Sentences with phrase «dubious propositions»

For them, it's a dubious proposition to pay a new web site to bring them more business.

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.

To take this view is to adopt the very dubious proposition that if one has desires and inclinations and they are powerfully presented from the depths of the self, they are, by virtue of the strength of their presentation, both «natural» and «good.»

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.

(A dubious proposition, granted.

And although breed specific legislation proponents like to say that millions of Americans are bitten every year (a dubious proposition), what they donâ $ ™ t say is that, even if that were true (it is not), over 92 % of dog bites result in no injuries.

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.

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.

Even some tenured statisticians call themselves «frequentists» as if Bayes theorem were some dubious proposition.

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

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.»

As a way to reduce global warming, they knew that corn ethanol was a 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.

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.

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Therefore, the investment proposition for low - yielding sovereign and other fixed - income securities is highly dubious in our opinion, another bubble waiting to implode.

It's not because of Jesus and his good news, but because of frustrations with religious politics, dubious theological propositions, difficulties in interpreting passages of the Bible that seem barbaric, or embarrassments from church history.»

Today, some scientists declare God to be a delusion based on equally dubious theology: on the proposition that God's existence can not be proven empirically and on the presumption that only scientific data count.

The proposition remains dubious even if the mice are genetically engineered to be more «like» humans in some way.

The Common Core has added a new layer to the planning process for many teachers, and with countless sites that house giant collections of dubious quality, looking for teaching materials online is a bit of a needle - in - a-haystack proposition.

It now has the dubious distinction of being the fourth Proposition 39 bond measure on the ballot for the November elections where the bond measure was the only item on the ballot in a school district.

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.

Clients won't follow these lawyers to new firms, either because they're dubious, because they weren't as loyal as the lawyer thought (indicative of poor relationship management skills) or because the value proposition of training a new client team at the new firm doesn't exist.