Sentences with phrase «dubious claims at»

They have an uncanny ability to home in on trusting investors who accept dubious claims at face value.

Not even a casual observer of Cuomo's modus operandi, his penchant for avoiding the press, his administration's hindering FOIL requests and almost clinical obsession with secrecy, could for a moment entertain Malatras» dubious claims at face value.

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That claim is dubious at best.

Postol's claims are dubious, at best.

I'm sure you understand which is why you never answer questions like this directly, but to be sure — why do you trust claims in the bible (which are dubious at best) but would want verification in all other walks of life?

In other words, it may be true that «the owl of Minerva flies only at night,» but Kierkegaard suspects that the metaphor hides a profoundly dubious claim: that it is possible to reach a stable end - point of reflection from which Minerva's owl can take off, and to which it can later return.

Some of its purported revelations are old news, and many of its novel claims are at best dubious.

The dubious advisers included Luigi DiFonzo — a former felon who claimed he was anItalian count and defrauded players such as Hall of Fame running back Eric Dickerson before committing suicide in August 2000 — and disgraced agent William (Tank) Black, who built a pyramid scheme that took a total of about $ 15 million from at least a dozen players, including Patriots running backFred Taylor.

At that tragic pass, the South East governors roused themselves to «ban» IPOB (a panic - driven action of dubious legality)-- not when Kanu was inspecting a bathetic column of Biafra «troops»; not when he announced the formation of a Biafra Secret Service; not when he triumphantly claimed the president was a Buhari clone from the Sudan, after his medical vacation, not the Buhari original; and definitely not when he ordered his IPOB rabble to burn Nigeria, should any attempt be made at his arresAt that tragic pass, the South East governors roused themselves to «ban» IPOB (a panic - driven action of dubious legality)-- not when Kanu was inspecting a bathetic column of Biafra «troops»; not when he announced the formation of a Biafra Secret Service; not when he triumphantly claimed the president was a Buhari clone from the Sudan, after his medical vacation, not the Buhari original; and definitely not when he ordered his IPOB rabble to burn Nigeria, should any attempt be made at his arresat his arrest!

During the EU referendum, for example, broadcasters were criticised for being too preoccupied with balancing Leave and Remain campaigners at the expense of challenging many of their dubious claims.

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Most physicists consider time travel a dubious notion at best, but one small group, including Stephen Hawking of the University of Cambridge, has always claimed that it is impossible in principle.

Ruth is highly dubious of Mannix's claim, but lets him join in, and the four travelers eventually arrive at a stagecoach lodge, where they seek refuge from the storm.

But for Paramount, she would have a better chance at a win if she were considered in Supporting Actress against comparatively «weaker» competition (a dubious claim in itself), especially with the writing on the wall that Natalie Portman would be running away with the Lead category for her work in

But for Paramount, she would have a better chance at a win if she were considered in Supporting Actress against comparatively «weaker» competition (a dubious claim in itself), especially with the writing on the wall that Natalie Portman would be running away with the Lead category for her work in Black Swan.

If not quite false, the claim is at least dubious, because there were many ways for the treatment and control groups to become unbalanced.

Furthermore, stringent oversight of charters at the school level is a dubious claim when the current law allows governing boards for charters as well as, when applicable, parent corporate boards that oversee multiple charters, to be composed of the following related - party combinations:

That's because at that time, approximately 170,000 taxpayers were allegedly dodging tax by claiming as much as $ 5 billion in dubious donations to not - so - legitimate charitable organizations.

Cats (and there's no reason to think these weren't pets — Marra, in fact, says at least one of them was) were the cause of six of the 33 mortalities (though Marra tacks on three more, based, I argue, on some dubious claims).

A revealing look at RC's «real science:» When SecularAnimist posts a dubious claim (# 87) about the cause and effects of global warming, it remains here.

APP also missed three self - imposed targets for phasing out logging of natural forests in Sumatra since 2004 and has engaged in a clumsy public relations strategy that at times utilized «astroturfing» approaches and made dubious claims that have been refuted outright by NGOs.

Because most citizens and policy - makers have not been trained in spotting ethically dubious claims that are often hidden in what appear at first glance to be «value - neutral» economic arguments, IPCC's acknowledgement of the ethical limitations of economic arguments is vitally important.

At times, Nixon is willing to use dubious sources to support his claims, including hearsay cited in blog posts.

I'll argue that if you're one of the ~ 3M persons living in the Ben Tre and Long An provinces of Vietnam situated on the Mekong Delta, unsupported claims such as Lindzen's «The evidence is that the increase in CO2 will lead to very little warming, and that the connection of this minimal warming (or even significant warming) to the purported catastrophes is also minimal» is hardly a tight argument and is ethically extremely dubious, aimed as it is at paralyzing the public policy response necessary to protect those people at risk.

From the grocery store bottled water aisle to the car lot, various shades of green are accompanied by a myriad of dubious claims, meeting the unsuspecting shopper conveniently at eye level.

In my opinion running a climate model to claim causation is dubious at best.

So you did see the claim in the IPCC report, and yet you, a science journalist, and someone who had spent 15 years researching water security, didn't think to investigate where the claim — that you had previously regarded as dubious, and controversial — had been substantiated, but decided to take at face value?

I am far from alone in always being on the lookout for better ways to do things, and for dreaming up some of my own, but I will never swallow the codswallop that we have to compromise our hard - won independence and position in society in order to access some hoped for, dubious innovations that, it is falsely or naively claimed, can not be achieved except through ABS, especially when the harms of adopting ABS are so obvious and so apparent from the lessons of history, economics, human nature, politics, physics * and philosophy that I sometimes wonder if there is some willful blindness at play.

Generally the line where law society regulation needs to come in seems to be where a firm is sending demands threatening suit based on dubious or greatly exaggerated cause of action, seeking a settlement amount greater than the client would likely be entitled to at law, with the goal that a significant portion of recipients of the demands will settle to avoid the costs of court and embarrassment of the subject matter (the copyright claims often involve allegations of downloading various forms of pornography).

He gives the law a grade of «A» or thereabouts in tackling dubious expert testimony (with the Daubert revolution), in preventing the unwarranted extension of class action concepts from financial - injury cases to the realm of personal injury, and — a much newer development — in introducing serious scrutiny of claims at the pleading stage through the Supreme Court's recent Twombly and Iqbal decisions.

This claim was dubious at best.