Sentences with phrase «dubious characters into»

Certainly, oil has attracted a lot of dubious characters into the country and it's not just Ghana, also Nigeria and many other oil - producing countries on the continent.

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It possesses magnificent character delineation: the great theme is the princely magnanimity of Joseph, envied by his lesser brothers, his life threatened, then at length spared only through the dubious device of selling him into slavery in Egypt; and there, his fortunes going from bad to worse, he was, for no fault of his own but indeed because of his integrity, hurled into an oriental prison to lie hopeless until some dubious chance should release him.

Victoria (Laia Costa) is a young Spanish woman working in Berlin who falls in with some suspicious characters on her way out of a nightclub; this is the proverbial story of falling into dubious company and getting in way too deep.

Her films are attempts at weaving together portraits of morally dubious characters or events, and her sculptural practice employs a language of minimalism and abstraction to reformulate familiar objects into a state of ambiguity, navigating between negation and seduction.