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Simple sentences
I'm doubtful that he's going to come.
Mrs. Harris is very doubtful about her son's future.
The correctness of the information is doubtful.
It is doubtful whether this will work.
It is doubtful whether this method will work.
It's doubtful if we'll finish in time for Christmas.
It is doubtful whether he will accept my proposal or not.
It is doubtful if we can get the engine working.
Whether he will come at all is doubtful.
It is doubtful whether he did his homework by himself.
Whether or not he will come is doubtful.
It is doubtful whether her song will become popular.
It is doubtful whether we shall be able to come.
I think it doubtful whether he will keep his word.
It is very doubtful whether he is still alive.
I am doubtful whether he will come.
It is doubtful whether they will be able to swim.
It is doubtful whether she will come on time.
That's doubtful.
It's doubtful that anything will get done here today.
It's doubtful that anything will grow here.
I'm doubtful.
It's doubtful that Tom will win.
Movie subtitles
It's a lesson to us all: not to mix with doubtful company on the Sabbath.
Because I don't think Liz would like it and I'm not sure you would and I'm even a little doubtful about myself.
A little less doubtful about the belt now, commander?
I can't be lenient in this doubtful case.
I was doubtful.
She's just beginning to be a little bit doubtful.
Her death was doubtful, and but that great command o'ersways the order she should in ground unsanctified have lodge till the last trumpet.
The dancer who relies upon the doubtful comforts of human love. will never be a great dancer.
Not ceased to is doubtful. It is no longer the court that his wife.
They going forward seem doubtful, but going backward seemed impossible.
We don't. so we're dividing up the doubtful ones: Half for you and half for us.
I was beginning to get doubtful myself.
And it's very doubtful he could make Pitcairn.
Most mighty sovereign, you have no cause to hold my friendship doubtful.
We'll put someone else in charge, call in all doubtful loans and be on safe ground again.
If any member is doubtful of his strength to keep this solemn pledge, he will please be seated.
It's very doubtful.
I'm afraid this evening seems doubtful.
But it's doubtful if he'll come.
But after having had to expel a pure soul like Anne-Marie, I can't be lenient in this doubtful case.
A man of doubtful reputation.
Which might be very warm in winter, but otherwise of doubtful utility.
Why should you be so doubtful?
One honest man even insinuated that you knew it, and that you were involved in doubtful affairs.
Living under the same roof as Tore made Berit doubtful.
It's doubtful they can hold out much longer.
I think it's doubtful, don't you?
It was doubtful, but I think he'll pull through.
The husband has become involved with a woman of rather doubtful character.
So doubtful in fact that there is no doubt whatsoever about it.
I see the doubtful look on your faces.
CHRIS WAS DOUBTFUL, BUT I INSISTED.
It's doubtful that a man would hit himself over the ehad with a poker.
My gracious sovereign. on the western coast rideth a puissant navy. To the shore throng many doubtful hollow-hearted friends. unarmed and unresolved to beat them back.
News and current affairs
And it is doubtful that we really care enough about others, or give enough to the less fortunate.
As we have seen, the White House built its case for war on a highly selective dossier of evidence, and Bush made statements about Iraq's attempt to purchase uranium from Africa that he and his staff knew to be highly doubtful, if not false.
While Grillo's supporters may ignite fireworks in protest of these gilded giveaways for a few months, a consistent assault leading to genuine reform seems doubtful.
Even putting aside moral and legal questions - which one should never do - it is doubtful whether the strategy of torture and assassination can achieve its pacifying purpose.
Second, it is doubtful that the new policy agenda will make the international financial system much safer.
The old NPL problem was resolved, primarily by establishing asset-management companies to take over doubtful assets, and injecting new capital into the commercial banks.
But to act in such a way will leave those doubtful of capitalism in even greater doubt.
Even if this were an accurate assessment of China's intentions (and even Chinese cannot know the views of future generations), it is doubtful that China will have the military capability to make this possible.
It seems highly doubtful that the tide of international opinion will turn against China to the extent that investors in general are seriously expected to shun the market.
It is doubtful whether Israel has the capacity to forge an international alliance that would adapt the rules of war to the conditions of asymmetric warfare.
The former, as in Labor, believed that some day a force would emerge among Arabs and Palestinians ready to make peace on a reasonable basis; the latter, as in Likud, were more doubtful.
When one analyzes the neo-classical growth factors - labor, capital, and total factor productivity - it is doubtful whether stimulating demand can be sustainable over the longer term, or even serve as an effective short-term policy.
It is doubtful that the great expansion of intercontinental trade in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries would have been possible without the incentives that states provided, such as monopoly charters.
This doubtful project is not worth a serious division of Europe!
But it is doubtful that even well-intentioned policymakers have a good handle on, say, how to raise secondary-school completion rates sustainably or reduce maternal mortality.
It is doubtful that the ECB would raise interest rates to curb excess liquidity so long as economic recovery remains in question.
Likewise, even proponents of a no-fly zone are doubtful about its potential efficacy.
But this position looks increasingly doubtful when the banks are sitting on piles of cash while creditworthy consumers and businesses are reluctant to borrow.
As a result, Britain could not serve as a bridge between a doubtful Europe and a belligerent US, as Blair believed, and Britain's capacity to be a force for good on the world stage was severely damaged.
A financial crisis ends when the doubtful debt either has been socialized, or its valuation has stabilized, and it has migrated to investors who are solvent enough to bear the risk.
While some commentators were hopeful that the agreement meant that Hamas would give its tacit support to Abbas's negotiating strategy, this is doubtful.
But it is of doubtful benefit to German workers who also would have liked to cooperate with that capital.
He had barely won the controversial 2000 election, and polls showed the American people remained doubtful about him.
Its opponent, the Democratic Progressive Party, wants to strike a more autonomous posture, though whether it would ever really go for anything more substantial than tweaking China's nose is doubtful.
Indeed, it is our belief that the recent death sentences could mark the onset of an avalanche of highly doubtful Court rulings in Tibet, which could lead to a worrying number of executions in that tense and troubled region.