(1) I have always struggled with the quality of my own work but despite my misgivings about the photos I am taking I can't honestly say they would have been any better two years ago.
(2) Despite his misgivings, Griffith-Jones agreed to draft new legislation that sanctioned beatings, as long as the abuse was kept secret.
(3) "Even politicians who are publicly in favour have misgivings," he said.
(4) To document the circumstances and care of patients with schizophrenia who had recently been discharged from local psychiatric inpatient services, and to establish the extent to which misgivings about community care might be justified.
(5) More likely though was that the Foreign Office, which has deep misgivings about the flirtation, would now seek to reassert its control over China policy and cool relations with the world’s second-largest economy.
(6) Since the introduction of the bioptome in 1962, examination of fresh endomyocardial tissue has been undertaken progressively in many centres despite the misgivings of some investigators.
(7) Looking toward the future from the gynecologists' viewpoint, many experience misgivings about performing abortions.
(8) "Despite the misgivings of many in the world, we have demonstrated a level of political maturity that surpassed expectation.
(9) If the black MPs had all nominated Diane, no matter what their misgivings about her, they would have presented themselves as a powerful bloc to be reckoned with.
(10) For many voters, the two political assassinations of 2013, attributed to jihadist radicals, had given rise to deep misgivings, in a country with little previous experience of political violence.
(11) If they had any misgivings, doubts about the timing, the EU decision rid them of these."
(12) But the Lib Dems have to try to win them back, and they have to convince the two out of three who stuck with the party last week, some with many misgivings, that they were right to do so.
(13) After several weeks of trying to find new employment, he accepts, not without misgivings, and with the disapproval of a socialist friend, a position in the Milan office of a British firm which manufactures machines that make artillery shells.
(14) As the dust settles on what politicians insisted was a historic agreement, senior figures from the US, China and the EU welcomed the deal on Sunday – despite misgivings among climate scientists and campaigners who said it did not go far enough.
(15) No one engaged with me in discussing my misgivings and no one else on the board seemed bothered.
(16) I totally understand, particularly those people working in the public sector who have seen changes to their pensions … I totally understand that people like that have misgivings about what’s been going on.” Sheffield Hallam is the one and only non-Labour constituency in South Yorkshire.
(17) Steve Playle, a trading standards officer who has worked with the government on the doorstep marketing side of the deal, has also expressed misgivings about the impact of selling a home with a Green Deal plan attached.
(18) The misgivings of the Bank of England and the Treasury about a currency union are valid: the experience of the eurozone is that a currency union without fiscal and banking union is inherently unstable.
(19) Houghton, who is expected to reiterate the military's misgivings about entering the conflict, is expected to tell ministers the UK could assist US forces with cruise missile strikes launched from submarines, warships and aircraft against targets such as command and control bunkers.
(20) Duncan Smith indicated that the prime minister had told him Merkel and Renzi had shared in private their misgivings about the Luxembourger.
Qualm
Definition:
(n.) Sickness; disease; pestilence; death.
(n.) A sudden attack of illness, faintness, or pain; an agony.
(n.) Especially, a sudden sensation of nausea.
(n.) A prick or scruple of conscience; uneasiness of conscience; compunction.
Example Sentences:
(1) A splinter group of the nationalist National Liberation Front of Corsica had made a statement warning extremists that any attack on the island would trigger “a determined response, without any qualms”.
(2) In responding to a reporter's question about French and German qualms, Mr Rumsfeld hinted on Wednesday that Washington would turn to Nato's new members in eastern Europe for support.
(3) The right, in contrast, had no qualms about going all-in.
(4) Israel had few qualms about proliferating nuclear weapons knowhow and materials, giving South Africa's apartheid regime help in developing its own bomb in the 1970s in return for 600 tons of yellowcake.
(5) Like Mark Twain, he was no respecter of the professional qualms of historians, and the one-liners continued to flow.
(6) The children's secretary, Ed Balls, has fewer qualms, telling the Times : "I don't think you could honestly say you wouldn't like to have a go."
(7) Meanwhile Seydoux's co-star appears to have overcome her initial qualms about the film and is currently promoting Blue is the Warmest Colour in the UK press.
(8) You are only the defence minister.’” But two days later, many Egyptians appeared to have fewer qualms: millions turned out to give Sisi his mandate.
(9) North Dakota law enforcement have no qualms about grabbing people and throwing them to the ground,” said Cheryl Angel, a Sicangu Lakota tribe member.
(10) Cameron had no qualms about talking about his Ivan's condition.
(11) None of the defendants except Yaroshenko had any qualms accepting their involvement in the global drug trade.
(12) But, he shares my own qualms about Silicon Valley's techno-utopianism.
(13) Han definitely shoots first (and asks questions later) Lucas and fans have debated for decades whether the sardonic space scoundrel was originally intended to shoot bounty hunter Greedo only after the alien fired his blaster first in the Mos Eisley Cantina in 1977’s saga opener A New Hope, but Abrams clearly has no such qualms about showing the elder Solo as a quick-on-the-draw kind of guy.
(14) Bulmer could not be reached for comment, but in a statement he insisted he had no qualms about accepting a fee from the campaign group.
(15) But he has no qualms nailing overall responsibility.
(16) "If I had that many qualms, I would have tried to block the sale.
(17) Tony Blair has swallowed any qualms about declaring his full support for Ed Miliband , saying he agrees with the Labour leader that inequality is the central challenge of the times.
(18) Evidently he had qualms but never spoke out decisively.
(19) I believe in that and I think that makes the whole thing worthwhile.” Robinson said he had no moral qualms about defending Karadžić or others accused of war crimes.
(20) Leicester City fans across the world celebrate a miracle Read more Early on Ranieri took a shine to Danny Drinkwater, who was unable to get into Leicester’s team at the end of last season but finishes this one hoping to go to Euro 2016 with England, and he has had no qualms about overlooking Gokhan Inler, the Switzerland captain who was signed as a replacement for Esteban Cambiasso .