Sentences with phrase «dubious honour»

Now that dubious honour seems to have fallen to the soldier - turned - politician Dan Jarvis.

Waters are muddied further by the fact they will most likely be operating outside the UK (Israel has the dubious honour of housing the majority of these fraudsters) and operating in an area with little or no regulatory environment.

The local press are fearful that their team could well lose a series on home soil for the first time since 1987 giving captain Ricky Ponting the dubious honour of being the first Australian to lead his side to three Ashes series defeats in over a century.

Back to England, and down at the other end of things, Manchester City and Derby County share between them the dubious honour of having finished lowest in the top flight — 16th — with a positive goal difference.

Scottish side East Stirlingshire have the dubious honour of fielding the most goalkeepers in one game, using four different keepers in a match against Albion Rovers.

If the Black Cats can gain some momentum, then they may avoid the dubious honour of being last at Christmas.

That dubious honour is reserved for Blackburn's hierarchy, with supporters set to stage» the largest and most attended demonstration in the history of the club» on Saturday, ahead of their crucial league encounter with Aston Villa, with fans to demand the club be sold by current owners Venky's.

That dubious honour went to FC Goa, a club that had a lot in common with CFC until the start of this season.

Fernando Alonso had the dubious honour of bringing out the first red flags as his MCL33 lost a rear wheel, pitching the Spaniard into a spin and into the gravel on his sixth lap of the morning.

And Dr. Fitzpatrick, whose invention of this cream earned him the dubious honour of being named Allure magazine's «physician who has most influenced beauty,» now works with a supplier that uses foreskin fibroblast to make injectable collagen.

The former agriculture minister made perhaps the most infamous expenses claim when he put in a bill which included the cleaning of his moat in his country estate, and was awarded the dubious honour of being the first MP to step down over the scandal.

Liberal Democrat leader Tim Farron has earned the dubious honour of being the first major party leader to be yelled at by a voter in the 2017 general election.

Liberal Democrat leader Tim Farron has earned the dubious honour of being the first major party...

Genome sequencing has confirmed to the satisfaction of pretty much everybody that this dubious honour goes to chimpanzees.

Brixton Road, Lambeth has claimed the «dubious honour» of being the first air quality monitoring site to see levels of pollutant nitrogen dioxide exceed the annual hourly limits less than a week into the new year.

The dubious honour of least funny goes to Elena, who slides into last place ahead of Ruth and Jenny.

This button - pushing US teaching drama received the dubious honour of becoming the lowest grossing wide - release movie in history when it opened in America last year.

Back in 2006, Lee Hyun - seung «s Il Mare was remade with Sandra Bullock and Keanu Reeves as The Lake House and met with mixed critical reviews, not to mention the dubious honour of the Teen Choice Award for «Choice Liplock».

His technique has been endlessly analysed and parodied, and he's been a Hi4H near - miss since the show began, winning the dubious honour of being the most popular second choice amongst our previous guests.

Surprisingly, though, the RS 3 doesn't sit in the highest insurance group in the A3 range; that dubious honour goes to the S3 Cabriolet (group 42).

A dubious honour, to be sure.

Canada also took the dubious honour of having the only average allocation fund fees over 2 %.

Debit memos have long been a major headache for travel agents especially in Canada and now Canadian travel agencies have the dubious honour of one of the highest instances of agency debit memos...

Don't get me wrong, nothing was released by a major publisher that would almost kill the industry but one game which has that dubious honour was unearthed.

PopCap co-founder John Vechey has defended EA after it won the dubious honour of being crowned worst company in America.

There's a 96 % chance that 2016 was the warmest year, failing that, 2015 gets the dubious honour.

I wonder which regulations will have the dubious honour of April 1 as their in force date?

And though some U.S. Supreme Court arguments are available in audio at Oyez, very few lawyers will ever have the dubious honour of going to D.C.; so circuit court arguments are valuable, I think.)

Last month BPP University law school took the dubious honour of offering the most expensive legal practice course (LPC) in England and Wales.

By way of backgound, Patrick Crowthers and Derek Daku of Saskatchewan's Prestige Fight Club have the dubious honour of being the first to be successfully prosecuted for hosting an illegal «prizefight» since section 83 of Canada's Criminal Code was overhauled by Bill S - 209.

This gave him the dubious honour of being the longest - serving prisoner to have been detained without trial in UK history.

By way of backgound, Patrick Crowthers and Derek Daku of Saskatchewan's Prestige Fight Club have the dubious honour of being the first to be successfully prosecuted for hosting an illegal «prizefight»...

In fact, India can definitely bag the dubious honour of being the «Diabetes Capital of the world».

We also hold the dubious honour of having the highest consumer debt burden in any G7 country.

Toronto has the dubious honour of being the only city in Canada to have a municipal land transfer tax.