Most commentators understandably viewed this plea for bipartisanship with scepticism.
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Some scepticism about the accuracy of Brazil's polls is warranted.
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But the union also voiced scepticism over the Brexit explanation.
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On the streets of La Matanza scepticism still outweighs hope.
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Scepticism of centralised government is baked into America, he argues.
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There was some scepticism from analysts over the trade deals.
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German scepticism has already dealt a blow to TTIP negotiations.
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This has deep roots in Britons' ancient scepticism of authority.
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However some industry executives have expressed scepticism over the timetable.
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Climate scepticism, he says, "is identified as conservative Republican doctrine".
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But the Cologne attacks have deepened scepticism among the population.
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Similar scepticism was expressed before the last OPEC meeting in September.
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The rise of private equity has always been subject to scepticism.
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But there is scepticism whether the proposed revamp will be sufficient.
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They are simultaneously a cause for celebration, pity, scepticism and shame.
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Mrs Merkel's coalition partner, the Christian Social Union, has expressed scepticism.
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For foreign financiers the initial reaction is naturally one of scepticism.
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Scepticism about magical ways to avoid border controls is in order.
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But two aspects of the analysis offer fairer grounds for scepticism.
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"There's a lot of scepticism about all this," admits Mr Hassan.
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A plan to return to America has also met with scepticism.
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Such scepticism is widespread in Croatia, where unemployment is 17.2 percent.
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Many voiced scepticism about the police's account of the Ozamiz raids.
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Initial scepticism about the political impact of social media has faded.
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However, we consistently expressed scepticism about the wisdom of the project.
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Scepticism about whether China will end its credit binge is warranted.
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Scepticism has been growing in Republican circles that either will run.
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The Kochs' effort to spread climate-change scepticism also illustrates this.
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Investors shared his scepticism, keeping the pound down 0.3% at $1.2276.
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Ash's comments reflect growing scepticism on that score in some quarters.
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But broadly, the scepticism about the so-called reflation rally seems justified.
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On one level, heightened scepticism towards the establishment is a welcome development.
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Luxembourg Finance Minister Pierre Gramegna also showed scepticism against the Commission's ruling.
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The 181-year-old firm's move was met with scepticism by analysts.
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Her enthusiasm for trade often sits uncomfortably with her scepticism of migration.
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There is scepticism about the industry's ability to keep its belt tight.
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Such scepticism from the bench makes an eventual acquittal likely, lawyers say.
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Even Mr Trump has begun to share the scepticism of his advisers.
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However, an Indian government official, speaking on condition of anonymity, expressed scepticism.
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It now goes to the president, who has expresses scepticism about it.
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Assurances that more space and judges are coming are treated with scepticism.
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But even the watered-down plan met with scepticism in some capitals.
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By 2008, such emphatic assurances tended to be met with greater scepticism.
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The MHP espouses a mix of nationalism and scepticism towards the West.
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Kazempour has voiced scepticism that other producers can add much more oil.
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Any move to ease the EU's exercise could face scepticism from markets.
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President Donald Trump has expressed scepticism about America's involvement in the war.
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Trump clearly still hopes for further diplomatic breakthroughs, despite much wider scepticism.
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Many EU governments view that idea of alignment in certain sectors with scepticism.
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She swiftly embraced immigration as the party's cause-celebre rather than euro-scepticism.
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There remains scepticism that any deal can permanently resolve U.S.-China trade tensions.
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His idea of "animal magnetism" was debunked and similar ones viewed with scepticism.
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When the government unveiled its plans last year, the natural response was scepticism.
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This sort of conservatism has a prehistory as ancient as scepticism and privilege.
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She met scepticism at first; some senior doctors said she was promoting euthanasia.
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There was understandable scepticism when the government first proposed the idea in January.
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But past experience suggests that an ocean of scepticism is warranted (see article).
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Ambassadors broadly agreed the plan on Friday despite scepticism, including from powerhouse Germany.
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JAMES TAYLORPresidentRoyal Institute of NavigationLondon Some scepticism about autonomous cars is in order.
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And they managed to undercut an age-old American scepticism of big business.
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The manager of a Istanbul-based bank's forex department expressed scepticism over Cetinkaya's comments.
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In addition, there are regulatory concerns, given the Chinese authorities' public scepticism about cryptocurrencies.
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It is notable that this scepticism has spread to more traditionally China-friendly economies.
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Other tech investors look at the fund with a mix of scepticism and greed.
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Think-tanks are equally on the receiving end of the new scepticism in Britain.
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Most important will be decisions made in America, where scepticism about it is strongest.
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Mr Omer says underlying values lead people in different ways to scepticism about science.
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Among Flemings on the political right, there is a strong streak of Islamo-scepticism.
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Though a large dose of scepticism is warranted, it is still a hopeful moment.
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That this category struggles to live up to its idealistic promises justifies some scepticism.
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Campaigners had to get the law changed, and they also had to fight scepticism.
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But scepticism is countered by the fact that it all seems to be working.
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Mr Tillerson won praise from traditional foreign-policy experts, but there was scepticism too.
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The company announced that it had struck oil a year ago, to some scepticism.
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Rickards wasn't alone in scepticism that the Trump-inspired dollar weakness would evaporate quickly.
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Since then central bankers, politicians and the media have also faced growing public scepticism.
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His claim that this would save $403 trillion over a decade has elicited scepticism.
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Boeing Co has expressed scepticism, citing instances in which they have failed on warplanes.
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The second appears to be continued scepticism about the signaling power of LME stocks.
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Despite Trump's scepticism about global warming, market forces will keep renewable energy powered up.
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And this scrutiny is laced with widespread scepticism about the motives of big business.
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European worries about ghettos stem partly from scepticism about the American model of integration.
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Initially, the team were met with scepticism from emergency providers about the new technology.
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Democrats view the bank's claims with scepticism, but they are no longer in charge.
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Scepticism is healthy but the chance for progress is too good to pass up.
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Mr Aso's scepticism might just be wishful thinking: he is, after all, a lifelong smoker.
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But all this requires suspending the scepticism that has become ingrained after years of disappointment.
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He also expressed scepticism over the significance of a potential OPEC deal on freezing production.
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Of all the tools at the discipline's disposal, its practitioners' scepticism is the most timeless.
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As well as pity, the World Bank's global poverty tally should also invite some scepticism.
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U.S. President Donald Trump has expressed scepticism about the deal and threatened to pull out.
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But a surprisingly resilient reading could reinforce scepticism about the reliability of Chinese official data.
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All this means that plenty of Labour MPs retain some scepticism about the Corbyn project.
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The British ambassador to Yemen reacted sharply to the Yemeni government's scepticism about Houthi withdrawal.
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Security concerns over new technologies and artificial intelligence further fuel Sino-scepticism in advanced economies.
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But earlier investments, which were once looked on with scepticism, seem to be paying off.
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On the other hand there is a great deal of scepticism about the current situation.
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For investors, this translates into greater scepticism and a need for ever more thorough analysis.
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Scepticism about CFS's true nature is reinforced by the number of causes proposed for it.
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But then that doughtier, more familiar English trait—worldly scepticism—must and will reassert itself.
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Experts have been expressing scepticism for days about the origins of the letters claiming responsibility.
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But senior EU officials voiced caution and some scepticism, saying no formal deadlines were set.
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The result confirms deep scepticism of the Labour Party and its hapless leader, Jeremy Corbyn.
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There is still scepticism that bonds can ever trade in a similar fashion to equities.
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So far, there has been little progress due mostly to scepticism in some EU capitals.
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Even if, as seems likely, a few more big mergers do happen, scepticism is warranted.
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Pence has voiced scepticism that the North Korea will use the Games for crude propaganda.
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Scepticism abounded when its owner, Domaines Barons de Rothschild, put down roots a decade ago.
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"Mahathir is not known to be a democrat, so there is some scepticism," said Gan.
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But some diplomats voiced scepticism, saying that trade discussions with Washington would be far from easy.
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Galicians take pride in this identity, despite scepticism from their would-be cousins across the sea.
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"The unequal distribution of benefits from globalization has increased scepticism about international co-operation," she said.
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But crime is much rarer than it was in the 1990s, and technological scepticism is growing.
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Indeed, some regional Fed bank presidents have expressed scepticism about the need for interest-rate cuts.
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European banks have expressed their own scepticism about resuming support for companies conducting business in Iran.
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I am encouraged to see that you have retained your admirable scepticism in most other regards.
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For all their professed scepticism, Two Sigma and its peers are busy recruiting machine-learning specialists.
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What about the Irish intelligentsia, a world where both piety and scepticism have deep cultural roots?
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It postponed this after the government granted some licences, but scepticism runs deep among other investors.
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There remains, however, scepticism amongst many traditional VCs that this arrangement will lead to successful startups.
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Some political dissidents have voiced scepticism about change as long as Abiy's EPRDF remains in power.
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Cashback is a weird and wonderful thing, and it therefore generates a fair amount of scepticism.
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WHEN John Bogle set up Vanguard Group 3833 years ago, there was no shortage of scepticism.
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"There's a justified scepticism about them meeting their targets," said Greencape Capital portfolio manager Matthew Ryland.
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What's clear is that macro expectations are improving, see the ZEW...Scepticism has its days numbered.
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McNamara isn't the only person who has expressed scepticism at the exposure of Putnam to CMBX.
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The Basel-based company has data to combat scepticism about the severity of migraines in women.
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The gain could add to scepticism about renewed OPEC talk of freezing output to support prices.
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Even so, there was scepticism the U.S.-China trade relationship was now firmly on the mend.
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That helps explain the scepticism of the SPD's establishment towards Mr Walter-Borjans and Ms Esken.
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"The unequal distribution of benefits from globalisation has increased scepticism about international co-operation," she said.
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Turkey and Western allies of Riyadh have voiced deep scepticism about Saudi explanations of the killing.
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But Ms Tsai may have reservations herself about the way Mr Trump phrased his one-China scepticism.
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Analysts expressed scepticism about Countrywide's 2019 forecasts given difficult market conditions and low visibility on debt reduction.
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The media have also fallen victim to partisan scepticism—certainly among audiences, if not also among contributors.
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Justice Kavanaugh has a record of scepticism regarding Roe and decades ahead of him on the bench.
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Shunko Rojas, until recently one of Argentina's negotiators, recalled scepticism about Mercosur's ability to close trade deals.
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But monitoring of network activity can help flag anything suspicious, as can healthy scepticism about Huawei's reassurances.
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Health workers in the vaccination campaign have at times faced scepticism or hostility from at-risk communities.
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"I think people should definitely approach Yeti stories with a mix of scepticism and sensitivity," Barnett said.
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The significant gap with HKEX's offer price reflects widespread scepticism that the bid will succeed, investors said.
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The significant gap with HKEX's offer price reflects widespread scepticism that the bid will succeed, investors said.
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Participants also seemed united in scepticism that monetary policy could entirely offset the trade war's ill effects.
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While they are both are optimistic, some scepticism remains, since similar plans in past never gained traction.
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Australian shares also fell 0.53% percent as scepticism about and end to the trade war set in.
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Some deserved scepticism forced Nio to sell its stock at the low end of the indicated price range.
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The police tend to be wary of new technology (patrol cars and radios were initially regarded with scepticism).
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Any candidate for the leadership will have to answer the many GroKo doubters who consider their scepticism vindicated.
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Trade experts have expressed scepticism that technology can solve the border problem, at least in the near term.
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There's a natural scepticism in the South Side about the intentions of those that are claiming to help.
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The creation of a populist, euroskeptic government in heavily indebted Italy last week has only reinforced this scepticism.
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On the other hand, the eco-scepticism of Mr Pruitt would also have both Catholic and Protestant sympathisers.
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Wholesale restructuring of Detroit inspires scepticism, because past city efforts hurt black residents in the name of development.
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In Guanajuato, still shocked by the recent spike in murders, his velvet-glove ideas are met with scepticism.
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Spain's scepticism towards regional breakaways like Kosovo is rooted in its own centuries-old battle to hold Catalonia.
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Wiegand recalled the scepticism he encountered when setting up the firm with two friends in Germany in 2014.
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Critics see this scepticism as a bid to guarantee a future for coal, a big industry in Australia.
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Scepticism about her motives is typical of the suspicions voiced by many Russians about social enterprise, experts say.
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BAN2401 has been met with scepticism since the partners reported promising but confusing 18-month results in July.
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The current oil minister backs the board's plan to rename the company Equinor, but Labour has voiced scepticism.
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They therefore may risk being charged themselves if they report attacks, in addition to facing scepticism from officials.
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But Deutsche shares hit a record low on Friday, highlighting investor scepticism about the bank's latest turnaround plan.
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A final reason for scepticism about the S&ED's prospects is the leadership politics of the two countries.
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Today, public scepticism of people in power and feelings that opaque conspiratorial forces drive events have re-emerged.
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Investors have reacted with scepticism to the plans, with shares down 30 percent since the announcement in September.
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Initially greeted with scepticism, the Nations League largely got the thumbs up after the first batch of matches.
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Corbyn's leadership has actively sought to motivate these young voters, despite heavy scepticism about its effectiveness from commentators.
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"The proposed solutions move in the right direction but a significant proportion of scepticism remains," the DIHK said.
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But growing scepticism about Washington's stimulus package to fight the outbreak knocked the steam out of earlier rallies.
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Mambele saw the world through thick glasses and with a deep scepticism of all who pretended to authority.
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Yet for all this flurry of activity, there is scepticism that the result will be two flying planes.
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Ms Zellweger, whose casting was met with some scepticism, is in fact an inspirational choice for the role.
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SCEPTICISM ON MAJOR DEAL The two sides are prepping for another round of trade talks scheduled for Oct.
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The creation of a populist, eurosceptic government in heavily indebted Italy last week has only reinforced this scepticism.
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Traton, Africa Airtel and GFG span defensive and cyclical sectors, suggesting the healthy scepticism transcends any single industry.
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But several executives expressed scepticism over the government's ability to deliver new licences by the end of this year.
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This hedging is based on widely-held scepticism about whether national teams can convert individual brilliance into collective success.
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Even if you maintain a healthy scepticism of RPM, Mr Crowder should be a perfect fit for the Cavaliers.
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But several executives expressed scepticism over the government's ability to deliver new licenses by the end of this year.
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Exclusive interviews with shareholders reveal growing scepticism about Rocket's sprawling empire as emerging markets sour and technology stocks cool.
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There was widespread scepticism at the time about whether drugs that attacked cancer using the immune system would work.
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The church's response to Mr Duterte is also hampered by a new scepticism in the clergy about political involvement.
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That reflects investor scepticism over Lyft's path to profitability, with peers likes Uber and WeWork also heavily losing money.
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"I'm very sceptical about that, and I think that's a scepticism that many others share," Scholz told ZDF television.
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The Czech Republic and Slovakia are considerably less enthusiastic in their overall euro-scepticism than either Warsaw or Budapest.
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Initial shock has given way to scepticism that Tsingshan can deliver on such an ambitious target any time soon.
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Macron faced a reality check of scepticism from leaders wary of his talk of ambitious "horizons" for the continent.
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The ceasefire was welcomed by the United Nations, the United States and NATO, but some independent analysts expressed scepticism.
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Juncker faced scepticism in 2014 when he proposed the fund because EU governments are putting in only seed money.
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"I think we have to regard [Haftar's] motives with a high degree of scepticism," said a senior Western diplomat.
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The scepticism from Khamenei casts doubt on efficiency of Zarif's past and present efforts to keep the agreement alive.
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Data showing record high production in the producer group fed scepticism that it would be able to reduce supplies.
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Unsurprisingly, a valuation of around 17 times the loss-making company's 2016 revenues spurs a certain amount of scepticism.
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"I'm very skeptical about that, and I think that's a scepticism that many others share," Scholz told ZDF television.
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Scepticism China could satisfy the requirements deepened owing to unprecedented intervention by authorities during last summer's stock market crash.
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"Above all, scepticism about economic growth is increasing in many industrialised nations," said DIHK foreign trade chief Volker Treier.
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But senior figures from her two likely coalition partners, the liberal Free Democrats and environmental Greens, have expressed scepticism.
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But market experts see a bit of scepticism around a trade deal happening soon in the Asia-Pacific region.
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"I know there's a lot of scepticism out there," said Julian Evans-Pritchard, China economist at Capital Economics in Singapore.
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There is also justified scepticism about another possible avenue for growth: personal transportation, an industry that is worth some $10trn.
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By 2026, opinion polls showed that faith in Europe outstripped scepticism in almost every one of the 27 EU countries.
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Panasonic Corp dropped 1.85 percent after Tesla Inc tumbled overnight on the back of scepticism over its Model 3 vehicles.
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But my aim over the next few weeks is to set my cynicism, though not my scepticism, to one side.
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While India's public and politicians have welcomed the operation, Pakistan greeted New Delhi's version of events with scepticism and ridicule.
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The market took the retailiation proposed by Russia's lower house of parliament, or the Duma, with a degree of scepticism.
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Scepticism of "get-rich-quick" schemes among South Korean officials has colored past forays by international finance into the country.
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Mr Gorsuch has also signalled deep scepticism of the so-called Chevron doctrine, which gives wide latitude to federal agencies.
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Mr Gorsuch has also signalled deep scepticism about a line of Supreme Court decisions giving wide latitude to federal agencies.
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The Liberal Democrats pitched yesterday's by-election in Richmond Park as a chance for voters to voice scepticism about Brexit.
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And since people are supposed to invest in equities with a 5-10 year time horizon, our scepticism was vindicated.
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Yet in a recent interview with Quartz, an online publication, he expressed scepticism about society's ability to manage rapid automation.
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"There's quite a lot of scepticism in the market as to whether this fiscal pacakge can change anything," Tan said.
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Even if there is scepticism about how China will implement the law, it is an attempt to reduce trade tensions.
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His opening remarks appeared aimed at countering scepticism among victims who said the meeting looked like a public relations exercise.
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However Ecclestone and CVC chairman Donald Mackenzie voiced some scepticism about the time frame at last weekend's Italian Grand Prix.
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France and Belgium have cast doubt on the prospect of the new trade deal and scepticism is growing among Americans.
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Expect growing scepticism about the power of knob-turning until voters choose politicians confident enough to wave a magic wand.
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The merger talks have come amid stiff resistance from unions and employees, as well as scepticism from some major investors.
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DE) group, has expressed similar scepticism about the trend towards autonomous driving, a concept which brands such as BMW (BMWG.
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A pan-EU investment scheme launched, to much scepticism, by the European Commission last year is starting to show results.
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Scepticism has not dissuaded some hedge funds, family investment offices and wealthy individuals from getting in on the land rush.
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Pakistan's LNG bet has largely paid off, with Western companies flocking to build terminals and other infrastructure, despite initial scepticism.
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FRANKFURT (Reuters) - Shareholders and a major union expressed scepticism on Thursday about speculation of a merger between Deutsche Bank (DBKGn.
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However, China's pledge to buy U.S. agricultural goods based on "market conditions" fuelled scepticism that the targets could be met.
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Reflecting international scepticism over its account, a senior Saudi government official laid out a new version that contradicts previous explanations.
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Few tears are shed in Vietnam over the arrests of former officials, but there is also scepticism over the real motives.
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Many confirmed their scepticism to de Guindos's appeal and to a European Commission plan to strengthen common supervision against money laundering.
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Despite initial scepticism over the format, it was given a generally warm reception as it matched teams of a similar standard.
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The German government should support Macron to counter an increased populist sentiment and euro-scepticism in the neighboring country, Gabriel said.
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Mr Trudeau has sought to allay scepticism about trade with what has fast become a hallmark of his government: incessant consultation.
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THERE have been several failed rounds of talks to reunify Cyprus since 1974, so scepticism about the latest is in order.
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In his 30s he won an internship at Kew, where a "sixth sense" for breeding dying plants attracted interest and scepticism.
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And who, in retrospect, can fault the European powers for their scepticism about George Bush's democratisation project in the Middle East?
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In a recent interview Mr Waller expressed scepticism about the Phillips curve—the idea that low unemployment necessarily leads to inflation.
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ALL great aviation ventures start with mavericks willing to defy both the laws of physics and the scepticism of their peers.
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From the start, some major investors have expressed scepticism about a deal, while unions have warned of 30,000 potential job losses.
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Related shares initially surged on the news, before reversing course and tumbling into negative territory, as apparent investor scepticism set in.
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The rise in output could add to scepticism about OPEC's ability to finalize a plan agreed in September to limit supplies.
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Amid deep scepticism, Nike pitched the attempt as sport's "moon shot", with a keen eye on sales of its running shoes.
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The offer has been met with scepticism from U.S. negotiators, in part because China has long refused to disclose its subsidies.
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"There's some cautious optimism, but there is some scepticism," said Erik Nelson, currency strategist at Wells Fargo Securities in New York.
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My scepticism was sometimes a problem too, not just in the house but in the wider tech community in San Francisco.
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Scepticism towards surveillance runs deep in Germany because of the excesses of the Nazi Gestapo and East German Stasi secret police.
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The FRC said Sarai and Ahmad had undertaken training in relation to applying professional scepticism to what a client tells them.
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Public-health experts are also keen to point out that vaping is less harmful than smoking, contrary to the FDA's scepticism.
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United Nations agencies working in the camps clustered around Cox's Bazar, in southeastern Bangladesh, have voiced scepticism about the resettlement plans.
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"After first-half results there has been lots scepticism especially among foreign investors about Novo Nordisk's ability to deliver," Andersen said.
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Most central banks were expected to maintain their easing bias, despite increasing scepticism about their ability to influence growth or inflation.
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There is substantial uncertainty about Trump's policy positions, as well as market scepticism over his views on topics such as trade.
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He started Agonist with his own money after failing to raise private investment due to scepticism the cafe would be a success.
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At first she views the accounts of horror and the legend of Melmoth with scepticism, but she soon becomes enraptured by them.
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On the streets of the capital, Phnom Penh, an opposition stronghold, the formation of the new movement met scepticism from CNRP supporters.
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TRUCE SCEPTICISM Financial markets are likely to breathe a sigh of relief on news of the resumption in U.S.-China trade talks.
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Justice Neil Gorsuch, Mr Trump's appointee, and Chief Justice John Roberts also voiced scepticism about the challengers' case against the travel rules.
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But in Berlin scepticism about his proposals for euro-zone integration is widespread, and the coalition deal is vague on the matter.
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But although that is the consensus view, comments from BoE policymakers that markets have interpreted as dovish have generated scepticism among investors.
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As a rule of thumb, the more Irish a multi-generation Irish-American politician sounds, the more scepticism he or she warrants.
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It revolves around the age-old traditions of an isolated monastery, but it exemplifies the scepticism sometimes aroused by Western heritage programmes.
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The pledge drew immediate scepticism, with critics saying the plans lacked detail and questioning whether leaving the EU would actually save money.
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Some industry sources say this reflects scepticism that Bramson can achieve anything more than holding management to account for their restructuring efforts.
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Scepticism dogged his 2009 purchase of the QNI nickel refinery after mining giant BHP Billiton said it could no longer make money.
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Gamal Eid, founder and director of the Arab Network for Human Rights Information, expressed scepticism over Sisi's seriousness in amending the law.
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Well, it turns out that despite this journalist's scepticism (and semi-disbelief in the power of love) the date went extremely well.
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But many of her ideas were met with scepticism, with Verhofstadt saying Britain had added a "few extra cherries on the cake".
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The scepticism is partly a result of research suggesting that the impact of school autonomy is less impressive than advocates had hoped.
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Yet, at a time of widening political division, politicians and pundits of all hues are united by a growing scepticism about universities.
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In response to scepticism about free trade from President Trump, Germany has been urging the EU to speed agreements to open trade.
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In 2009, he voiced scepticism about the fund's ability to outperform financial markets and suggested it should track market performance indexes instead.
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Bishops, priests and lay Catholics loyal to Rome have faced persecution, which has sparked scepticism over the détente in some Catholic quarters.
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In a party that was founded on anti-nuclearism, some German Greens openly express scepticism about the sincerity of Macron's environmental outreach.
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But there is scepticism whether he will suddenly give up an arsenal in which he and his family have invested for decades.
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It was cautiously welcomed in the Solomon Islands, though there was some scepticism as to whether proposed branches would ever be built.
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Aramco is the world's largest and most profitable company, but its valuation faced scepticism among international investors as the IPO was marketed.
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Facebook plans to launch its digital coin in the first half of 2020 but regulators' reaction has mostly been one of scepticism.
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The same banker also expressed scepticism whether private placements and bilateral loans would be enough to cover all of the banks' funding needs.
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Previously, regulators in the UAE had expressed scepticism about cryptocurrencies, without going as far as trying to enforce an outright ban on them.
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"There is a great deal of scepticism," Manuela Schwesig, SPD state premier in the northeastern state of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, told NDR Info radio.
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Islamic State said it was responsible in the immediate aftermath of the bombing but security services have always treated the claim with scepticism.
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Mr Sessions has voiced scepticism about that process and might curtail it; he worried this week that police officers have been "unfairly maligned".
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The streaming model faces scepticism from an industry that currently makes its money per game, charging fees for props or upgrades within games.
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Ben Kwong, director of research at KGI Asia in Hong Kong, noted Huawei was not the only reason for scepticism in the market.
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Yet the polls, which should be treated with some scepticism, favour candidates who would yank Colombia off the course Mr Santos has set.
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Republican scepticism of government meddling makes it likely that the federal minimum wage will be left to wither for a few more years.
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It is certainly hard to argue that Mr Trump should have pressed on enthusiastically given the near-universal scepticism about the North's intentions.
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Rather than unfounded scepticism about Mr Woods's ability, EAGLE's estimate of his chances fell short of those of betting markets for two reasons.
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Though there is widespread scepticism that any such deal will get ratified by lawmakers, sterling rose 0.1% higher against the dollar to $1.0.12.
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After initial scepticism over whether Geely could make the most of European technology, it has proven to be a keen investor and collaborator.
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Some people familiar with the Zurich-based bank's operations expressed surprise and scepticism that top management could be unaware of such important details.
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Competitors have expressed scepticism, saying that the two companies are the dominant players in Europe which can squeeze them out after the deal.
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Islamic State said it was responsible in the immediate aftermath of the bombing, but security services have always treated the claim with scepticism.
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The size of the deal — and the sketchy information about the companies involved — prompted some initial scepticism in the industry over its feasibility.
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Despite the clear statement of intent by Beijing policy-makers, there was a good degree of market scepticism as to whether they would.
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Ms Mosby's decision to bring the prosecutions to a sudden halt reflected the presiding judge's steady scepticism regarding the legal theory underlying them.
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Hoping to get local kids off the street, he began offering training as a social project but had to overcome some initial scepticism.
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Yet for all the unease and scepticism, this rather tawdry agreement may be Europe's last chance of regaining some control over the crisis.
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Roche shares have fallen 11 percent in two years amid scepticism new drugs will be able to replace its ageing cancer drug portfolio.
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At the time there was a good degree of scepticism in the zinc market that the company would make good on its promise.
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Parts of the center-left Social Democrats (SPD), who are junior partners in Chancellor Angela Merkel's coalition, have raised scepticism toward the flights.
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And yet critical thinking, scepticism, empiricism and frequent contact with foreign colleagues threaten authoritarians, who survive by controlling what people say and think.
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Central bankers say the changes will help reduce investor scepticism in the capital ratios banks publish and thereby help improve their market valuations.
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In the Rucho oral argument in April, Chief Justice Roberts expressed scepticism that "partisan identification" is the "only basis on which people vote".
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The sources also said that investors had expressed scepticism about investing in the company which operates The Iconic, Zalora, Dafiti and Lamoda platforms.
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Renewable energy has struggled to increase its footprint in recent years due to scepticism over climate change amongst some the country's leading politicians.
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While Rakuten's network plans were initially met with scepticism, Mikitani's confidence helped allay some of those concerns, said Kazunori Ito, analyst at Morningstar.
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While Rakuten's network plans were initially met with scepticism, Mikitani's confidence helped allay some of those concerns, said Kazunori Ito, analyst at Morningstar.
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At his Senate confirmation hearing on January 11, Tillerson voiced scepticism about ill-designed unilateral sanctions and stated that Russia was not unpredictable.
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Some analysts have expressed scepticism that Ramaphosa's government will be able to put an end to large annual wage increases for public servants.
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Obiri said she is hurt by the scepticism that she and other Kenyan athletes face globally, a legacy of years of doping scandals.
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Islamic State said it was responsible in the immediate aftermath of that bombing, but security services have always treated the claim with scepticism.
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West African leaders have pledged $1 billion to combat the threat, but as with previous funding claims there is scepticism over the move.
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"The military gets involved to promote democracy and protect the country from a totalitarian system?" he asks with his typical slightly detached scepticism.
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Before Dr He's talk, there was scepticism that he had actually done what he had claimed—and his claims do, indeed, need independent verification.
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The U.S. move underscores the scepticism expressed by President Donald Trump about the need for the U.S. to remain engaged in multi-lateral bodies.
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Turkey, however, reacted with scepticism and a U.S. senator said it was unbelievable that the killing could not have been carried out without orders.
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Yet if everyone could adopt the level of healthy statistical scepticism that Mr Levitin would like, political debate would be in much better shape.
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Then, on Saturday, its public prosecutor said he had been killed in a fight in the consulate, an explanation that has drawn international scepticism.
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One of his sons developed the hotel in Milwaukee's third ward, a project that attracted scepticism from local grandees, who doubted anyone wanted it.
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Such scepticism may overshadow a reported Chinese offer to supplant a self-reliant industrial policy, Made in China 2025, with something more foreigner-friendly.
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Government officials who are members of the Deutsche Bahn board have repeatedly voiced scepticism about plans to privatize Arriva and its Schenker logistics arm.
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Hill faced scepticism from several lawmakers over the legally binding nature of the UK settlement, and its ability to protect the City of London.
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The remarks add to scepticism expressed by other shareholders about the German group's plan - announced in September - to spin off its capital goods businesses.
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She will need to spend the next year wooing voters in early-primary states—while also fending off challenges and scepticism from her left.
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The West, with its roots in the Enlightenment, remains the freest place in the world for scepticism about established dogmas and ill-founded taboos.
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His criticism, which did not name Johnson directly, adds to scepticism also voiced last week by Bank of England governor Mark Carney and others.
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Seasoned observers poured oceans of scepticism over Mr Kim's remarks, wondering if it was a strategy to weaken Chinese and Russian support for sanctions.
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However, analysts expressed scepticism about the levels and there was little reaction in Nigeria's existing sovereign dollar bonds maturing in 21354, 210 and 2108 .
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She said officials would also continue to look at potential retrofits of diesel cars, but expressed scepticism about how quickly those could be implemented.
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Staunch critics of Duterte were quick to take advantage of a survey slump they said reflected public discontent and scepticism about his drugs war.
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Eritrean President Isaias Afwerki's government is notoriously isolationist and its initial silence in the face of Ethiopia's overtures was interpreted by some as scepticism.
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Last week, echoing old questions about the birthplace of Barack Obama, Mr Trump renewed his scepticism about Mr Cruz's very eligibility to be president.
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Some representatives of the opposition Kuomintang (KMT) have expressed scepticism that Tsai would build an effective partnership with Lai, if he did replace Lin.
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In the 1990s, it was the rise of the emoticon, from the humble :-) to the more elaborate, like >:\ (a furrowed-brow look of scepticism).
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But Pakistani army officials are undeterred by the scepticism and insist they will finish the job as the country's security rests on this fence.
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Yet today Jan Zielonka, professor of European politics at Oxford, reports that when he talks to European policymakers he is "stunned by their scepticism".
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EU leaders greeted the offer made during a summit in Brussels late on Thursday with a degree of scepticism and said many questions remained.
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Analysts reacted with scepticism to the report, citing foreign ownership rules governing international traffic rights, and questioning what the benefits for Lufthansa would be.
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Founded by an ex-colonel involved in a 1960 military coup, the MHP espouses a mix of Turkish nationalism and scepticism toward the West.
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While often met with scepticism and criticism about spending, the quest to create space science programs in Ghana and across Africa is taking off.
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Another official said Shanahan did not provide allies with a timeline of the U.S. withdrawal from Syria and allies expressed scepticism during the meeting.
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More recently, Weidman expressed scepticism about Tria's own budget plans after appearing to lecture the Italian minister's predecessor on the need for budget consolidation.
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It linked Russia's estimated losses to "widespread climate change scepticism among much of the Russian business community and a lack of broader public engagement".
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Netanyahu's annexation promise was met with scepticism by Shaqued Morag, director of Peace Now, an Israeli anti-settlements group that closely monitors their expansion.
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Britain launched its own new fighter jet plan last July, laying bare European divisions and deepening scepticism about the future of European defence cooperation.
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Talks are tough, though, particularly for coal-dependent nations such as Poland, and EU officials fear climate scepticism in the Trump administration may slow efforts.
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He expressed scepticism, however, that the various institutions involved in the investigation and prosecution of corruption-related crimes would achieve justice or reform the system.
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It's not new, nor is it dissimilar to a discontent spreading throughout the world, often manifested in scepticism towards international institutions, trade agreements and immigration.
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But even those who have watched Mr Nadella's actions with a high degree of scepticism reckon the firm is moving on from its cash-cows.
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In the 1990s the party offered far-left economic policies and deep scepticism of the EU, points out James Dennison of the European University Institute.
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They are melting pots where the pro-European internationalism of city centres meets rural scepticism, where fascination with the new meets love of the familiar.
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Analysts and investors had voiced scepticism over the price tag of the deal funded in part by the proceeds of a $3.5 billion share issue.
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The wave of scandals is too big, broad and unpredictable to write off with scepticism, or as the isolated peccadillos of a few bad actors.
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A final camp combines scepticism about North Korea's motives—dismissing Mr Kim's claims to need nuclear weapons as a deterrent—with (relative) optimism about sanctions.
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And Chief Justice John Roberts, a conservative who has himself expressed scepticism about Roe's legal basis, is anxious for the court to appear non-partisan.
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There is broad scepticism, however, among investors as to whether the two world leaders can plaster over the deep fissures in their countries' trade ties.
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Analysts reacted with scepticism to the report, citing the foreign ownership rules governing international traffic rights, and questioning what the benefits for Lufthansa would be.
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Despite doing more than many countries to make real-time air quality data publicly available, China has yet to overcome public scepticism about official statistics.
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"I firmly believe in Europe, but I don't find this scepticism unjustified," Macron told French lawmakers in a rare joint session of parliament in Versailles.
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Mary Kom was also greeted with scepticism when she started her career in the ring and had to keep it a secret from her parents.
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Given the North's secrecy, penchant for bombastic propaganda and history of manipulating photographic and video images, its claims are still met with plenty of scepticism.
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Neville's appointment in January of last year was met with a fair amount of scepticism due to his lack of experience in the women's game.
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Endorsed by the 20-nation International Syria Support Group (ISSG) on February 22nd, amid general scepticism, a fragile truce came into force a week later.
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Thursday's guidance may fuel scepticism shown by investors over the past few months about Europe's telecoms sector, which has underperformed compared with major benchmark indices.
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Iraq's election results were a transparent reflection of a national ambivalence, torn between optimism at defeating ISIS and the scepticism bred during years of war.
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Whilst there is evidence of greater professional scepticism, this is also the area where the FRC finds the greatest number of issues, the watchdog said.
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They have also deepened scepticism in Germany about migrants at a time when Chancellor Angela Merkel is under fire over her open-door refugee policy.
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The gains could add to scepticism over renewed talk among members of the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries about freezing output to support prices.
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The roll-out of self-driving cars faces a bumpy start in some countries due to lack of regulation and public scepticism about their safety.
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He also voiced scepticism about the proposal to scrap the 500-euro note, saying that Germans still wanted to be free to pay in cash.
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Though the painting was widely celebrated, Jean-Paul Sartre later expressed scepticism that it had ever "won over a single heart to the Spanish cause".
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But it also appears that they aren't quite sure how to win over scepticism among the youth that they will need to do the work.
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"It's just scepticism over China complying with the trade deal," Dan Cekander, president of DC Analysis, said of the broad sell-off across agricultural markets.
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Manfred noted a general mood of scepticism in the league about participation in the 2020 Summer Games, to be held from July 24 to Aug.
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In particular, scepticism about the rights of marginalised groups and individuals, where issues of life and death are at stake, are not up for debate.
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But, after Vonn's sisters cautioned not to rule out the 33-year-old making one final appearance in China in 2022, Shiffrin also expressed scepticism.
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However, some states led by Germany and the Netherlands showed scepticism over Italy's fiscal plans, the official said, while France was supportive of Italy's efforts.
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Mr Corbyn's scepticism about nuclear energy has been poorly received, but Labour's Copeland branch is "so pro-nuclear we glow in the dark," one councillor says.
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Plan B, reflecting scepticism that Ankara would deliver and exhaustion with continued arrivals, involved shutting borders across the Balkans and bottling up new migrants in Greece.
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It is unclear, though, how far Germany's parliament and establishment will allow the coalition to stray from the austere scepticism of former finance minister Wolfgang Schaeuble.
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Despite scepticism at the time, it became the largest university in Europe, and is considered one of the great success stories of 1433th-century higher education.
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"The dialogue continues, the Commission has expressed no scepticism," Pier Carlo Padoan said in reponse to a question on the Commission's attitude towards the Italian budget.
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His scepticism about the EU's relocation plan has been borne out by its failure to move more than a few thousand migrants, even to willing countries.
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Despite the scepticism of many, including, surprisingly, some "quant" hedge funds that specialise in algorithm-based trading, machine-learning is poised to have a big impact.
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Despite scepticism at the time, it became the largest university in Europe, and is considered one of the great success stories of 20th-century higher education.
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United Nations agencies and human rights watchers have voiced scepticism about the resettlement plans and demanded a more transparent process to safeguard the Rohingya's voluntary return.
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Baghdad's initial request to be exempt from the OPEC agreement, plus loading programs pointing to continued high Iraqi exports, had led to scepticism it would cut.
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Despite much scepticism, talk of Ms Sobchak's announcement dominated social media and Russia's remaining independent news outlets, reflecting a hunger for political movement of any kind.
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The incident has put the West's relationship with Riyadh into sharp focus, given scepticism about Saudi Arabia's shifting explanations of the killing at the Istanbul consulate.
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The resulting scandal has plagued the social-networking firm and provoked scepticism among politicians and consumers that big tech firms can be trusted to police themselves.
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That guidance may further fuel scepticism shown by investors over the past few months about Europe's telecoms sector, which has underperformed compared with major benchmark indexes.
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"There is some scepticism in the FX market as to whether the BoE will really follow through on raising rates," said MUFG currency analyst Lee Hardman.
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Despite Green scepticism, she said she wholeheartedly supported the EU going carbon neutral by 2050 and said the bloc should harvest benefits of environmentally-friendly policies.
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"The admitted acts of misconduct include failures to obtain sufficient appropriate audit evidence and failures to exercise sufficient professional scepticism," the FRC said in a statement.
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"There's quite a lot of scepticism in the market as to whether this fiscal package can change anything," said Alvin Tan, a strategist at Societe Generale.
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North Korea said it successfully tested a hydrogen bomb last month but this was met with scepticism by U.S. and South Korean officials and nuclear experts.
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The public scepticism contrasted with Cameron's latest declaration of optimism that a deal can be struck on his demands for changes in Britain's relationship with Brussels.
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Runner-up was an image of Hillary Clinton behind bars and the caption: "Hillary for Prison 2016"—reflecting scepticism about the Democratic front-runner's e-mails.
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Since voters tend to view advertising and "paid media" with scepticism, frequent coverage in the press can better spread a campaign's message—without costing a penny.
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Runner-up was an image of Hillary Clinton behind bars and the caption: "Hillary for prison 2016"—reflecting conservative scepticism about the Democratic front-runner's probity.
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Germany, which took in more than 1.1 million asylum seekers last year, has been shaken by the assaults which have deepened scepticism toward Merkel's refugee policy.
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But the initiative has been met with growing scepticism as some countries, such as Sri Lanka, became saddled with debt that they had difficulty in repaying.
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"Scepticism about the dollar's rally has been building so I think, seeing a small dip, traders jumped at an opportunity to unwind long bets," he said.
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But many have expressed scepticism over the impact the technology will have, arguing that banks have jumped on the "blockchain bandwagon" for the sake of publicity.
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Analysts attending the forum expressed scepticism about Mongolia's ambitions, saying logistic costs still eroded the competitiveness of Mongolian coal and demand could soon begin to taper.
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The Seedcamp General Partner bats away my scepticism and says it's important to separate coin investments that are currently grabbing headlines with the investment structure itself.
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Juncker also urged EU leaders at the summit to back free trade talks with the United States in the face of growing scepticism in member states.
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But with the finer details about the Phase 1 trade deal not yet known, analysts say scepticism is building around how long the truce will last.
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"Abela deserves a chance, but scepticism is appropriate," Giegold said in an emailed statement, adding that Abela had been a one-time legal adviser to Muscat.
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They say they worry that scepticism about climate change is diluting the gravity of their discoveries and losing the attention of the next generation of researchers.
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But with the finer details about the Phase 1 trade deal not yet known, analysts say scepticism is building around how long the truce will last.
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With shale firms ramping up their drilling programmes, there is plenty of scepticism about how far prices can rise before shale output starts increasing again significantly.
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At the heart of analysts' scepticism is Kim's apparent lack of appetite for compromise on the main points of nuclear weapons, missile testing, or human rights.
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Critics of May's deal within her party also reacted with scepticism, saying the amendment did little new and would not be enough to win over lawmakers.
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The British economy boomed in 20043-2007, when Tony Blair's Labour government was in charge, yet scepticism about welfare rose during Mr Blair's second and third terms.
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There had been some scepticism around the training plan, Credendino said, but the 78 officials "arrived with great enthusiasm ... a real desire to do this with us".
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President Donald Trump has frequently expressed scepticism about whether global warming is a result of human activity and has withdrawn the U.S. from the Paris climate accord.
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But its notional priority, access to the single market, is at odds with Mr Corbyn's lifelong scepticism of globalisation in general and of the EU in particular.
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Given such scepticism and the shortage of time, attention is shifting to the "backstop" option that would be adopted if neither of Britain's preferred systems is ready.
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WeWork has been treated with scepticism by some Silicon Valley investors who see it as an over-valued real estate play vulnerable to a property market downturn.
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He echoed scepticism voiced by several other SPD lawmakers and said he needed more details, such as what role German soldiers would play, before making any assessment.
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Scepticism about OPEC's ability to meet its target underlines the challenge facing the organisation as it tries to reduce global oil stocks and raise prices next year.
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On Friday, China's parliament approved a new foreign investment law that promises to create a transparent environment for foreign firms, though there is scepticism about its enforceability.
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Saudi Arabia told the child rights panel last week that it was working hard to correct mistaken targeting by its military alliance, but the experts voiced scepticism.
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When he first looked at laser-powered interstellar travel, Mr Milner says, the idea triggered both his scepticism as a physicist and his cynicism as a businessman.
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The second source familiar with the discussions added that deep scepticism about growth-linked debt within Germany, the hosts of this year's G20, was also an impediment.
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That funding was approved in March, but has since been thrown into question after U.S. President Donald Trump expressed scepticism toward additional disaster assistance for Puerto Rico.
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With such scepticism about the international environment, the return to markets riven by a host of disparate but highly disruptive domestic political risks seems brave at least.
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This incremental upgrade drew initial scepticism, but the S7 phones have beaten expectations and could set a new first-year sales record for the South Korean firm.
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Last week Saudi authorities finally admitted Khashoggi had died inside their consulate in Istanbul — although their explanation for exactly how he died continues to face global scepticism.
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We found that bad moods also reduced gullibility and increased scepticism when evaluating urban myths and rumours, and even improved people's ability to detect deception more accurately.
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Expressing scepticism with political will for such a leap, Knot argued for an incremental approach to integration with a focus on minimum criteria for stability and growth.
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Saudi Arabia initially denied knowledge of his fate before saying he had been killed in a fight in the consulate, an explanation that has drawn international scepticism.
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After the summit collapsed, U.S. ally Japan focused on scepticism about the future of the nuclear diplomacy given how the two sides failed to bridge the gap.
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Branstad said there was "scepticism" in the United States that China would follow through on its pledges to truly open up in areas such as financial services.
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Erdogan also reiterated plans, which have been met with deep scepticism from the United States and Europe, to settle more than 1 million refugees in northeast Syria.
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The deal, which is yet to be signed, is fuelling scepticism over whether China will be able to import such a large amount of U.S. farm products.
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Riyadh initially denied knowledge of his fate before saying he was killed in a fight in the consulate, an explanation which has met with scepticism among some governments.
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Reverting to the specific possibility of an Intesa Sanpaolo and Generali merger, Rivaldi affirmed that he saw strong industrial logic in this deal happening, despite investors' apparent scepticism.
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"There is a scepticism with our ability to be able to get this merger approved," Claure said adding it would be a top priority in his new role.
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The lack of a premium for Randgold shareholders prompted scepticism from some analysts who were also concerned that Randgold's agility could be bogged down by the mammoth Barrick.
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His scepticism of the regulatory leeway enjoyed by agencies like the Environmental Protection Agency and Consumer Financial Protection Bureau may roll back the work of the administrative state.
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"It may be that I have from time to time expressed scepticism about some of the views of those who profess to speak up for business," he said.
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It should also "give a timely push against protectionism and for free trading relationships and international cooperation", the paper continued, referring indirectly to Trump's scepticism on trade agreements.
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"We were just talking about you people," he says, looping in the PR sitting to my left with a knowing side-eye, after I confess my VR scepticism.
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This scepticism is familiar to Adrian Sandler, a paediatrician at the Olson Huff Center for Child Development in Asheville, North Carolina, who carried out the 2010 ADHD trial.
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The bank's executives said they are looking forward to the milestone, but are mindful of appearing celebratory given public scepticism after the bank came so close to collapse.
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Market sources expressed scepticism about the long-term benefits of the rumoured liability management exercise, particularly given that a buyback of senior debt would offer limited capital gains.
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Alongside inspired articles about the Annual Gobstones Convention, the entire New York Ghost front page subtly enforces the themes of No-Maj fear and scepticism in Fantastic Beasts.
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Its gestation has however been complicated by scepticism about Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman's public declaration in 2016 that the sale would value the company at $2 trillion.
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But there is widespread scepticism that a deal will happen, especially since Iran is keen to boost its market share now that sanctions on it have been lifted.
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Real growth edged down to 6.7% year on year in the first quarter, but that figure, subject to fiddling by the authorities, is treated with scepticism by analysts.
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During negotiations on the supply cut by OPEC and non-OPEC producers, Iraq had sought an exemption - leading to scepticism that the country would comply with the accord.
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The tensions have spurred anti-Chinese sentiment and scepticism at universities and workplaces, where Chinese scholars and professionals find themselves in the crossfire and their allegiances are questioned.
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During the election campaign, he called for the creation of a budget and finance minister for the currency bloc, both ideas that are viewed with scepticism in Berlin.
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Still, there was scepticism over how long the positive mood would last with Britain's divorce from the EU and political unrest in Hong Kong not yet completely resolved.
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"I do not underestimate the difficulty of this challenge because frankly, history is against us," Carnegie-Brown told an industry dinner, adding that scepticism was "to be expected".
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Parties opposed to immigration did well in Germany's election in September and in Austria's last week, and have fed scepticism toward the EU across the 28-nation bloc.
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But Gomes, who narrates the film, is unable to fully conceal his scepticism, asking if these industrious workers even have the time to ask if they are happy.
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But emerging green bond markets are still bedevilled by variations in standards and scepticism over how the proceeds will be used if there is no third-party verification.
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The report, however, found that there was now a "surprising" level of bi-partisan scepticism about China's intentions and a willingness to push back against its "predatory" policies.
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"The proposed solutions move in the right direction, but a significant portion of scepticism remains," he said in a statement issued shortly after the two men spoke to reporters.
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The German government and central bank, which expressed their scepticism when the programme began in 2015 and for a long time after that, stood behind the ECB on Tuesday.
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Ground for scepticism does not come much more fertile than this: Amazon will have to grow faster than almost any big company in modern history to justify its valuation.
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Kazempour said Trump may be disappointed by the scale of the production increase so far and voiced scepticism Saudi Arabia and Russia could add much more oil in 2019.
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Crude price gains, however, were capped by forecasts for rising U.S. and Russian production and scepticism that OPEC as a whole would comply with its commitment to reduce supplies.
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Still, Airbus has overcome early airline scepticism, shareholder turmoil and price battles to share control of the $150-billion annual jetliner market with rival Boeing, securing some 130,000 jobs.
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Standard Life and Aberdeen Chief Executives Keith Skeoch and Martin Gilbert will be co-chief executives of the combined group, a structure which has been met with some scepticism.
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Social conservatives believe liberal justices invent constitutional justifications for socially progressive rulings such as those on abortion and gay marriage, while business types appreciate originalists' scepticism of government regulation.
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Scepticism in countries like France, where 33% think vaccines are unsafe, is not new, but with countries falling below "immunity thresholds", cases of measles and meningococcal diseases are rising.
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U.S. military commanders in Afghanistan have asked for several thousand additional troops, but the request is stalled in Washington, where Trump has expressed scepticism over extending the American commitment.
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Current and former researchers at DeepMind and Google, who requested anonymity due to stringent non-disclosure agreements, have also expressed scepticism that DeepMind can reach AGI through such methods.
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SPD General Secretary Lars Klingbeil said he understood party scepticism about a re-run of the government that ruled Germany from 2013 to 2017, but warned against the alternative.
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The announcement drew plenty of scepticism, given it came only hours after McGregor told an American TV chat show that he was in negotiations for a fight in July.
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Italy has previously taken the lead in efforts to bring peace to its former North African colony, throwing its weight firmly behind Serraj and viewing Haftar with great scepticism.
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She said she understood Swiss scepticism towards the EU, but there was no alternative to finding an accommodation with the bloc which generates around two thirds of Swiss trade.
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Macron has called for a finance minister and budget for the single currency bloc, ideas that Merkel has tentatively supported even though scepticism in her own party runs high.
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The appeal, filed by staff representative Carlos Bowles, said a perception of favoritism at the bank risked fuelling euro scepticism among the public and demoralizing personnel at the bank.
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BEIJING (Reuters) - China will unify the way it calculates provincial economic output from early 2020, the National Bureau of Statistics said, amid scepticism about the reliability of Chinese data.
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CARBON NEUTRAL SUPPORT Despite Green scepticism, she said she wholeheartedly supported the EU going carbon neutral by 2050 and said the bloc should harvest benefits of environmentally-friendly policies.
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It recouped some losses after the Financial Times said the main elements of a Brexit treaty were ready, though May's spokesman said the report should be treated with scepticism.
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There is scepticism among Conservative MPs that the party will return a majority at the next election, despite most opinion polls giving Johnson a comfortable lead over Corbyn's Labour.
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Such scepticism is shared by many in Lianyungang, which already hosts a nuclear-power plant (pictured), and elsewhere in China, where the government plans to expand nuclear power massively.
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Trine Skei Grande, head of the centrist Liberal Party, said that the Progress Party appointments would add a dose of scepticism about man-made climate change to the government.
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Scepticism that the Federal Reserve would be able to raise interest rates again this year amid a recent batch of weak U.S. economic data have further boosted the euro.
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The other source of foreign policy friction in the Philippines is Duterte's fondness for China, which many Filipinos view with scepticism due to a history of perceived maritime encroachments.
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Some Gulf regulators have also expressed scepticism, but Bahrain has bucked the trend by exploring the use of digital currencies to boost its role as a regional financial hub.
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After 17 months of market-moving comments from both the U.S. and China sides of the trade war, some scepticism remains and traders will be waiting until the Dec.
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The show - bought by the video streaming service ShowMax - doesn't pull its punches when it comes to mocking Kaczynski's scepticism toward the EU and his deep distrust of Germany.
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Some law experts and business consultants have expressed scepticism about how far the legislation would protect foreign firms' interests, given a general lack of rule of law in China.
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The official said Trump shared Israel's scepticism about the deal and voiced hope for new U.S. sanctions, noting the effect of past measures against Iran's banking and oil sector.
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But long, painful wars in Afghanistan and Iraq have reinforced American scepticism about interventions abroad that cannot be pulled off quickly and do not seem vital to the national interest.
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Mr Lindner's scepticism of euro-zone integration, attacks on Mrs Merkel's open-border policies and enthusiasm for tax cuts are toxic to the federalist, pro-refugee and economically leftish Greens.
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The 2016 election instilled in voters a deep scepticism of polling, but is also served as a lesson to forecasters to be careful about how confidently they convey their predictions.
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But while the incoming administration may have backed away from the questionnaire, the scepticism and hostility to the Department of Energy and its mission in some quarters remains very real.
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On Wednesday, the European Union delayed Britain's departure from the bloc until the end of October, but scepticism runs high that lawmakers in London can form a consensus over Brexit.
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For all his scepticism, Mr Camara performed with her in the national marionette troupe in the 1990s, when urban companies educated Malians on subjects such as HIV and child labour.
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A recent paper for the Batory Foundation, a Polish think-tank, argues that Poles' strong support for EU membership may disguise a deep well of potential scepticism about its direction.
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Its scepticism may well have been justified, since Málaga partisans would insist that their side only lost because a linesman looked the other way when a Dortmund player ventured offside.
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In America, where scepticism about climate change is common, climate is the most frequently used "ESG" (environmental, social and governance) criterion among asset managers, reckons US SIF, an industry group.
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RELIEF AND SCEPTICISM In a lengthy statement on the two-way talks, China's foreign ministry quoted Xi as telling Trump he hoped the United States could treat Chinese companies fairly.
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But they may distance themselves from American policy, for example by backing European-led efforts to negotiate with Mr Maduro a democratic transition, which the United States views with scepticism.
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There has long been scepticism about the reliability of Chinese data, especially as the government has sought to reduce expectations of a protracted slowdown in the world's second-largest economy.
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There was a hint of his later scepticism: he called for more compensation for workers who lose their jobs to foreign competition, and stricter trade rules at the supranational level.
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She was trying to persuade them to back a further delay to Brexit, until June 30th, despite considerable scepticism among exasperated European leaders as to whether her plan could work.
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Such scepticism can resonate strongly on a continent where some pharmaceutical trials have faced accusations in the past of failing to obtain informed consent and providing subpar care to participants.
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She said it "exposes the paradox of Europe" which, despite being a region with among the highest income and education levels, also has the world's highest levels of vaccine scepticism.
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A tiered deposit rate — a proposal that was discussed before being dismissed several years ago — does not appear to enjoy widespread support among policymakers, many of whom have voiced scepticism.
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"There is a lot of scepticism at the moment," said a top 10 ProSieben shareholder, noting that some investors opted to sell when the shares fell after the capital increase.
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Ifo President Clemens Fuest said the German economy was navigating troubled waters as companies were less satisfied with their current business situation and were also looking ahead with increased scepticism.
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However, a Russian Defence Ministry spokesman on Tuesday denied it had conducted air strikes overnight against Idlib, calling the Observatory's allegations "a horror story" that should be regarded with scepticism.
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Scepticism about the possible effectiveness of such policies has grown online, since rural earnings remain low and millennials living in cities are disconnected from their families' roots in the countryside.
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Having grown up during the Great Depression and served on a bank board, seeing first-hand how risky a business it could be, his was a scepticism informed by experience.
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The decision, was met with scepticism in several member states, particularly in Germany, where many feel that being lenient to Spain and Italy undermines the credibility of the euro zone.
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Most regulators in the Gulf initially expressed scepticism about fintech and last year the Saudi central bank warned citizens against trading bitcoin because it was outside the bank's regulatory reach.
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The yen has also climbed on scepticism that the Bank of Japan would act on warnings that it would step in to weaken the currency if it became too strong.
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Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova told a news briefing in Moscow that the intercepts followed a wave of "fake news" on the subject and should be regarded with scepticism.
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Ms Merkel's support for Mr Gabriel in criticising the US does not seem to imply any softening in her long-held scepticism over the Nord Stream 2 project per se.
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The 31-year-old eight-time Olympic gold medalist, currently recovering from a hamstring injury, accepted there might be some scepticism but said it had always been his boyhood dream.
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It has also drawn scepticism, with Adelaide United coach Marco Kurz questioning Bolt's open-ended trial, saying the A-League should focus on recruiting proven talents and improving Australian youngsters.
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These market participants will need to be convinced of the TRIM process if the ECB is to remove their scepticism of RWA calculations based on internal models, in our view.
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Li, asked about scepticism over the law, said there was no reason for China not to want to open up to the world, as it was the country's basic policy.
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Far cruder systems than Libratus have existed for a long time, but as well as scepticism over their efficacy, casinos have been able to detect and ban many of them.
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Mass sexual attacks on women in Cologne and other German cities at New Year that have been largely blamed on young migrant men have deepened public scepticism about her policy.
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Despite some scepticism about the firm's worth, it hit the $2 trillion market valuation long-sought by the prince on its second day of trading, only losing momentum on Tuesday.
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Details are to be worked out in a November meeting, but there has been some scepticism that the cuts will come to fruition given the growth in U.S. oil drilling.
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The delay comes as scepticism grows about the government's three-year campaign to revive the economy, with recent data showing retail sales fell in April for the second consecutive month.
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In contrast, Asian shares and U.S. stock futures both fell as growing scepticism about Washington's stimulus efforts to fight the coronavirus outbreak knocked the steam out of an earlier rally.
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When he announced last month that he had picked Christopher Wray, a former federal prosecutor and assistant attorney-general as next FBI boss, his choice attracted more scepticism than is traditional.
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Government officials who are members of the board have repeatedly voiced scepticism about the privatisation plans which focus on Deutsche Bahn's Arriva passenger transport business Arriva and its Schenker logistics arm.
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"We see any rallies in the rand being met by profit taking and scepticism that President Ramaphosa can transform the economy," said Christopher Shiells, emerging market strategist at Informa Global Markets.
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The two central banks have in the past expressed scepticism about digital currencies such as bitcoin, with the UAE central bank saying it did not recognise bitcoin as an official currency.
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Image by Lindsay via Wikipedia In an era where everything online is built to go viral, it can be easy to get bogged down by scepticism and over-zealous eye rolling.
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Calls for a euro zone budget have been greeted with great scepticism in traditionally parsimonious Germany, but Le Maire said possible future economic crises would endanger the single currency without one.
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Enthusiasm for social media is related to scepticism towards traditional media, says Cornelius Puschmann of the Alexander von Humboldt Institute, a Berlin-based think-tank—and Americans have plenty of both.
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FRANKFURT, Oct 21 (Reuters) - Italy's economy minister Pier Carlo Padoan dismissed on Friday a suggestion the European Commission had expressed scepticism about the country's budget, which is being examined by Brussels.
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Behind this broad strategic imperative lie a plethora of secondary motivations—and it is the number and variety of these that prompts scepticism about the coherence and practicality of the project.
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FIRE the director of the FBI while he is overseeing an investigation into your campaign, and your choice of his successor is bound to attract even more scepticism than is customary.
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Interior Minister Thomas de Maiziere condemned those attacks and warned against a broader backlash against refugees following the events in Cologne, which have deepened scepticism towards Merkel's policy of welcoming migrants.
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And as if those were not sufficient grounds for scepticism, the commission is viewed with suspicion by the State Department's own human-rights division, which has had no hand in it.
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In Washington, the Canadian and Mexican embassies trade tips on which American senators are pliable and which are tepid on trade (both worry about the trade-scepticism of newly-arrived Democrats).
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There is also scepticism that North Korea has yet produced a re-entry vehicle that would protect the warhead on its path through the Earth's atmosphere at velocities travelled by ICBMs.
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Appearing exasperated with the EU's austerity policies has a double advantage: it casts the blame for Italy's lacklustre economic performance elsewhere and lends Mr Renzi an air of fashionable euro-scepticism.
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Legrand described the scepticism surrounding the future Cannes winner, in which a cast led by a young Catherine Deneuve sing their dialogue rather than songs in the traditional style of musicals.
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"Semiconductor vendors have been talking about an H2 '19 recovery since January and have been met with some scepticism in some parts of the market," said Liberum analysts in a note.
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Afghanistan's international partners have insisted that the elections should be held this year before a presidential vote due in 2019, although there has been widespread scepticism that they will go ahead.
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There were few signs of shareholder scepticism at the meeting, with questions fielded by Son including a request to shake his hand and whether he had thought of becoming prime minister.
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"We should not focus on red lines, but rather on common horizons," Lindner said when asked about Macron's calls for deeper euro zone integration, an area the FDP views with scepticism.
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There may be scepticism - history and cinemas are littered with the residue of failed attempts to introduce smell into our lives going back to the 1930s - but companies sniff a revival.
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With Brexit looming at the of next month and scepticism towards the euro still simmering among the backbenchers of Italy's ruling coalition, Draghi warned about the risks of going it alone.
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"It would have to be table-thumpingly cheap to make valuations themselves offset people's scepticism about Europe's ability to grow," said Kevin Gardiner, global investment strategist at Rothschild & Co Wealth Management.
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Many greeted Ozil's claims of racism with scepticism, prompting thousands of others to come forward with their own experiences, attempting to highlight a problem that people from majority communities rarely experience.
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Some China trade watchers expressed scepticism that a $200 billion reduction in the trade gap could be achieved quickly and said the offer may include repackaged commitments previously announced by China.
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The European Commission and U.S. President Donald Trump have criticised Chancellor Angela Merkel for Germany's large trade surplus, while scepticism towards free trade is mounting in some poorer euro zone countries.
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Speaking to Reuters in his office overlooking the Russian embassy on Unter den Linden avenue in Berlin, Schroeder pushed back against a wave of scepticism towards China sweeping across western capitals.
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U.S. President Barack Obama said on Thursday the United States was resolved to try to make the cessation of hostilities deal work but that "there are plenty of reasons for scepticism".
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Besides recent disruption to European auto production and slowing global demand, Valeo and its CEO Jacques Aschenbroich face increased scepticism over the short- to medium-term outlook for heavily automated cars.
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Saudi authorities say the operation that led to Khashoggi's death was meant to repatriate him alive, but their shifting accounts - including initial denials - have been met with scepticism and furor abroad.
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Whitaker has expressed scepticism about the Mueller investigation, which is overseen by another official, Rod Rosenstein, who is preparing to leave his job soon after a new attorney general takes office.
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Johnson's ability to overcome deep European scepticism and salvage the stranded negotiating process was forged during an off-the-record countryside stroll with Ireland's leader, Leo Varadkar, on Thursday, Oct. 10.
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LONDON (Reuters) - Cancer doctors struggling to work out the best way to use modern immunotherapy drugs now have further evidence of the benefits of adding them to chemotherapy, despite earlier scepticism.
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Ever since Hammerson's deal with Intu was announced, it has been met by scepticism from Hammerson investors as it increased the company's already high exposure to a squeezed UK retail sector.
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In recent weeks, Pakistani leaders have suggested that they are tired of conflict, opposed to extremism and open to peace talks with India, but those offers have been met with scepticism.
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The sources said investors had expressed scepticism about investing in the company, which focuses on emerging markets in Latin America and Asia, and operates The Iconic, Zalora, Dafiti and Lamoda platforms.
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But scepticism over the government's plans reigns, as a new terminal for Kaduna was still being built in January and airlines have said they will not fly there to keep servicing Abuja.
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The sources also said that investors had expressed scepticism about investing in the company which, focussing on emerging markets in Latin America and Asia, operates The Iconic, Zalora, Dafiti and Lamoda platforms.
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That could lead to ever-lower participation rates in decades to come, draining the legitimacy of governments in a vicious spiral in which poor turnout feeds scepticism towards democracy, and vice versa.
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"The profession needs to address audit quality as a matter of urgency," Randell said, adding that auditors need to show "robust scepticism" and an ability to challenge management at companies they audit.
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In the face of this scepticism, the late Patriarch Alexy was obliged to profess agnosticism over the identity of the bodies, as a way to avoid massive internal rifts within the church.
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Less appealing, to a president who rails against immigrants and maintains scepticism about their contributions to society, may be the background of the lead neurologist on the team that developed the assessment.
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The combined weight of this economic evidence and policymakers' intuition is hard to ignore, and seems to justify scepticism about the growth prospects of China, Malaysia, Thailand and many other emerging economies.
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Pilot costs would be cut by 15 percent and cabin crew by 40 percent under the proposals, which were greeted with scepticism by pilots' unions when presented by Air France last week.
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However, those plans were met with scepticism in Europe, especially among former communist countries such as Poland, which have been trying to wean themselves off energy supplies from their former Soviet overlord.
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Renzi said the recovery time of overdue debts would now be reduced to as little as 7-8 months but investors reacted with scepticism as the decree mostly applies to new loans.
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SCEPTICISM FAILURES Fines in Hong Kong are based on up to three times the fees or profits made by the regulated group or person, less a discount for cooperation with the investigation.
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Analysts used to think there was a case for a further update to the 747 freighter, to replace planes that will be retired in the 2020s—but now there is much scepticism.
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However, there is scepticism that coal will see a prolonged revival once Trump takes office because demand from the power sector has been declining since the emergence of shale gas in 2005.
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LISBON (Reuters) - The global economy is going through a time of high uncertainty, with protectionist tendencies, euro scepticism and growing populism, European Central Bank governing council member Carlos Costa said on Monday.
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"(Copper has) failed to share within the gains of the broader complex, suggesting that market scepticism over the health of its fundamentals is both real and persistent," Barclays said in a note.
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There has long been widespread global scepticism about the reliability of Chinese data, especially as the government has sought to reduce expectations of a protracted slowdown in the world's second-largest economy.
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It has also drawn plenty of scepticism, with Adelaide United coach Marco Kurz questioning Bolt's open-ended trial and saying the A-League should recruit proven talents and "improve young Australian players".
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But the mood has quickly soured on scepticism that the two sides can reach a substantive deal on a host of highly divisive issues within the tight 20.2-day timeframe set out.
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SoftBank made a follow-up investment in The We Co., one of its biggest tech bets, at a $47 billion valuation earlier this year — a number widely treated with scepticism by analysts.
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Former officials in Washington and Tokyo reacted with scepticism to the North's offer of talks on denuclearization, seeing a familiar pattern of threats followed by talks that fail to win significant concessions.
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It added that growing scepticism about the world economy in many industrialised countries would weaken demand for machines, services and cars made in Germany, where one in three jobs depends on exports.
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Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan has expressed scepticism about Saudi's changing explanations of the killing and has called on the kingdom to hold to account all those responsible, no matter how highly placed.
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While there were always doubts whether China can boost U.S. farm purchases by the dollar amount agreed to in the interim deal, the outbreak of coronavirus has only added to the scepticism.
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But the mood quickly soured on scepticism that the two sides can reach a substantive deal on a host of hugely divisive issues within the tight 20.4-day time frame set out.
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China's drive for electric vehicles, driven in part to combat often suffocating urban smog, has put pressure on Japan's Toyota Motor Corp to re-think its earlier scepticism about battery-electric technology.
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But deep scepticism remains about Kim's intentions, and Daniel Russel, until recently the most senior U.S. diplomat for Asia, said that the joint declaration fell short of an explicit commitment to denuclearization.
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Shire shares ended 2.8 percent down at 38.20 pounds, well below Takeda's 21986 pounds offer, signaling scepticism about the deal as Takeda's falling stock price erodes the bid's $215.2 billion headline value.
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The move could potentially throw government energy policy into disarray, with the nuclear industry only recently starting to get reactors back online amid widespread public scepticism after the meltdowns at Fukushima in 2011.
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Novo Banco has also taken the unprecedented step of undertaking not to target the bonds via further LMEs for 24 months, though investor scepticism remains high after the transfer of securities in 2015.
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However, U.S. officials say the plan will demand compromises from both sides, despite scepticism from Palestinians who have refused to deal with a White House that they regard as too biased towards Israel.
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I had read about her social media scepticism and how she values her 'right to be wrong', and so I asked her, 'Do you worry about what social media is doing to society?
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The administration of Donald Trump, elected among other things on a wave of Islamo-scepticism, seems to be toning down its collective antipathy towards all things Muslim and charting a more pragmatic path.
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"Although there is lots of scepticism about what the review can achieve, we are a tad more optimistic," Mutjaba Rahman, managing director of the think tank Eurasia Group, said in a note Tuesday.
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European Parliament lawmakers expressed scepticism that the United States was serious about ensuring protection for European privacy rights and said what the U.S. side was offering was well short of legally binding assurances.
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People found it hard to believe that the project was not flying one denominational flag or another, and the charity had to work hard to overcome their scepticism by operating on secular lines.
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But scepticism about new medicines can resonate strongly on a continent where some pharmaceutical trials have faced accusations in the past of failing to obtain informed consent and providing subpar care to participants.
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Some law experts and business consultants have expressed scepticism about how effective the law will be in protecting foreign firms from compelled technology transfers, given a lack of rule of law in China.
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There has long been deep scepticism about the accuracy of economic indicators in India, a country of 21.5 billion people of whom 21 percent are estimated to be part of the grey economy.
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Separately, the CFO said demand for combustion engines would keep growing on an annual basis through about 2025 despite increasing scepticism among customers amid a discussion about public driving bans for diesel vehicles.
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There has long been widespread global scepticism about the reliability of Chinese data, especially as the government has sought to tamp market expectations of a protracted slowdown in the world's second-largest economy.
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"There is a general scepticism towards a proper rate hike cycle by the Fed - that's been driving down the dollar (but)there's probably not that much room left for dollar weakness," she said.
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GENEVA (Reuters) - Saudi Arabia said on Monday it was working hard to correct mistaken targeting by its military coalition in Yemen that has killed civilians including children, but U.N. rights experts voiced scepticism.
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His death sparked global outrage and pitched the world's top oil exporter into crisis, putting the West's relationship with Riyadh into sharp focus given scepticism about Saudi Arabia's shifting explanations of the killing.
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"At this time we are going through great uncertainty, with protectionist tendencies, euro scepticism, Brexit, the Italian referendum and populism," Costa, who is also governor of the Bank of Portugal, told a conference.
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Since then, the number has steadily fallen, reflecting increased scepticism about the ethics of the death penalty, fewer states where the punishment remains valid and less willingness by state officials to implement it.
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Fund managers had expressed scepticism on Monday that a bounce in the rand would last, given major concerns over the weak economic growth outlook and alarming pace at which government debt is growing.
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Shares have fallen 41 percent since the announcement on growing scepticism over whether the move can fix the group's operational issues, hurting the valuation of Thyssenkrupp's assets, Ingo Speich of Deka Investment said.
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Some Jordanians regard the trial with scepticism, saying it will fail to mollify anger over perceived rampant corruption among senior officials in a country whose economy has also been hit by regional conflict.
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However, the manner in which Tshisekedi took office, through a vote riddled with irregularities, and how he now governs, still largely beholden to Kabila-era officials, ensured that Mambele's scepticism never went away.
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This is the ECB's most powerful weapon, but over half a dozen policymakers, including the central bank chiefs of Germany, France, the Netherlands and Austria have expressed scepticism about the need for it.
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Although this is the ECB's most powerful weapon, over half a dozen policymakers, including the central bank chiefs of Germany, France, the Netherlands and Austria have expressed scepticism about the need for it.
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But the mood has quickly soured on scepticism that the two sides can reach a substantive deal on a host of hugely divisive issues within the tight 20.6-day time frame set out.
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At the time, it provisionally indicated a June 2017 deadline for the amendments to the Bank Recovery and Resolution Directive (BRRD), though whether such a deadline was feasible immediately met with broad scepticism.
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Many investors view Chinese data on the virus, dubbed SARS-CoV-258.39, with a great deal of scepticism, but there are hopes that officials will roll out more stimulus to support the economy.
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Facebook's high-profile attempt to draw cryptocurrencies into the mainstream with its Libra coin has met with regulatory scepticism globally, with France and Germany pledging to block the currency from operating in Europe.
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Mersch also expressed scepticism about a proposal, launched by Irish governor Philip Lane at Europe's financial risk watchdog, to create European Safe Bonds synthetically by pooling and tranching the debt of individual countries.
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Optimism over a rapprochement between U.S. President Donald Trump and China's Xi Jinping at the weekend G20 meeting was replaced by scepticism and left Wall Street braced for another day in the red.
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On Wednesday, a senior U.S. official voiced scepticism at China's claim that dozens of countries were backing its position, saying it was not clear even about what those countries may have agreed to.
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The AMS takeover bid was met with scepticism from the outset, with investors questioning its ability to integrate a company with more than twice its revenue and nearly three times as many employees.
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The AMS takeover bid was met with scepticism from the outset, with investors questioning its ability to integrate a company with more than twice its revenue and nearly three times as many employees.
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Even though the coalition deal takes a markedly positive tone on Europe, there may be more scepticism in the lower house of parliament, the Bundestag, which ultimately controls fiscal and euro zone policy.
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Kim and Trump agreed to work toward the complete denuclearization of the Korean peninsula, an agreement that has been met with both praise and some scepticism that it will lead to tangible changes.
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Its climate defiance grows not only from the power of its fossil-fuel industry and the scepticism of the Republican party, but also from a sense of insulation from the costs of global warming.
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Still, the citizens' wage has drawn scepticism from labor experts who say the job centers are a weak link that is unlikely to be fixed in the five months before it is rolled out.
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At the end of July, Transneft set a cap of $15 per barrel on compensation for contamination, drawing scepticism from transit country Belarus and criticism from some buyers that the offer was too low.
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A third diplomat, who was also briefed on a purported ADF threat to U.S. facilities, expressed scepticism about the threat, which the diplomat said was flagged to U.S. officials by Congo's military intelligence service.
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The young across western Europe are more likely to hold a favourable opinion of the European Union, but it is their elders, who look upon it with greater scepticism, who hold sway with governments.
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This was at first denounced as further evidence of Mr Trump's strange crush on Vladimir Putin's regime, with which Mr Tillerson has done a lot of business, as well as his climate-change scepticism.
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But it's also implausible, given the level of scepticism Democrats on the committee voiced about the merits of Mr Kavanaugh's nomination, that time to survey additional documents would make a difference in their votes.
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North Korea seems "sincere" in its apparent willingness to halt nuclear tests if it holds denuclearization talks with the United States, Trump said on Tuesday, as U.S., South Korean and Japanese officials voiced scepticism.
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It was that insight that meant that an unassuming woman who took over the party leadership in 2000, amid the greatest of scepticism, is now executing an exit strategy entirely of her own design.
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That goes some way towards addressing my initial scepticism around delivering a program remotely that includes physical therapy and requires the patient to be disciplined and remain motivated enough for it to be effective.
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But this option, which is being studied by the ECB's staff and has already been adopted by countries such as Japan and Switzerland, met with widespread scepticism on the Governing Council, the sources said.
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MELBOURNE (Reuters) - Short selling of shares in lithium miners SQM, Albemarle, Galaxy and Orocobre has ballooned this year, reflecting what fund managers say is a sign of growing scepticism of an imminent battery boom.
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Despite scepticism from allies in the United States and Japan, officials in South Korea hope the talks lead to more than just friendly photo ops, including substantive improvements in relations between Seoul and Pyongyang.
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The case has put into focus the West's close relationship with Saudi Arabia - a major arms buyer and lynchpin of Washington's regional plans to contain Iran - given the widespread scepticism over its initial response.
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Local media have reported the FFA will conduct a review of the Stajcic decision but plenty of scepticism remains as to how willing the governing body is to hold itself up to the light.
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Yet the new range is likely to be met with some scepticism as British consumers have seen some of their most popular chocolate snacks scaled back in size in response to surging ingredient prices.
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Despite promises of jobs and better public transport for the small city that will host the opening and closing ceremonies, the athletes' village and many sporting events, there is scepticism about any potential windfall.
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Members of Merkel's conservative bloc opposed to larger financial contributions to the euro zone reacted with scepticism to her agreement with French President Emmanuel Macron to create a common budget for the currency bloc.
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The rise in output could add to scepticism about OPEC's ability to allocate its new production target of between 543 million and 33 million bpd, a task ministers left until a meeting in November.
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But her words drew scepticism, including from the former Brexit negotiator David Davis who said the pledge was little reassurance and that he would vote against parliament giving May's exit plan its required approval.
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Suggestions on social media that she might be a man were received with scepticism because of the sensitivity of her portrayals of female adolescence, friendship and the sometimes fraught relationships between mothers and daughters.
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Scepticism about a deal being reached in Algiers had prompted money managers to cut their bullish bets on U.S. crude futures to a one-month low last week, with prices falling nearly 5 percent.
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Italy's anti-establishment League/5-Star Movement coalition had nominated Savona to be its first economy minister last month, but President Sergio Mattarella vetoed the appointment because of Savona's scepticism about euro zone membership.
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The Italian banking index has lost 8 percent over the past three days, reflecting investor scepticism over the viability of Monte dei Paschi's plan and its potential implications for the rest of the industry.
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Rotation is meant to increase scepticism and avoid over familiarity, but it has largely been a merry-go-round among the Big Four as they have the global networks needed to check multinational firms.
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But while Afghan and U.S. officials have long warned of the risk that foreign fighters from Syria could move over to Afghanistan, there has been considerable scepticism over how many have actually done so.
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SOFIA, April 28 (Reuters) - A European Commission plan to tax the digital turnover of large companies drew scepticism on Saturday from some European Union states and the global rule-setting body on tax matters.
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An early rally in Italian bank stocks faded as some investors expressed scepticism over plans by Italian financial institutions for a 5 billion euro ($5.7 billion) fund to shore up the country's weaker banks.
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"This feeds scepticism about the coal exit," said Heide Schinowsky, a Greens lawmaker in the Brandenburg parliament, whose party is forecast to double its share of the vote in September, just like the AfD.
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While analysts are also convinced that the ECB will restart asset purchases, but scepticism or outright opposition from several key euro zone members like Germany, France and the Netherlands, makes this discussion more complicated.
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However, with the Taliban stepping up attacks in the capital Kabul and provincial centers across the country, the agreement has faced scepticism from several sides, including a number of former U.S. officials and politicians.
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To keep the deal alive, the remaining parties to the Iran nuclear deal are trying to maintain trade with Tehran despite scepticism this is possible despite U.S. sanctions to choke off Iranian oil sales.
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Voters are set to choose mayors for 35,000 town halls and almost half a million councillors in a vote overshadowed by the coronavirus outbreak and by growing public scepticism about traditional politics in France.
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Scepticism was widespread when Grillo, now 67, announced he was stepping back in a blog portraying himself as Forrest Gump, the slow-witted, athletic character played by Tom Hanks in the eponymous 1994 movie.
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A widespread failure to predict the 2007-09 financial crisis had been compounded by banking scandals, culminating in open scepticism towards experts ahead of last June's vote to leave the European Union, she said.
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Ayatollah Khamenei's scepticism over Rouhani's detente policy is echoed by his strongest challenger, Ebrahim Raisi, a hardline cleric seen as a possible future supreme leader, who says Iran has no need of foreign help.
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Teixeira said the enormity of the registration program was greeted with scepticism initially but by next year - the new deadline for registration - owners who are not on the CAR will not receive bank finance.
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The rise in output could add to scepticism about OPEC's ability to allocate its new production target of between 32.50 million and 33 million bpd, a task ministers left until a meeting in November.
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Given that scepticism, some see a recent run of court victories by utilities as the resurgence of an alliance of industry, government and host communities that for decades promoted the construction of nuclear facilities.
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In meetings with his party leadership on Monday, SPD chief Martin Schulz expressed scepticism about the first round of coalition talks with the conservatives and highlighted the main disputed issues, the SPD source said.
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Kerry has defended the proposal despite deep scepticism among top American military and intelligence officials, including Secretary of Defense Ash Carter and chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Joseph Dunford, over working with Russia.
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His remarks were greeted with scepticism in Washington, where officials cast doubt on whether Russia has added any new capabilities to its nuclear arsenal beyond those already known to the U.S. military and intelligence agencies.
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It was the latest in a series of spats between the ruling parties which have deepened public scepticism about the government's handling of the refugee crisis after 1.1 million migrants arrived in Germany last year.
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A promise to bring such a revolution to the way we travel might have been met with scepticism had it not come from a company that has been at the forefront of other big changes.
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BRATISLAVA (Reuters) - European Union finance ministers and central bank governors discussed on Friday the idea of a euro zone budget, called a "fiscal capacity", amid some scepticism if it was needed and under what conditions.
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Though he disagrees with Mr Trump over such issues as immigration, the environment and criminal-justice reform, when he sees common ground—for instance, their shared scepticism about open-ended foreign wars—he says so.
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Oil prices jumped as much as 3 percent on Monday on news that Russia was ready to join OPEC in a cut but pared gains on Tuesday amid scepticism over a real cut to supply.
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ZURICH (Reuters) - UBS Chairman and former Bundesbank President Axel Weber said on Wednesday bitcoin does not fulfil some of the most important functions of currency, the latest senior banker to express scepticism about the cryptocurrency.
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CHANTILLY, France, July 17 (Reuters) - Japan's Finance Minister Taro Aso said on Wednesday that various voices of scepticism over Facebook Inc's Libra digital currency surfaced at a gathering of Group of Seven (G7) finance leaders.
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Safran faced some scepticism from investors over the merits of mixing its engines and equipment with Zodiac's seats business, but says this will position the company for future developments towards smarter and more connected aircraft.
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It has drawn scepticism from several senior bankers, including JP Morgan Chase & Co Chief Executive Jamie Dimon, who called bitcoin a fraud and said he would fire any traders at his bank who touched bitcoin.
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Despite scepticism in Brussels over the tight timetable, May and her chief negotiator David Davis have been clear they want to have a full post-Brexit free trade deal sealed by the time Britain leaves.
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"The announcements likely won't eradicate the scepticism in the market over the BOJ's ability to achieve its inflation goal through additional easing," said Derek Halpenny, European head of market research at Bank of Tokyo Mitsubishi.
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Many in the EU fear importing Western Balkan problems and feuds, especially at a time when the bloc is still recovering from economic and migration crises that have fueled euro-scepticism among its own voters.
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A Thomson Reuters Foundation poll of 221 aid agencies, including large revenue-generating charities headquartered in the United States and Britain, also revealed scepticism that local non-governmental organizations (NGOs) can meet donors' compliance standards.
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North Korean President Kim Jong-un welcomed Trump's assertions of a personal connection between the two men, and agreement was reached on restarting stalled nuclear talks despite widespread scepticism in the U.S. national security establishment.
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BEIJING (Reuters) - Chinese Premier Li Keqiang, addressing scepticism over enforcement of a new foreign investment law, pledged on Friday that the government will follow through and do what the legislation promised in protecting foreign firms.
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Voters will begin choosing mayors for 35,000 town halls and almost half a million councillors in local elections this weekend overshadowed by the coronavirus outbreak and by growing public scepticism about traditional politics in France.
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Finland's Kone has offered about 0.33 billion euros for Thyssenkrupp's elevator unit, the highest bid so far, drawing scepticism from one of the German group's labour bosses who said price alone would not cut it.
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This initial scepticism has cost it billions of dollars in lost sales as Roche, Bristol Myers-Squibb and Merck and Co all cashed in with so-called PD-21 and PD-L210 checkpoint inhibitor drugs.
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However, views on the fiscal deficit target were mixed after the government raised it to 24.1 percent from its earlier forecast of 173 percent, with some analysts expressing scepticism about whether it would be achievable.
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Reuters poll graphic on 2020 economic growth forecast revisions from the October survey here Most central banks were expected to maintain their easing bias, despite increasing scepticism about their ability to influence growth or inflation.
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Layer in continuing ECB taper-talk, and some scepticism about the possibility of the Bank of England raising rates this year, and the euro could strengthen further against the pound in the remainder of 2017.
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As a result, prices have continued to rise despite scepticism about whether OPEC+ will actually remove extra crude from the market next year (OPEC+ deal isnt worth the paper its written on, Bloomberg, Dec. 219).
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Many have reacted with scepticism to the changing face of the Games, but not Joe De Sena, founder of the Spartan Race, one of many obstacle course race series attracting millions of participants a year.
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Jakob von Weizsaecker, senior member of the SPD, the junior partner in Germany's conservative-led coalition, voiced his scepticism over the proposal on Twitter, saying the government should raise environmental spending rather than support artificial yields.
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Tensions eased as the Koreas held talks against the backdrop of the Winter Olympics in South Korea last month, but Japan has expressed scepticism and warned that "talks for the sake of talks" would be unacceptable.
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Because of this, there is scepticism among many bankers and analysts over whether the purge will actually net the government $100 billion, which would be enough to pay for this year's projected budget deficit twice over.
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While some of the targets, such as cutting lavish energy subsidies, have been roundly applauded by economists as long overdue, others, such as a goal of ending dependence on oil by 2020, have provoked widespread scepticism.
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Merkel's centre-left coalition government has slowed approvals for all arms exports since taking office in March, an industry source said, reflecting widespread scepticism among a public whose views are still coloured by Germany's Nazi past.
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Entering social situations with a dual sense of scepticism and wild freedom, he allows as much time as required to discuss the background to his business, intelligently avoiding more emotional and personal topics with expert finesse.
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"The dollar's bias hasn't meaningfully brightened given deep market scepticism in the Federal Reserve firing an interest rate hike in the near future," said Joe Manimbo, senior market analyst at Western Union Business Solutions in Washington.
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The decision bred scepticism among investors over whether the central bank would hike rates at all this year after weeks of declines caused by weaker-than-expected economic data that was partly blamed on bad weather.
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The remaining parties to the Iran nuclear deal on Monday agreed to keep working to maintain trade with Tehran despite scepticism this is possible as U.S. sanctions to choke off Iranian oil sales resume in November.
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The audit will dispel scepticism in the oil industry about the size of Saudi reserves and provide assurance for potential investors in Aramco investors, should the initial public offering which has been delayed eventually go ahead.
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A U.S. Senate tax-cut bill, differing from one in the House of Representatives, was expected to be unveiled on Thursday, complicating a Republican tax overhaul push and increasing scepticism on Wall Street about the effort.
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TALLINN (Reuters) - A European Union plan to raise more tax from digital multinationals faced the first signs of scepticism on Saturday, as smaller members of the bloc warned about the economic impact from such a move.
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"My feeling is that, when you combine the scepticism that surrounds their policies and the contradictions that you see in their program, then life is going to be very difficult for this government," said Nomisma's Goldstein.
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Frustration is also growing among young people when it comes to politics, with youth voter turnout declining and scepticism about politicians growing despite an increase in free and fair elections across Africa, according to the foundation.
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These concerns were likely heightened by coalition talks between Italy's anti-establishment party 5-Star and the far-right League, both of which have expressed varying degrees of scepticism towards the euro project in recent years.
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BRUSSELS (Reuters) - A top European Commission official defended Malta's record on preventing money laundering in a parliamentary debate on Tuesday prompted by the murder of an investigative journalist, but a variety of EU lawmakers expressed scepticism.
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Despite widespread scepticism of many veteran bankers and fund managers, bitcoin is being propelled by a continued influx of retail buyers as well as promises of bitcoin futures opening the door to institutional investors, analysts said.
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Padoan told reporters at the end of the meeting that "protectionism was not discussed either explicitly or impicitly", in answer to a question about the scepticism of U.S. President Donald Trump towards multilateral free trade deals.
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So when the three men repeated the choreography in Geneva on September 9th—even Mr Kerry's red-checked tie (pictured) looked the same—observers could have been forgiven their scepticism about the latest great-power accord.
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Silicon Valley tech billionaire and Tesla Chief Executive Elon Musk earlier this month said his company should achieve its 5,000 cars-per-week target by the end of June, provoking scepticism from some Wall Street analysts.
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Vitor Constancio's suggestion was aimed at reviving a proposal for European safe bonds (ESBies) - effectively a pool of sovereign debt from all euro zone countries sold in tranches - which has met with scepticism from market participants.
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"We knew we wouldn't be able to win if we did what our rivals were doing," said Teruo Hirayama, technology chief of Sony's chip business, recalling initial scepticism around the technology that is now used widely.
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Despite widespread scepticism of many veteran bankers and fund managers, it is being propelled by a continued influx of retail buyers as well as promises of bitcoin futures opening the door to institutional investors, analysts said.
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With signs of euro scepticism growing in the bloc, Spain and Portugal in July escaped being fined by the European Union for not reducing their budget gaps to below 3 percent of their gross domestic product.
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But that met immediate scepticism given the rise of infections in the United States is now among the highest in the world, with the total cases reaching more than 50,000 - doubling in less than three days.
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His reform drive is viewed with scepticism by Merkel's conservative bloc, many of whom are wary of any measures that would see German taxpayers assume liability for other countries' debts and end up funding profligate states.
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A second source called Turkey's behavior "disruptive" as NATO tries to show it is united after U.S. President Donald Trump voiced scepticism about the alliance and French President Emmanuel Macron suggested it was experiencing "brain death".
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LONDON, Feb 276 (IFR) - Deutsche Bank bonds rallied on Wednesday following press reports of a possible buyback of senior debt, although market sources expressed scepticism about the long-term benefits of such a liability management exercise.
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Many investors view Chinese data on the virus, dubbed SARS-CoV-2, with a great deal of scepticism, but there are hopes that officials will roll out more stimulus to support the world's second-largest economy.
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"(With) continued production cut brinkmanship from both OPEC and Russia, scepticism is still rife about whether tomorrow's official OPEC meeting in Vienna will be a success," said Mike van Dulken, head of research at Accendo Markets.
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Trade lawyers in Washington say his administration has been good for business and invited a flurry of inquiries from US companies which see an opening to bring complaints that other administrations might have viewed with scepticism.
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But the price has plateaued in recent months due to scepticism about future growth, when the PlayStation 4 enters the late stages of its life and a profit boost thanks to recovery from earthquake damage disappears.
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Chancellor Angela Merkel has come in for criticism from U.S. President Donald Trump's administration for Berlin's large trade surplus with the United States, while scepticism towards free trade is mounting in some poorer euro zone countries.
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There is still some scepticism in the market over whether OPEC will cut output further, although it is accepted that the group is keen to support prices, with many analysts expecting an extension of existing cuts.
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There is still some scepticism in the market over whether OPEC will cut output further, although it is accepted that the grouping is keen to support prices, with many analysts expecting an extension of existing cuts.
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The lingering scepticism about the deal and ongoing relations between China and the United States also capped a rally in broader Asian peers, with the MSCI's broadest index of Asia-Pacific shares outside Japan up 0.27%. .
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FRANKFURT, April 12 (Reuters) - Bundesbank President Jens Weidmann expressed scepticism on Thursday over a proposal to reform the European Union bailout fund, the ESM, just hours after the European Central Bank said it supported the effort.
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There is still some market scepticism over over a deepending of cuts, though it is accepted that the producer group is keen to support prices, with many analysts expecting an extension of the existing supply pact.
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Macron proposed the idea more than a year ago but was met with scepticism by other European Union nations, the idea coinciding with the EU's launch of a landmark defense pact meant to promote joint military investment.
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How do we know, for example, that when Mr Trump withdrew his scepticism about Chinese sovereignty over Taiwan, that his sudden embrace of the One China policy had nothing to do with his business connections in China?
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One participant recalls a visit to a village in Shaanxi, a relatively poor province: the aim was to win sympathy by showing that China "was still a developing country, just like us", she says, her scepticism showing.
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A U.S. Senate tax-cut bill, differing from one already in the House of Representatives, was expected to be unveiled on Thursday, complicating a Republican tax overhaul push and increasing scepticism on Wall Street about the effort.
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Gabriel repeated his scepticism about the NATO target at the Munich Security Conference last week, while senior leaders from France, Poland and Estonia had demanded that all NATO members including Germany should stick to the agreed targets.
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SEOUL, July 19 (Reuters) - A company claiming to have found the wreck of a Russian warship with $130 billion in gold "treasure" off the coast of South Korea has drawn scepticism from researchers and regulators in Seoul.
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President Trump has frequently expressed scepticism about whether global warming is a result of human activity and has stood by his 2017 decision to withdraw from the Paris climate accord signed by almost 200 governments in 2015.
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"Certainly the news shows there are structural tensions between the United States and China that are far from being resolved and there is scepticism on both sides," said Jakob Christensen, head of EM research at Danske Bank.
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Separately, Fortum said some of its own investors had complained the Uniper deal would raise the company's carbon footprint, and had also voiced scepticism over the involvement in building the Nord Stream 2 pipeline for Russian gas.
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Sentiment also took a hit as global shares slumped on worries about the health of Deutsche Bank and as oil prices pulled back from near-one month highs on scepticism over OPEC's new plan to curb output.
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Despite Merkel's pledge, the survey showed deep scepticism in the population about Germany taking a more active role in international crises, with 52 percent of respondents saying the country should continue its post-war policy of restraint.
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But in a sobering report on the implications of these advances, UBS said they were likely to increase inequality across the globe, and the authors expressed scepticism about whether politicians could put a halt to this trend.
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The market scepticism stems from the fact that OPEC production has so far chased new records for much of this year as rivalling members like Saudi Arabia, Iran and Iraq are reluctant to give away market share.
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The appeal alleges that the "perception of favoritism" at the powerful institution, which is in charge of supervising banks and controlling monetary policy in the euro zone, risked demoralizing staff and fuelling euro-scepticism among the public.
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Esiner said that scepticism, combined with the more hawkish signals from other central banks, hurt the dollar because it disrupted expectations held since mid-2014 that the Fed would become less accommodative before several other central banks.
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This has led to scepticism about whether the government will be able to keep its promises in the face of tough EU negotiations and what failing to meet its promises might mean for the wider manufacturing sector.
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LONDON (Reuters) - A Financial Times report that the main elements of a Brexit treaty text are ready to present to the British cabinet on Tuesday should be treated with scepticism, British Prime Minister Theresa May's spokesman said.
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He also repeated his scepticism about multi-tiered deposit rates to help well-capitalised banks with excess liquidity, saying he would need to see clear evidence that negative interest rates were hurting lending to the real economy.
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TOKYO, March 2480.68 (Reuters) - Japanese stocks climbed above a 1-week high on Monday as investors shook off initial scepticism over the European Central Bank's latest stimulus package and speculated that oil prices could be bottoming out.
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But unlike a G7 leaders' communique of 2016, the Bari meeting did not endorse free trade and reject protectionism, reflecting pressure from the United States where President Donald Trump has signaled his scepticism about free trade deals.
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NEW YORK (Reuters) - Stocks that surged in recent weeks because of the cryptocurrency mania have managed to hold onto most of their gains despite the recent retreat in the price of bitcoin and scepticism from market participants.
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He also repeated his scepticism about multi-tiered deposit rates to help well-capitalized banks with excess liquidity, saying he would need to see clear evidence that negative interest rates were hurting lending to the real economy.
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Benjamin Griveaux, a junior economy minister, said he had heard a lot of scepticism about the government's ability to deliver on its program to revitalize France, but he was confident Macron would succeed where others had failed.
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JP Morgan, in a note, said scepticism over management's ability to turn around the capital goods business, which will form Thyssenkrupp's core after its exit from steel, was a key reason why the group's shares have underperformed.
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Past claims of practical lithium-air batteries have been met with scepticism, but in this case other workers in the field who are not involved in the study seem persuaded that Dr Li may be onto something.
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LONDON (Reuters) - Sterling edged lower on Thursday as the dollar gained ground ahead of next week's expected rise in U.S. interest rates, while scepticism about the prospect of a smooth Brexit transition deal also weighed on sentiment.
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S. trade talks, though scepticism over the absence of detailed progress was underlined overnight as the U.S. trade representative that he did not see any progress made on structural issues during U.S. talks with China last week.
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He faces sky-high expectations from his base of young supporters, who want him to fix rampant unemployment and poverty, but deep scepticism from others who see him as lacking the experience and knowledge for the job.
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But his reform drive is viewed with scepticism by Merkel's conservative bloc, many of whom are wary of any measures that would see German taxpayers assume liability for other countries' debts and end up funding profligate states.
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Rosneft boss Igor Sechin, a close ally of Russian President Vladimir Putin, has expressed scepticism about the effectiveness of the output reduction pact given that U.S. shale producers, who are not participating, continue to ramp up production.
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Ankara has argued that Washington should switch support for the Raqqa assault from the YPG to Syrian rebels Turkey has trained and led against Islamic State for the past year - despite U.S. scepticism about their military capability.
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Wall Street rallied sharply on Tuesday, helping reverse some of Monday's brutal losses, but that failed to translate into improved sentiment on Wednesday as scepticism grew about the stimulus package announced by Washington to fight the epidemic.
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But that met immediate scepticism given the rise of infections in the United States is now among the highest in the world, with the total cases reaching more than 218,219.46, doubling in less than 244 days recently.
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LONDON (Reuters) - Governments face a struggle at a United Nations summit in Spain next week to inject momentum into efforts to curb global warming, dogged by lack of consensus, U.S. scepticism and disruptive protests demanding more action.
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"The story going forward is about addressing scepticism on earnings delivery and franchise quality and a new CEO may be better positioned for this," Citi analysts James Shuck and Andrew Baker wrote in a note to clients.
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The energy group retreated 0.2 percent, even as oil prices hit their highest level this month as a growing market consensus emerged that OPEC would overcome internal disputes and scepticism to strike a deal materially reducing crude output.
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But it has had to deviate from this rule, introduced to overcome German scepticism when the scheme was launched in 2015, to avoid hitting a self-imposed ban on owning more than a third of each country's debt.
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Last week, the U.S. Treasury Department invited senior Chinese officials, including Vice Premier Liu He, to more talks on the tariff dispute, though scepticism remained high among trade observers on both sides over the prospects of a breakthrough.
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LAUNCESTON, Australia (Reuters) - It's not quite yet a flood but Australian resource companies are increasingly embracing renewable energies into their mining and natural gas operations even in the face of a federal government that veers toward climate scepticism.
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Despite continued scepticism among the conservative justices of the holding in Atkins, the court's liberal bloc plus Anthony Kennedy remain committed to curtailing the death penalty—although only Stephen Breyer seems convinced that it should be ended altogether.
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In an interview with the Funke Mediengruppe newspaper chain, Olaf Scholz expressed scepticism that changes in taxation - for instance, scrapping tax breaks for diesel as a fuel - would speed moves by the car industry to introduce cleaner cars.
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Each one has failed to become law due to legislators' scepticism about so-called safeguards, and concerns about how these laws might be abused by those who have something to gain financially or emotionally from another person's death.
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As the Forum declares: We believe that the fundamental values of Muslim Britons, such as the importance of the family, scepticism of state control, a belief in private enterprise, low taxes and personal responsibility make them natural Conservatives.
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That scepticism is not only because of self-inflicted weaknesses such as Europe's "tendency to favour incumbent business over disruptive newcomers", in the words of Greg Allen of the Centre for a New American Security, a think-tank.
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Crude oil futures edged up, supported by news of an attack on a Nigerian oil pipeline and a weaker U.S. dollar, after four days of falls over scepticism that a global glut in crude supplies could be stemmed.
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The drafting of the code has been met with widespread scepticism, with some experts convinced China's uncharacteristic support for it is aimed at placating Southeast Asian states while buying time to completes its military installations in the sea.
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Even if there is consensus on the military plan to fight Islamic State on Thursday, it is unlikely to diminish scepticism about broader U.S. policy in Syria, which has sought to limit America's role in the civil war.
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Though there is broad scepticism that any such deal will go through, sterling did rise 0.3% higher against the dollar to $1.2754, though this is only after having dropped 2.2% last week, its worst week since October 2017.
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Newly elected French President Emmanuel Macron's enthusiasm for a common euro zone budget and finance ministry - although, crucially, viewed with scepticism in Berlin - has also raised fears among eastern countries that they could lose out on EU funds.
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"We are seeing more euro scepticism in the market as expectations of an ECB rate hike has changed from the foreseeable future, with no firm timeline in sight," said Ulrich Leuchtmann, a currency strategist at Commerzbank in London.
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BRUSSELS, May 30 (Reuters) - The European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker will urge EU leaders at a summit next month to back free trade talks with the United States in the face of growing scepticism in member states.
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There was also scepticism that the ECB would be able revive inflation towards its near two-percent target long-term, with a key measure of inflation expectations in the currency bloc hitting a two-week low on Friday.
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Tesla's first quarter results disappointed both in terms of sales and a sharp drop in the number of vehicles delivered to global customers, and there was scepticism over promises of a return to profitability in the third quarter.
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Bankers and analysts said Mediaset had secured a cheap entry after ProSieben's stock touched seven-year lows in March, reflecting market scepticism over the turnaround effort pursued by Conze, who joined last June from UK appliance maker Dyson.
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But it also means that a force increasingly confident in its scepticism of Western defence and security policy has taken hold at the heart of British politics at a time when such matters are newly live and sensitive.
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Soriot said he remained confident AstraZeneca could achieve annual revenue of more than $40 billion in 2023, despite scepticism among analysts like Trinity Delta's Mick Cooper who said it was "difficult" to see how this would be done.
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China has channeled large amounts of loans and aid to the region and won favor with its calls for stronger action to tackle climate change, while the scepticism of the science from Washington and Canberra has caused concern.
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If Carney's worst-case scenario were to come to pass then such a crash in house prices would spell political death for any prime minister, though there was scepticism about the reports from his opponents and some economists.
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ZURICH (Reuters) - Switzerland will sign an accord backing China's Belt and Road Initiative when President Ueli Maurer visits China this month, cementing ties with a major trading partner as other Western countries view the gargantuan project with scepticism.
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Secretary of State John Kerry, who personally hammered out the agreement despite scepticism among some U.S. administration colleagues, told Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov that Washington would not start the agreed joint targeting of militants until aid arrives.
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"Information from the Turkish side affirms that the suspects in Khashoggi's case premeditated their crime," said the statement carried by state TV. Turkey and Western allies of Riyadh have voiced deep scepticism about Saudi explanations of the killing.
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Shares in Germany's flagship bank touched record lows below 9 euros in June on investor scepticism about the appointment of Christian Sewing as CEO and his strategy to refocus on its European core while slashing global investment banking.
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Wall Street had rallied significantly on Tuesday, helping reverse some of Monday's brutal losses, but that failed to translate into improved sentiment on Wednesday as scepticism grew about the stimulus package announced by Washington to fight the epidemic.
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ISTANBUL (Reuters) - Turkey's president insisted on Wednesday his country would not allow those responsible for Jamal Khashoggi's killing to avoid justice, keeping up pressure on Riyadh amid global scepticism over varying Saudi accounts of the prominent journalist's death.
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Wall Street had rallied sharply on Tuesday, helping reverse some of Monday's brutal losses, but that did not translate into improved sentiment on Wednesday as scepticism grew about the stimulus package announced by Washington to fight the epidemic.
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AMSTERDAM, March 24 (Reuters) - In a break with traditional Dutch scepticism about spending by the European Union, Finance Minister Wopke Hoekstra said on Tuesday the EU should spend more to counter the economic fallout from the coronavirus outbreak.
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Other board members are unlikely to support Kataoka because of worries over the side effects of prolonged quantitative easing, but the minutes highlight the scepticism the BOJ faces after ditching the timeframe for its 2 percent price target.
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BUENOS AIRES (Reuters) - The next agriculture minister of grains powerhouse Argentina will be Luis Basterra, President-elect Alberto Fernandez said on Friday, an appointment met with some scepticism by farmers worried about a possible revival of interventionist policies.
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Fiji's Prime Minister Frank Bainimarama, who will host next year's climate meeting in Germany, invited Trump to drop his scepticism about climate change and visit the South Pacific nation to see the effects of stronger storms and rising seas.
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Its historically-rooted scepticism about hard power (slowly waning, as the country's deployments in Mali, Afghanistan and Lithuania and rising defence spending show) prompt it to build other sorts of defences: geopolitical alliances, diplomatic compromises, long-term development investments.
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ASHKELON, Israel (Reuters) - Israel accused U.S.-based Christian relief group World Vision's Gaza representative on Thursday of funneling millions of dollars in aid money to Hamas, charges that the Islamist militant group denied and the charity voiced scepticism over.
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The right-wing government of Prime Minister Viktor Orban has often expressed scepticism about some NGOs, and a vice chairman of his Fidesz party earlier this year said some foreign-funded NGOs should be "swept out" of the country.
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FARNBOROUGH, England (Reuters) - Britain's showy launch of a new fighter jet project at this week's Farnborough Airshow has laid bare political tensions that are threatening to tear Europe apart and deepened scepticism about the future of European defense cooperation.
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China is keen to bring Latin American countries on board as well, though the initiative has started to face rising scepticism as some countries, such as Sri Lanka, have become saddled with debt that they are struggling to repay.
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North Korea seems "sincere" in its apparent willingness to halt nuclear tests if it held decentralization talks with the United States, President Donald Trump said on Tuesday as U.S., South Korean and Japanese officials voiced scepticism about any discussions.
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But some analysts said the vote highlighted the scepticism at his pro-business economic agenda felt by a large chunk of voters and played out in the streets over the past six months during anti-government 'gilets jaunes' protests.
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Despite scepticism among voters, investors and Greece's lenders, Tsipras is trying hard to position himself as a post-crisis leader who can steer the country out of the bailout programme next year in time for elections due in 2019.
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There has been scepticism about whether such a huge transition could take place on time - or even at all, and in a blog post two of U.S.-based Franklin Templeton's top debt managers warned serious problems were already emerging.
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Despite much initial scepticism and mockery, the results, presented this week, involved fully 1.9m contributions to an official online forum, 000,134 town-hall meetings, 16,337 "books of grievances" submitted by mayors, 27,374 emails and letters, and 21 citizens' assemblies.
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"Despite a lot of scepticism, this will be a well participated auction, particularly for the people who do not have a good 4G footprint," said Sandip Das, senior adviser at industry consultant Analysys Mason and a former telecoms executive.
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Merkel, by contrast, was attending her 12th such gathering, and clearly believed she had overcome climate change scepticism at a 2007 summit, when she convinced the then U.S. President George W. Bush to pursue substantial cuts in greenhouse gases.
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The United States is pressing China to end "business as usual" with its North Korean ally, but in Yanji, 30 km (19 miles) from the border and home to many ethnic Koreans, the mood was one of resigned scepticism.
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Indeed, had any economist in early 2007 predicted the effective collapse of much of the banking sector, and the deepest recession since the 1930s, they would have faced either deep scepticism or similar accusations of "talking the economy down".
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TOKYO (Reuters) - Fewer Japanese households expect prices to rise in coming years compared with three months ago, a Bank of Japan survey showed, suggesting growing scepticism about the central bank's ability to accelerate inflation through its massive money printing.
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Though, in what is perhaps a sign of innate world weariness, it feels necessary to resist this tide of positive thinking and maintain a healthy level of scepticism, Fernandes' optimism and ebullience wash some of our subliminal reservations away.
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British Prime Minister Theresa May told parliament her plan on Monday for a Brexit transition period with broadly the same access to EU markets was met with scepticism from pro-Brexit lawmakers fearful of a watered-down EU exit.
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North Korea seems "sincere" in its apparent willingness to halt nuclear tests if it held denuclearization talks with the United States, President Donald Trump said on Tuesday as U.S., South Korean and Japanese officials voiced scepticism about any discussions.
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TOKYO, March 19 (Reuters) - Shares of SoftBank Group Corp closed down 17% on Thursday in their biggest one-day fall, hammered by investor scepticism over the outlook for tech bets, such as office sharing firm WeWork and ridehailer Uber .
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Nintendo Co stumbled 9.2 percent and was the most traded stock by turnover after it slashed its full-year hardware forecast for the hybrid home-portable Switch console, revising a figure that had been treated with scepticism by investors.
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There is expected to be plenty of interest in the fight, which will be held inside T-Mobile Arena, even though there is also scepticism about how competitive it will be given that McGregor has never boxed professionally before.
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There is scepticism that coal will see a prolonged revival, even in the United States, when Trump takes office in January, because demand from the power sector has been in decline since the emergence of shale gas in 2005.
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When regulators announced last month that scandal-plagued Libor would be replaced by the end of 2021, there was scepticism among some industry players over whether such a huge transition could take place on time - or even at all.
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It could deliver a new blow to Trump's efforts to resolve the Israeli-Palestinian conflict through a peace plan that has been in the works for more than two years but has drawn widespread scepticism even before its release.
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However, there are tensions between U.S. scepticism and the optimism of South Korean President Moon Jae-in, who wants to use the Games to improve relations with the North and open the door to eventual talks on its weapons programs.
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BRUSSELS (Reuters) - A plan to help fund projects across Europe and revive economic growth has exceeded its original financing target and created many hundreds of thousands of jobs, the European Commission said on Wednesday, countering scepticism expressed by EU auditors.
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Those plans, as with reform proposals floated this month by European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker, may run into increased scepticism in Berlin, where many are wary of what they see as more demands for German bailouts of states like Greece.
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Turkey and Western allies of Riyadh have voiced deep scepticism about Saudi explanations of the killing, with Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan dismissing Saudi efforts to blame rogue operatives and urging the kingdom to search "top to bottom" for those responsible.
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That largely reflects market scepticism that the U.S. Federal Reserve, which also meets on Wednesday, will push on any time soon with rises in interest rates that the rest of the world economy still looks too shaky to deal with.
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This has added to northern European scepticism about pushing forward with EDIS, an idea which senior euro zone officials have described as now being "on life support" because of German worries they would have to guarantee deposits in Italian banks.
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The visit of the delegation, which included North Korean leader Kim Jong Un's younger sister Kim Yo Jong, intrigued many in South Korea, but also met scepticism about the North's sincerity and willingness to give up its pursuit of nuclear weapons.
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A deal would allow SoftBank, which reports its earnings on Wednesday, to offload a troubled asset when its other tech bets are facing investor scepticism and it is struggling to raise funds for a successor to its $100 billion Vision Fund.
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The announcement late in the European day on Thursday of a speech by U.S. Federal Reserve Governor Lael Brainard also had dealers speculating that she might draw back on her long-held scepticism about a near-term rise in interest rates.
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The abruptness of Labour's late surge, combined with an unusually large degree of disagreement between pollsters and some unusually high projections for youth turnout, has prompted scepticism about whether Mrs May is in as much danger as recent surveys suggest.
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In 2006 Ben Bernanke, then the chairman of the Federal Reserve, expressed scepticism about the danger indicated by the yield curve, noting that he "would not interpret the currently very flat yield curve as indicating a significant economic slowdown to come".
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These glimmers of scepticism about the reach of Chevron—and hints that the justices may employ the "rule of lenity" to give the benefit of the doubt to the defendant—suggest that Mr Esquivel-Quintana has a chance of avoiding deportation.
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Her centre-right Christian Democratic Union is on hair-trigger alert to block any moves towards a euro-zone "transfer union"; its coalition partners, the ailing Social Democrats, have alighted on scepticism towards military spending as a vote-winning strategy.
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Much of what is best in later conservatism was built on Burke's response: his scepticism about radical change and his belief that, human nature being what it is, the passions of the people must be checked by authority and good judgment.
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"We fully expect the current scepticism of the BoE's guidance to ebb away, which will provide increased support for the pound as we advance toward the next key policy meeting on 2nd August," said Lee Hardman, FX strategist at MUFG.
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The cases represent a setback to costly efforts to contain the virus, including the use of an experimental vaccine, and show efforts to stem its spread can be hampered by age-old customs or scepticism about the threat it poses.
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A poll by ORB International on Tuesday showed a record 66 percent of Britons disapprove of May's handling of Brexit talks, up from 64 percent last month, with increasing scepticism that leaving the EU will make the country better off.
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There is rising scepticism that Merkel's coalition will survive until 2021 after SPD leader Andrea Nahles quit two weeks ago in the wake of her party's losses in European Parliament elections and a regional vote in the state of Bremen.
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The collapse of the peace process leaves U.S. policy on Syria in tatters and is a personal blow to Secretary of State John Kerry, who led talks with Moscow despite scepticism from other top officials in President Barack Obama's administration.
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Conversely, Nintendo Co stumbled 9.4 percent and was the most traded stock by turnover after it slashed its full-year hardware forecast for the hybrid home-portable Switch console, revising a figure that had been treated with scepticism by investors.
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Economists said prospects for global trade were clouded given scepticism over whether the United States and China could reach a durable deal to end a 15-month long tariff dispute that has upended global supply chains and slowed world growth.
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After initial public scepticism over the poem about Erdogan, which refers to bestiality alongside alleged mistreatment of Kurds and Christians, Germans are now championing artistic freedom, a sensitive topic given the country's 20th century history of Nazi and Communist repression.
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"The IT pack has come out with disappointing numbers and it (L&T Infotech) has got listed in an environment when there is lot of scepticism about the IT sector outlook," said Gaurang Shah, vice president, Geojit BNP Paribas Financial Services.
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"The relentless increase in U.S. shale supply has offset the production cuts that OPEC and Russia agreed and so there is still a scepticism within supply and demand balance," Alan McIntosh, chief investment strategist at Quilter Cheviot, told CNBC on Friday.
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"There are growing doubts in parts of the population that state institutions are able to master this," he warned, adding this scepticism was likely to shake up the political landscape and new parties were set to enter more regional parliaments.
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Goel and his company made headlines last year with the "Freedom" smartphone, which was priced at 251 rupees ($3.77), attracting strong demand but also widespread scepticism and scrutiny from regulators even in price-conscious India, where cheap smartphones are big sellers.
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As a platform that promotes transparency, Neptune drew early scepticism from some dealers wary of its impact on their ability to make markets, though this was addressed by allowing providers to control the amount of information seen by each subscriber.
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Nearly 25 years on from the landmark 1995 trial, sex workers still struggle to obtain justice over rape and other attacks at work as they face scepticism from officials and fear of being prosecuted themselves, said ECP member Niki Adams.
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But the sources said there was far more uncertainty than usual surrounding the drafting of the G20 communique because of the Trump administration's confrontational rhetoric on trade and currencies, and its scepticism about whether humans are contributing to global warming.
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This is steep, given that in 2018 wind expansions slowed to 2.2 GW and in 2019 to 0.5 GW, while solar additions ranged only near 3 GW in both years, due to red tape and scepticism over legislative and acceptance hurdles.
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A 10 percent rise in U.S. production this year and the painfully slow decline in global oil inventories, which OPEC says must return to their longer-term average before the output restriction can disappear, has fed trader and investor scepticism.
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BAGHDAD (Reuters) - When Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi pledged in December that Iraq would retake Islamic State's de facto capital Mosul by the end of 22014, the target was greeted with scepticism by Western allies and officials within his own government.
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The poll also indicates some scepticism about the methods and effectiveness of intelligence-gathering and community campaigns to identify drug users in need of rehabilitation, some of whom, activists say, have been killed after their names appeared on "watch lists".
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It was not immediately clear how North Korean allies China and Russia would vote, but a senior U.S. official on Friday night expressed scepticism that either nation would accept anything more stringent than a ban on imports of North Korean textiles.
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BERLIN/BRUSSELS (Reuters) - Germany voiced scepticism on Friday about a European Union proposal to create "safe" assets backed by euro zone sovereign bonds, arguing there are better ways to break the link between banks and governments that exacerbated the financial crisis.
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Her admission, though tinged with scepticism, is likely to be seen as a victory by EU lawmakers and bankers in Italy, who have lobbied hard against ECB measures they fear could hurt economic growth and conflict with the planned EU law.
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BERLIN (Reuters) - Angela Merkel's German coalition deal with the Social Democrats (SPD) was greeted with more scepticism than joy on Thursday, as some said the loveless alliance, born of desperation, showed the conservative chancellor's time was coming to an end.
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Officials said it was unclear, however, if Trump's policies would match the pro-EU language which Pence used on Monday or that of White House strategist Steve Bannon, whose scepticism about the bloc had been reflected in Trump's earlier comments.
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"We fully expect the current scepticism of the BoE's guidance to ebb away, which will provide increased support for the pound as we advance towards the next key policy meeting on 2nd August," said Lee Hardman, FX strategist at MUFG.
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The Swiss cabinet is due to address the situation on Friday, with leaders of all four coalition parties expressing scepticism that a deal can emerge this year ahead of elections in both Switzerland and for the European Parliament in 2019.
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It has also faced growing scepticism over its intervention in Yemen, where the United Nations says millions of people could starve to death because of supply lines disrupted by a Saudi-led war against the Houthi movement which controls the capital.
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However, there are tensions between U.S. scepticism and the optimism of South Korean President Moon Jae-in, who wants to use the Games to improve relations with the North and open the door to eventual talks on its weapons programmes.
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Erdogan has in recent days stepped up pressure on Saudi Arabia to come clean in the case, and Western governments have also voiced increasing scepticism, pitching the world's top oil exporter and a pivotal Middle East ally into a worsening crisis.
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Putin's boasts about the new weapons have been greeted with scepticism in Washington, where officials have cast doubt on whether Russia has added any new capabilities to its nuclear arsenal beyond those already known to the U.S. military and intelligence agencies.
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BERLIN (Reuters) - A migrant policy deal struck by Chancellor Angela Merkel to save the German government drew scepticism on Tuesday from her Social Democrat coalition partners, who said more talks and work were needed to make the disputed proposal fly.
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Echoing deep scepticism among the Palestinians, Arab countries and analysts, Saeb Erekat, the Palestinian chief negotiator, said that the Trump administration was siding with Israel on the core issues of the decades-old conflict, burying all chances for Middle East peace.
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There was widespread scepticism that all producers would actually make the promised cuts, but compliance with the announced reductions is now estimated to be between 80 and 90 percent as especially OPEC's de-facto leader Saudi Arabia has enforced sharp production cuts.
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"Given U.S. scepticism that South Korea may have oversold Kim's willingness to denuclearise, how President Moon delivers his sincerity toward denuclearisation to Trump would be a key factor for the fate of their second summit," Lee told a forum on Monday in Seoul.
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LONDON (Reuters) - British Prime Minister Theresa May told parliament her plan on Monday for a Brexit transition period with broadly the same access to European Union markets but was met with scepticism from pro-Brexit lawmakers fearful of a watered-down EU exit.
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Bond yields in the likes of Germany, France and the Netherlands edged higher as data showed a rise in euro area inflation and Bundesbank President Jens Weidmann expressed scepticism about a proposal to grant banks some relief from negative central bank interest rates.
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Both are looking extremely resilient in the face of expectations of more easing by the Bank of Japan and the ECB; as that looks substantially like a reflection of scepticism that either bank has enough fire power to weaken their currency durably.
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Mrs May's claims to have got the best Brexit deal might be met with scepticism from Brexiteers, many of whom see reducing migration as the main reason for leaving the EU. Disappointed former UKIP voters could even be seduced by nastier political forces.
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Add in the fact that the Volkswagen and now Mitsubishi woes have led to scepticism regarding the whole industry's grandiose claims on emissions and fuel efficiency and you wonder if a whole new world of pain is about to beset all carmakers?
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The move will help bring China's calculations for the value of its goods and services more in line with global standards set by the United Nations and other world organizations, amid widespread investor scepticism about the accuracy of the country's official data.
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SPD General Secretary Lars Klingbeil told Die Zeit newspaper's online edition that he understood the widespread scepticism in his party about agreeing to a re-run of the 'grand coalition' that governed Germany in the last four years, but warned against the alternative.
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Rehn, seen as a potential successor to ECB President Mario Draghi, emphasised the need to continue providing stimulus to the economy and joined a growing number of policymakers in expressing scepticism about giving banks relief from a charge on their idle cash.
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LONDON (Reuters) - Sterling inched away from its weakest levels since January on Monday as Britain's prime minister made a last-ditch bid to get a Brexit deal through parliament before she leaves office, though scepticism from the opposition Labour Party capped gains.
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But the measures met scepticism from lawmakers, global technology firms and privacy groups, reflecting a debate raging in the West over how state authorities can operate effectively in the digital age without overly intruding into people's lives or risking the security of data.
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NEW YORK (Reuters) - The U.S. dollar held around a nearly 14-month low against the euro on Thursday on growing expectations of more hawkish monetary policies in Europe and Canada and on scepticism of another Federal Reserve interest rate increase this year.
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The latest Digital News Report from the Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism found high scepticism about news and comment, with 33 percent of more than 70,000 consumers polled in 36 countries saying they can't rely on the news to be true.
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BERLIN, June 20 (Reuters) - Members of Chancellor Angela Merkel's conservative bloc opposed to larger financial contributions to the euro zone on Wednesday reacted with scepticism to her agreement with French President Emmanuel Macron to create a common budget for the currency bloc.
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The news produced a strong bounce in the yuan early this week, but gains have started to fizzle amid growing scepticism over whether Washington and Beijing can reach a substantive deal on deeply divisive issues in such a short period of time.
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Overcoming such scepticism, and fuelling alarm for its neighbours and the United States, may be the intended effect, with significant domestic propaganda value ahead of the May ruling party congress, said Yang Moo-jin of the University of North Korean Studies in Seoul.
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"A number of left-wing figures have expressed scepticism towards Macron's policies on election night, providing only a lukewarm endorsement of the former economy minister, " Antonio Barroso, deputy director of research at Teneo Intelligence, said after the first round of the presidential vote.
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Moon will cross the border into the North for his third meeting with Kim Jong Un on Tuesday, amid scepticism over whether the North Korean leader was serious about denuclearization, a goal vowed at his summit with U.S. President Donald Trump in June.
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While enjoying many highs, including Chris Froome's four Tour de France titles, Team Sky's 'winning clean' ethos was tarnished by scepticism after a package delivered to Bradley Wiggins before his 2012 Tour win was the subject of a U.K. Anti-Doping (UKAD) investigation.
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Senior officials on both sides of the EU-UK negotiations on May's deal have voiced scepticism to Reuters about the "Norway pivot" idea, saying it seems far removed from British demands for more control over rules and could need lengthy new talks.
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South Korea and the United States have shown scepticism over the North's statements about rapid progress in its nuclear and missile programs ahead of a ruling party congress in May, where analysts expect it to declare itself a major nuclear weapons state.
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In our earlier article on Mr Wright's self-outing, which went live at 8am this morning, we pointed out several reasons for scepticism, prime among them the fact that he refused to provide us with additional proof that he is Mr Nakamoto.
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TOKYO/OSAKA, Japan (Reuters) - Japan's Nintendo Co Ltd on Thursday slashed its full-year hardware forecast for the hybrid home-portable Switch console, revising a figure that had been treated with scepticism by investors and added to pressure on its share price.
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The prospect of supply restraint by the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries and rivals has boosted oil prices to almost $36 a barrel from a 12-year low close to $27 last week, despite widespread scepticism that a deal will happen.
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SINGAPORE/BENGALURU (Reuters) - International lessors have grounded more Jet Airways planes prior to potentially moving them out of India, as scepticism builds whether a state-led bailout of the carrier can clear their dues on time, sources familiar with the matter said.
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But even before the trading day ended, major U.S. indexes pulled back from intraday highs on scepticism that Washington and Beijing can resolve their deep-seated differences in the three-month negotiating window that was agreed, after which tariffs could escalate again.
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LONDON (Reuters) - When Team Sky launched in London in 2010 with the ambition of having a British winner of the Tour de France within five years, there was more than a modicum of scepticism at the undoubtedly flashy new boys in the peloton.
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Despite the scepticism in Brussels, the British government and financial lobbies TheCityUK, City of London financial district and UK Finance banking lobby, are unified in backing a "mutual recognition" blueprint for EU market access after Britain's departure from the bloc next March.
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Three bankers who looked at the three projects say foreign money has been put off so far by a lack of detail on what protections financiers would have in the event of a default and scepticism about when they would see returns.
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President Donald Trump had also pressed his case for a re-opening of the U.S. economy by mid-April, though that met with immediate scepticism given the rise in infections in the United States is now among the biggest in the world.
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U.S. President Donald Trump had also pressed his case for a re-opening of the U.S. economy by mid-April, though that had met immediate scepticism given the rise of infections in the United States is now among the highest in the world.
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"I'm flying out for a roadshow over the next couple of weeks so we'll see all of the guys again (...) We'll figure out if there's scepticism or criticism," Krause added after Liberty Global said it would not change the terms of the sale.
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"I'm flying out for a roadshow over the next couple of weeks so we'll see all of the guys again (...) We'll figure out if there's scepticism or criticism," Krause added after Liberty Global said it would not change the terms of the sale.
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Despite government talk this year about opening some restricted sectors to overseas investment, some foreign business groups express scepticism, even as U.S. President Donald Trump is expected to seek some concessions for American businesses during his planned visit to Beijing in early November.
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The four days of high-level meetings marked the latest step by Trump's aides aimed at opening the way to renewed peace diplomacy between Israel and the Palestinians, despite scepticism in the United States and Middle East over the chances for success.
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The pro-Western government of Prime Minister Zoran Zaev has said it hopes to hear from the EU in June when Skopje can start talks on membership, but that prospect is clouded by scepticism within the bloc about the wisdom of further enlargement.
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TOKYO (Reuters) - Emojis of a cuddly brown bear and his flatulent rabbit girlfriend Cony are met with investor scepticism as the company behind Line, the popular Japanese messaging app, prepares to kick off what's touted to be the world's biggest IPO this year.
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"The market has seen these kinds of headlines before and then we get a push back, so there is some scepticism about what we will see," said Jane Foley, senior currency strategist at Rabobank, referring to the expected government proposals for the backstop.
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SEOUL, Jan 24 (Reuters) - South Korea's push to resume tourism with the North is aimed at resetting border ties, but must overcome Pyongyang's scepticism and chart a careful course around U.S. efforts to pressure leader Kim Jong-un into eliminating his nuclear arsenal.
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Kosgei said she was disappointed by the scepticism in some quarters that the record went to Kenya, a country that has had its reputation as a world leader in athletics tarnished by the use of performance-enhancing drugs by some of its athletes.
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An analysis of more than 400 global equity and European active fund holdings by Barclays strategists indicates conviction levels among fund managers are low and cash levels high relative to historical averages, indicating some scepticism about the sustainability of the market rally.
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U.S. President Donald Trump said on Wednesday that North Korea no longer poses a nuclear threat and his top diplomat offered a hopeful timeline for a "major disarmament," despite scepticism from critics that Pyongyang will abandon its nuclear weapons following this week's summit.
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"Given U.S. scepticism that South Korea may have oversold Kim's willingness to denuclearize, how President Moon delivers his sincerity toward denuclearization to Trump would be a key factor for the fate of their second summit," Lee told a forum on Monday in Seoul.
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Turkey, which supports Syrian rebels, and Iran, which backs Syrian President Bashar Assad, agreed earlier in the day to Russia's proposal for "de-escalation zones" in Syria, a move welcomed by the United Nations but met with scepticism from the United States.
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Overcoming such scepticism, and fuelling alarm for its neighbors and the United States, may be the intended effect, with significant domestic propaganda value ahead of the May ruling party congress, said Yang Moo-jin of the University of North Korean Studies in Seoul.
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Some experts said the canceled meeting might add to scepticism in Washington that Moon might have misled Trump on North Korea's willingness to abandon its nuclear weapons program, although U.S. officials have held at least two face-to-face meetings with Kim in recent weeks.
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Since the end of my last relationship, I'd been a bit wary of the opposite sex and had gone into every new dating app chat with a degree of scepticism (especially as I am plus-size – more on this later), however Robert seemed different.
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Perhaps it began when the upbeat Wilkommenskultur ("welcome culture") accompanying Angela Merkel's decision to keep the borders open to refugees in 2015 curdled into a scepticism about how culturally compatible the newcomers really were—with several high-profile cases of migrant crime fuelling anxieties.
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"While the commitment to freeze production at current levels underwhelmed, in the absence of any prospect of an agreement from Iran anything else was always going to be treated with a healthy dose of scepticism," said Michael Hewson, chief market analyst at CMC Markets.
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LONDON (Reuters) - The London Metal Exchange has reached a 50:50 revenue-sharing deal with a company founded by a group of banks to promote trade in its new gold futures contracts, sources said, aiming to overcome market scepticism surrounding their launch in June.
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Although in the 1990s America's Bureau of Reclamation developed similar techniques to study the potential risks to large dams from very rare, extreme flooding, most Western hydrologists have tended to regard such things with scepticism, highlighting the difficulty of reliably interpreting the geological record.
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RIYADH (Reuters) - As Saudi Arabia faced intensifying international scepticism over its story about the death of journalist Jamal Khashoggi, a senior government official laid out a new version of the death inside the Saudi consulate in Istanbul that in key respects contradicts previous explanations.
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BERLIN, Jan 23 (Reuters) - The rail divisions of Siemens and Alstom are world champions and are both able to compete in the market, the European Union's Competition Commissioner Margrethe Vestager told Die Zeit newspaper, signalling scepticism over a planned merger of their rail businesses.
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That scepticism may, however, be unwarranted, for research published in Current Biology this week by Samuel Mehr and Manvir Singh of Harvard University provides evidence that music does indeed permit the communication of simple ideas between people even when they have no language in common.
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Making an initial statement on the Privacy Shield deal, European privacy campaigner Max Schrems, whose legal action against Facebook ultimately brought down the original Safe Harbor, expressed scepticism the deal goes far enough to stand the test of another legal challenge at the ECJ.
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The public questioning of the figure of 350 million pounds, which was emblazoned on the side of a campaign bus, gave it prominence and the message got through to voters rather than the scepticism around whether Britain would actually have that amount to spend.
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India also benefited from a rebound in global demand with activity expanding for a second month, not entirely surprising given data a day earlier showed annual growth expanded 7 percent, though the strong number raised scepticism among economists on the quality of the figures.
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Some conservatives including the OVP leader backed Van der Bellen for the mainly ceremonial post of president despite their traditional scepticism about the Greens due to uncertainty over the stance of Hofer and his FPO towards the EU. "People found this (ambiguity) irritating," said Zweytick.
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The euro's runaway strength - it is up 13 percent against the dollar this year - is a blow to exporters and has led to some scepticism that European companies will be able to keep delivering double-digit growth and analyst sentiment is starting to sour.
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Any deal however is likely to face intense scrutiny from American lawmakers and other officials who have expressed scepticism that North Korea is really willing to give up its weapons, and concern that a compromise could undermine the United States' interests in the region.
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MUMBAI (Reuters) - A proposal by India's central bank to set up new private or state companies that would buy up bad debt from lenders was met with widespread scepticism by bankers on Wednesday, who warned the plan would add more complexity and delay any restructuring.
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