Sentences with phrase «for dubious benefits»

It's a lot of work for dubious benefit.

Cod modelling of the merits and demerits of one technique vs others is a distraction from the fact of the political nature of the CCC's enclosure of the market in the same way that the enclosure of the huge abundance of land in the UK ensures high prices for the dubious benefit of «protecting the environment» — the Green Belt.

Not exact matches

Among these layers are a variety of tax rules, which encourage religions to reshape themselves so as to be eligible for tax benefits, and the recent legislative efforts, certainly constitutional but perhaps of dubious value to religion, to allow religious groups to share in the rather substantial largesse of the programmatic side of the welfare state.

As many journalists and commentators have argued, agreements like the TPP have dubious benefits for citizens of the countries involved.ISDS provisions have been criticised by U.S. Constitutional lawyer Lori Wallach for «empowering corporations to sue governments — outside their domestic court systems — over any action the corporations believe undermines their expected future profits or rights under the pact by reporting breaches, removing online content and even denying access to Internet users».

I am struggling to remember us getting the benefit of any dubious decisions this season while that travesty at Chelsea was clear for all to see and is still a fresh and painful memory.

So... you opt for herbal remedies of dubious benefit, unreliable potency and unknown but possibly major side effects to «treat» a medical condition with known potentially serious outcomes.

«I have support from some members who are dubious on the benefits of marijuana as treatment for people but are very gung - ho on the concept of economic development.

«In a time of increasing concern about overtreatment, the risk - benefit ratio of bilateral mastectomy warrants careful consideration and raises the larger question of how physicians and society should respond to a patient's preference for a morbid, costly intervention of dubious effectiveness,» the authors write.

So their environmental benefit — dubious for now, until more power plants get off coal — is not very worrisome.

I did so for several reasons: 1 — there is virtually no money to be made or commercial market for poetry, 2 — many of the publishing options are fee based contests, some of dubious reputation, 3 — I wanted to have a volume of poetry I could use as a gift for friends and family, and 4 — all of the poems had been work - shopped extensively and had the benefit of some objective vetting / editorial process.

This is why paying for currency hedging in international funds is a dubious strategy: to some extent the currencies hedge themselves and actually provide some diversification benefit.

Okon says he briefly worked for a firm that sold dubious medical benefits to seniors in the South.

Cash for Clunkers and the Environment The environmental benefits, as has been noted before, are dubious at best.

Savory's proposal seems dubious but I have seen other studies which show that organic agriculture and reforestation can sequester large amounts of carbon in soils and biomass — and of course they have other benefits as well, for biodiversity and human health.

Some of their criticisms were valid, like questioning the more extreme predictions for ocean - level rise or the dubious link to hurricanes, and they were certainly right to bring up the cost - benefit analysis of cap - and - trade.

Moreover, any harm caused by loss of time must be weighed against the benefits of getting more critical calls right (presumably, rational coaches will save their challenges for dubious calls that are especially important).