Sentences with phrase «highly dubious»

Charlie Sheen minders weren't going to tap me on the shoulder and suggest I join him later (a highly dubious pleasure, I know).

The report says the copyright case against Megaupload, the previous file sharing service run by Kim Dotcom, is based on «highly dubious legal prinicples» and that it has been manipulated by the government's desire to appease the movie industry in exchange for political support.

Queen Margaret was only 5 at the time this law was supposedly past, making such matters of state highly dubious given her age, especially when you consider she lived in Norway, never actually visited Scotland, and died 3 years later.

So in this scenario (case study for students)-RRB- we have a highly dubious «expert» who painted all the vulnerable subjects of his unchallenged «expertise» as fakers and who, in the absence of challenge, was able to «mislead» triers of fact (the court) again and again.

Don't represent someone who wants to go public with highly dubious claims of sexual harassment that will destroy lives and careers.

While many scientists and climate change activists hailed December's Paris agreement as a historic step forward for international efforts to limit global warming, the landmark accord rests on a highly dubious assumption: to achieve the goal of limiting the rise in global average temperature to less than 2 °C (much less the more ambitious goal of 1.5 °C), we don't just need to reduce emissions of carbon dioxide to essentially zero by the end of this century.

However the great uncertainties that affect the simulated trend (e.g., climate sensitivity, rate of heat uptake by the deep - ocean, and aerosol forcing strength) make this a highly dubious statement.

I personally wouldn't mind seeing more nuclear built, but I am highly dubious that anything like the requisite amount could be built in anything like the requisite time.

560 Kevin M said, «I am highly dubious that anything like the requisite amount could be built in anything like the requisite time.»

I would be highly dubious of the data from many stations especially those outside the core countries.

It's an argument that has been assembled from bits of science, and strung together like a Frankenstein monster — a highly dubious form of inductive reasoning which allows her to claim that Miliband is making an argument for «other people in other countries to sacrifice their lives».

However, as mentioned in the footnotes to this post, attempted constant leveraging of the authority of science for highly dubious product claims, will in the long run erode that authority.

Even though advocates say one would have to smoke huge amounts of hemp to get high, the plant occupies a highly dubious legal status in the U.S..

Steve, (My apologies if I'm repeating an oft - asked & oft - answered question here)... I am highly dubious of any model's ability to «correct» for UHI, be it on a site - specific, regional, or global basis.

There is no observed data, yet somehow on the basis of this highly dubious science, we are supposed to believe that it is essential to stop producing so much CO2.

A large proportion of what gets published is, in fact, highly dubious.

And the media will wonder off to new pastures and new disasters and new yellow journalism capers and the world will continue to turn on its axis and daylight and dark shall not cease and mankind will find yet another fable of highly dubious origin to frighten the c ** p out himself with all over again.

This whole house of cards is kept together by the magic powers of Mammon, I suspect, as every aspect of it is highly dubious and afflicted by vast ignorance, starting with the carbon cycle, sinks, our questionable ability to even accomplish a doubling any time soon in view of current fossil fuel reserves, the actual effect if any of the demonized molecule (this engenders the most disparate and esoteric theoretizing,) which effect apparently can not or will not be empirically verified, and so on.

The piece starts with the provocative (not to mention highly dubious) premise that the EPA's Technical Support Document (TSD) supporting the Endangerment Finding is out of date because it is based on the 2007 assessment report from the U.N. Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.

So, yes, when someone demands I pay for this or that, and I find the reason highly dubious, I do act.

But Banks also happens to have been one of the reviewers of the Wegman report, which stands as an eternal monument to the dangers of combining knowledge of statistical methods with abject subject matter ignorance (not to mention highly dubious scholarship).

Its efforts will now be delayed by several years while the legality of its highly dubious regulatory approach is fought out all the way to the US Supreme Court.

None of these conditions can possibly exist, and therefore the whole concept of «forcing», expecially the claim that is is accurately calculated to be 3.7 W / m2, is highly dubious.

It might seem to the average spectator an odd, not to mention highly dubious, outcome for a national gallery to stage a national prize and end up awarding the prize to its own show, but this is nothing new.

Since then numerous copy cat boat services have jumped on the band - wagon, some of which maintain highly dubious safety standards.

When financial advice and financial product sales activities are combined, it is highly dubious that you will get the best advice in your best interest.

Samsung doesn't let you adjust the brightness back up to normal if you wish; and the reduced level of brightness it jumps to is so low that the murky image you get is practically useless for viewing, making the value of the extra 30 minutes or so of battery life that you get in this state highly dubious.

Erotica is big business and its highly dubious if they will start policing the genre.

Even if could put a Quad core in one of these, it is highly dubious.

It remains highly dubious that he can fundamentally understand the core of the Nook business and their competition.

• the education colleges have been great promoters of the highly dubious notion that self - esteem is critically important.

Not only is that a highly dubious assertion, but the mandate is more likely to produce political controversy and a blizzard of paperwork than to improve the education of minority children.

Much less desirable is that a highly dubious ideological agenda is driving this effort.

Ruth is highly dubious of Mannix's claim, but lets him join in, and the four travelers eventually arrive at a stagecoach lodge, where they seek refuge from the storm.

I find this highly dubious.

I am just highly dubious since it is a manufactured RS and made by the people that brought us High Fructose Corn Syrup.

These companies sell purely on price and never on quality, their raw materials used in the manufacture of these supplements are often of highly dubious quality and you will find that they are not made under GMP and preferably to ISO 9000 standards, the very highest for any manufacturing industry.

However, according the scientists, this effect of quercetin is highly dubious, with the International Journal of Sports Nutrition and Exercise Metabolism terming it trivial.

What the opponents say: «The ballot language is laced with marketing spin, from the title, «Smart Schools Bond Act of 2014,» to highly dubious promises that the $ 2 billion will «equalize opportunities for children to learn» and lead to «high - quality» pre-K programs,» E.J. McMahon, president of the fiscally conservative Empire Center, wrote in an op - ed published in the New York Post.

But his acceptance of support from the highly dubious Independence and Working Families parties suggests that he's not above a little transactional politicking of his own.

«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.»

Mr Kaminski has a highly dubious past as a member of the neo-Nazi National Revival of Poland (NOP) party.

There was a reasonably constructive dialogue happening in the 90s, right up until George W. Bush stopped the talks, declared North - Korea to be a «rogue state» and part of the «axis of evils», and proceeded to invade Iraq under highly dubious pretext (which was later proven to be exactly that), which scared the bejesus out of North - Korea as they felt that they could be next.

This is not the gossip and partiality of political diaries which are usually personally self - serving and of highly dubious accuracy, though they can be very entertaining.

I am highly dubious of both Liverpool and Southampton's claims.

The fact is, you were promoted in highly dubious circumstances and that is something that even the most biased of Arsenal fans can't dispute.

A highly dubious last minute penalty helped the Blues to a 2 - 2 draw, but this was the first sign of the troubles against smaller opposition that plagued them last season.

Dowd escaped with an unblemished record having given Diaby a red card, awarded two highly dubious penalties to the Magpies and allowed Barton, Tiote and others to repeatedly kick our boys.

The pitching, spotty to begin with, became highly dubious with the departure of Sam Jones.

The approach to the question has commonly been through postulating analogies to the established practice of all Hither Asia, a line of reasoning which, in view of the notable independence of Israel's thinking, is recognized to be highly dubious.