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I was more than a little sceptical about the idea.

This is one reason why the public are so sceptical.

Let me give you a specific example to show why I am so sceptical.

For the time being I remain sceptical about the idea.

In terms of human rights, it's very easy to be sceptical.

A girl who became a Christian at university went back home to her sceptical parents.

She had his complete attention now and nothing about him was sceptical.

We are therefore sceptical about the quality of his report.

Therefore, my vote is going to be above all a sceptical one.

He says it's easy for me to do this but I'm sceptical!

The mayor would say yes, but others are more sceptical.

The looks from the scientific side of the table were sceptical.

But they remain sceptical about whether he has the will and the ability to do so.

He shrugged under the sceptical looks the others gave him.

As you will understand, however, I am very sceptical, given our debate tonight.

We are extremely sceptical about what has happened so far in this area.

But many Christians have come to believe because they were more sceptical than most.

Everyone is sceptical about the voting taking place over two days.

I was sceptical at first but Film 2011 has won me round.

What you really need to be asking is why individuals the world over are sceptical.

The information we are receiving about this makes us very sceptical.

We were the secular college and that makes you sceptical.

Some older doctors are sceptical about the value of such education.

Over the same period the public has become much more sceptical about the science behind climate change.

Up to now, most observers have been sceptical about that.

The police said they were skeptical about the man's story.

But the new Bush administration has taken a far more skeptical approach.

Some in the small group who came to her house were skeptical.

People are skeptical now, but on the whole they want to stay here.

Their eyes were skeptical, so Seven did the only thing she could do.

At the same time, she could have been more skeptical.

By now, both are used to being looked at with skeptical eyes.

To be sure, some people who go through the training are skeptical.

A man does well to be skeptical in times like these.

Often they were skeptical, but I had done the whole thing.

She'd never in her life seen anyone look more skeptical.

He looked out at the group in front of him, and saw a few skeptical looks.

But some are skeptical that companies will make real changes.

A lot of people are skeptical that such a moment is near.

Some were skeptical that the new order would have much effect.

But that seems to be the only thing they're skeptical about.

But I know some people out there will be skeptical.

Even people who were skeptical thought that something had happened to her.

But since he'd told about it he was able to be skeptical.

And I know deep down that they have good reason to be skeptical.

But I would like to see people be a little bit more skeptical about this industry.

At the same time, there was more than one skeptical point of view.

In fact, many workers are still a bit skeptical that they will ever be called back.

There are also some in the industry who may be skeptical about the issue.

But some students said they were skeptical about how that would work out.