Sentences with phrase «dubious quality»

This procedure allows for more challenges to patents of dubious quality because it is cheaper and more efficient than litigation.

And, as with games in retail stores, digitally - distributed games of dubious quality often have the same price point as the excellent games they compete with.

For example, there were at least 20 pot lids but only 2 pots of dubious quality.

In a 1989 commentary for the New York Times, she wrote that, while «censorship and government interference in the directions and standards of art are dangerous and not part of the democratic process», she worked against the delivery of grants to controversial artists such as Andres Serrano and Robert Mapplethorpe, concerned that the NEA was supporting work «of increasingly dubious quality.

If you enjoy low - budget sci - fi of dubious quality featuring squabbles on the level of your typical professional wrestling match, you'll get much more mileage out of Masters of the Universe than most.

«We must proceed cautiously before we place students» minds and hearts at risk with tests of dubious quality whose meaning can be over-interpreted and whose consequences can be devastating,» writes Gardner.

I noted that in the blog chain they are a part of, sites such as Dubious Quality and Giant Bomb kept reappearing, as if there are common ties.

Hansen is in fact proud that he makes his adjustments knowing nothing about the sites in question, but only using statistical methods (of very dubious quality) to correct using other local measurement sites.

This procedure steamlines challenges to patents of dubious quality because it is cheaper and more efficient than litigation.

Given the sheer number of sketchy extensions of dubious quality in the Chrome Web Store it's really nice to enjoy an extension from people we personally know and trust.

In the late»80s, Frankenthaler earned the enmity of the art world when, as a member of the National Council on the Arts, she criticized the National Endowment for the Arts for giving grants to Robert Mapplethorpe and Andres Serrano, stating that the organization was «supporting work of increasingly dubious quality.»

But given Archos long history of selling unsuspecting customers tablets of dubious quality with dubious customer support, we can not warn enough against the dubiousness of things Archos.

Willms devoted his time to finding software suppliers, and some of the product was of dubious quality.

Say what one will about the dubious quality of Heidegger's judgment here, the problem for his interpreters seems to remain one of demonstrating that his later philosophical views are any less dubious than his earlier ones — especially as they are rooted in the manner in which he lived.

Sometimes, these can be buzzwords used by companies to lure you into paying higher prices for artisanal goodies of dubious quality.

As recently as March, for example, the first 10 results from a Google search for «how to organise your desktop» contained nine links to pages churned out by «content farms» — websites that publish reams of articles, often of dubious quality, that aim simply to attract clicks and advertising dollars.

«If the water used for washing the dishes is of dubious quality,» McLaughlin says, «then the first two bowls of the proposed system should be used alone.»

His source was also of dubious quality.

I've discovered after treating many psoriasis patients that all too many take supplements of either dubious quality or the are taking dietary supplements that are not targeted towards reducing the inflammation or initiating the skin's healing response.

Demand for the duo's scripts dried up, and the only work the twocould find in the first decade of the 2000s were rewrites on Hollywood projects of dubious quality, such as teen spy film Agent Cody Banks.

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.

Hundreds of other studies have been done on charters; but most are of dubious quality.

dubious quality or not, the 500 with the turbo is a fun, useful urban warrior and way more practical than a smart.

Nabbing one from a parts house is far less expensive, about $ 120 each, but could be of dubious quality.

He'd started out with some dubious qualities — he was the only guy hanging out at the Patrick Henry Social Club who hadn't been born in Brooklyn or Sicily; the only one with a college degree; one of the few who didn't want to carry guns or visit whores — but the best way to get ahead was to make money for the people above him, and Geraci was such a gifted earner that soon his exotic flaws were forgotten.

But Amazon also has the resources to eventually drive down subscription prices and outprice the startups, and it has a vast catalog of self - published titles (some of dubious quality) that authors make available for the Kindle and to Kindle Unlimited.

When your book arrives, it will be a paperback, packed with over a hundred other poems, some of dubious quality.

Many of those are of dubious quality, since it's a cinch for almost anyone to churn out dross onto Amazon.

Men have lost their jobs for not grabbing enough yield in the bull phase; this leads others to invest in securities of dubious quality, but possessing stellar YTNJs [YTNJ = Yield To Next Job].

Fidelity, and presumably many other broker - dealers, have lent undisclosed sums of money against illiquid securities of dubious quality.

The companies that have gotten into trouble recently have held assets of dubious quality, and have financed themselves with too much leverage, borrowing short - term, and / or implicitly sold short options against their firms that weakened themselves during a crisis.

Not that it was ever credible, of course — especially given the dubious quality of several underlying assumptions.

Some of those games, to put it mildly, are of dubious quality and got bad reviews.

08/27/2007 Bill Harris of Dubious Quality has declared Armageddon Empires PC Game of the Year and has written an excellent play guide for Armageddon Empires.

While the writing is of dubious quality, the overall experience is filled to the brim with loads of highly polished content that keeps players coming back time and time again.

Perhaps the most surprising thing about this all was that publisher Codemasters made a massive investment in the marketing of this title, even though they undoubtedly were aware of the game's dubious quality.

So, it's fair to say that in the mid-90's many systems had their fair share of games of dubious quality.

In the same way, assumptions of dubious quality or certainty that presuppose AGW beyond the bounds of anything we have see historically are plugged into the models, and, shazam, the models say that there will be a lot of anthropogenic global warming.

The assumptions begin as guesses of dubious quality and come out laundered at «settled science.»