Sentences with phrase «such dubious»

The third shocking revelation of these documents is the ruthless way in which these academics have been determined to silence any expert questioning of the findings they have arrived at by such dubious methods — not just by refusing to disclose their basic data but by discrediting and freezing out any scientific journal which dares to publish their critics» work.

In an email on Wednesday, Robert P. Murphy, a senior economist for the group, said: «We appreciate that agencies are in an awkward position right now, but our view is that the correct decision is to avoid using such a dubious concept as the «social cost of carbon» in its present form.»

By allowing an unlimited number of permits to be bought from overseas, through such dubious schemes as REDD and the CDM, the CPRS can not guarantee that even one tonne of Australian emissions (as opposed to domestic permits) will be cut.

For the most part, however, statement art was represented by one - liner wordplay, such as Alfredo Jaar's neon Teach Us To Outgrow Our Madness, or clever commentary such as Pedro Reyes's instruments fashioned from guns that are «made to be used», and such dubious efforts as Raqs Media Collective's re-enactment of a 1948 scene shot by Henri Cartier - Bresson of a bank robbery in Shanghai.

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The sellers get pennies for the info, so that any decent business would earn more staying away from such dubious operations.

That a study of such dubious scientific quality could make the front page of the nation's most respected newspaper is disturbing, but perhaps not so unusual.

If last summer's «The Conjuring» offered possession stories their classiest entry in decades, Mike Flanagan «s «Oculus» lends elegance to haunted object movies, a subgenre distinguished by such dubious classics as «Death Bed: The Bed That Eats.»

Luckily, Mitt can breathe a sigh of relief, since the low budget film is marked by such dubious dialogue, shoddy special f / x and sloppy editing that it doesn't even measure up, cinematically, to an episode of your typical, cowboy TV show from the Fifties, like The Lone Ranger.

In Drive, Only God Forgives, and The Neon Demon, his exacting, tightly realized compositions are often so exhaustingly detailed on the surface as to suggest the shallowness and ugly realities of his subjects in the imagery alone — the underworld, the fashion world, the drug trade, and other such dubious enterprises.

«In the course of the interview, Mrs Kemisola Olasunkanmi expressed regrets while lamenting that she did not know what came over her husband to warrant such dubious and false claims,» the Bureau statement noted,» it read.

I am 100 percent positive I will receive grief from the more loyal (or something) Juventus fans for not having faith, not being a true Bianconero, or not having the fino alla fine spirit or some such dubious banter, but I tried very, very hard to mention nothing but facts above.

Only by such dubious, and, in the last case, almost certainly mistaken inferences, however, can one introduce hope into Jesus» picture of Gehenna.

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.

No one there and then had a video camera to record the event and mere writing is such a dubious source of «proof!»

As an alternative, investors should simply walk away from such dubious companies and look elsewhere for better investment opportunities.

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Additionally, such a reclassification of ISPs as utilities is «legally dubious,» Downes says, and is likely to be rejected by federal courts.

«Yelp has never done this and individuals making such claims are either misinformed, or more typically, have an axe to grind — whether businesses upset that Yelp will not remove reviews they don't like, or unscrupulous internet marketing «experts» trying to make a buck off of honest business owners with dubious reputation management schemes.»

Such an outlook is the consequence of a slowdown in emerging markets due to low commodity prices and the dubious maneuvers made by China that hit European markets hard late in the summer.

How could any Federal Reserve chairman justify cooperating in such a scheme, in particular since the Fed would be taking the White House's side in a fight with Congress over a matter of dubious legality?

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

I think the church, from a position of strength, conceded far too much by supporting the legislature's use of dubious psychological concepts such as «gender identity» and «sexual orientation» in state anti-discrimination law.

It is not an exaggeration to say there is no way the writer would say something like, «Such - and - such college has the dubious distinction of being the MOST religious campus etc. etc.» The author is fueling the notion that somehow being less religious is somehow a bad thing when each day and throughout history it has been shown time and again being more religious is more of a liabilSuch - and - such college has the dubious distinction of being the MOST religious campus etc. etc.» The author is fueling the notion that somehow being less religious is somehow a bad thing when each day and throughout history it has been shown time and again being more religious is more of a liabilsuch college has the dubious distinction of being the MOST religious campus etc. etc.» The author is fueling the notion that somehow being less religious is somehow a bad thing when each day and throughout history it has been shown time and again being more religious is more of a liability.

I would go further: in the absence of such historical controls, we are lured into just the kind of dubious suppositions — for example, about allegedly increased defections from oldline to conservative — that have plagued recent discussions.

I doubt if such a presentation of the Christian gospel is other than a palliative for those who are insecure, as well as offering a sort of reassurance to people who have been induced (often by quite dubious techniques) to feel enormously guilty about themselves.

There is a dubious link between genuine scholarship and such fashionable courses as peace studies, feminist literature, seminars in social activism, consciousness raising, semiotics, and a host of other current preoccupations.

For our analytical thought, sin was of two sorts, ritual and ethical; but it is highly dubious that any such distinction existed in early times — each was a transgression of the will of God.

Such a volume might be spared many pages of our Bible which appear full of dull details and teachings of dubious merit.

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.

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.

Certainly it must be said that such experiences as Paul had on the Damascus road are intelligible and have often been reproduced in Christian history, but that as soon as we pass to the later writings, where the empty tomb and its related events are involved, we find ourselves amid dubious evidence and irreconcilable confusion.

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.

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.

But they regard such a claim as highly dubious (POS 360 - 75).

Such a view is based on a hermeneutic of doubt, the only certainty of which becomes the unreliability of early Church interpretations of what are branded dubious events.

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!

Again, I was dubious about adding the lime to such an uncommon combination but hat's off to me... It blimmin» well worked!

The dubious advisers included Luigi DiFonzo — a former felon who claimed he was anItalian count and defrauded players such as Hall of Fame running back Eric Dickerson before committing suicide in August 2000 — and disgraced agent William (Tank) Black, who built a pyramid scheme that took a total of about $ 15 million from at least a dozen players, including Patriots running backFred Taylor.

A 23 yr old with a dubious scoring record, (albeit a lot of his appearances are off the bench, as you said) is just such a gamble at over 50 million.

Why do fans have to accept such unfairness such as handballs, diving and other extremely dubious decisions.

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.

If you are dubious about drugs such as Ritalin, you can read an extensive report on the dangers.

I know jewelers use it for scrapes and such, but I was always dubious, otherwise why would they put all the warnings on the label?

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.

The restored paragraph reads: «Some Security Services officials appear to have a dubious record relating to actual involvement, and frankness about any such involvement, with the mistreatment of Mr Mohamed when he was held at the behest of US officials.»

Yet, in this case, that does not seem to have been true: as the evidence showed, some Security Services officials appear to have a dubious record relating to actual involvement, and frankness about any such involvement, with the mistreatment of Mr Mohamed when he was held at the behest of US officials.

This has introduced dubious concepts, such as repaying «carbon debt» through «negative emissions» to offset delayed mitigation — in theory,» Geden wrote in a commentary published yesterday in the journal Nature.

Even so, the ethics of such tests are dubious.

Based on past work, they're also dubious that sources of methane such as landfills and leaky pipelines will be equipped to capture the gas before it escapes into the atmosphere.

Such is its popular appeal that you can even buy it as a spray from dubious internet dealers.