Sentences with phrase «for dubious practices»

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As attorney general from 1999 to 2006, he earned the moniker the «Sheriff of Wall Street» for going after dubious practices at mortgage lenders and big banks.

Their dubious practice of handing out stipends for ill - defined leadership posts and misidentifying them to the state comptroller's office is under serious scrutiny.

«Unless the government comes clean about exactly what they are using profiles for, this highly dubious ethical practice of dishing DNA out for research must be suspended immediately.»

For months, Cuomo has hinted that someone still active in the comptroller's office was involved in the dubious practice of using politically wired middlemen to broker access to the state pension funds.

An investigation of Colorado's full - time virtual schools has revealed some dubious results and practices, which led the state's Senate President to call for an emergency audit of all of Colorado's virtual schools.

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.

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.

For me her output gives the impression of a painter once persistently scorned by her art teachers; an ugly duckling so obsessed with painting that through a persistent and rebellious belief in her dubious practice the work has become brilliantly sophisticated and fascinating to behold.

Some undergraduate statistics classes and a practiced eye for dubious experimental design will work quite well in most cases, thank you.

Whatever the reason for the divergence, it would seem to suggest that the practice of grafting the thermometer record onto a proxy temperature record — as I believe was done in the case of the «hockey stick» — is dubious to say the least.

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What doesn't seem so smart is emulating Apple's divisive iPhone X notch implementation for the P11, P11 Plus and P11 lite «picture makers», seeing as how Huawei managed to pull off some very nice «FullView» designs without resorting to dubious screen cut - out practices.