Advertisements in newspapers seeking secretaries and clerks and leads for musical productions were best read skeptically.
Their cries will be heard skeptically, given their part in the latest overleveraging episode.
White House spokesman Tony Fratto reacted skeptically to the proposal by House Speaker Nancy Pelosi.
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Obama must also deal skeptically with China when it comes to national security.
All through the company's spectacular run, the stock was priced skeptically in relation to the growth that was actually coming.
As our bus pulled into the dirt lot, we skeptically looked around for the plant, not immediately realizing that we were looking at it.
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In the other case, Obama's team urged the Supreme Court to overturn California's voter-approved same-sex marriage ban and look skeptically at similar bans in other states.
These, he believes, have taught investors, Wall Street analysts and energy company executives to expect price volatility and greet predictions of permanently high energy prices skeptically.
If the idea is to spread them out in some way (for troop training, insurgent fighting, population protection, etc.), his request should probably be viewed skeptically.
For example, libertarians typically view government regulations skeptically.
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If there is a truism we should by now have come to accept, it is to avoid single point extrapolations, look skeptically at the accepted wisdom of the day, and listen for the whistling wings of the Black Swan.
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In 1973, Wolfowitz, who had been teaching at Yale, joined the U.S. Arms Control and Disarmament Agency, where he was among a group of hawks who reacted skeptically to the Strategic Arms Limitation Talks agreement, which Henry Kissinger had negotiated with the Soviet Union.
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