Sentences with phrase «in dubious practices»

«We are not engaging in any dubious practices regarding reviews,» the developer writes.

In addition, you've heard me harp on many issues, such as Facebook engaging in dubious practices, authors looking ridiculous who claim to be # 1 on Amazon in obscure categories, or the superior results of email versus social media.

«Scrutiny from Ofsted should also deter any school who indulges in dubious practices to boost exam results.»

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.

The brokers what are commonly implicated in this dubious practice are market makers.

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.

Not exact matches

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.

With all its dubious aspects admitted, Deuteronomy is still a remarkable recovery of Yahwist order, when held against the practice of Judah under Manasseh; and when held against the alternative of a complete destruction of Yahwist order through the Exile and the dispersion of the upper class, it has proved to be its salvation in the form of the Jewish postexilic community).9

These circumstances, plus the fact that the volatile Snyder (or The Cookie Monster, as the majority Nabisco stockholder is sometimes known) could even imply that McAdoo, a man who works as hard in practice as in games, who plays more minutes and shoulders a bigger burden than anybody in the NBA, was a loafer, made the suspension a landmark in the history of dubious decisions.

Through some dubious business practices, King earned a reputation as one of the slickest charlatans in the game.

This is the actions of a cartel which has been outlawed as the most dubious of practice in any business sector.

I was taking aim at them as a company, engaged in what I feel are dubious marketing practices, not their customers.

«a repudiation of the way [Gov. Cuomo's] prized upstate economic development programs were managed» — have sparked calls not just to scrap the dubious practice at the heart of the scandal (channeling hundreds of millions of public dollars through «private,» state - created nonprofits) but also to rein in or rethink New York's aggressive business subsidization practices.

She practices, teaches, and writes about feng shui on her website Feng Shui With Me in a way that is easy to implement right away, without resorting to dubious and superstitious cures.

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.

Leaders must deal with everything from overstretched budgets to mediocre teachers to unruly (and potentially dangerous) students, not to mention heavy pressure to boost academic results (without, of course, «teaching to the test,» much less engaging in even more dubious practices).

Although they claim to be «public» educational institutions, and are in fact funded with taxpayer dollars, no genuine public school would ever try or get away with the dubious education policies and practices that Achievement First engages in.

At the high - school level, recent years have seen the spread of a dubious practice known as «credit recovery,» whereby young people who fail to complete required courses may retrieve the missing credits by taking online courses and kindred options that may or may not be equivalent in rigor and content to the ordinary courses that they finessed or flunked.

The film star is alleged to have made art with his blood during a rage — or perhaps he was engaging in a dubious artistic practice particularly popular in the 90s

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

It's a matter of dubious scientific practice, over-confidence in results, arrogance, elitism and bullying.

In the media recently was a revealling story on «dubious» practices in research, describing how the well - known science publisher Elsevier had published a series of «fake» journals that were dedicated entirely to publishing results from drug company research (such as the «Australasian Journal of Bone and Joint Medicine `, dedicated In the media recently was a revealling story on «dubious» practices in research, describing how the well - known science publisher Elsevier had published a series of «fake» journals that were dedicated entirely to publishing results from drug company research (such as the «Australasian Journal of Bone and Joint Medicine `, dedicated in research, describing how the well - known science publisher Elsevier had published a series of «fake» journals that were dedicated entirely to publishing results from drug company research (such as the «Australasian Journal of Bone and Joint Medicine `, dedicated to

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.

Only climate scientists engage in dubious professiuonal practices.

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.

I wrote here last week about BestAttorneysOnline.com, the dubious new lawyer - rating site that can't seem to get lawyers» practice areas or even their locations straight, listing lawyers as among the top 10 in practices they have nothing to do with and in states in which they have no ties.

It's possible that they were inaccurate then — I've seen the LSUC engage in some dubious statistics practices in this sort of research, so wouldn't treat anything it does as gospel.

Last month BPP University law school took the dubious honour of offering the most expensive legal practice course (LPC) in England and Wales.

This practice is made even more dubious when you throw in premium financing.