Sentences with phrase «so dubious»

If it is the case that prescribed criminality is so dubious that the CPS does not wish to be involved in its prosecution, one might suggest that is indicative of the fact that it ought not to be criminal at all (see for example the assisted dying debate).

While I won't say that no professors ever lowered a grade over something so dubious, I will note that at virtually every school this is a firing offense and therefore happens rarely.

How can you expect to be taken seriously in your crusade for open access to data, when the credibility of the arguments and the advocates you associate yourself with is so dubious?

In fact, the only person in the story likely to be doing very well is Mr. Packard himself who used to pull in a salary of $ 5 million to run the K12 Inc. family of for profit virtual charter schools (with an educational record so dubious that the NCAA refuses to accept credits from the schools) and whose Pansophic Learning is now the largest for profit operator of charter schools in Ohio.

«It was, and remains, inappropriate to force good schools to convert when the evidence of any benefit is so dubious,» said National Association of Head Teachers General Secretary Russell Hobby.

It's a flaw of the source material (a result of condensing a 1,500 - page novel into a three - hour play, presumably) that Javert's enduring pursuit and persecution of Valjean is based on so dubious a dedication to the letter of the law, but a strong performance goes a long way to at least making it seem emotionally credible, if not, say, psychologically so.

Not so dubious now.

Or so the dubious story goes.

Ali, as the young champion was now widely called, threw one blow, an overhand right so dubious that it became known as the Phantom Punch, and suddenly Liston was on his back.

«I want all of you to become chileheads, so my dubious plan was to make them mild.

What she conveniently ignores is that whereas I devote eight full chapters to such authenticated Marian apparitions as Lourdes and Fatima, I write of the dubious ones» some very dubious, some not so dubious at all» in a single round «up chapter that contains an emphatic caveat.

The history of social sciences, certainly of economics, however, may not be quite so dubious as he portrays.

Yet because its assets — all those sub-prime loans — were so dubious, no other lender would come to its aid.

Not exact matches

Small firms often have no set limit on sick days and no insurance for long - and short - term disability, so they resist a request for paid time off they deem dubious, or to guarantee leave - takers their jobs back after an extended absence.

Banks, in turn, are reluctant to lend, especially to small businesses, partly because they have so many dubious mortgages on their books.

While hyping your business is certainly a generally accepted part of media relations, doing so in order to intentionally misrepresent your organization can be ethically dubious.

Green makes it clear that they're not in the same dubious business as the so - called «buy - here, pay - here» used - car dealers that were the subject of one of comedian John Oliver's recent televised rants — and definitely not in the same line of work as payday loan operators.

So Watsa has added another dubious marketing decision to BlackBerry history, selling it as a national treasure.

Using so - called «exploding termsheets» to pre-empt other offers is not uncommon in the VC world, though even there it's considered a slightly dubious tactic.

Not spending so much on medical treatments with dubious benefits would be another possibility.

The Equity and Income Fund's managers have both worked in the investment industry for many decades, so we both should be at the point in our careers where dubious financial - industry innovations no longer surprise us.

«Dubious» is a negative word that infers doubt; if it's their decision to go there, so be it.

I'm dubious about wading into this conversation, but I'll do so anyway in the hopes that there are open minds on both sides.

So we have to think in terms of three groups of «sinners»: Jews who could turn to their heavenly Father in penitence and hope; Gentile sinners for whom hope was dubious, most Jews regarding them as beyond the pale of God's mercy; and Jews who had made themselves as Gentiles, for whom penitence was, if not impossible, certainly almost insurmountably difficult.

So that people can see how the human body works (though admittedly, they are a bit weird, and the source of the bodies is dubious).

Theories of global climate change threaten the energy companies so they manipulate the facts to make it look like a «normal» cycle and their political operatives flood the airwaves and Internet with dubious «proof».

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.

A strange young man, a dubious instruction to include even Peter, and a cryptic note: «You'll find him in Galilee,» and three people, the women, so «trembling and bewildered» they say nothing to anyone.

We don't what what thing were like before that, and there are dubious prospects that we ever will, but saying that it did so does not violate any logical mandates or principals.

About 1971, however, there was a major turn in my pilgrimage as I gradually became painfully aware of the so - called outcome studies reporting the dubious effectiveness of average psychotherapy, whose cure rates barely match spontaneous remission, coupled with the frightening spectre of client deterioration (i.e., patients finding their condition worsening under the care of professional psychotherapists).

The world gets no great lift from this dubious favor of having the Pharisee back away and beat his chest awhile so the Publican can stand to boast of his pride.

With the sole exception of a single allusion to Jesus» last supper with his companions, nothing which could in the ordinary sense be called an act of Jesus or an incident in his career is so much as referred to, and in only a few highly dubious passages are his words quoted.

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.

Where theology has failed to take up the historical theme of promise, secular ways of thinking — such as Marxism or the dubious Western dream of indefinite economic progress — have often done so instead, thereby filling a need to which religion and theology have failed appropriately to respond.

The rhetorical and metaphorical quality of language is so pervasive that the reference of language is always dubious.

Her academic credentials are dubious, she is phenomenally bad at math, she is verbally inept, and she is so ignorant of hard science that she thinks Creationism should be taught in schools.

If their god is morally dubious, so will their prayer be.

The attitudes that infuse so much of section 3 of the book are hinted at in countless dubious affirmations, suggestions and examples.

To all this one might add that the text itself is at points in dubious state of preservation, so that one may only conjecture (see the marginal note for verse 16) as to the original sense.

Were it agreeable to you, Most Reverend Father, you could examine my disputation theses, so that you may see how dubious is this belief concerning Indulgences, which these preachers propagate as if it was the surest thing in the whole world.

So, this is 2017: A few days after issuing an incompetently executed, morally dubious, and in many ways misguided executive order on immigrants and refugees, the president nominated an outstanding and unassailable jurist to succeed Justice Antonin Scalia.

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.

The advantage afforded by the consequences is dubious for still another reason, in so far as the consequences do not follow directly, as simple consequences.

I was a bit dubious at first but I've had them around a month and so far I'm amazed!

As you said re: coconut flour absorbency, I knew this was the case so I was dubious about nut flours too.

Anyway, I don't trust the bottled stuff to be close to the real thing, the sweetness is unpleasant, and I am dubious of the probiotics, but my father drinks it all the time, so I am very happy to have found such a simple and healthy alternative!

So I was dubious going into this, and I admit the first few bites were classified as «ew.»

I was a bit dubious about the whole apple and cheese thing but have so many apples and am so fed up with sweet stuff that they were a must to try!

hmmm, i'm quietly dubious but if you say so..

maybe wenger should have bought so and so over so and so, maybe he could of used this formation rather than that formation but overall I don't think we couldn't of done much better unless we gave in the «sugar daddy» way of things with the shady usmanov a Russian oligarch notorious for involvement in dubious politics and business.