(a.) That is uncertain; that distrusts or hesitates; having doubts.
Example Sentences:
(1) In a further study 1082 patients with a negative or doubtful result of the physical examination were investigated using ultrasound.
(2) p-Chlorophenylalanine (PCPA) also reduced the response to levodopa but the usefulness of PCPA as an inhibitor of 5HT synthesis in these experiments in doubtful since it also inhibited the hypoglycaemic effects of 5HTP and i.c.v.
(3) There is no doubt that new techniques in molecular biology will continue to evolve so that the goal of gene therapy for many disorders may be possible in the future.
(4) I never had any doubt that the vast majority of people engaged in "business" are not the exploiters but the exploited.
(5) There is no doubt that psychological, reactive and environmental factors do play a certain role too.
(6) Paul Doyle Kick-off Sunday midday Venue St Mary’s Stadium Last season Southampton 2 Leicester City 2 Live Sky Sports 1 Referee Michael Oliver This season G 18, Y 60, R 1, 3.44 cards per game Odds H 5-6 A 4-1 D 5-2 Southampton Subs from Taylor, Martina, Stephens, Davis, Rodriguez, Sims, Ward-Prowse Doubtful Bertrand, Davis, Van Dijk (all match fitness) Injured Boufal (knee, Jan), Hesketh (ankle, Feb), Targett (hamstring, Feb), Austin (shoulder, Mar), Pied (knee, Jun), Gardos (knee, unknown) Suspended None Form DWLLLL Discipline Y37 R2 Leading scorer Austin 6 Leicester City Subs from Zieler, Hamer, Wasilewski, Gray, Fuchs, James, Okazaki, Hernández, Kapustka, King Doubtful None Injured None Suspended None Unavailable Amartey, Mahrez, Slimani (Africa Cup of Nations) Form LDLWDL Discipline Y44 R1 Leading scorers Slimani, Vardy 5
(7) Without that, and without undertaking big changes, the service's future may fall into doubt, he says.
(8) This is welcome news but it needs to be borne in mind that the manufacturing sector is still far from racing ahead and serious doubts remain about the strength of demand for manufactured goods over the medium term, particularly once stimulative measures start being withdrawn.
(9) Doubts about Hinkley Point have deepened after a detailed report by HSBC’s energy analysts described eight key challenges to the project, which will be built by the state-backed French firm EDF and be part-financed by investment from China .
(10) The mean age of gravidae with doubtful smears is about 6 years beyond the mean age of gravidae with positive smears.
(11) I have no doubt that both the Conservative and Labour parties will maintain throughout the course of the election campaign their determination to build four submarines and 160 warheads,” he says.
(12) There is little doubt that when it opens next Thursday, One New Change will be jam-packed with City workers and tourists.
(13) We feel that they, as presented, leave serious doubt as to the validity of their conclusions.
(14) Contact guidance has been suggested to direct NC cells ventrally in the trunk, but this has been subject to doubt (see Newgreen and Erickson, 1986, Int.
(15) Although “there are serious questions and doubts in our minds over the government’s seven-day working agenda … it isn’t clear what this strike action is for and what the position of the BMA is now,” he told the Guardian.
(16) There is no doubt that people were killed quite deliberately by police officers.
(17) Other critics, even if they were unsure of the lasting relevance, were willing to give Tillmans the benefit of the doubt.
(18) We interpret this exaggerated positive attitude as an attempt to overcome inner fears, doubts and ambivalences.
(19) Another forward, Manchester United's Danny Welbeck, is a major doubt for the game with a knee complaint.
(20) Coghlin said: “There is no doubt that, as a consequence of the personalities involved, these proceedings attracted a very considerable degree of media publicity both before and, to a certain degree, subsequent to the trial.
Suspect
Definition:
(a.) Suspicious; inspiring distrust.
(a.) Suspected; distrusted.
(a.) Suspicion.
(a.) One who, or that which, is suspected; an object of suspicion; -- formerly applied to persons and things; now, only to persons suspected of crime.
(v. t.) To imagine to exist; to have a slight or vague opinion of the existence of, without proof, and often upon weak evidence or no evidence; to mistrust; to surmise; -- commonly used regarding something unfavorable, hurtful, or wrong; as, to suspect the presence of disease.
(v. t.) To imagine to be guilty, upon slight evidence, or without proof; as, to suspect one of equivocation.
(v. t.) To hold to be uncertain; to doubt; to mistrust; to distruct; as, to suspect the truth of a story.
(v. t.) To look up to; to respect.
(v. i.) To imagine guilt; to have a suspicion or suspicions; to be suspicious.
Example Sentences:
(1) The diagnosis of anaplastic thyroid cancer, though suspected, was deferred for permanent sections in all cases.
(2) Plain radiographs should be the initial screening modality for a suspected foreign body.
(3) Development at two to 15 months of age in the 19 surviving infants was normal in nine, suspect in eight, and severely delayed in two patients.
(4) The triad of epigastric pain unrelieved by antacids, bilious vomiting, and weight loss, particularly after a gastric operation should make one suspect this syndrome.
(5) Spontaneous reports of suspected adverse reactions may be the only way of revealing very rare events but they present great difficulties of rational interpretation.
(6) From these results, it can be suspected that the motor fibres are more vulnerable during aging.
(7) Fibreoptic bronchoscopy should be undertaken in patients suspected of having a pulmonary complication of AIDS, even if the chest radiograph is normal.
(8) Fifteen patients suspected to have Morton's neuroma were examined by computed tomography, which revealed the neuroma in seven cases.
(9) Proven necrotizing enterocolitis was seen in eight infants and was suspected in eight others.
(10) Persistence of hypercalcaemia combined with an increase in tubular reabsorption of calcium in response to cellulose phosphate may be of diagnostic value in suspected primary hyperparathyroidism.
(11) An upper gastrointestinal endoscopy with multiple biopsies was performed in 19 children suspected of Crohn disease (CD) who had also undergone X-ray investigations and colonoscopy with multiple biopsies.
(12) Bartter's syndrome was suspected because of the features of the hypokalemia, hyperaldosteronism, hyperreninemia, increased concentration of plasma angiotensin I & II, the defect in distal fractional reabsorption of chloride and normotension.
(13) When foods such as dairy products contain large numbers of egg yolk-negative strains of S. aureus, the PPSA agar has the advantage over egg yolk containing media such as Baird-Parker agar that fewer suspect colonies have to be confirmed.
(14) The initial screening failed to detect sickle cell anemia in 4 infants, but the hemoglobinopathy in 3 of these infants was diagnosed correctly by routine retesting of those with suspected sickle cell trait.
(15) Seventy-one patients with 80 lower limbs clinically suspected of deep venous thrombosis (DVT) were investigated by both Doppler ultrasound and venography.
(16) There is general agreement that suicides are likely to be undercounted, both for structural reasons (the burden-of-proof issue, the requirement that the coroner or medical examiner suspect the possibility of suicide) and for sociocultural reasons.
(17) We correlated the MRI report and arthroscopic findings of 18 patients with suspected meniscal or ligament injury.
(18) Forty-six percent of the plain abdominal radiographs were suspected for cecal volvulus, but only 17 percent were diagnostic.
(19) An infectious etiology should be suspected in cases of necrotizing scleritis associated with a purulent discharge, and appropriate smears and cultures should be obtained.
(20) As someone who worked in Washington DC in media activities, I often suspect that different standards in reporting are applied to African governments.