Sentences with phrase «of dubious value»

DIY social media or online «database» searches are often of dubious value, and even worse, may lead to serious errors in judgment.

Parents opting out of tests say that their children are losing valuable learning time as teachers prepare them for the exams, which some find of dubious value.

Most notably, blind - spot monitoring information is starting to appear in these displays, and it has completely turned around our thinking on these systems of dubious value.

And if you leave out various accounting games with offsets of dubious value, most all the European nations, despite all the advantages described above, are still missing their targets.

But if the spam comes from an organization that you've never heard of, usually selling products or services of dubious value, don't reply.

Tyler pointed out that LegalZoom provides a lot of legal forms of dubious value for very little money, but disclaims all responsibility for the harm they may do.

After listing superstar entrepreneurs who dropped out of college — Bill Gates, Larry Ellison, Steve Jobs, Michael Dell — he calls post-secondary education a «cruel, expensive joke» that «happily churns out unemployed debtors of dubious value.»

Make sure the board has the appropriate budget, but also implement policies to reduce redundant use or other kinds of over-use of consultants of dubious value.

It also applies to our food, much of which comes to us in the supermarkets overpriced and laced with chemicals of dubious value.

Among these layers are a variety of tax rules, which encourage religions to reshape themselves so as to be eligible for tax benefits, and the recent legislative efforts, certainly constitutional but perhaps of dubious value to religion, to allow religious groups to share in the rather substantial largesse of the programmatic side of the welfare state.

He pays huge wages for players of dubious value or even throws away the little transfer budget he's given on terrible buys like Matri (paid as much as Juventus got Tevez for), moves like Torres or other fake players presented to us as if they were champions.

And Rep. Brian Higgins, D - Buffalo, said: «The message of this order around the world is that we have sacrificed our values to score political points of dubious value.»

Politicians often offer headline - grabbing ideas in the midst of a crisis, frequently of dubious value.

Six years after the fall of the Twin Towers, the devastating blow to the Pentagon, and the inspiring courage of the passengers and crew of United Airlines Flight 93, anti-terrorism funding is an exercise in pork - barrel spending and high - profile projects of dubious value.

Enrollments in schools of education would plummet, and the taxpayer would not have to pony up additional dollars to keep alive programs of dubious value.

This Cayman is also the result of an uninhibited romp through the options list and hits # 61K, though as we shall discover, some of its fittings are of dubious value here.

Cameras are of dubious value on a tablet, their most obvious use being video chat — a niche attraction.

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

He notes that the stock market nearly always rises over the period of 10 years, which makes the 10 - year guarantee on most seg funds of dubious value.»

U.S. carbon dioxide emissions are already declining thanks to the natural gas revolution caused by hydraulic fracturing («fracking») and horizontal drilling, rendering top - down government restrictions of dubious value and necessity».

Biodegradable only good if it's being degraded Biodegradable packaging is a bit like carbon offsetting - of dubious value if it is only a band aid for our guilt.

In Canada, the proliferation of electronically accessible case law of dubious value makes one nostalgic for the days when a stroke of the DLR editor's pen could consign such case law to non-existence... [more]

There is debate about the definition of patent trolls, but the term broadly refers to people who sue companies for infringement, often using patents of dubious value or questionable relevance, and then hold on like a terrier until they get license fees.

While some of these include Google's useful array of apps (Gmail, YouTube and the like), you also get a bunch from AT&T and other third parties of dubious value.

Merriam - Webster defines clickbait as «something (such as a headline) designed to make readers want to click on a hyperlink, especially when the link leads to content of dubious value or interest.»

Moral and theological commentary on the market is often of dubious value, and there is a good reason for this — reflection on these topics requires hard work.

Different website strategies are right for different kinds of companies, and a lot of buzzed - about applications are of dubious value.

Either obey every line of the bible as God's word, or else admit that some lines can be ignored, and then the entire book is of dubious value.

According to Mr. Prempeh, the majority judgement in the election petition case, which he described as being «of dubious value,» failed to answer questions which could be relevant to the conduct of future elections.

«The gambling deal is a boon for certain wealthy special interests and of dubious value to the public,» Susan Lerner, executive director of Common Cause New York, said in a statement on the organization's website at the time.

Well, at least you acknowledge that WD is essentially in the business of promoting expensive writing «products» that are of dubious value.

But this is still tactical asset allocation, a strategy commonly employed by active managers, and one that is of dubious value to investors.

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.

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.

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

Problem is, most of them are of dubious value.

Anything more than that is of dubious value, IMO.

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.

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

If this most basic tenant of standard veterinary practice was of dubious value and safety, what else about standard veterinary practice was questionable?

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

This starts with CRU and Hansen criticized HAdCRU adjustments in the early going as ad hoc and of dubious value, as I posted before.

In the current adversarial environment, both the Board and employers are more and more aggressively challenging claims and using private investigators to provide surveillance «evidence» of dubious value.

But for legal publishers (such as myself), Kindles are of dubious value (usability wise) for our products.

You can also toggle on App notifications sync, though of the four apps Cortana detected, some were obsolete (my discontinued Basis Peak fitness band app) and others were of dubious value, such as Google's VR services.