Sentences with phrase «of dubious»

Unlike opposition to the wind industry, there is no need for arguments to be confined to selfish motives nor is there a need to desperately look for arguments of dubious veracity, or arguments that are simply false.

This would mean abandoning the notion of total global coverage, since that is already of dubious thermodynamic quality.

«There was a 51.0 °C reading reported from Santa Rosa, Mexico in April 2011 but this figure is considered of dubious reliability, so yes, the 50.2 ° reading is likely the hottest April temperature yet reliably observed on Earth in modern records,» Chris Burt, a weather historian, told Earther in an email.

There is a conflict of interest — or at least a sense of dubious incompleteness — in an agency investigating itself and concluding that its flaws are of narrow scope.

Obviously the «cap and trade» approach to putting out the fire will subsidize all sorts of dubious projects like carbon - sequestration in the oceans as the fire still burns.

Rabbeting on about climate scientists should do this and they should not put up with data of dubious quality is completely missing the point that they are not in charge of the data.

Not all papers get the peer review they deserve (or require) and the literature has many examples of dubious logic and unsupported interpretation.

And if we use RSS TLT data instead of the dubious TLT output from UAH, a similar calculation yields +0.205 K / decade.

It's rather striking to me how many people will buy a $ 6000 SubZero or Northland of dubious efficiency without batting an eye, and how few will shell out less than half that for a SunFrost.

The idea that such agreements will benefit local hoi polloi is of dubious value.

Since this is a rehash of the previous paper plus a few more cherry - picked statistics of dubious relevance, instead of tediously going through the whole thing ourselves, we are going to try something new — an open source debunking.

They're of dubious morality (and taste), but sometimes, you just need to sit down.

«It therefore seems crazy that the MBH hockey stick has been given such prominence and that a group of influential climate scientists have doggedly defended a piece of dubious statistics.»

Dear RC, None of you here who have written excellent and informative pieices and responses need to justify yourselves to the WUWT and other blogs of dubious intent.

Between MAR and BPL we have 8 of 17 posts unnecessarily insulting, and an incredible 13/17 of dubious usefulness, depending on your view of bashing denialists.

But lately I've come to see those recent dirty decades less as malfeasance (mind you, there have been plenty of dubious actors) and more as an inevitable phase, a transition as natural — and volatile — as puberty.

She regurgitates a claim made elsewhere by sources of dubious credibility without giving them even a cursory fact - check.

Given the pace of technological change today, projections based upon present use patterns are of dubious utility or even relevance.

(Later, an Iraqi gallery owner laid out her own spectrum of dubious wealth: arms, drugs, and blood diamonds were very bad; pharmaceuticals were on the fence; tax evasion and corruption through contracting and procurement were unremarkable; robber barons and industry titans were business as it's always been.)

That land was granted to Cooper Union, in perpetuity, by Peter Cooper's heirs — it was never designed to be collateral for short - term liquidity of dubious necessity.

It's a contradiction that is familiar to Walker: at the age of 13, she moved to Atlanta, Georgia, a city that boasts Stone Mountain as one of its dubious attractions.

In fact, the hybrid three - dimensional constructions that he'd eked out of the dubious amalgamation of relatively traditional artistic means and grubby everyday stuff were nothing short of magnificent.

Indeed, she took a very public stance in 2011 when two books on Natalia Goncharova, with a mass of paintings of dubious authenticity, were published in the West.

The kinstone system got a little out of hand at times, and some of the items you can collect are really of dubious nature as to how useful they are.

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

Sadly the voice acting does hit some snags — usually in battle stingers or courtesy of the dubious racial stereotype who runs the item store — but works well enough in the main.

He produces several streams, all of dubious fame.

Whether in a puny BMW Isetta or a classic 1970 Camaro, the mighty McLaren MP4 - 4 or a preposterous Porsche 918, there's rarely a moment of dubious car behaviour on show — some achievement, given the variety available.

Augmented with implants to make you a better human being, there is a flaw that allows someone of dubious intentions to hijack your implants and send you on a mission to kill the boss.

The scammer will ask that you deposit this check in your bank account and use the money to make some sort of dubious $ 500 - $ 1000 purchase.

There didn't appear to be many restaurants in town aside from a couple pizzerias and food stands of dubious cleanliness.

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

It's so easy to waste money buying things of dubious usefulness because they seem nifty; I'm trying to hold back on gadgets and single - use items.

Many of the stalls sell much the same items as you will find in markets throughout Thailand, including 100 - baht T - shirts, simple jewellery, handbags, sunglasses, beer cosies, souvenirs, watches of questionable mechanical soundness, branded clothes of dubious manufacture and electrical goods of suspicious provenance.

Nespresso machine leaked and only provided with two capsules of dubious dupe coffee, Toiletries Elemis was a nice touch..

It is most important to use a high quality sourced oil fish to ensure the full benefits of fish oil, cheaper oils of dubious source can actually be detrimental.

The difference between naturally constituted whole foods and scientifically concocted manufactured pet foods can be seen on the pet food labels with a plethora of synthetic vitamins, amino acids and trace minerals of dubious nutritive value and origin (as from China) deemed essential because of the poor quality of lowest - cost basic ingredients, and because of the destruction / denaturing of essential nutrients due to processing, storage and cooking.

Until your puppy has acquired sufficient active immunity, it is too risky to allow him to socialize with dogs of dubious immunization history, or with dogs that have been in contact with the urine and feces of dogs potentially infected with parvovirus and other serious puppy diseases.

Contrary to the traditional / historical meaning of the term «cur», these dogs are neither mongrels, nor dogs of dubious breeding or value.

Although a vaccine aimed at protecting against FIP exists, Dr. Scott notes that its efficacy has proved to be of dubious value.

But according to veterinarian Meg Smart DVM PhD, these diets usually contain a lot of dubious ingredients.

Most customers are only minimally satisfied with Purina Pro Plan dog food, since the majority of it's ingredients are of dubious quality.

Such supplements, of dubious therapeutic levels in the food, are at best a gimmick, and worse, a cover - up window - dressing for pet food formulations deficient in essential nutrients.

When there is too much liquidity available to invest, Wall Street produces new companies to absorb the liquidity, many of which will be of dubious value, because there is money to be made.

Since the stocks in these indexes are denominated in more than a half - dozen currencies, hedging them all seems inefficient and of dubious value.

Some lenders have become increasingly reticent to take on more risk by lending to people of dubious credit worthiness.

It is worth noting that many of the secondary loans are of dubious value, banks are unlikely to recoup any of the loan if the property in question goes into default.

My personal preference is to hold the EFA directly because hedging is of dubious value when a basket of currencies are involved.

There is no need to weaken CROA to allow the promotion of credit monitoring products that are of dubious value and that have been the subject of highly deceptive marketing as revealed by law enforcement actions and Congress's own findings.

Or, if you're thinking of a high - tech will, you might picture a VHS tape for a video will of dubious legality.