Sentences with phrase «dubious business»

It's a big - but - legally - dubious business.

He's become famous as the brash lawyer for the porn star who purportedly bedded the future president, but before Michael Avenatti accused Donald Trump and his attorney of a payoff scheme to muzzle Stormy Daniels, he faced allegations of dubious business dealings as owner of a flailing coffee chain.

A few weeks back the New York Times ran a piece on the inherently dubious business of paid book reviews.

Remaking horror films is a dubious business, especially since thatparticular genre relies so much on a particular time and mood.

The objective of the hack, according to reports, is to «blackmail the site into shutting down,» primarily because of their «morally dubious business model.»

We comprehend that the demonstration of dressing professionally consistently can be an exceptionally dubious business; along these lines, we convey to you some basic Do's and Don't to make your employment less demanding.

Broadly speaking, Cuomo's upstate economic development strategy remains heavily weighted toward dubious business tax breaks, while his transportation policies still squander resources on stuff like a toll freeze for Thruway drivers.

Through some dubious business practices, King earned a reputation as one of the slickest charlatans in the game.

However that may be, it is a very dubious business to draw large social implications from the fact that a few million people thought The Birdcage very amusing.

Though the majority of Bitcoin proponents dislike government interference and regulation, the fact is a lack of regulation opens up the doors to all sorts of scams, cons and dubious business practices.

Green makes it clear that they're not in the same dubious business as the so - called «buy - here, pay - here» used - car dealers that were the subject of one of comedian John Oliver's recent televised rants — and definitely not in the same line of work as payday loan operators.

Not exact matches

This gap between the immense curiosity about leadership and the few hard and fast rules about how to do it well has spawned an entire industry dedicated to pedaling dubious leadership «truths,» Stanford business school professor and author Jeffrey Pfeffer warns in a recent McKinsey Quarterly article.

«Yelp has never done this and individuals making such claims are either misinformed, or more typically, have an axe to grind — whether businesses upset that Yelp will not remove reviews they don't like, or unscrupulous internet marketing «experts» trying to make a buck off of honest business owners with dubious reputation management schemes.»

But that one stat, the success rate of franchised businesses vs. independent shops, has had the biggest impact, even though its origins are dubious.

Banks, in turn, are reluctant to lend, especially to small businesses, partly because they have so many dubious mortgages on their books.

While hyping your business is certainly a generally accepted part of media relations, doing so in order to intentionally misrepresent your organization can be ethically dubious.

How the Ghomeshi case unfolds is anyone's guess, but for business owners it offers an important lesson: when a prominent employee comes to personify their brand — then proceeds to bring their its reputation into question with dubious after - hours activities — morality clauses can be a useful way to protect your business.

For them, it's a dubious proposition to pay a new web site to bring them more business.

While ethically dubious, the Knee Defender is likely to appeal to business travelers all too familiar with the crammed quandary of flying coach.

«Business is part of Singapore's DNA,» it said, «but not the business of facilitating dubious dealsBusiness is part of Singapore's DNA,» it said, «but not the business of facilitating dubious dealsbusiness of facilitating dubious deals.»

Initially, they were a bit dubious about using AdWords to grow their business, but they told me that as long as we could produce leads through AdWords at the same price as their current channels, they were willing to give it a shot.

Thus, modern economics, like the modern business economy, is not the dubious result of a secular Enlightenment, but the fruit of European Christendom and the Catholic Church of the Middle Ages.

maybe wenger should have bought so and so over so and so, maybe he could of used this formation rather than that formation but overall I don't think we couldn't of done much better unless we gave in the «sugar daddy» way of things with the shady usmanov a Russian oligarch notorious for involvement in dubious politics and business.

This is the actions of a cartel which has been outlawed as the most dubious of practice in any business sector.

«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.

Business threat: Whilst not many people fall for these scams, plenty experience them in the form of improbable profiles and dubious approaches.

It's an apparently legitimate business with very sketchy and dubious practices.

It remains highly dubious that he can fundamentally understand the core of the Nook business and their competition.

I'm very dubious about the value of this as a business practice or a negotiating tool, but that at least has context.

We first meet Alec Milius in a dead - end job selling advertising space in the Central European Business Review, a publication of dubious reputation *.

Erotica is big business and its highly dubious if they will start policing the genre.

Well, at least you acknowledge that WD is essentially in the business of promoting expensive writing «products» that are of dubious value.

The sellers get pennies for the info, so that any decent business would earn more staying away from such dubious operations.

The people with the failed businesses knew that some of the strategies they were employing were dubious.

Given the entrenched and dominant positions of the major international investment banks, they are usually forced into dubious acquisitions, risky business areas and questionable staffing.

Of itself, that doesn't expose you to the unequal yoke, but when you are in an economic agreement that binding, if your partner takes the business in an ethical direction you find dubious, you will be in a weak position to do something about this.

Whilst adults can earn a real salary, use credit cards, have mortgages and take out loans from business loan companies such as everline.com or utilise the dubious payday loans available.

The right - hand panel reveals human exploitation at the hands of big business — a dubious «peace.

(Later, an Iraqi gallery owner laid out her own spectrum of dubious wealth: arms, drugs, and blood diamonds were very bad; pharmaceuticals were on the fence; tax evasion and corruption through contracting and procurement were unremarkable; robber barons and industry titans were business as it's always been.)

Is Kleiner - Perkins» business plan to have you press for legislation and regulation favorable to its clients in order to make them more attractive and available for sale to the public, at which time Kleiner - Perkins would cash out, leaving the public invested in not - ready - for - prime - time companies that have dubious financial prospects and that are dependent on taxpayer subsidies?

The dubious legal basis of both the Tailoring Rule and EPA's efforts to bully States into immediately amending their permit programs» now impose a terrible uncertainty tax on our struggling economy, as no business is able to make plans or investments in reliance on a regulatory scheme so clearly at odds with the plain language of the Act.»

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.

BI is the dubious acronym for «business intelligence.»

Since dubious information rarely supports a successful business model, however, geocities is ceasing to exist this month.

From a firm management point of view, bringing in laterals with a «book» of business can be a very dubious proposition — most often these lawyers are more loyal to themselves than to their partners; so building a firm around a group of individuals who may leave at any time with their «book» is not a structurally sound decision.

Savoy Stewart Director, Darren Best comments: «There's no doubt that we are in a dubious time: a lot is set to change in 2017, and the free fall we are all experiencing post-Brexit is certainly chaotic, particularly in terms of business.

Their exploitation of patents as a tool for extortion is undermining America's technological progress; patent trolls are collecting taxes on innovation by extracting billions of dollars in dubious licensing fees, and wasting the time and management resources of creative businesses.»

The trolls, also known as «patent assertion entities,» neither make nor sell anything, but threaten to sue unsuspecting businesses with vague and dubious patent claims.

Parental Controls not only let you pick which games your children can play; they also give you the power to block dubious websites, set time limits, and even block specific programs on your PC to keep the youngsters from messing with your business documents.

So while a market correction will be a nightmare for people who bought into dubious projects, in the long run, it will be good for the industry and will wipe away the bad actors and leave behind only genuine businesses.