Sentences with phrase «on dubious»

Such an orientation may help researchers and policymakers avoid the pitfalls of a research approach that builds on the dubious assumption that having a child with ID is a threat.

The idea that a teacher trained in the use of a handgun would succeed in ending a shooting rampage by someone with an assault rifle is simply an assertion, nothing more, based on dubious assumptions and best - case conditions.

That number outside of a context may mean nothing — but it was actually the second highest rate in the country that year (losing out on the dubious honor to Florida).

Perhaps what TravelSafe Team said was a broad brush attempt to save face; however, it turns on dubious plausibility.

An even more interesting and relevant article would focus on the dubious tactics lower - ranked schools use to perpetrate the (mistaken) belief that their students will emerge on the good side of your bi-modal «curve».

Generally the line where law society regulation needs to come in seems to be where a firm is sending demands threatening suit based on dubious or greatly exaggerated cause of action, seeking a settlement amount greater than the client would likely be entitled to at law, with the goal that a significant portion of recipients of the demands will settle to avoid the costs of court and embarrassment of the subject matter (the copyright claims often involve allegations of downloading various forms of pornography).

We all know it is generally a good idea never to click on that dubious, unexpected e-mail link from Canada Post, FedEx, a bank, or government department because of malware concerns.

A blog by one of our members on the dubious statistics underpinning the changes can be read here.

Also featured are Dubai's Jumeira Gardens project (for a flipside of Dubai's construction boom, check out Lloyd's post on dubious Dubai) and something called Life Pods.

Not that that changes the basic issue, which remains the shoddy scholarship of his book and reliance on dubious sources outside the peer - reviewed scientific literature.

The entire AGW edifice is built on dubious data.

It got rebuffed at the highest court level on dubious legal grounds similar to Mass..

Perhaps because of the amount of time people have spent trying to tease a climate signal from low resolution meteorological data, or the large body of work resting on this dubious foundation has confused some into thinking that Anthony Watts needs to calculate a climate signal using alternate methods.

More importantly, the EPA estimates — based on dubious epidemiological evidence and questionable demographic modeling — that the MACT Rule's Hg emission reductions will avert the loss of 0.00209 IQ points per child in a guesstimated population of 240,000 subsistence fishing households.

The rationale for homogenization is based on the dubious assumption that all neighboring weather stations should display the same climate trends.

The Pentagon has been ordered to incorporate climate change in weapons testing and training, on the dubious notion that climate change is one of the world's biggest security threats, thus diverting resources to the point that actions to combat the theoretical threat of climate change are undermining the U.S.'s ability to respond to the real threats of terrorism and global conflict.

Mr. Jolissaint said the report was based on dubious economics, did not include a discount rate, and was written by an informal adviser to Gordon Brown - in fact, at the time of the report, Mr Stern was the Second Permanent Secretary at the UK Treasury.

I am saying that if the only quantitative model you have is wrong (or based on dubious or clearly counterfactual assumptions), then the fact that there are no adequate alternative quantitative models does not have any strong implications for guiding action.

The problem is when fossil fuel industries funnel money to the policymakers themselves and the thinktanks that provide them with information, which is for the purpose of favoring those industries when policies are made or blocked, especially if built on the dubious scientific standards of their thinktanks.

Let's forget for a moment that that area doesn't really exist as anything other than a mathematical construct based on dubious assumptions.

But bovine refusal to do so by relying on dubious definitional semantics merely suggests to me that they find such «misunderstandings» to their advantage.

But we believed from the outset that these hopes were built on a dubious foundation.

Dubai Dubious Dubai Construction Starting On Dubious Dubai Twirling Tower?

We can't afford to let them nose into the tent — on dubious grounds — at this early stage.

Florida insurers rely on dubious storm model http://www.heraldtribune.com/article/20101114/article/11141026?p=1&tc=pg

Construction Starting On Dubious Dubai Twirling Tower?

Paintings without content have taken on dubious connotations of overwrought interiority.

There's some speculation over a potential expansion announcement at this year's Gamescom or BlizzCon, but right now it's only wild guesses and rumors based on dubious evidence.

Fans of the game «Destiny» gets a better glimpse of the Destiny Art on Dubious Volley, an exotic launcher that never made it to the game.

[10] Though far less than the «one billion birds» sometimes cited by TNR opponents, [11] ABC's «estimate» is based on some dubious assumptions.

Cats (and there's no reason to think these weren't pets — Marra, in fact, says at least one of them was) were the cause of six of the 33 mortalities (though Marra tacks on three more, based, I argue, on some dubious claims).

But given the potential conflicts of interest outlined in Senator Elizabeth Warren's recent report on dubious annuity sales tactics, it's also clear that investors considering an annuity need to take care to assure they're buying an investment that benefits them as much as the person selling it.

Golden Valley relies on the dubious legal dodge of setting up shop on an Indian reservation and electing tribal law in its contracts to evade state usury laws.

That number outside of a context may mean nothing — but it was actually the second highest rate in the country that year (losing out on the dubious honor to Florida).

Indeed, countless lottery winners have managed to go bankrupt after spending their millions on dubious purchases that «seemed» to be justified by the unexpected prize they had won.

Would someone please write a «the emperor has no clothes» post on the dubious use these days of «bestseller»?

Self - publishers regularly find their books excluded from all sorts of opportunities, often on dubious grounds.

Widowed and destitute, she must rely on the dubious benevolence of her secretive uncle, an art collector living in Venice.

The 2014 letter, then, was based on dubious claims about the effects of school discipline and highly questionable assumptions about what is driving racial discipline disparities.

Delaware has refused to back down from its goals, setting up a choice for the Department: Approve a state plan that has rejected federal feedback, or reject a plan based on a dubious pretext.

They've shed light on dubious assumptions and frequently brought a healthy rigor, one that was too often missing in the»80s and»90s.

But what are constitutional limits when we have strained claims of underfunding based on dubious costing - out studies?

Despite its interesting ideas and visuals, Upside Down relies on dubious storytelling, as it casts a giant corporation as villain and asks «What if love was stronger than gravity?»

Blazing through supporting bits are thankless moments for Laura Prepon and Lisa Kudrow, but a sardonic Allison Janney manages to enliven proceedings whenever she appears to cast doubt on the dubious perspective of Rachel.

Not especially bright — in fact it's often hard to know if she's intellectually impaired — she and her workmates come up with a revenge plot that relies on the dubious skills of a hired «security consultant» (Bouli Lanners as Michel).

Armen Keteyian on the dubious potential for American - style professional football leagues to tackle South Asia.

And if you're going to throw away grains (and legumes, another class of foods that trendy diets are maligning based on dubious claims that lectins, phytates, or other «anti-nutrients» are problematic), you're almost of necessity going to be eating a lot of meat.

I had asked the good people of Sun Potion if they could send us press samples (I love my job, but dropping that much money on some dubious powders seemed above and beyond the call of duty) but they hadn't arrived yet.

The discovery could put the kibosh on a dubious distinction that some researchers have ascribed to humanity, said Sirianni — the idea that ours is the only species with detrimental cultural practices.

On the other side, a growing number of skeptics are now claiming that the evidence for the syndrome rests on dubious medical ground with questionable biophysical models supporting it.