Sentences with phrase «widespread doubt whether»

«There is widespread doubt whether this administration can be trusted to enforce our laws.»

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In the case of a «speculative system» which fuses historically obsolete cosmologies, Whitehead's repeated and in fact passionate emphasis that the «elucidation of immediate experience is the sole justification for any thought» (PR 4/6) seems not at all able to be brought into some coherent association, Whitehead's reflection that we could ask ourselves «whether the type of thought involved [in his cosmology] be not a transformation of some main doctrines of Absolute Idealism onto a realistic basis» (PR xiii / viii) may hit not only upon the widespread skepticism with regard to the «main doctrines of Absolute Idealism» in general, but also, in particular, upon doubts concerning their ability to be transformed «onto a realistic basis.»

Just as the Roebling family faced widespread doubt when they started building the longest suspension bridge in the world in 1870, skeptics now question whether the Obama Administration will be able to restore the economy, Biden said.

There's also rising public doubt and growing political polarization about what scientists have to say on the environment, and a widespread perception that there is a lot of disagreement among scientists about whether global warming is happening.

No doubt there are issues to be overcome in achieving widespread vehicle electrification that affect all of us, whether we're automakers, utilities, NGOs, policymakers or potential early adopters of electrical vehicles.

«So long as popular discussion could be about whether warming was occurring or not, so long as doubt was widespread, consensus for action could be postponed.»