Sentences with phrase «by dubious»

This myth is perpetuated by dubious advertisements that promise a fast divorce for a small fee: the idea that a divorce can be obtained simply for a small fee, such as $ 399, is not only false, it misrepresents the overall expense involved in an adversarial divorce proceeding and misleads consumers about the amount and quality of legal guidance they will receive in exchange for their hard - earned money.

I've seen leather Apple Watch bands made by dubious third parties that get far more distorted after just a weekend on Leander's wrist.

Messaging app Telegram started out as a WhatsApp alternative, but it's fast becoming a petri dish for cryptocurrency get - rich - quick schemes, propped up by dubious trading bots and bogus celebrity endorsements from Christopher Walken and Dwayne «The Rock» Johnson.

Plaintiffs with personal injury claims backed by dubious (or worse) expert testimony have thus become ever more determined to keep their lawsuits in state courts — where, naturally, plaintiff attorneys have fought every effort to adopt Daubert and Rule 702.

It's defined by Nic Lewis in the article, as least undermined by dubious assumptions and most closely related to data.

By Gregory Young The argument propounded by the dubious United Nations» Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) report on Anthropogenic (human - induced) Global Warming (AGW) is willfully fraudulent.

The late Harold Rosenberg disparaged her work as «decorative bombast sustained by dubious art history,» and younger critics have occasionally accused her of lapsing into formula.

Each recent Call of Duty has been a mixed package, with a good campaign let down by dubious multiplayer, or great multiplayer buoying up a dull campaign.

The control problem is slightly compounded by the dubious collection of buttons.

At the post-bout press conference, Billy's subpar performance is questioned by a dubious sportswriter.

But Dr. Dennett Norton (Gary Oldman) and his financier OmniCorp — led by the dubious Raymond Sellars (Michael Keaton)-- have a plan: turn what's left of Murphy into a mechanized cop loaded with state - of - the - art weapons tech.

Falcon (Anthony Mackie), Ant - Man (Paul Rudd), Scarlet Witch (Elizabeth Olsen) and Hawkeye (Jeremy Renner) enlist with Captain America, whose philosophical stance has incidentally wrapped itself up in a greater mission to absolve Bucky Barnes, aka the Winter Solider (Sebastian Stan) and stop an even greater threat orchestrated by the dubious Zemo (Daniel Brühl).

There are a few amusing moments in «North,» mainly involving jokey references to other movies, but they are overshadowed by a dubious plot turn involving a full - scale revolt of America's children inspired by North's antics.

The woman - suffering - from - amnesia picture was almost a subgenre, a facet of women - in - jeopardy dramas that addressed the vulnerability of female protagonists in a threatening world dominated by dubious males.

American Made is one of the many children of «Goodfellas,» a true - crime story turned first - person narrative told by a charismatic ne'er - do - well surrounded by dubious characters and tantalizing subplots.

His services are solicited by a dubious client who's being sought by an equally dubious FBI agent (Tim Roth; Pulp Fiction, Reservoir Dogs).

All these are committed by dubious sites that are not regulated and are never genuine.

A friend from Orlando packs a separate suitcase for her protein bars when she travels to make sure she won't be tempted by dubious hotel offerings.

White has been misinformed by some dubious source.

Thus, when talking about the chemical composition of planetary interiors, certain should be replaced by dubious, positive proof by vague suggestions, and, when talking about Earth's core, pure iron should be replaced by uncertain mixture of all the elements.

Scientists who have been engaged in a decades - long hunt for these cells — and have endured derision for working in a field tarnished by dubious research — say they feel vindicated.

But like Kinsey himself, they have been hampered by the dubious reliability of self - reports of sexual behavior and preferences as well as by small sample sizes.

I agree with that, even though it was first said by that dubious legal type from Illinois, Abraham Lincoln.

Arsenal managed to cope without these players in the FA Cup replay against Orient, but their absence was largely felt in the stalemate against Sunderland, as the Gunners were denied a win by dubious referee decisions and a complete lack of creativity in the first sixty minutes of the game.

Fabio Aurelio, Martin Kelly and Jonjo Shelvey are all long - term absentees, although Kenny Dalglish could welcome back Daniel Agger from injury while Luis Suarez will spearhead the attack aiming to score his first goal for the club (his one against Stoke City is likely to be chalked off by the dubious goals panel).

Neymar freekick after the break made it 4 - 1 on the night followed by a dubious penalty kickoff from where Neymar scored his second of the night.

Wenger finds ways to lose, whether it is by poor tactics, by poor team selection by dubious substitutions or by blaming.

Arsenal however were robbed of a win in their last time out by dubious refereeing.

What is stunning is that Wenger has delivered three FA Cups in spite of being outspent by dubious oil money.

But uncritical proponents of the scientistic ideology (and the myth of scientific superrationality) steadily subvert our understanding of this world by ignoring the extent to which it is itself an ideology supported only by a dubious myth.

The tainting of the bible by dubious historical church reformers has caused much of the confusion.

The twenty tableaux vivants are atrocious beyond my power to describe; they are all scenes from the Old Testament and Apocrypha, linked by dubious typology to incidents in the Passion of Christ.

Not exact matches

Things hardly improve when you get to work — and have to endure meetings of dubious purpose and concentration - disrupting pop - ins by colleagues.

Additionally, such a reclassification of ISPs as utilities is «legally dubious,» Downes says, and is likely to be rejected by federal courts.

It's well worth reading in full if you've recently found yourself baffled by all the diverse and dubious advice on offer, but if you're looking for a quick - and - dirty rundown of some of the most common leadership myths, here are a few in brief:

The use of dubious billion - dollar lawsuits to apply pressure on Alfa's partners — filed in remote regions of Russia by obscure private shareholders whose interests somehow overlapped perfectly with Alfa's — became a favorite calling card.

The hospitals are funded by tax dollars, and clearly they don't want to be seen spending those dollars on things the public is likely to find dubious.

The New York Times reported last weekend that Republicans were likely to use the memo to contend that Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein acted improperly in approving an application to extend surveillance of Page that was partly based on dubious research funded by Democratic organizations.

Regulators have been unsettled by the virtual currency space due to severe swings in prices and dubious activities associated with it.

Immigrants» money was originally administered by provincially managed venture capital funds; before recent reforms, some of it went to dubious or fraudulent schemes.

Over the years, the SIGAR auditing effort has revealed many dubious practices by the US, including instances of contractor fraud.

Snopes, for example, which has been fact - checking dubious Internet stories for over two decades, was dismissed by some as a «far - left group,» as was fellow verification site Politifact.

Such an outlook is the consequence of a slowdown in emerging markets due to low commodity prices and the dubious maneuvers made by China that hit European markets hard late in the summer.

Meanwhile Nix himself was suspended as CEO by CA last month, following a Channel 4 News investigation broadcast video footage of Nix talking to an undercover reporter and appearing to suggest the firm uses a range of dubious tactics, including front companies and subcontractors to secretly engage in political campaigns.

In a statement to the Russian press that year, he said he was getting out of banking and called for the industry «to be cleansed of banks headed by people with dubious reputations.»

Point 1 on maintenance was dubious as an expensive car may require none and / or have maintenance covered by the warranty.

Investors who try to ape him simply by reducing his methods to dubious cashflow projections or buying any old listed household name when its stock price falls 20 per cent will never replicate Buffett's success.

The argument is that the warrant, submitted to a Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) court, relied on dubious information from the Trump - Russia dossier compiled by former British spy Christopher Steele — and that the judge was not informed about the actual source of the information.

The concept of having one's cyrpto backed by bullion in a vault somewhere is still dubious for it requires absolute honesty and perfect execution from the exchange, vault managers, etc..

In fact, Facebook tried to implement new fact - checking measures last year by teaming with PolitiFact and FactCheck.org to vet news and apply «disputed» labels to dubious posts.