Sentences with phrase «dubious practices»

They ensure that consumers, particularly children, are protected from commercially dubious practices.

More importantly, the Quakers shunned the cutthroat and often dubious practices of their competitors.

In addition, you've heard me harp on many issues, such as Facebook engaging in dubious practices, authors looking ridiculous who claim to be # 1 on Amazon in obscure categories, or the superior results of email versus social media.

As attorney general from 1999 to 2006, he earned the moniker the «Sheriff of Wall Street» for going after dubious practices at mortgage lenders and big banks.

Over the years, the SIGAR auditing effort has revealed many dubious practices by the US, including instances of contractor fraud.

Instead of a minimum quality of information on each listing and a responsibility / liability imposed on the author of the listing information (the REALTOR), the public can search on various disorganized websites full of advertisements and listings mixed with dubious practices.

Having gotten that out of the way, it's also worth learning that while some of these state programs (especially Florida's) are models of sound policy, efficient administration, and careful targeting of available resources, some others appear to be burdened by dubious practices on the part of schools, donors, elected officials, and maybe parents, too.

Leaders must deal with everything from overstretched budgets to mediocre teachers to unruly (and potentially dangerous) students, not to mention heavy pressure to boost academic results (without, of course, «teaching to the test,» much less engaging in even more dubious practices).

It almost goes without saying, but at a time when high school graduation rates are skyrocketing, in part thanks to «credit recovery» initiatives and other dubious practices, we must view this measure with a healthy dose of skepticism.

So the 3 Drunks and an Old Maid won trivia last night, The London Pride team (the lanky beanpole from Luton and the British something or other on the island) were on the borderlines of not playing fair, Tacoboy was a dismal quizmaster and let them get away with some very dubious practices!

There was a programme on British TV last week exposing the secondary ticket sites such as Viagogo and Seatwave for dubious practices.

Combined with the potentially dubious practices exercised by some corporates who engage self - employed workers to avoid employment obligations; I believe that Labour will focus on this workforce as a potentially untapped source of voters.

However, these ethically dubious practices, and the injuries resulting from them, can be redressed under medical malpractice lawsuits premised upon a lack of informed consent.

«Scrutiny from Ofsted should also deter any school who indulges in dubious practices to boost exam results.»

The province has also promised to close loopholes that facilitate «shadow flipping» — a dubious practice (thought to inflate the market) whereby brokers resell properties several times before the deal is closed to capitalize on multiple commission payouts.

«Massive and deliberate geo - engineering of the planet is a dubious practice.

Their dubious practice of handing out stipends for ill - defined leadership posts and misidentifying them to the state comptroller's office is under serious scrutiny.

For months, Cuomo has hinted that someone still active in the comptroller's office was involved in the dubious practice of using politically wired middlemen to broker access to the state pension funds.

When you realize that it protects your email address and does not indulge in the dubious practice of some other sites which is automatically renewing billing, you will begin to see why.

Many dating websites engage in some dubious practices, but TurtleDate seeks to move beyond the bait - and - switch tactics and offer a square deal, with clear terms.

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

• The push to raise high - school graduation rates to all - time highs is — like most high - stakes structures — leading to all manner of dubious practices, including grade inflation, ersatz credit recovery «courses,» and outright finagling with student transcripts and records.

The accountability systems encouraged all manner of dubious practices, such as focusing teacher effort on a small subset of students at risk of failing the exams rather than advancing every child's learning.

Assemblytube perhaps you could be more precise: a) what you define as «gaming» b) what you considerate be PiXLs «dubious practices» c) why a headteacher has to «lose their morals» to join PiXL.

At the high - school level, recent years have seen the spread of a dubious practice known as «credit recovery,» whereby young people who fail to complete required courses may retrieve the missing credits by taking online courses and kindred options that may or may not be equivalent in rigor and content to the ordinary courses that they finessed or flunked.

I'll admit that there were many aspects of self - publishing which I wasn't aware of let alone the dubious practices carried out by some fly - by - night self - publishing operations.

So now the question is whether it's the dubious practice of many brokers that has allowed the tumor to become fatal?

The brokers what are commonly implicated in this dubious practice are market makers.

Applying standards likened to those governing child adoption to homeless pet adoption, however, is a dubious practice.

For me her output gives the impression of a painter once persistently scorned by her art teachers; an ugly duckling so obsessed with painting that through a persistent and rebellious belief in her dubious practice the work has become brilliantly sophisticated and fascinating to behold.

A few eyebrows were raised at the dubious practice of using a press release to announce scientific findings.

«We are not engaging in any dubious practices regarding reviews,» the developer writes.

These events are nothing to do with that dubious practice.