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  • n  the disbelief in any claims of ultimate knowledge

  • In Haditha, where a Marine patrol killed 15 civilians on the morning of Nov 19, the news is certain to be greeted with mystification and scepticism.
  • In its citation, the academy called her "that epicist of the female experience, who with scepticism, fire and visionary power has subjected a divided civilisation to scrutiny.
  • That's where within a week after all the development and design and gigabytes of both hype and scepticism mass production will begin on the state-of-the-art, low-price .
News & Articles

  • Newsweek defends choice of Cowen at top ten world politician
    Newsweek magazine has defended its choice of Irish Prime Minister Brian Cowen as one of their top ten politicians worldwide after widespread scepticism in Ireland where the government and its leader are deeply unpopular.
    June 29, 2013 - Irish Central
  • BlackBerry hits bump in turnaround road, shares plunge
    TORONTO (Reuters) - BlackBerry's total market value plunged by more than one-fourth on Friday after the smartphone maker reported dismal quarterly results, prompting ever-deeper scepticism about a long-promised ...
    June 28, 2013 - Reuters via Yahoo! Finance
Quotes

  • Charles Schumer in The Guardian
    Just a day after there was much hoopla about the Chinese finally changing their policy, they are already backing off. It vindicates our initial scepticism,he told Reuters.
  • Efraim Zuroff in guardian.co.uk
    Ruediger has been lying,Zuroff told the Associated Press. "Either he is lying now or he was lying before, and he has a vested interest in this so anything he says has to be taken with a certain amount of scepticism and suspicion and the...

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