Sentences with phrase «dubious benefits»

Given the high costs and dubious benefits to be expected from continuing on the lock»em - up path, and given the encouraging results of many youth oriented prevention and intervention strategies, a significant public investment is surely warranted both to strengthen and expand a youth oriented prevention agenda and to step up the effort to refine and improve on prevention's promise.

Take out some of the dubious benefits.

SAN FRANCISCO — Often, advances in game development and software consist of boring back - end improvements with dubious benefits.

Though Mengestu may have attempted too much in terms of the social, political and psychological implications of immigration from destroyed countries and the dubious benefits of finding asylum in so - called functioning countries, he manages to integrate these heavy themes into an aesthetic whole.

As many journalists and commentators have argued, agreements like the TPP have dubious benefits for citizens of the countries involved.ISDS provisions have been criticised by U.S. Constitutional lawyer Lori Wallach for «empowering corporations to sue governments — outside their domestic court systems — over any action the corporations believe undermines their expected future profits or rights under the pact by reporting breaches, removing online content and even denying access to Internet users».

Not spending so much on medical treatments with dubious benefits would be another possibility.

So... you opt for herbal remedies of dubious benefit, unreliable potency and unknown but possibly major side effects to «treat» a medical condition with known potentially serious outcomes.

It's a lot of work for dubious benefit.

CWO also hedges the currency exposure of the fund, which is of dubious benefit given the high costs involved in the form of tracking errors.

So in our time ice is experiencing a similar forcing, but with more longwave flux, less shortwave — although we also have the dubious benefit of anthropogenic black carbon emissions.

Rather than spend enormous resources on mitigation efforts of dubious benefit, 20 additional years of proper science is a logical approach.

Cod modelling of the merits and demerits of one technique vs others is a distraction from the fact of the political nature of the CCC's enclosure of the market in the same way that the enclosure of the huge abundance of land in the UK ensures high prices for the dubious benefit of «protecting the environment» — the Green Belt.

Not exact matches

Unlike the Master Cleanse, a juice diet won't totally starve your body, but it will drain your wallet, and the benefits are dubious at best.

Shortly afterward, Attorney General Jeff Sessions told a conference of state attorneys general that he is «dubious» about the benefits of pot.

Why, in circumstances where Canada's security, policies and companies are already as fully protected as they can be, do we maintain a net - benefit test that does not show a bottom - line impact on Canada, imposes an unnecessary burden on investors and gives Canada a dubious (if generally undeserved) international reputation?

With the benefit of hindsight it is glaringly obvious that delayed preparation was a dubious choice, with very little upside and the ultimate downside.

Among these layers are a variety of tax rules, which encourage religions to reshape themselves so as to be eligible for tax benefits, and the recent legislative efforts, certainly constitutional but perhaps of dubious value to religion, to allow religious groups to share in the rather substantial largesse of the programmatic side of the welfare state.

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

I am struggling to remember us getting the benefit of any dubious decisions this season while that travesty at Chelsea was clear for all to see and is still a fresh and painful memory.

Of all the benefits, this is the one I find most dubious.

I glanced at the site you mentioned and I'm dubious of its benefits.

New York State Department of Environmental Conservation Commissioner Joseph Martens, second from let, talks on hydraulic fracturing during a cabinet meeting at the Capitol on Wednesday, Dec. 17, 2014, in Albany, N.Y. Gov. Andrew Cuomo's administration will move to prohibit fracking in the state, citing unresolved health issues and dubious economic benefits of the widely used gas - drilling technique.Acting health commissioner Dr. Howard Zucker is seated left.

«I have support from some members who are dubious on the benefits of marijuana as treatment for people but are very gung - ho on the concept of economic development.

To this day, Temodar's label — the single most important way the FDA communicates the risks and benefits of medication — still displays data from the dubious Cetero study.

«In a time of increasing concern about overtreatment, the risk - benefit ratio of bilateral mastectomy warrants careful consideration and raises the larger question of how physicians and society should respond to a patient's preference for a morbid, costly intervention of dubious effectiveness,» the authors write.

So their environmental benefit — dubious for now, until more power plants get off coal — is not very worrisome.

Quitting is not an option, so, with the benefit of a few - too - many drinks and some dubious advice from a hustling ex-con (Jamie Foxx), the three friends devise a convoluted and seemingly foolproof plan to rid themselves of their respective employers... permanently.

As the LCFF unfolds, complaints are surfacing about dubious expenditures — on school policing or across - the - board staff pay raises that state officials warn should be «targeted» to benefit disadvantaged kids.

While the benefit of Fordham's proposal is dubious, the harm is more certain.

«It was, and remains, inappropriate to force good schools to convert when the evidence of any benefit is so dubious,» said National Association of Head Teachers General Secretary Russell Hobby.

While the benefit of further regulating private schools is dubious, the harm is clear.

I did so for several reasons: 1 — there is virtually no money to be made or commercial market for poetry, 2 — many of the publishing options are fee based contests, some of dubious reputation, 3 — I wanted to have a volume of poetry I could use as a gift for friends and family, and 4 — all of the poems had been work - shopped extensively and had the benefit of some objective vetting / editorial process.

This is why paying for currency hedging in international funds is a dubious strategy: to some extent the currencies hedge themselves and actually provide some diversification benefit.

But given the potential conflicts of interest outlined in Senator Elizabeth Warren's recent report on dubious annuity sales tactics, it's also clear that investors considering an annuity need to take care to assure they're buying an investment that benefits them as much as the person selling it.

Okon says he briefly worked for a firm that sold dubious medical benefits to seniors in the South.

It is most important to use a high quality sourced oil fish to ensure the full benefits of fish oil, cheaper oils of dubious source can actually be detrimental.

[AR: We and others have written reams about the dubious carbon - dioxide benefits of biofuel choices that are available now or in the near term.

Even assuming we are assigning probabilities correctly (very dubious in itself), the usual use of probabilities of outcomes in things like cost - benefit analysis assumes an aggregation of harms across many, many similar decisions, in some of which cases things turn out very badly, but in others of which things come out not so badly.

The idea that such agreements will benefit local hoi polloi is of dubious value.

Cash for Clunkers and the Environment The environmental benefits, as has been noted before, are dubious at best.

Savory's proposal seems dubious but I have seen other studies which show that organic agriculture and reforestation can sequester large amounts of carbon in soils and biomass — and of course they have other benefits as well, for biodiversity and human health.

Each of these regulations will inflict substantial costs, drive down existing coal generation and have dubious environmental benefits.

Some of their criticisms were valid, like questioning the more extreme predictions for ocean - level rise or the dubious link to hurricanes, and they were certainly right to bring up the cost - benefit analysis of cap - and - trade.

The main benefit local inhabitants get is merely the very dubious feel good privilege of looking at the wind turbines with no enhancement whatsoever of local resilience.

Krugman's four reasons why it's dubious to compare costs of climate mitigation to adaption didn't include the unfairness, that the people paying the costs of climate change would not be the same ones as reap the benefit of CO2 emission.

Authorities in Germany have also clamped down on legal tax avoidance, where the outcome, when benefitting the richest most of all, is morally dubious.

However, if applied appropriately it will also inevitably drive out bad practice, dubious procurement and sharpen competition, producing compensating benefits.

The available evidence also suggests that the benefit of increased Taser use is dubious.

Moreover, any harm caused by loss of time must be weighed against the benefits of getting more critical calls right (presumably, rational coaches will save their challenges for dubious calls that are especially important).

Given Leica's willingness to cynically rebrand (and then overprice) Panasonic cameras, I have to be dubious about the value of this partnership until either company discloses some substantive benefits from it.