sow doubt

He looked sure of himself and sounded convincing enough to sow doubt.

But, instead of sowing doubt, all he managed was confusion.

At the meeting near Atlanta, for example, his opponents were doing their best to sow doubts in the crowd.

He sowed doubt where for a fortnight there had been certainty.

Harmless, perhaps, but just jarring enough to sow doubts about other details.

To relieve the repression of the human spirit, they must sow doubt and disruption.

North Korea is bringing sanctions on itself by sowing doubt about its nuclear intentions.

They are also sowing doubts about how much bomb-making plutonium the North may have already produced.

He cursed Lady Ursula for coming here and sowing doubt within him.

This encouraged their own side while sowing doubt in the mind of Prince Aaron and his men.

But the size, secrecy and aggressiveness of both programs have sown doubt among federal and private experts.

As a countertactic, I have tried to sow doubt, or to stonewall.

They sought to sow doubts about her loyalty in her followers' minds, she said.

He has sown doubts in my mind.

"Tuek will sow doubt and suspicion just by his presence.

She was sowing doubts in his mind.

I'll try to sow doubts in their minds."

Sowing doubts could be a useful weapon.

Sow doubt and discord, obstruct facts and knowledge whenever possible.

Her campaign is also ailing from lackluster fund-raising, which has sown doubts about whether she will be able to compete with the others in advertising.

The policy appears to treat missile defenses as another way of sowing doubt in the minds of a potential enemy.

By sowing doubt in the declarer's mind, she succeeded in defeating an "easy" game contract.

"I'm not trying to sow doubt, Sherman.

President Bush is not attending soldier funerals, as previous presidents have, avoiding a television image that could sow doubts in viewers' minds.

The article described one group's plan was to "sow doubt about climate research just as cigarette makers had about smoking research".