too much reading between the lines, as some indication that some members of the court were somewhat skeptical --(I'm bowing to the spelling checker and not typing «sceptical», regardless of the homononym) of the merits of the claim that plaintiff was, in fact, misled.

But I am also somewhat skeptical that a cultural awareness course could truly overcome these prejudices.

Please review the use of experts with your MacLean Law family lawyer and learn more about how some judges and legal counsel have become somewhat skeptical of the use of experts, who now are often giving argument under the guise of «expert opinion evidence.»

Initially, I was somewhat skeptical that a student whose studies were «incomplete» or who took a long leave could have their study permits extend beyond the 90 day period after the break.

She added, however, that she was «somewhat skeptical» that the alleged conduct was sufficiently pervasive to survive a later motion for summary judgment.

Initially, I was somewhat skeptical of Avvo, expressing concern when it launched that it could mislead rather than guide consumers.

While I am normally somewhat skeptical of FindLaw (after all, they are in the business of selling websites / SEO), Mark did a great job of presenting a study done by FindLaw in a «teaching» rather than a «selling» way.

Yes, I have been somewhat skeptical of the process because I've learned that it's better to live in free chaos than an orderly prison.

So I've always been somewhat skeptical of hardcore green living experiments, like strict 100 - mile diets or growing your own grains in your backyard.

, somewhere around the age of ten, that the predictions of Nostradamus were about to come true - I've been somewhat skeptical about end of the world

When Chris Mooney first approached me with his idea for writing a book on this topic, I was somewhat skeptical.

at the National Academy of Sciences «Fight Club,» despite his Climategate - revealed plans to «beat the crap out of» somewhat skeptical fellow climatologist Pat Michaels.

Next standing behind Mann is Dr. Ben Santer of Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, who when last we checked was still on the outside looking in at the National Academy of Sciences «Fight Club,» despite his Climategate - revealed plans to «beat the crap out of» somewhat skeptical fellow climatologist Pat Michaels.

«Im somewhat skeptical, given the history of some of the companies involved in this, that it represents a dramatic change in their resistance to aggressive federal and state policy action on the issue,» said Alden M. Meyer, director of government relations for the Union of Concerned Scientists.

We should all be at least somewhat skeptical about the potential consequences of such a significant endeavor.

I was formerly somewhat skeptical about the notion that the ocean «conveyor belt» circulation pattern could weaken abruptly in response to global warming.

I think I've hardly ever met a geologist who wasn't somewhat skeptical.

But a separate federal judge who is hearing the Marin and San Mateo case, Vince Chhabria, was somewhat skeptical at a recent hearing about the oil industry's arguments.

I noticed where frequent posters were extremely belligerent to geologists because most of them seem to be somewhat skeptical of global warming.

William M. Connolley, who blogs at Stoat, has posted a somewhat skeptical first look at the paper (and blistering critique of some of the other analyses of it) that includes these thoughts:

«This looks like a pretty good analysis, but I have to say I remain somewhat skeptical,» Kevin Trenberth, climate analysis chief at the National Center for Atmospheric Research, said in an e-mail.

Others seem insistent on forcing us to return to them — yet another reason I tend to be somewhat skeptical about the idea of universal human progress.

So whenever a new shooter comes out that is retro themed, I am interested, but somewhat skeptical.

Produced by Keiji Inafune the man behind the disappointing Mighty No. 9 we are somewhat skeptical about this game.

At first I was enjoying, however, the lack of dynamic objectives and maps at launch kept me somewhat skeptical for this mode and its future.

And while the team was somewhat skeptical about using only UDK and UnrealScript, that changed through the course of development.

I'm somewhat skeptical we'll see a dramatic rush to cancel Mexico trips in light of the Trump presidency.

I had one cat that belonged to one of my horse clients who was a physician and somewhat skeptical of chinese herbal formulas.

And like the owners of Chuck & Don's, he is hopeful that interstate competition could help lower pricing — although on this point, he remains somewhat skeptical.

I was somewhat skeptical about the health of their DB plans, partly because GM had contributed a big slug of its own common stock as an asset in the past.

He is, however, somewhat skeptical about mutual fund managers and stockbrokers, quipping that «the financial industry, as a whole, is not a Potato - friendly zone.»

I will admit, when I first read about the Permanent Portfolio in the late - 80s, I was somewhat skeptical, but not totally dismissive.

I have to admit, I was somewhat skeptical when Amazon said the other big change coming to the Paperwhite (and soon all other Kindles) was a new font called Bookerly.

We're somewhat skeptical that the Venue Pro is actually going on sale as soon as tomorrow, considering that there's been absolutely no reports to support that so far.

There's reason to be somewhat skeptical of the information in the sense that it is seller supplied and while non-one is saying it, there is the minute danger that some padding or exaggeration could creep in.

I'm somewhat skeptical of adaptations of L'Engle's books — in 2002, Disney did a made - for - TV movie of A Ring of Endless Light starring Mischa Barton as Vicky Austen.

«I was somewhat skeptical about becoming an AMC Premium member, but now I regret not joining sooner.

I walked out a new owner.I was somewhat skeptical at first until I drove the vehicle for a while.

However, I am somewhat skeptical as to how much fuel this stop / start system actually saves, because its operation is constrained in several ways.

«Rhee is trying to hold together a coalition of Democrats who are somewhat skeptical of teachers unions and right - wing ideologues who want to destroy unions entirely,» says Richard Kahlenberg of the left - leaning Century Foundation.

«Support for value added also appears stronger among administrators than teachers... But principals are still somewhat skeptical.»

In other words, Americans are clearheaded — even somewhat skeptical — about the nation's schools.