Sentences with phrase «dubious proposition»

No, but we can prove that the creation myths of all religions are incorrect; as that is the foundation for each religion they are clearly dubious propositions.

Blog tour companies strike me as a rather dubious proposition.

Work by Hoffert, Caldeira, Green and others has show this to be an extremely dubious proposition, just based on simple mathematics — the world would need to deploy in a round number one nuclear power plant worth of carbon - free energy every day for the next fifty years.

This rule is based on the scientifically dubious proposition that «when the party is at the point of death, and when every hope of this world is gone: when every motive to falsehood is silenced, and the mind is induced by the most powerful considerations to speak the truth; a situation so solemn, and so awful, is considered by law as creating an obligation equal to that which is imposed by a positive oath administered in a Court of Justice»: R v Woodcock (1789) 168 ER 352, 353.

With the chokehold that's been applied to research, funding, and reporting etc. to date, that's a very dubious proposition.

Secondly, it is a rather dubious proposition that the Rodriguez decision can be overturned because the content of section 7 had not yet fully developed by the time it was decided.

We join in the call for CBC to get out of digital advertising, not because of the dubious proposition that these revenues would flow to newspapers, but because their pursuit creates a distraction to CBC's core mission of serious journalism.

Lawyers» stubborn refusal to recognize their affinities with other highly skilled, well - educated sellers of services seems to rest either on the arrogant assumption that businesspeople have no ethics, or the dubious proposition that businesspeople invariably place short - term profit maximization ahead of all other considerations.

County Executive's Corner «Dubious Propositions» added by rctadmin on March 22, 2018 View all posts by rctadmin →

They argue that it's a «dubious proposition» to put forth fossil bone cutmarks as the primary evidence for early stone tool use.

Clearly the movie's position is that those dictators dishonored a noble philosophy — a dubious proposition at best.

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.

The infotainment system is sorely lacking unless you're willing to opt for higher trim levels or options packages, and the interior is unrefined with a cramped rear seat, which makes taking friends along for the ride a dubious proposition.

My programming skills are so tied to an aging and abandoned development platform that making even a niche title like my previous games is a dubious proposition at best.

Even if emissions were the sole cause of the recent temperature rise — a dubious proposition — future increases wouldn't be as steep as the climb in emissions.»

From a firm management point of view, bringing in laterals with a «book» of business can be a very dubious proposition — most often these lawyers are more loyal to themselves than to their partners; so building a firm around a group of individuals who may leave at any time with their «book» is not a structurally sound decision.

Indeed, even agreeing to review a work in electronic form is a dubious proposition, without suitable legal assurances that the rights holder has granted permission to make the required copies.

You get a lot of performance out of the Surface Book 2 13, but whether that equates to more value is a dubious proposition at Microsoft's pricing.