Sentences with phrase «seem dubious»

Yes, while some of their lofty claims may seem dubious (safest car «ever»?)

People often seem dubious that plastic plants can look good; I invite them to look again at the cages throughout my shop.

Indiscriminately buying the market in such an environment seems a dubious strategy to us.

The new historiography of American Catholicism teaches, sometimes subtly and sometimes overtly, a contempt for the Catholic past, and indeed for the American past — which seems a dubious base on which to build the American Catholicism of the future.

If Roman had ever harbored any strong desire to stand in with the champ — which seems dubious — it deserted him directly.

Second, that «kick» is absolutely trivial contact, and is much less than what is allowed all over the field in every game including this one so hanging our hats on that one seems dubious to me.

They do have a pretty nifty feature called «blind spot monitoring system» that detects objects in your blind spots with a cue light in the mirrors (and a chime if you have the signal light on towards that blind spot) but depending on that, or any system in lieu of actually being able to see if you are clear seems dubious to me.

So a 24 % rating seems dubious.

She always looks great, and she always seems dubious and insecure.

Given that Mark Boal's current script is far more ambitious than his previous one, and Quentin Tarantino's is far less ambitious, this seems a dubious critical appraisal.

If the automaker gets the positioning wrong, it ends up with something like a Nissan Maxima, a front - drive car whose price seems dubious when viewed from above or below.

That optional feature seems dubious, not least for its dodgy sound quality and

While it is possible to get a rough sense of the royalty splits for a hypothetical title, the calculator's utility for the work I want to produce seems dubious, it not utterly useless.

While the last sentence may have some merit (for different reasons from those above), the rest seems dubious.

It always seemed dubious, given that the document said it might be worth «cultivating» me as a «neutral» voice.

Savory's proposal seems dubious but I have seen other studies which show that organic agriculture and reforestation can sequester large amounts of carbon in soils and biomass — and of course they have other benefits as well, for biodiversity and human health.

They claim to have a «limited connectable amount» (which seems dubious) by charging excessive «construction contributions» to other operators, and by giving notification of «no more availability for further connection» as a result of prioritizing existing power sources or their own future plans.

→ Tesla's battery packs were estimated to cost $ 240 / kWh in 2014, while the rest of the industry was projected to be no lower than $ 400 / kWh (that seems dubious).

It is politicians and policy makers who have failed to organize a proper global climate control agency, have not articulates a clear strategic vision and whose cap - and - trade policy seems dubious at best.

In summary, the Court's statement of the appropriate legal principles seems muddled; its application of the closed mind standard seems harsh; and the very applicability of the closed mind standard to legislative activity seems dubious.

The idea of «faking it» seems dubious at first, but hear us out.

This seems dubious, to say the least.

Everyone I showed it to, though, seemed dubious.

Not exact matches

Second, on a more editorial note, «AF,» ie «as fuck», seems a bit dubious as a projected level of valuation.

For a person who should have been bought to the international court of justice to get a fair trial for his crime against humanity, for him to die of a headshot wound seems a bit dubious.

Lawyers» stubborn refusal to recognize their affinities with other highly skilled, well - educated sellers of services seems to rest either on the arrogant assumption that businesspeople have no ethics, or the dubious proposition that businesspeople invariably place short - term profit maximization ahead of all other considerations.

In this day and age, an undertaking of this sort, to most, seems strange, perhaps even dubious.

Say what one will about the dubious quality of Heidegger's judgment here, the problem for his interpreters seems to remain one of demonstrating that his later philosophical views are any less dubious than his earlier ones — especially as they are rooted in the manner in which he lived.

What is incredibly annoying about this statement is that the writer seems to think he needs to point out being one of the «least religious» colleges is somehow «dubious».

It's not because of Jesus and his good news, but because of frustrations with religious politics, dubious theological propositions, difficulties in interpreting passages of the Bible that seem barbaric, or embarrassments from church history.»

Nonetheless, it seems soft - headed to me to buy into an outfit whose shoddiness you ignore, or even welcome, on the dubious grounds of an exclusive franchise from God.

It sum, it would seem that the civil rights movement made a massive error in investing so much time, energy, and moral fervor in such a dubious cause as mandatory school busing.

Obviously, the adoption of these proposals might become part of a decline of the ELCA into a more than dubious liberalism (although parts of the ELCA seem to be traveling along such a road already without help from others, thank you), but there is no reason why it should be such, if the proposals are adopted for sound theological reasons and if Lutherans enter these new relations precisely as the beginning of a process of pursuing a common life that must be held to the gospel the proposals witness to.

On the whole it seems to me dubious whether Kant was much of a rival for clarity as to what he was doing compared to his ancient predecessor.

It would therefore seem like a dubious retrogression to discredited ideas if we were now suddenly to postulate such a supernatural «intervention» for the miracle of the resurrection: this would contradict all scientific thinking as well as all ordinary convictions and experiences.

The signs are that the Catholic Church will at least make its voice heard when the Bill comes to be debated in the Commons: but any hope that the C of E will come up to scratch seems, on the evidence so far available, dubious to say the least.

It is particularly dubious when he doesn't seem to value technical proficiency very much in the rest of the squad, and seems to love attackers whose primary contribution is positional responsibility and energy.

It seems many of the people who write abusive stuff took refuge hear because of absence of editorial policy and this is brought about by people who write under dubious, absurd and sometimes outrageous names.

So it seems that the Arsenal and France centre forward Olivier Giroud is fit again after the mystery toe injury that I for one am still a bit dubious about.

Based on the current odds, it seems like Cleveland will earn that dubious distinction.

Such behavior is par for the course for Suárez given his dubious appreciation for the laws of the game (and other people's personal space), and now it seems that his actions may backfire.

There seems little hope of City qualifying for the next round now, shades of how Roberto Mancini's dubious choices in central defence led to the expensive defeat last season in Munich against Bayern.

The value of these trips in the past has always seemed rather dubious but this time around there should be some serious questions asked judging by the results, performances and defensive displays since the return.

Particularly in the teenage years, children become over-eager to be part of a bigger group, which can lead to rebelling against authority and adopting dubious moral behaviour in order not to seem different.

The death - worryingly - seems to be surrounded by a large amount of dubious police spin.

i've also been stopped by traffic cops for what seemed like dubious reasons.

Now that dubious honour seems to have fallen to the soldier - turned - politician Dan Jarvis.

«I'm a little dubious about his commitment because he seems to pay attention to these issues only when there's an election coming up and what he's done is put together a panel that he wants to study the issue and frankly there's no need to study the issue further,» Holland said.

However dubious such judgements seem, they should not obscure the fact that popular culture can engage young people with politics, and can provide a route by which political values and ideas are negotiated.

Stefanik's Democratic opponent in that first race, Aaron Woolf, was asserting an equally dubious case for residency, however, and it seemed that not too many people cared, in either case.