Sentences with phrase «also dubious»

Second, it assumes that the vote count from last night is still accurate, which is also dubious, as Politico Florida's Matt Dixon reported that House Republicans who are against the school safety bill are seeing their projects and priorities stripped out of the budget.

Assuming that the effects of GHG reductions on hurricane intensity are instantaneous and exactly proportional to emissions concentrations (also dubious assumptions, but lets go with them) under full and successful implementation of Kyoto, including the participation of the US, the reduction in projected damages would be about $ 0.03.»

The time I've spent with the game has been amazing, and there are some truly stand out moments that need to be celebrated, but there are also some dubious design choices that have been made that I can only hope Bungie will change.

Most of the science in the film is also dubious.

There is also a dubious amount of homophobia from Jules's parents — fear for their daughter's sexual orientation.

Based on past work, they're also dubious that sources of methane such as landfills and leaky pipelines will be equipped to capture the gas before it escapes into the atmosphere.

(Progressives are also dubious.)

His disciplinary record is also dubious — he holds the Liga BBVA record for red cards — and his defensive positioning has been criticised [Metro].

Some of Ring's editorial choices are also dubious» for instance, his inclusion of some long decisions that are likely to bore or bewilder his intended audience.

Bahuguna's second principle — that one who takes less from nature is to be more honored than one who takes more — is also dubious from a Christian perspective.

Not exact matches

The province has also promised to close loopholes that facilitate «shadow flipping» — a dubious practice (thought to inflate the market) whereby brokers resell properties several times before the deal is closed to capitalize on multiple commission payouts.

They are also of dubious legal status.

While the Dogs can boast about having the best - performing Dow component among their group, they also hold the dubious distinction of counting the three - worst performing issues among their fold.

We will continue to police the market and enforce when necessary... But we are also urging market professionals to do proper gatekeeping to prevent frauds or dubious fundraising to assist us in ensuring compliance with the law.

Since December, bitcoins can not only be traded at more or less dubious exchanges, but also as futures at the CME and CBOE.

Theo another definition of... Philioism (also known as Toperism and kermitism) accepting all knowledge as absolute fact if your a priori beliefs agree with that knowledge no matter how dubious the source.

It also applies to our food, much of which comes to us in the supermarkets overpriced and laced with chemicals of dubious value.

Accordingly, he suggests not only that Christians should be allowed to contribute to today's academic debates on an equal footing with, say, Marxists or feminists — a goal most Christian academics would applaud, as would I — but also ventures the more dubious suggestion that a Christian perspective may transform the relativism that bedevils today's scholarship and provide a more dependable foundation for knowing and believing.

It is also a fact that some scientists who reject religion also reject evolution, or think the theory highly dubious.

Followers of Falwell must also address the narrative instability inherent in their leader's own biography, a theatrical tale ridden with attention - grabbing, often ethically dubious episodes.

It appears to us, as it does to many other critics, (see WM; see also PS 2: 216 - 21; PS 3: 15 - 25; PS 5: 195 - 203) that Whitehead himself here commits the «fallacy of misplaced concreteness» inasmuch as he puts a dubious multiplicity in the place of clear - cut unities.

It is dubious not simply because the tone of inflexibility tends to close off conversation, rather than to foster it, but also because the uniqueness of belief in Jesus as God - Man is one of the things that the conversation has placed in doubt.

In any case, if Neville's Platonism has led him to formulate the ultimate issue in a misguided manner, his dubious interpretation of Hartshorne stems also from an objection which he (CG 63 - 66) and David Pailin (PS 4: 194f) have raised independently against Hartshorne's position.

The only way we can maintain that the predicted happenings are «contained in» the present state of the universe described in the premises is to read back into the premises the dubious thesis at issue, that all events that are definite now are also actual now.

In literary - critical judgment, it has been common to see the second as a duplicate, and perhaps an historically dubious explanation of the proverb, «Is Saul also among the prophets?»

Tory former minister Lord Patten also argued there had been «dubious virtue signalling» around last year's agreement.

«He (Vlasic) has also been accused of «the diffusion of dubious doctrine, manipulation of consciences, suspected mysticism and disobedience towards legitimately issued orders», and is suspected of heresy and schism.

Despite the recent spate of dubious / unsavoury incidents in the PL we are also miles behind in terms of gamesmanship and simulation.

I also suspect that his emphasis on handling the matter privately, in the context of Mr. Hurts having just gone public with it, could move the needle towards Tua even more, but perhaps that's wishful thinking or dubious narrative - building.

The fact is that we lost to a better team who also got the benefit of two or three dubious refereeing decisions.

Will also take a draw tomorrow, but tempted to put my house on a city win, possibly in dubious circumstances.

-- Last season's St James» Park encounter finished goalless despite Man Utd dominating possession and creating more scoring opportunities, while their first league meeting of this season, at Old Trafford, also finished as a draw, 1 - 1, with Demba Ba converting a dubious penalty to cancel out Javier Hernandez's opener for Man Utd.

Ronald Koeman's side may also have picked up a pair of red cards, with dubious challenges from both Ross Barkley and Ashley Williams earning only yellows from referee Anthony Taylor.

Aurier was also lucky not to concede a penalty for a dubious handball in the area.

Certainly, oil has attracted a lot of dubious characters into the country and it's not just Ghana, also Nigeria and many other oil - producing countries on the continent.

i've also been stopped by traffic cops for what seemed like dubious reasons.

The leader of the Senate Democrats, who are in the minority in that house, also said it's dubious that any vote will occur.

It also looked into the dubious use of campaign funds by lawmakers.

Businessmen, who associate with any government in power, hedging their bets, protecting dubious advantages, have also been known to donate money to politicians as protection fees.

It's also worth noting that legendary levels of dubious activity cross partisan lines there: After the Republican Party lost the majority in the state Senate in 2008, Democrats spent the first few months of their abbreviated stint in power basking in new information about how Republicans spent the legislature's money on items like a special van for the man who was then their majority leader, Joe Bruno, who went on to be sentenced to two years in prison on federal corruption charges.

«a repudiation of the way [Gov. Cuomo's] prized upstate economic development programs were managed» — have sparked calls not just to scrap the dubious practice at the heart of the scandal (channeling hundreds of millions of public dollars through «private,» state - created nonprofits) but also to rein in or rethink New York's aggressive business subsidization practices.

He's also running for president with the dubious — and rare — distinction of being under indictment.

It also offers clues to why characters like Gov. Cuomo's recently convicted top aide, Joe Percoco, and indicted former SUNY Polytechnic boss Alain Kaloyeros felt free to engage in dubious dealings in the name of economic development.

Okupe, who was also quizzed for allegedly receiving some dubious contracts from a local council in Niger State to the tune of N76.5 m, said his company, Romix soilfix, was one of the over 20 construction companies who were duly awarded contracts for rural roads some five years ago by the Niger State Government.

Of course, given that the WFP also shares paternity with the dubious folks at ACORN, it would be wise to reserve judgment on just how clean the «new» operation really is.

Howe himself worked under Cuomo while the governor was Secretary of the Department of Housing and Urban Development in the 1990s (Howe also enjoys the dubious distinction of being the only person in human history to repeatedly misspell the word «ziti»).

Peter Blauner's feature story is a meticulous piece of detective work, down to the dubious scrawled codicil to Raffa's will, that also brings home the sad mix of money, ego, and hurt feelings behind the drama.

But it's also been adopted by companies marketing products with dubious health claims.

However, it is typical of the health - damaging false claims found on thousands of dubious websites operated by people selling books etc touting diets high in saturated fat in cholesterol, and also by other people who believe them but aren't trying to make money out of these claims.

His source was also of dubious quality.