Sentences with phrase «questionable motives»

On several occasions, the massive amounts of data collected by Internet service and telecommunications companies have been utilized by agencies such as the NSA, under morally questionable motives at best.

It turns out the country has seen many bouts of violent Christian - Muslim conflict, so perhaps the government should be more concerned about accommodation and inclusion than questionable motives behind a simple greeting.

While the immediate context of the controversy is critical comments from the Russian embassy (possibly with questionable motives), some of those quoted advocate more critical thought within the Ukrainian community about the wartime roles of their compatriots:

They followed a pack of lies to satisfy questionable motives.

It is unacceptable that many of our family pets are created by a network of largely unregulated and often anonymous dog breeders with questionable motives and absolutely no accountability.

It's an odd story, with echoes of the «student affected by supernatural being with questionable motives» story of Death Note.

Powell said there are «clearly questions to answer, for the board and leadership of Bright Tribe» about their «questionable motives towards GM UTC, and about how the regional schools commissioner, and ministers have allowed this benign accountability environment to grow».

Noting that the «parties devote a significant portion of their briefs discussing the question whether the constitutional provisions at issue in this case are so - called «Blaine amendments»» originally motivated by anti-Catholic nativist sentiment, the court found that «none of the parties has produced any authority suggesting we may disregard constitutional provisions merely because we suspect they may have been tainted by questionable motives.

Anyone who asks a film crew if they want to come and film while they fire someone has questionable motives.

But in the 1950s, Stewart starred in a number of Westerns that cast him as a morally ambiguous loner with a dark past and questionable motives.

Instead of the usual psycho - genius killer with a back - story, he gets the psycho - genius killer with questionable motives and brushed - over back story.

In 2000 alone, she could be seen in no less than four films, including the action comedy The Crew, Red Planet, and as a bartender with questionable motives in director Christopher Nolan's unconventional breakthrough, Memento.

Always be safe and act with caution but, at the same time, don't assume that everyone online has questionable motives or is out to scam you.

Any reviewer generating subpar reviews, or exhibiting questionable motives for reviewing, is subject to the same editorial scrutiny as on any journal.»

It is not negotiating at gun point, with a group with questionable motives, fired by hideous political conspiracies.

I appreciate the concession, and I will concede that some missionaries are probably too pushy and have questionable motives and methods to convert.

So for me it's a mixture of truth (as in mythology is true) and questionable motives.

Some United Methodist bishops spoke up when two of its sons, George Bush and Dick Cheney, led the nation into war in Iraq on flimsy evidence and for questionable motives.

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Hope Hicks, the Trump campaign's press secretary, wrote in an email to Fortune that Harth «obviously has a serious credibility issue and her motives are highly questionable.

What's more, they think that if a corporation benefits from an action, the motive must be questionable.

The very depth of his preoccupation with the theological problem presented by the terrible fate meted out to Jesus as a result of the Jewish and Roman leaders» readiness to co-operate in his destruction makes him a questionable witness to the motives and intentions with which the Lord approached and confronted his supreme hour.

So that's why when I hear about people wanting to leave the church because of politics or exhaustion, burn out, or disillusionment, I can sympathize but I certainly don't believe we should condemn every church out there and adopt this self - centered «woe is me, churches are so evil, pastors are two - faced and their motives are questionable, and Christians are so awful» mentality and pull ourselves AWAY from the work of God.

Her ethical conflict is so enormous, and her motives so glaringly questionable, that her position on the topic ultimately doesn't even matter.

There might be many ulterior motives but it's in any case pretty common to dismiss civil serveants when there is some tangible reason to believe they have questionable loyality to the state (i.e. without any proof they did something that raises to the level of a criminal offense).

And if someone's motives seem, er, questionable, DO investigate.

Goodman is given the difficult task of having to portray a character whose motives and morality are intentionally questionable for the audience for the majority of the film, as like Michelle we aren't supposed to know whether we can believe him or not.

The characterisations are also spot on, with Healy and March both being flawed characters that you want to side with even though some of their actions and motives may be questionable.

Dr. Manabe helps out Rando by providing him with various fake breasts and clothes to help him pass better, but Manabe's motives are questionable, since he's in love with his work, and he'd like Rando to just transition and become a full transsexual.

However, nine times out of ten the owner's motives are questionable at best.

If they prefer, as of course they do, to sit on the top table at an awards ceremony and hand over a cheque in front of the TV cameras, then their motives are a little more questionable.

A sane person could believe, and should believe, with sufficient evidence a conspiracy of dozens of bad actors; http://www.infowars.com/33-conspiracy-theories-that-turned-out-to-be-true-what-every-person-should-know/ shows some candidates you may or may not believe, drawn from the files of people said initially were Leftists of questionable sanity and unquestionably ulterior motive.

This is why personal integrity and decorum is important in science: this research could be important to humanity's survival but the public now does not believe the research because the researcher's motives and communications seem questionable.

I realize that many people's motives are questionable, but that shouldn't be a consideration for determining how much documentation is provided.