Some of the professors were skeptical a woman could succeed in engineering, and the prejudice persisted long after her grades proved real aptitude for the profession.
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People usually look at Africa in a skeptical way, a place that needs to be helped.
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Mr. Bush may have to do what he's done with Social Security over the past few months: using his bully pulpit to try to sell a skeptical nation on a major policy change.
The Clinton administration is pulling out all the stops in an effort to convince a skeptical Congress and a divided American public that sending troops to Bosnia to help maintain peace is a good idea.
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One problem with taking a skeptical look at a Dr. Oz show is that he packs each episode with scientific claims, coming at you thick and fast, and it would take hours to critique them all.
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Hal Rosen, a manager of research at Hitachi, says he's impressed by the researchers' ability to shrink so much storage into such a small space, but skeptical that a self-assembling method could create larger-scale disks.
Now, if the majority of Americans are skeptical of a blanket amnesty, they are also skeptical that it is possible to round up and deport 11 million people.
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The skeptical counter-arguments are a near perfect proxy for skeptical global arguments as a whole.
In Israel, though, Mr. Obama will be greeted by a somewhat skeptical public and a prime minister who appeared to show preference to the president's Republican opponent during last year's campaign.
But Trautwein and Oberlander agree on one thing: Even if the bill does pass and both assume a bill will selling it to a skeptical public will be a big job.
When Jason Austin, a 29-year-old IT professional, was skeptical of a potential date he'd met online, he did what anyone who's seen an episode of "Catfish" (or just has plain common sense) would do: He turned to Facebook.
If nothing else, you should be skeptical of a tracking stock for the same reason you should be skeptical of any new issue: The issuer is going to be the most motivated to issue it when it can be sold for more than it's worth.
Keith Hennessey, a former Hill staffer and Bush Administration official, also is skeptical of a confrontational approach.
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Although Hagel has been a skeptical hawk, he is a Republican hawk nonetheless.
All three are skeptical of a government-run public option supported by their more liberal fellow Democrats.
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Some experts are skeptical that a drug can really have a dramatic impact on reducing obesity.
Indeed, Madison was skeptical of a bill of rights, which he believed to be a mere parchment barrier.
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He's skeptical that a vote to sustain the President's veto this month will still haunt Chabot come next year's election.
Tim is skeptical that a high-cost, high-tech Apple TV will sell at a premium price point, as some analysts are suggesting.
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The spokesman initially sounded skeptical that a company could leverage online criticism against it for a better position in search results.
Some might be skeptical that a user with, say, a thousand photos on Picasa would find it so easy to walk away.
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But I am skeptical about a budget or a tax plan that would suggest that taking money away from a problem is a complete solution.
Mapping out the proper steps for each is not possible, and physicians have been skeptical that a piece of paper with a bunch of little boxes would improve matters much.
My gold gurus, Frank Giustra and Chris Wood are skeptical about a meaningful deal on retrenchment in the US, and strongly believe gold as a momentum play has no equal.
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"People are rightly skeptical of a government-run health care system, of the government interfering with medical decisions, so I would hope we can take it off the table, " Snowe said of the public option.
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While Mr. Mandl initially was skeptical of a buyout, he shuttled between Mr. Dell andEgon Durban, Silver Lake's point man in the buyout talks, to make sure Dell shareholders got the best deal possible, said people close to the talks.
While Mr. Mandl initially was skeptical of a buyout, he shuttled between Mr. Dell and Egon Durban, Silver Lake's point man in the buyout talks, to make sure Dell shareholders got the best deal possible, said people close to the talks.
Jim Stack at InvesTech is keeping his eye on housing stocks, bond yields and market breadth to gauge the impact of the Fed's move on the market in the next two weeks, though he certainly remains skeptical about a turnaround right now.
Of course, we can't help but be a bit skeptical about trying to control a child's eating habits at school only to return home for a bucket of the Dirty Bird on the couch with moms.
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