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After all, when Mao’s China made a dash for nuclear weapons in the 1960s, its rationale was little different from that of North Korea today, but no one doubted that deterrence would work.
Even after the country hosted vaccine trials in the mid-2000s, many of us on the frontlines of the fight against HIV doubted that such a breakthrough would ever happen.
We weren’t close friends, but he and I worked together in critical situations, and I never doubted his sincerity.
But as with those who doubted the reality behind American economic growth five years ago, this view is also emphatically wrong.
Before the November elections, many people doubted that the decentralized, leaderless, politically inexperienced, and socially controversial Salafi groups could garner strong support in the elections.
Looking ahead, the appreciating euro (another surprise, especially to the many observers who doubted its survival less than two years ago) will compress the eurozone’s current-account surplus to some extent.
The fact that Ahmadinejad has been allowed to serve out his entire second term – an outcome that the media often doubted – reflects the importance to Khamenei of maintaining an image of a stable Iran.
These supposed enemies have included former Yukos Oil Company Chairman Mikhail Khodorkovsky, who doubted Putin’s fitness to be president; the anti-corruption lawyer Alexei Navalny, who was investigating Putin’s wealth; and the punk rock group Pussy Riot, who mocked the Russian Orthodox Church, a core constituency for Putin.
The urgency of the problem cannot be doubted.
Suddenly, everyone doubted the integrity of the financial accounts of American companies.
No one ever doubted that the Euro would gain acceptance as a currency - in economists' jargon, that the Euro would become an important "medium of exchange," or even a good "store of value."
Senegal’s Resilient DemocracyDAKAR – Many commentators doubted whether democracy in Senegal, a country whose population is 95% Muslim, would survive its most recent presidential election, in which the incumbent, Abdoulaye Wade, sought a controversial (and only semi-legal) third term.
Here, too, a large segment of the electorate told pollsters that they doubted the legitimacy of the official result.
I have long doubted that the annual meeting of leaders from Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, the United Kingdom, and the United States serves any useful purpose.
Russian officials have publicly doubted that he was a Russian citizen.
Modi’s words surely came as a relief to those who doubted the government’s willingness to stand up against its own sympathizers.
His courage as a prisoner of war for five years in Vietnam seems to be doubted only by Trump, and the dignified way he is battling brain cancer today has only heightened the esteem in which most Americans hold him.
No one doubted that Trump would receive a warm welcome in Poland.
Immediately after 1989, few doubted that the alliance would still be around 20 years later.
No one doubted that the US was the epicenter of the global financial crisis.
Keynes and Leontief doubted there would be enough jobs left for workers to do.
Because savers are now sure the money is theirs (many previously doubted this), any future attempt to engage in redistribution across savers is sure to meet political resistance.
I was anxious, having recently heard the story about an American economist who doubted that a joke he was about to relate in a public lecture would survive translation.
And they have doubted the legality of some of the ECB’s measures, although none of the legal challenges have been successful.
'I have doubted, and still doubt, everything,' replied Levin in a voice unpleasant to himself, and stopped.
Even the holy Fathers doubted and prayed God to strengthen their faith.
He forgot all that he had thought of his picture during the three years that he had worked at it, forgot all its merits, which he had not doubted, and saw it from the fresh point of view of an indifferent stranger, and he saw nothing good in it.
Both knew with certainty what Life was and what Death was, and though they would have been quite unable not only to answer but even to understand the questions which confronted Levin, neither doubted the importance of those phenomena, and they both had exactly the same outlook upon them – an outlook shared not only by them but by millions of others.
I see that Anna is happy, quite happy, she has already told me so,' said Dolly smiling; and involuntarily while saying it she doubted whether Anna was really happy.
'No, I understood him just as he understands them: understood completely and more clearly than I understand anything in life; and I have never in my life doubted it, and cannot doubt it.
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