Sentences with phrase «dubious assertion»

FOIL, though not without exemptions, trumps dubious assertions of confidentiality, which we suspected might be the case here.

Wiseau has claimed, vaguely, that he made his fortune importing jackets from Korea to the U.S. — which, yes, is a highly dubious assertion.

In his speech, the President served up the usual red meat for climate partisans, restating the well - established fact that climate change has been incontrovertibly linked to human greenhouse gas emissions while offering dubious assertions about the link between warming and present day natural disasters.

Not only is this business about 2035 an exceedingly dubious assertion, but part of the error seems traceable to a simple typo — an original source made predictions for the year 2350, not 2035.

Leaving aside the dubious assertion that it is more democratic to help people make money and the intriguing admission by the apostle of literacy himself that he may have misread some critical texts, I am still puzzled by Rorty's endorsement of Hirsch.

If he believes his dubious assertion that «the more we know about Shakespeare the more we will understand his work,» then why has he failed to consult important biographies by Park Honan and Katherine Duncan - Jones, as well as James Shapiro's award - winning A Year in the Life of Shakespeare: 1599, among scores of other books and articles?

In denying an appeal bond, Overton said that Iverson «would be a risk» of not returning to court — a dubious assertion given Iverson's close ties to the community, his clean record and his desire to stay in school and play the sports that most likely will make him rich.

He pleads this case to Esti, leading his dubious assertion that «we've always been honest with each other.»

Montgomery County claims that Curriculum 2.0 is aligned to the Common Core — always a dubious assertion considering that both documents were finalized in 2010.

One dubious assertion that particularly caught my eye last week was that we may already be in a bear market.

Certainly, if the I.P.C.C. is to be relied on as a bellwether of the predominant view of climate experts, that is a dubious assertion, even if it refers to the 2001 report from the panel and not last year's.

The climate - industrial complex is a multi-billion-dollar special interest... but remember, only people who question the dubious assertions of Big Climate can possibly be motivated by «greed.»

Nonetheless, the Ministry of Justice (MoJ) sticks to its dubious assertion that our legal aid system is «still one of the most generous in the world».