British diplomats doubt that the region will offer more than rhetorical support to Argentina's claims.
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However, it was not in doubt that the region had produced many authoritarian regimes and, until last year, some fantastic rates of economic growth.
Marshall's Ospreys future was thrown into doubt last year when the region recruited Wales scrum-half Mike Phillips in a big-money deal.
As the rescue operation proceeds, some important questions will no doubt be asked: should the region's governments have been better prepared for such a catastrophe, given how often such giant quakes have happened before?
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Even among towns whose region is not in doubt, it is hard to find common features that unite, say, Southport and Salford in the North-West, and which make them quite unlike towns in the West Midlands such as Solihull and Stratford.
Here in Mergozzo, and across the lakes region, there is no doubt that things have changed.
President Bush put his chips on a date-certain vote, despite widespread doubt and opposition inside Iraq, in the region, in Europe, in the United Nations and in the United States.
And while there's no doubt that the roads in the Sandy-stricken region are slick, it's also clear that the critical work of recovery continues.
There is no doubt that we are dealing with complicated issues in a volatile region.
Look, I don't doubt that -- there were some people, again, in the region that saw us too much on one side, and others watching the same statement saw us on too much of the other.
This year an academic's essay cast doubt on Asia's economic miracle, pricking any unquestioning confidence in the region's prospects.
The European Union's flagship program to fight global warming suffered a major blow Tuesday when lawmakers rejected a proposal aimed at shoring up the region's carbon-emissions trading system, putting its survival in doubt.
No doubt he would have pined less during the late 20th Century, when many parts of the region became something of a hardscrabble industrial centre -- but as local manufacturing faded in the 1970s, rural charm re-emerged.
The region may not be far away from a potentially harmful bout of tax competition, which would no doubt attract the ire of more established EU members such as Germany and France.
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No doubt Mr Abbas, who is part of that generation of Arab leaders now feeling the heat of frustration across the region, hopes that he can seize the initiative, gaining popular support in the process.
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