Campaigners will welcome Mr Blair's intervention but may be sceptical about his confidence in the outcomes.
There are good reasons to be sceptical about the claims of greater efficiency made by the industry.
There's good reason to be sceptical about a lot of Berezovsky's claims.
Until Americans can count on a reviving economy to produce new jobs they will be sceptical about recovery, and growth will remain vulnerable.
Some will be sceptical about Mr Brown's comments on green investment.
While some GPs continued to be sceptical about the scheme, many others had seen first hand the "vital role" it could have in patient care, he said.
They regretted the fact that many newspaper editors tended to be sceptical about the level of public interest in science and thus reluctant to publish stories on science.
And given Congress's history of fiscal irresponsibility, it is surely right to be sceptical about any strategy that expands entitlements today in the hope of forcing a fiscal crisis to win support for cost cuts tomorrow.
Some people may be sceptical about how independent the War Crimes Tribunal would be if the big powers decided that in the interests of a peaceful transition in Serbia they did not want Mr Milosevic prosecuted.
It would be easy - very easy - to be sceptical, indeed, cynical about the outcome of the Commission on the Future Delivery of Public Services, chaired by Campbell Christie.
Although, if opinion polls are to be believed, voters were sceptical about the chances of success, they were nonetheless willing, in effect, to acquiesce in the government's attempt to discover whether the old model of public services could be fixed with decent funding and a few tweaks.
With no funding committed and enormous challenges ahead, there may well be plenty of reasons to remain sceptical about the nuclear industry's future.
Yet however sceptical the public may be about Parliament, the judiciary - even the media itself - think how much lower it would be without a free press.
Spending more on such things can be justified, even if you are sceptical about public spending in general.
Some Europeans are sceptical about whether Plan Colombia will be effective: they dislike the United States' emphasis on military action against the drug industry.
Many in the established media were always highly sceptical about whether local TV could be both financially viable and provide a useful public service, and believed the internet might be a better medium for local services.
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Dr Atul Singham, from the Institute of Child Health in London, also said that he was slightly sceptical about the likely scale of "foetal programming" in child diet until it could be proven in human studies.
That will be nice when the networks capable of delivering those speeds are up and running - but I'm sceptical about whether "specs" really sell that many phones.
The actual effect of the campaign, unluckily for Monsanto, was to alert sceptical consumers to the fact that something they may have thought would be happening in the indeterminate future was about to hit their supermarket shelves.
So why would it be that all these independent economists and the CBI and the Policy Studies Institute, all these organisations are so sceptical about your deficit reduction plans?
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