Sentences with phrase «dubious practices on»

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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.

Despite increasing regulation on telemarketing behavior and its often - dubious ethical practices, it sells enough product to justify its time and expense.

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

The discovery could put the kibosh on a dubious distinction that some researchers have ascribed to humanity, said Sirianni — the idea that ours is the only species with detrimental cultural practices.

She practices, teaches, and writes about feng shui on her website Feng Shui With Me in a way that is easy to implement right away, without resorting to dubious and superstitious cures.

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.

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.

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

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!

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

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

A man who claims he is a practicing «Pastafarian» is adamant about wearing a pasta strainer on his head when I take his driver's license photo, but I am quite dubious.

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.

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.