At a time when Athens sought to stabilize and recover from its humiliating defeat, the Athenian public may have been entertaining doubts about democracy as an efficient form of government.

Before long, he begins entertaining serious doubts about her death and wonders if somehow she escaped the car bombing and for mysterious reasons has remained in hiding.

But as the clock ticks down to another showdown in Iowa, they could be forgiven for entertaining private doubts as to whether that will be enough to win.

As part of this process, entertaining doubts and engaging in internal debate over them is encouraged in some traditions.

Excuse me for entertaining doubts.

He can be drily amusing at the expense of Rimbaud and his often embarrassing biographers, while never entertaining doubts about the value of the poetry.

For example, it was suggested that a sloppily made mezuzah or entertaining doubt about Moses' crossing of the Red sea opened one's household to dybbuk possession.

Lanzecki might swear that the Ballybran spore did not confer any psychic enhancement but Killashandra was entertaining severe doubts on that score.

There are grounds for entertaining doubts as to the effectiveness of this legal instrument, and there are also hitherto unthought-of adverse effects.

In time, however, Montaigne would be recognized as embodying, perhaps better than any other author of his time, the spirit of freely entertaining doubt which began to emerge at that time.