Sentences with phrase «dubious practices by»

Or you may have seen last week's Dispatches programme on Channel 4 which exposed dubious practices by secondary ticket sellers Viagogo and Seatwave.

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

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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.

Le Monde, Mediapart and Canard PC reported that over a dozen of current and former employees (interviewed by Le Monde) have described the firm as having a «toxic studio culture», with «dubious contract practices», a management team with an «inappropriate behaviour», and employees being overworked and hardly respected.

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.

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.

The Advertising & Fee Arrangements Issues Working Group of the Professional Regulation Committee tabled amendments to the Rules of Professional Conduct which would prohibit bait and switch marketing, as well as other practices which have been subject to complaints over the past few years, especially the use of awards and rankings by fictitious or dubious organizations that appear to be intended to mislead the public.