However, I doubt whether such ideas will cut much ice with the closet elitists.

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Speaking as one who lived in Asia for a decade, I doubt whether these values are held as strongly outside the U.S. and (to a lesser extent) Europe.

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"I doubt whether we should have a system whereby the quality of the bar drives student choice and student choice drives the survival of our institutions in higher education, " she said.

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In order for us to do so we'd have to be able to argue that, on the basis of what Pollard says, we would have been justified in making a summary dismissal of the former director general and I doubt whether we would get the legal go-ahead for that.

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If any changes in features were allowed, I doubt most seriously whether the code could ever be debugged.

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And I doubt very much whether any one of us would be at all surprised to hear that Huffington Post does something similar.

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"I doubt very much whether children understand that sort of thing until say 11 or 12 and certainly not at seven and eight, " he added.

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"I don't doubt my quality, whether I am playing with two strikers or just one, " Gyan told BBC Newcastle.

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It is pretty difficult to argue against that, in the sense that there may be some sales and productivity benefit derived by Germany and the US from the conspicuous pride shown by many of their citizens in the success of their industrial giants (although whether those incremental benefits are measurable, I rather doubt).

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As to whether new leader DeMaurice Smith and the union will use it, I doubt it.

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He probably had views on whether Italy should be in the euro, gay marriage and the endangered Siberian tiger but I doubt it's relevant to keeping Sunderland in the Premiership.

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If I once guessed at whether some of my friends or family were decent writers, reading their blogs removed all doubt.

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