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I, for one, never doubted that it would.
Of course, such legislation will have unanticipated consequences, which future studies will unearth, but the intent behind it cannot be doubted.
Most agreed that it will center on a bipolar confrontation between the US and China; but they doubted that it will resemble the Cold War and interwar periods.
Larry Summers and I both doubted that this could be generally true.
Last year, many investors questioned the ECB's ability to launch a bond-buying program in the face of German opposition, and many others doubted the Fed's willingness to tighten monetary policy, because doing so could choke off the US economic recovery.
Not too long ago, many pundits doubted that China could make the shift from an economy dominated by labor-intensive manufacturing, exports, infrastructure investment, and heavy industry to a service economy underpinned by domestic demand.
In all these cases, the liability holders – i.e., the depositors – have been promised liquidity, yet that promise cannot be kept if it is ever doubted.
It is being doubted now.
And even those who did know something about American power, doubted that the Americans would accept the dangers and expense of defending Europe against Communism after Nazi Germany was defeated.
At the time, no one ever doubted that American power – already endowed with nuclear weapons – was the only counterpart.
When the Conservatives came to power in 2010, many doubted that he would serve a full term as Prime Minister.
Such was the confidence in the Conservatives' political monopoly that, after the last elections, many commentators doubted whether a Labour government would ever be returned to office.
Would European Central Bank President Mario Draghi’s vow in the summer of 2012 to do “whatever it takes” to save the euro have been nearly as effective if investors doubted Germany’s underlying financial strength and resolve?
This no one doubted.
But some of Keynes’s other contemporaries, notably the British economist Joan Robinson, always doubted that he deserved so much credit for ushering in the new order.
Nobody ever doubted that Ukraine had changed vastly in its twelve years of independence.
After five and a half years of war no one doubted the inevitability of occupation.
Many doubted that North Korea would keep its word on giving up its nuclear-weapons programs, and the North Koreans did not disappoint them.
But both its identity and faith in its word are now doubted by almost everyone outside the country.
If European monetary union has proved more resilient than many thought, it is only because those who doubted it misjudged this political dimension.
Many doubted his sincerity – and that of the political parties that supported him -- and branded the proposals as marketing gimmicks.
Indeed, it was the EU that pushed the US, which initially doubted Europe’s commitment, to launch the negotiation process in June 2013.
Meanwhile, the American intelligence community will not soon forget that Trump doubted their probity in the matter of Russian hacking to influence the election in his favor.
When the Maastricht Treaty was ratified in 1993, many people doubted whether Economic and Monetary Union would work.
None of us – and no one on the Latin American left – would have doubted for a moment that defending human rights was everyone’s responsibility, and that the international community should come down hard on governments that tortured and killed their own people.
Throughout my career I never doubted that Germany would one day regain its unity some time in the future.
While Americans saw in Bahrain’s protests in 2011 a people’s democratic aspirations, no one in the region doubted that the real source of the troubles was a restive Shia majority (perhaps inspired by Iraq, or even, as Sunni Arabs claimed, Iran) trying to remove a Sunni monarchy.
In America, columnists and editorialists questioned and doubted US policies.
Since these trials took place in complete isolation from the rest of the world, with no impartial observers or foreign journalists present, it is to be doubted, strongly, that the defendants received anything remotely like a fair trial in accordance with international judicial standards.
The efficacy of timely and sincere apologies in defusing personal tensions cannot be doubted.
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