If he were to conclude that it is pretty difficult to create a homogenous culture of putting the customer first in an organisation that contains both a giant retail bank and a giant investment bank - and my impression is that he is sceptical such a culture can be nurtured and firmly rooted - would that reinforce the case for breaking up Barclays?
With Fiat's help, Chrysler might just be able to convince a sceptical administration that it has a plan to rectify three of its most glaring weaknesses: an over-reliance on gas-guzzling trucks and sports-utility vehicles, almost total dependence on the North American market and a perilously thin senior management team.
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He is sceptical about a guest-worker programme with just one or two Mexican states, but open to it.
Hydrotherapy pool owner Linda Prove admitted she was sceptical when a vet referred the rabbit, but the treatment was "working incredibly well".
There's good reason to be sceptical about a lot of Berezovsky's claims.
With no SDLP MEP any more to fill John Hume's shoes, all three of Northern Ireland's representatives are sceptical to a differing degree, each concerned about the loss of either British or Irish sovereignty.
Democrats were always sceptical of a man who had advised virtually all the big firms on Wall Street, and who had lobbied on behalf of the accounting industry against reforms proposed by the SEC itself.
According to Aluf Benn, a columnist in the Israeli daily, Haaretz, Mr Olmert struggled in a recent meeting to persuade a sceptical American president that the Golan Heights may be a worthwhile price to pay for a full-blown change in the region's strategic alignment.
Mr Nkunda's extradition by Rwanda to Congo could take some heat off Mr Kabila and help him sell a seemingly unholy alliance with Mr Kagame to the sceptical Congolese: a tricky task.
Mr Townsend presented his brainchild to a sceptical world on September 10th 2001: not the best day, as he admits, to launch a visionary environmental initiative.
Whoever is president next year will have to persuade a sceptical Congress to extend his negotiating authority.
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Now he is research director for the Renewable Energy Foundation, which takes a sceptical attitude towards wind power.
RWM's tasks was to come up with a way to sell a waste dump to a sceptical public.
How did a new and disorganised country with so little leverage wrangle so much from a sceptical Europe?
Masterful words of an American president, delivered with empathy and eloquence, carried force to charm a sceptical Israeli public.
Mr Best advocates a sceptical, though not cynical, approach to statistics, and suggests some danger signs to watch for.
That means convincing a sceptical euro zone that Greece really wants to change.
That said, the security and help with planning offered by an experienced operator can help to win over a sceptical partner.
But Mr Abbas has no legitimacy beyond being Mr Arafat's appointee, and he has yet to prove himself to a sceptical Palestinian public.
Pennsylvania's effort to lease its turnpike, which follows similar deals in Chicago and Indiana, must still be approved by a sceptical state legislature.
German politicians are constrained by a complex federal system, a sceptical public, messy coalition politics and jealous institutions such as the constitutional court.
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Over to Mr Howard: despite these triumphs by the police, and seemingly against their wishes, he must now convince a sceptical Parliament to give them yet more powers.
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My impression is that the Commission is, quite strategically, seeking to underpin its conclusions with verbal evidence, so that they will be very difficult for a sceptical government to ignore.
Its London office put out a sceptical statement, highlighting the differing opinions of its membership, and saying that every region of its membership thought improvements to existing rail services are more important.
But it is hard to see how any drawing-board initiatives at this stage are going to inspire and unite a sceptical public, given the tangled web of who owns what, and where.
He restricted his comments to urging the opposition to be "very careful" in its handling of the European issue and stating that he was "sceptical" that a vote on membership would be sensible at the moment.
On a more sceptical note, Thomas Kirchner in the Sueddeutsche Zeitung describes the EU as a "quarrelling bunch of more or less bankrupt states" and says the Nobel committee "must be careful if it wants its decisions to be taken seriously for much longer".
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Michael Summers, a trustee of the Patients Association, was sceptical as to whether such a ban could be enforced.
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