(n.) One who doubts; one whose opinion is unsettled; one who scruples.
Example Sentences:
(1) In a sign of the depth of unease within the party, reports strongly suggested it was not just doubters among his cabinet colleagues but a lack of support among the 2010 intake of MPs – who make up nearly half the parliamentary party – that persuaded Mitchell to resign.
(2) Brazil's president, Dilma Rousseff, said the Brics alliance has proved the doubters wrong.
(3) How can Ed Miliband change the narrative and silence the doubters?
(4) If anyone has interpreted my speech as offensive, I offer my apologies.” Following his election Tavecchio pledged to prove his doubters wrong.
(5) Here’s how the editorial board of the Dallas Morning News — Exxon’s hometown paper, the morning read of the oil patch— put it in an editorial last week: “With profits to protect, Exxon provided climate-change doubters a bully pulpit they didn’t deserve and gave lawmakers the political cover to delay global action until long after the environmental damage had reached severe levels.
(6) And yes, I was one of the doubters who presumed he would be the first coach to be sacked.
(7) Although the Portland Trail Blazers' early season success didn't quite earn them respect from their doubters , it helps them a bit to have a win streak that ties them with the perennially successful Spurs.
(8) On Wednesday it seemed that the doubters had been right, when the countdown was removed from the EmmaYouAreNext.com website, to be replaced by the logo “Shut down 4Chan”, and a letter to Barack Obama calling for the messageboard to be closed down.
(9) Angry Birds Epic (Free + IAP) There are plenty of doubters wondering if the Angry Birds bubble is about to burst, but Angry Birds Epic was an intriguing move into a new genre: RPGs.
(10) Chancellor Angela Merkel in her new year address on Thursday asked Germans to see refugee arrivals as “an opportunity for tomorrow” and urged doubters not to follow racist hate-mongers.
(11) In the short term, Labour’s right and centre must weather the gloating of Corbyn’s supporters, who are loudly demanding that the doubters eat humble pie.
(12) Caleb Porter convinced what few remaining doubters he had with a masterfully managed series against Seattle, that even turned the now-familiar doomed Sounders charge in the second leg into an afterthought to Portland's emphatic first half.
(13) The FA even experimented with holding the game in August – shortly before the beginning of the following season – in 1972 and 1973, but this failed to win over the doubters, and the last such play-off was played between Burnley and Leicester City on 9 May 1974, with the Clarets winning 1-0.
(14) When they lifted them they saw through the tears the smiles of the doubters, their jagged teeth shining through oily jaws.
(15) The collection proves those doubters wrong, with Wang using his supple approach to create clothes that are both more avant-garde than most recent designer-meets-high-street ranges and more accessibly priced.
(16) By setting aside the past, this was the day Miliband took full command of his party, a shadow cabinet behind him no longer scratchy with a few doubters.
(17) The question for Hunt and his founding fathers is whether they can convince the doubters and rally full press support.
(18) Many of her doubters have been won round, though, by her supervision of the Tate collection's rehang, removing explanatory texts, bringing in surprises and arranging the works chronologically.
(19) At one point, musing on this crusade, he talks of the thrill of "Billy Graham moments", in which suburban doubters are spontaneously converted to the cause; his zeal for all aspects of the mission overflows.
(20) Michael Owen has been written off so many times, but he will always prove the doubters wrong.
Sceptic
Definition:
() Alt. of Scepticism
Example Sentences:
(1) Occasional vomits occur postoperatively in over half of patients but we are sceptical of the value of graded postoperative feeding regimens.
(2) It ended with a withering putdown: “I’m leaving Downing Street 10 times more sceptical than I was before ,” Juncker told his host.
(3) David Rothkopf, writing in Foreign Policy, is similarly sceptical. "
(4) A government-commissioned review into the RET, headed by the businessman and climate change sceptic Dick Warburton, concluded that while it has largely achieved its aims and helped create jobs in clean energy, it should be either wound back or cut off entirely.
(5) But she has repeatedly said she doesn't want the job and her hardline attitude to human rights abuses in her current job as secretary of state is said to have made the Chinese sceptical about her candidacy.
(6) My scepticism has not vanished overnight and I cannot help but still be haunted by certain fears.
(7) We had a brief conversation and I said to him he was acting from high honour here, and I said how sorry I was this wasn’t happening in three or four years time..because Barry is a man of honour..and I think he is a very capable premier and I think he has been missed.” Asked whether he had ever met Nick di Girolamo , the prime minister said both he and Mr di Girolamo attended a lot of functions, and “I don’t for a moment say I have never met him but I don’t recall it.” But former federal Liberal MP Ross Cameron sounded much more sceptical about O’Farrell’s memory lapse when speaking to Sky News.
(8) And despite the initial scepticism, now completely gone says Henry, DCA's transparency and accountability systems and mechanisms are now "some of the most convincing tools to fundraising, credibility and brand recognition" and is used by face-to-face fundraisers, volunteers and PR to promote the organisation.
(9) Kerry warned a sceptical and sometimes raucous panel that failing to strike Syria would embolden al-Qaida and raise to 100% the chances that Assad would use chemical weapons again.
(10) Anette Oien, too, was "deeply sceptical" to start with.
(11) Few of us will have reliable memories from before three or four years of age, and recollections from before that time need to be treated with scepticism.
(12) His initial exposure to leftist ideas was via the underground hippy press which provided him "with a certain amount of scepticism".
(13) He thinks Obama himself is sceptical of the current surge; in fact he thinks many of the politicians who back it are only really doing so because they want a fast exit from Afghanistan.
(14) Sceptics said the US protections for journalists would make such a prosecution difficult and also cited pragmatic issues, such as the difficulty of extraditing Assange, an Australian.
(15) Sceptics have queried whether such vast sums are realistic for an unstable nation that is battling terror groups and has struggled to attract significant foreign investment.
(16) But Clive Cowdery, who founded the company as Resolution Group in 2009, is understood to have been sceptical about such a go-it-alone strategy and preferred a sale on the right terms.
(17) Record numbers of shoppers hit the stores this weekend for the Thanksgiving Day sales but retail experts are sceptical that the trend can continue into a bumper Monday for online retailers.
(18) The middle term attracts the most scepticism, based on the presumption that just because your field isn't professionally accredited, you do not know anything and you can't process information.
(19) Smith, a climate change sceptic who has also subpoenaed government scientists’ communications, has accused the attorney generals of a political witch-hunt and for causing a “chilling impact on scientific research and development”.
(20) Glitzy online lectures, or fancy learning technologies, are difficult to reconcile with this fundamental scepticism.