Sentences with phrase «dubious practices of»

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

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.

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

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

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

On - call scheduling is but one of many dubious pay and scheduling practices.

Though the majority of Bitcoin proponents dislike government interference and regulation, the fact is a lack of regulation opens up the doors to all sorts of scams, cons and dubious business practices.

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

The approach to the question has commonly been through postulating analogies to the established practice of all Hither Asia, a line of reasoning which, in view of the notable independence of Israel's thinking, is recognized to be highly dubious.

With all its dubious aspects admitted, Deuteronomy is still a remarkable recovery of Yahwist order, when held against the practice of Judah under Manasseh; and when held against the alternative of a complete destruction of Yahwist order through the Exile and the dispersion of the upper class, it has proved to be its salvation in the form of the Jewish postexilic community).9

These circumstances, plus the fact that the volatile Snyder (or The Cookie Monster, as the majority Nabisco stockholder is sometimes known) could even imply that McAdoo, a man who works as hard in practice as in games, who plays more minutes and shoulders a bigger burden than anybody in the NBA, was a loafer, made the suspension a landmark in the history of dubious decisions.

Through some dubious business practices, King earned a reputation as one of the slickest charlatans in the game.

This is the actions of a cartel which has been outlawed as the most dubious of practice in any business sector.

The American regulatory system, with the British system not far behind, allowed major investment banks to move to very high levels of leverage; if off balance - sheet items were correctly assessed and if dubious accounting practices corrected, the leverage levels were higher still.

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.

«Unless the government comes clean about exactly what they are using profiles for, this highly dubious ethical practice of dishing DNA out for research must be suspended immediately.»

«a repudiation of the way [Gov. Cuomo's] prized upstate economic development programs were managed» — have sparked calls not just to scrap the dubious practice at the heart of the scandal (channeling hundreds of millions of public dollars through «private,» state - created nonprofits) but also to rein in or rethink New York's aggressive business subsidization practices.

Even more dubious is the practice of using TOF values to derive activation energies.

An investigation of Colorado's full - time virtual schools has revealed some dubious results and practices, which led the state's Senate President to call for an emergency audit of all of Colorado's virtual schools.

Even if we accept the dubious proposition that 200,000 studies provide a scientific basis for the authors» 13 nebulous standards of good teacher practice, we can't be sure that the ways in which the authors have chosen to measure these standards necessarily replicate those of the underlying studies.

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).

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.

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.

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.

I'm very dubious about the value of this as a business practice or a negotiating tool, but that at least has context.

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.

Yet I wonder if the practice of big name authors» providing their endorsements is any less dubious — do they really read the book before exclaiming that so - and - so is «the next John Grisham?»

But while it's reasonable for a bank to do a background check on money handlers, the practices of other employers are more dubious.

Some might consider this practice a dubious form of bait - and - switch.

A city that may have a dubious reputation for tourists, but aside from a hair raising taxi ride from the railway station, where our driver clearly had issues with Italy's normal practice of driving on the right, it turned out to be surprisingly enjoyable.

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!

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.

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.

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.

It's a matter of dubious scientific practice, over-confidence in results, arrogance, elitism and bullying.

In the media recently was a revealling story on «dubious» practices in research, describing how the well - known science publisher Elsevier had published a series of «fake» journals that were dedicated entirely to publishing results from drug company research (such as the «Australasian Journal of Bone and Joint Medicine `, dedicated to

Whatever the reason for the divergence, it would seem to suggest that the practice of grafting the thermometer record onto a proxy temperature record — as I believe was done in the case of the «hockey stick» — is dubious to say the least.

dated practice of dubious utility.

Despite your three years of expensive legal education, in other words, you are basically a complete novice at everything to do with starting a practice, and a dubious value proposition.

Try also to avoid the common badges of lawyer greed like dubious billing practices - the kind of stuff that can get your firm a real bad name if it leaks to the press, as per David Giacalone at f / k / a.

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.

It's possible that they were inaccurate then — I've seen the LSUC engage in some dubious statistics practices in this sort of research, so wouldn't treat anything it does as gospel.

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

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.

For those of you practicing outside your area of expertise, I believe the rules allow submitting your own clients for this admittedly dubious distinction.

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.