Sentences with phrase «of dubious merit»

I thought I was being subjected to undue influence by charms of dubious merit... warranty-wise.

I left the business three months prior to obtaining my CRA designation / certification after having been terminated by my employer / sponsor for reasons of dubious merit.

This conveniently furthers the propagation of the bad science, and it inappropriately encourages lawyers to adopt ideological positions of dubious merit.

The auto - upscaling feature is of dubious merit, but is a very cool thing to have in your back pocket.

In 2004, Green wrote a paper with notorious climate - change denier Timothy Ball arguing that the scientific models used to predict global warming were «of dubious merit».

Is the ultimate goal to write and promote a truly good book or to make a gazillion dollars on a work of dubious merit?

Both claims are of dubious merit.

Now, it strikes me as ludicrous for the unions to sit quietly by and share the blame for timid, tepid leadership, or when unions passively take the blame for weak teachers when teacher preparation programs produce graduates of dubious merit.

Such a volume might be spared many pages of our Bible which appear full of dull details and teachings of dubious merit.

Not exact matches

Some of their policy arguments may have merit, but their theological claims and priorities are more dubious.

Also, each of the question stems has dubious merit itself.

How do I balance my opposition to grades as empty signifiers that promote ethically dubious conceptions of merit, with my ethical commitments to my students, who need and use grades as currency for access to future opportunities?

Still, it's clear that a combination of pressures to cut the deficit, concerns about food prices and clearer information about the dubious merits of most existing methods of producing ethanol has overcome the political heft of farm states.

Over and over, the dubious merits of using theatrics to focus attention on environmental or animal welfare issues have been on display.

Though, as these are statistics about largely linear questions in a nonlinear system, that approach is of somewhat dubious merit.

Cod modelling of the merits and demerits of one technique vs others is a distraction from the fact of the political nature of the CCC's enclosure of the market in the same way that the enclosure of the huge abundance of land in the UK ensures high prices for the dubious benefit of «protecting the environment» — the Green Belt.

The dubious merits of that claim have been widely discussed (see, e.g., here: Levitt on Ghomeshi).

The merits of the argument are dubious at best and the issue raised by the moving party has no significance beyond this case.

Putting aside the dubious merits of Ira's allegations, what doesn't appear to be in dispute is Wright's rightful place as a key figure at the genesis and early development of Bitcoin.

Your attempt to appear «cool» and «with it» by invoking an old and worn cliche» of dubious humorous merit (at the expense of relatives and friends of deceased, easily led souls who perished at the hands of a true sociopath) leaves much to be desired when it comes to buttressing your opinion.