Sentences with phrase «dubious activities of»

For instance, several of the newspapers ran Mike de Souza's hard - hitting series on Friends of Science, which extended SourceWatch research on FOS to lay bare the dubious activities of University of Calgary political science professor Barry Cooper.

The company has focused on growing the usability of the coin and complying with existing regulations by incorporating know - your - customer (KYC) information directly on its blockchain thus preventing dubious activities of users.

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«In general I would say the governments that are most high profile I am dubious about the moral scruples of their activities through the long history of UK, US and Russia,» responded Kogan.

Faith traditions which carve out space for supernatural activity are inherently unstable, Harding finds, in the sense that «they depend on faith constantly constructed out of intrinsically dubious claims.

The church clings to its condemnation of any homosexual activity, justifying itself by means of dubious Biblical warrants of a sort it would be ashamed to use on other issues.

There's «whataboutery» which is an effective part of political disinformation and is used to elide all kinds of unethical or dubious activity.

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.

Investing on the advice of an inexperienced intermediary or in a fund having management involved in dubious activities can impact your fund performance adversely.

Because dubious activity may signify fraud or identity theft, the credit - monitoring service notifies you within 24 - hours (or earlier) to help reduce the problems caused when your private information falls into hands of an identity thief.

The Hoyt & Schatten reconstruction used by Soon is not based on ANY measurements of solar radiation, but on [dubious] guess work extrapolated from solar activity proxies: «These indices are (1) the equatorial solar rotation rate, (2) the sunspot structure, the decay rate of individual sunspots, and the number of sunspots without umbrae, and (3) the length and decay rate of the sunspot cycle.»

In summary, the Court's statement of the appropriate legal principles seems muddled; its application of the closed mind standard seems harsh; and the very applicability of the closed mind standard to legislative activity seems dubious.