Sentences with phrase «of dubious decisions»

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.

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.

Lots of dubious decision - making here, Clark.

Not exact matches

In fact, Comey did as much as anyone to get Trump elected with three ethically dubious decisions: He publicly lambasted Hillary Clinton for her handling of her emails, despite his decision not to recommend criminal prosecution.

New Deal jurists pointed to the court's willingness to accommodate constitutionally dubious moral reforms to demonstrate the ultimate subjectivity of judicial decisions and the need for constitutional interpretation to evolve along with social and economic realities.

Some of Ring's editorial choices are also dubious» for instance, his inclusion of some long decisions that are likely to bore or bewilder his intended audience.

The penalty decision may be seen as dubious, but the club should point the finger at themselves rather than Lee Mason who, by letter of the law, did not put a foot wrong.

other examples of Thibs» stubborness and dubious decision making.

The fact is that we lost to a better team who also got the benefit of two or three dubious refereeing decisions.

The better team are winning, but we have had some dubious offside decisions against us one of which was just prior to the goal

Our penalties were laughable, and Lee Mason's awful performance added to the frustration, but our problems run infinitely deeper than shit spot - kicks and the dubious decisions of match officials.

Missed penalties and dubious decisions made by match officials have added to the long list of misery of Grant's men.

Arsenal managed to cope without these players in the FA Cup replay against Orient, but their absence was largely felt in the stalemate against Sunderland, as the Gunners were denied a win by dubious referee decisions and a complete lack of creativity in the first sixty minutes of the game.

A 3 - 3 draw at Norwich will have been tough to swallow for Steve Kean, who saw his side lead 3 - 1 going into the closing stages only to concede an equaliser at the death courtesy of a dubious penalty decision.

But what, if any, are the consequences of Wednesday's enthralling contest, a match which had us all riveted to our seats for one reason or another, whether it be for the high - octane football, the quality of the goals or even the countless dubious decisions — there will have been few switching over the channel before the final whistle eventually blew, and even then the drama didn't end there.

His side had now beaten Burnley twice with the most dubious of last minute decisions and had they gone against his side we would have seen him incandescent and accusing refs of being cheats.

I'm sure Bolton manager Owen Coyle doesn't have time for sob stories about what could have been had some dubious decision gone their way and what not, but there was a real sense of injustice last Sunday as Bolton, who did more than merely hold their own against one of England's most successful clubs, were beaten by a then struggling Liverpool with the aid of some poor officiating.

He showed the way to his grassroots by openly mocking some of the more dubious spending decisions by local Tories.

When he lost the first officially scheduled Klottey - Korle parliamentary election on the ticket of the main opposition New Patriotic Party (NPP), I advised Mr. Philip Addison to desist from following through with his decision to have the primary election rerun, on the dubious grounds that the time and day scheduled for the election had not favored his supporters.

«The decision of SERAP to anchor its case on a baseless and unsubstantiated allegation by former CBN governor, Professor Charles Soludo that N30 trillion — about seven times the total annual budget during the Jonathan administration — is missing confirms SERAP's dubious motives and its role as a tool for politically motivated actors.

The decision came partly in response to a new investigation conducted by the International Fund for Animal Welfare, which found numerous examples of legally dubious ivory sales on the auction site.

Matthew Heineman's documentary might be brave and shocking but some of its editing decisions feel ethically and morally dubious.

The decision definitely ups the profile of the dubious Broadcast Television Film Critics but might it diminish the appeal of the film awards?

Consider, for instance, the Obama Administration's decision to place three states on «high risk status» because they have fallen behind on their promises to implement statewide teacher - evaluation systems (a condition — of dubious legality — of their ESEA waivers).

However, the decision to ditch a manual gearbox in favour of what Abarth calls a «Competizione» semi-auto transmission with paddle - shift is almost as dubious, though not nearly as funny, as the PR blurb's description of the 595 50th Anniversary as «the world's smallest supercar».

Of all the dubious decisions Amazon made when designing this device (no mic, seriously?)

Most of them consider it to be a dubious decision.

He might be relieved not to have lived to see some of the city's more dubious town planning decisions, but this proud port has a history of dreaming big and bold — sometimes too bold to be realised.

Even assuming we are assigning probabilities correctly (very dubious in itself), the usual use of probabilities of outcomes in things like cost - benefit analysis assumes an aggregation of harms across many, many similar decisions, in some of which cases things turn out very badly, but in others of which things come out not so badly.

In an email on Wednesday, Robert P. Murphy, a senior economist for the group, said: «We appreciate that agencies are in an awkward position right now, but our view is that the correct decision is to avoid using such a dubious concept as the «social cost of carbon» in its present form.»

Secondly, it is a rather dubious proposition that the Rodriguez decision can be overturned because the content of section 7 had not yet fully developed by the time it was decided.

From a firm management point of view, bringing in laterals with a «book» of business can be a very dubious proposition — most often these lawyers are more loyal to themselves than to their partners; so building a firm around a group of individuals who may leave at any time with their «book» is not a structurally sound decision.

It seems that even if one were to accept the dissent's position that any evidence, however dubious, is sufficient to establish that there is «some evidence», the broader test of whether there is an obvious defect would suffice to determine that the decision was patently unreasonable.

The court's decision to take on the legally dubious King v. Burwell case, she writes, positions the court on «the front lines of a partisan war,» and puts «not only the Affordable Care Act, but the court itself» in peril.Greenhouse contrasts this case with the previous challenge the court took up to Obamacare, pointing out that this time what's in question isn't the constitutionality of the law, but its statutory interpretation — what did Congress intend and did the government interpret and implement the statute correctly.

He gives the law a grade of «A» or thereabouts in tackling dubious expert testimony (with the Daubert revolution), in preventing the unwarranted extension of class action concepts from financial - injury cases to the realm of personal injury, and — a much newer development — in introducing serious scrutiny of claims at the pleading stage through the Supreme Court's recent Twombly and Iqbal decisions.

I was a bit dubious about this design decision at first because it makes the watch seem a bit under polished, but as I wore it out I realized that the smooth finish of the plastic is actually what makes it so comfortable.

Smith thinks his friends, who are also IT consultants, were dubious of his decision to use a career coach for résumé writing help because implementing big, complicated enterprise systems makes them feel they can do anything.

Others such as Katie, who commented on a story about Maxed Out in the The New York Times, sums up many of Katrina's detractors with her dubious line: «Having children, and deciding how many, is a personal decision and one has to make sure she can stick with it without crying, asking for a medal and sympathy... being a mother is a big job, maybe you should think about it before?»