Example sentences for: misgivings

How can you use “misgivings” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • The Nixon Library's gloss on Nixon's remarks about Jews ends by pointing out that despite Nixon's initial misgivings about appointing Herbert Stein to chair the Council on Economic Advisors (Stein, who prior to his recent death was a Slate contributor, was also Jewish),

  • It's USAT that recognizes this as the most damaging detail, emphasizing it above all else in its headline--"Soldiers Lack Confidence in Their Officers"--and lead: "Soldiers have deep misgivings about their commanders and don't feel confident about following them into combat, a harsh Army report said Thursday."

  • Despite Pavitt's misgivings, the CIA leadership cleared the draft memorandum and sent it on to the National Security Council.

  • An evil fate of this kind befell a friend of mine from Gloucestershire who went to live in Germany near a town called Scheidt , the pronunciation of which proved to substantiate his worst misgivings.

  • During the first years of Nazi anti-Semitic incitement [says Bankier], most Germans ("large sectors," "the bulk," "sizable parts") found "the form of persecution abhorrent," expressed "misgivings about the brutal methods employed," "remained on the sidelines," "severely condemned the persecution," etc.


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