Its dubious merits and glitzy, vacuous plot aside, it is a film, on one level at least, about having everything and feeling nothing. |
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Even when the setting is warm and inviting the appeal of stripping away comfort and luxury seems dubious. |
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Like other closed systems of thought, Hegel's philosophy avails itself of the dubious advantage of not having to allow any criticism whatsoever. |
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Movies have long been a magnet for scrutiny, hysteria or moral panics, though obviously television now draws much of that dubious attention. |
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Somehow, she had hope for the sound of her tapping to come to her ears, but then again, she still was dubious. |
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If anything can keep Huataoyao out of the ranks of second-rate tea houses touting dubious spiritual qualities, it is this. |
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Also, there are some really sad bits and some manipulative bits of very dubious taste. |
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British psychiatrists viewed manacles and leg irons as barbaric symbols of the asylum's dubious past. |
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Feminists must move beyond a theory that grounds women's marginalization on dubious anatomical measurements. |
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Regular customers come from across the county to sample the sort of Thai food you get in Thailand rather than some dubious British hybrid. |
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Back then it was a scungy, beer-sticky pub frequented by persons with muddy boots, dodgy connections and dubious personal hygiene. |
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Peerages could be bought and impoverished baronets survive on the dubious value of their once good name. |
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Their survey seems to have used dubious and possibly unethical methods to extract potentially sensational information. |
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I'm not really a fan, I don't find him that funny, so I was a little dubious about it, but it was great, very camp, cheesy and tongue in cheek! |
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Some, however, show disparities between the clinical and microbiological outcomes that make the role of the cultured bacteria dubious. |
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The Totonacs have the dubious distinction of allying themselves with Cortes against the Aztecs. |
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It may be a dubious analogy, but just say that reading a novel is something like going on a ride at the midway. |
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It is the very dubious activity known as proprietary trading that permits the dealers to create the positions. |
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One consequence of this is that taking mind-altering drugs with a high risk of rationality-reducing side effects is of dubious rationality. |
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I lose an hour traversing left to a dubious bridge, from which I leap onto the face, metal-clawed hands and feet stabbing into the snow. |
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Of mixed quality and sometimes dubious authenticity, it is still useful for getting definitions of new and unusual terms. |
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They will also be able to see the two-way mirror to the cells, used to spot all kinds of dubious dealings. |
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The referee, under pressure from the home crowd, sent a Keighley player to sin bin for ten minutes for a very dubious high tackle. |
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He is well aware of my dubious provenance as a tipster, but seemed unconvinced that I could be that bad. |
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Instead, the US Government has given their unfathered, unmentored and uninitiated youth the dubious correctional benefits of prison. |
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Her father David, a psychologist of increasingly dubious capabilities, decides to start over by moving out to the boonies. |
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Many of them are bootlegs made by a sneaky soundman or concertgoer and are of a quality dubious enough to repel the casual listener. |
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Quite unmindfully, organizational practices can evolve that either insure a company's ethicality or future of dubious activity. |
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I may have to go out there and snavel myself a sexy guy with a V8, flannel shirt and dubious odour. |
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He argues that modern social science rests on dubious theological assumptions. |
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And the right of FEMA or any branch of the federal government for that matter to issue such a ban on American soil seems highly dubious to me. |
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Chanos attacked the documents, filling the margins with exclamation points and notations, and marking dubious footnotes with yellow Post-its. |
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This, like for every drug discovery in the world, is also a risky venture with dubious chances of success. |
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Then there's another police chief, suspicious of the veteran cop's dubious tactics on the job. |
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One direct result of this vicious circle was that many parents remained dubious about the quality of non-government education. |
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Many, it contends, are little more than dubious efforts by brand-name companies looking to prevent competition from generics. |
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He has been substituted with voice vocoders, heavy synthesizers and dubious baselines. |
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The notion that the samurai's bushido represents a moral or social principle to live by is more than dubious. |
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Do you think he should be no-platformed because he has said some rather dubious things about sexual relationships with minors? |
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The appendix, a worm-like appendage of dubious usefulness, usually hangs straight down from the first portion of the large intestine, the cecum. |
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It is not surprising then that nowadays all sorts of dubious rights claims have been advanced. |
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For years the trains had to be brought to a stand by a dubious hand-brake, but later two were fitted with air pumps for braking. |
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The rest, for me at least, remained obscure and, even with the text in hand, dubious. |
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The Prescription Act 1832 may very well have the dubious honour of being the worst drafted Act of Parliament on the statute book. |
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I was dubious about claims of Scots being used as cannon fodder in past wars. |
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Both assumptions have always been dubious, and are even more so after last week's capitulation. |
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We also need to demand that we don't get palmed off with some dubious official spokesman. |
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As the passage continues there is a section of rotten flooring supported on dubious stemples just above head height. |
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There's certainly no reason to card anyone for the dubious privilege of seeing it. |
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Baseball might be right up with pentathlon and synchronised swimming among sports of dubious Olympian pedigree. |
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For this once booming town in the former Democratic Republic of Germany now has a more dubious claim to fame. |
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Nevertheless, at risk of losing my dubious street credibility, this ain't bad. |
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No organization man, he feels spiritually buried in an institution whose roots and purposes often strike him as dubious, at best. |
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A husband and wife are celebrating the dubious honour of being crowned Yorkshire's most unromantic couple. |
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Ray is not a good father, as evidenced by his empty fridge and dubious methods of interacting with his kids. |
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Even some of those who have aggressively championed the marriage campaign fear they have made dubious bedfellows. |
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He charged that officers in construction were expected to enforce registration regulations to root out dubious contractors. |
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But Rosen is overeager to make a point and in the process drags in much dubious information. |
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I quickly grew tired of these over-serious young men with dubious coloured hair. |
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In particular, Richard Skinner is dubious about the President's supposed improvement among urban dwellers. |
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Some churchmen, Gerson among them, disliked this freelance movement and were dubious about the emphasis on private experiences of ecstasy. |
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However polyphyly of the parrotbills seems dubious because of their very homogeneous bill morphology. |
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Some questioned the political gain of such self-sacrifice, or of trying to take down a heavily guarded fence in a gesture of dubious symbolism. |
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Matters come to a head when the star is expelled from the team, leading to a climax at once disturbingly intense and morally dubious. |
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Especially as three of the four dismissals have been dubious if not outrageous. |
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The purported codicological structure of the volume seems highly dubious for a formal fifteenth-century manuscript. |
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Outside of the identity principle, however, the correlation is both pernicious and ethically dubious. |
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If one tried to press his perspectivism harder than that, it would seem very dubious. |
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We were spared that dubious solemn expression he invariably adopts for such occasions. |
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Given the polygraph's dubious record, resistance to the lie detector has started to stir. |
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We have had our share of itinerant carpetbaggers who had dubious magistrate credentials. |
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This dubious gift manifests itself just before take-off on a school trip to France. |
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Presumably the Queen didn't suffer these indignities, but even she had to wait until 1953 for the dubious pleasure of coronation chicken. |
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It provides funding for sixty attack helicopters, an array of dubious intelligence activities, and three counternarcotics battalions. |
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Mutterings that it was all too good to be true started long before now and those who forewarned us can take a dubious comfort from these figures. |
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It is hamstrung by a crazy quilt patchwork of warring state commissions, sanctioning bodies, and dubious fight contracts. |
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He's also a strident critic of the auction system, and dubious about recent reforms. |
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Female frilled sharks also have the dubious distinction of having one of the longest known gestation periods, thought to be up to two years. |
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It has now become so much harder for a Tory leader to persuade a dubious electorate that his policies are practicable and viable. |
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An elderly Swindon woman has narrowly escaped being duped into sending money to a dubious get-rich-quick scheme. |
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On rare occasions a housemaster might have to confiscate copies of dubious girlie magazines emanating from Europe or South Africa. |
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The argument that the Russians are successfully prospecting for oil in unlikely places is dubious at best. |
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His history, whilst highly selective with dubious conclusions, includes some fascinating gobbets. |
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Tactical voting is a dangerous game, especially when based on dubious psephology. |
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But we, the pretty young things at the front, the dubious old men at the side and the punkers in the middle are all here for one band only. |
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Known for its dubious deviance from its claims, this issue is no different. |
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That some taxpayers might welcome new taxes seems an economically dubious notion. |
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The new evidence from Thebes has been subject to very dubious interpretations in the editio princeps. |
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The soundtrack is used to great effect in most scenes, dubious effect in some. |
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I had thought the inclusion of black pudding, while undeniably dramatic looking, was dubious, but the cold greasiness feared did not materialise. |
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Unlike many writers in this field, Kunstler is never gulled into praising projects and programs that have good intentions but dubious results. |
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It is, however, discreditable to defend the antics of high-profile people on the grounds that some of their critics have dubious motives. |
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Sitting candidates are almost always re-elected unless they've become ensnarled in some scandal or dubious practice that affects them personally. |
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Auty showed that the retention of rent by the public owner could result in the dissipation of rent in dubious public projects. |
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I was pretty dubious about it when I was a journalist, but now I think it's remarkably ineffectual. |
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They are deeply dubious about whether he has succeeded at all on most domestic issues. |
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I'm not objecting to the Food Museum, of course, but I am somewhat dubious about the prospect of a hundred thousand visitors per year. |
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She was a bit dubious about it at first but now she is getting used to it and people adore her everywhere we go. |
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He may have been dubious about some of the more outlandish changes that had occurred in journalism but it was always in a good-humoured way. |
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Reading the script beforehand, I had been dubious about anyone performing it as a one-person show. |
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He is similarly dubious about the suggestion that the protests were incited by older activists. |
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Instead, a dubious logic pervades, upon which we base entire networks of conclusions and imperatives. |
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As I elucidated in the last section, misleading assumptions and dubious claims about western alienation abound. |
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As such, it asks us to accept the dubious assumptions that interval returns are normally distributed and independent. |
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For some of these reports, Miller appears to have relied on highly dubious sources. |
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Such claims, he contends, rely on slippery language and dubious assumptions. |
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An increasingly isolated figure, he has come to rely on authorities whose expertise in the relevant disciplines is dubious. |
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Finally, the model's dubious assumption is that current valuation levels are approximately correct. |
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Even if you make the dubious assumption that all of them were truly civilians, it is not surprising that so many died. |
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The dirty little secret of the polling industry is that, all too often, its findings are based on flawed methodology and dubious assumptions. |
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Such a belief, the Senate report said, relied on the use of increasingly dubious sources and a dismissal of dissenting views. |
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An important part of the answer, I think, lies in exposing a number of dubious assumptions about human psychology. |
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Red-hot rage may seem in order when the country's values have been trampled upon by a government with a dubious claim to legitimacy. |
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But here, as elsewhere, Smith's philosophical assumptions are highly dubious. |
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But the public interest would not be served by people of dubious motives giving false information by doctoring the official record. |
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The result is a surreal, hypnotic journey into morally ambiguous territory, led by an increasingly dubious tour guide. |
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Before the war, the submarine was regarded as a morally dubious weapon, subject to international agreements. |
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For a start, the whole idea of reciprocity and empowerment seems morally dubious to me. |
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Last time I solved it myself by medically dubious methods and I'd rather not do that again! |
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Characters are rootless, without orientation, almost unaware that their behaviour is morally dubious. |
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They are engaged in tax avoidance, which is entirely legal, though you might argue it's morally dubious. |
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Like Den, he gets involved in dubious deals with shady characters, and the source of his money is not always entirely clear. |
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Even those which are imaginative and intelligently put together are often morally dubious. |
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He just enjoys exploring the morally dubious aspects of it, and exploring difficult situations. |
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The approach outline above seems to offer the best prospect for exposing the administration's dubious motives and methods. |
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The region has the dubious distinction of having Europe's worst service station. |
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And it spends billions each year in social welfare programs that are endlessly duplicative and of dubious value. |
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His primary sources include most if not all the standard references on the subject along with one or two of dubious value. |
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Is it perhaps yet another organisation designed to make money by providing endorsements of dubious value? |
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For these reasons, reflective foil on board insulation is of dubious value. |
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In fact, it could be argued that 15 Minutes earns the dubious distinction of being the most cynical film ever made about cynicism. |
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For an extended look at the dubious value of a humanities education in particular see here. |
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In a time of government cutbacks, as a tax-payer I am unconvinced that we need to fund more programs of dubious value. |
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On the flip side, the district has the dubious distinction of registering the highest number of cases of atrocities against women. |
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The knee-jerk reaction is to dismiss such training as faddish and of dubious value. |
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It has the dubious distinction of being probably the only luxury hotel in the world to be blown up by a future prime minister of its own country. |
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If so, that would give Florida the dubious distinction of getting hit by four of the six most costly hurricanes on record within six weeks. |
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It's all in a good cause, people used to say, but Elizabeth felt that almost any action she took at this point would be of dubious value. |
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O'Toole holds the dubious distinction of seven Best Actor Oscar nominations without winning the actual Oscar. |
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Tramore has drawn the short straw yet again and has the dubious distinction of hosting the final game of 2003 on Sunday, 28th December. |
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The United States recently earned the dubious distinction of having the highest incarceration rate in the world. |
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Although the treatment of the events tends to be even-handed, there are some dubious conclusions. |
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Copycat journalists amplified this dubious academic research by claiming that teenage murderers were duplicating their favourite violent scenes. |
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There are many obscure and dubious mathematical assertions, as well as downright errors. |
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This type of size reduction is of dubious value and is only officially used for quassia which is a hard wood. |
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It sounds a very dubious principle and inconsistent with the accusatorial trial. |
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Artists enjoy seeing themselves as raffish outsiders, people of dubious morality. |
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The ranks of the Swedish army by now contained many adventurers and dubious mercenaries, and it was a shadow of its former self. |
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Most spam is commercial advertising, often for dubious products, get-rich-quick schemes, or quasi-legal services. |
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She says that by her own admissions, some of the applications are by rogues, and rascals and persons of dubious credibility. |
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Those figures may have been dubious but, for an itinerant preacher, he had a pretty way with words that struck a raw nerve. |
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Then again, I'm increasingly dubious about the chemicals we apply to our skin. |
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That is why technicians warn the public again and again not to open dubious emails. |
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A pair of dubious eyes are cast my way, but by this time I'm ready with the excuse. |
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Between 7 and 14, called the dubious age of discretion, the child is still presumed to be incapable, but the presumption is not conclusive. |
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Initially they may seem excellent to admire but, in reality, some can be of very dubious quality. |
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The tougher regime should also stop a rather dubious practice in the mortgage industry. |
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David has some interesting things to say about the game, and the morally dubious world it allows you to enter. |
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The suggestion seems to be that they offer him a sense of family and belonging, and that he identifies with their dubious code of loyalty. |
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More dubious than any of these schoolboy larks is the lengthy section of tragedy-as-farce set in present-day Lithuania. |
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One of only two remaining alligator species in the world, this reptile has the dubious distinction of being the planet's most endangered species. |
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Leptospirosis is ubiquitous in distribution and has the dubious distinction of being both an occupational disease and a zoonosis. |
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The legality of many actions taken during the settlement of the country was dubious at best. |
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Bott possesses a mean mullet haircut and a talent for sharpie dancing, amongst other dubious pursuits. |
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And, by rights, I should marry her if she'd have me, but I am still a bit dubious. |
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A government-constituted citizen-led feedback group caused ripples last year by listing dubious electoral and political practices. |
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First, the sheer scale of the disaster puts it in the running for the dubious title of worst natural disaster in living memory. |
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The corn rootworm enjoys the dubious distinction of triggering more insecticide use than any other single pest in U.S. agriculture. |
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But we have had some dubious decisions against us and you have to take the rough with the smooth. |
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He worked in the most disreputable realms of the already dubious area of Hollywood low-budget filmmaking. |
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We were a bit dubious about doing the programme at first, but we really enjoyed making it. |
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When he brought out the large helmet, it was my turn to look dubious, but I was in luck because the helmet was also much larger than it looked. |
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Piece sacrifices of dubious merit are not a very good way to play against computers. |
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Above and below, divisions blur and the long-established equilibrium is knocked off balance amid revelations of illicit sexual liaisons and dubious business dealings. |
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His reasoning on wages, even without the nonsense about education and swearing, is less sound, riddled as it is with dubious comparative references to other people's earnings. |
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He expected that the two could discuss rationally my quitting high school to move into a broken-down apartment building with a male of dubious prospects. |
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It's a dubious and conflicted comfort, but a comfort of sorts. |
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Drink was their worst failing and the Duke of Wellington was not far wrong when he complained that it was one of the biggest and most dubious incitements to recruitment. |
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Like many other people, Heidi Evans was constantly barraged with dubious emails purporting to offer millions in exchange for helping to transfer vast funds from Africa. |
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These initial albums were released on cassettes and were of dubious sound quality, yet they transcended the format and the strength of the songs shone through. |
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And it is that part that, I think, we are a little dubious about. |
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Though I am pro-choice, I am not a fan of Roe, which I think was legally dubious and tactically unwise. |
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They weren't always on the side of good, and even when they were, they still regularly made morally dubious judgements, but they were always true to their natures. |
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Such dubious assertions are by turns annoying and unintentionally amusing. |
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When it comes to sharing your faith, gimmicks are of dubious value. |
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The historicity of this debate is dubious, but it does accurately represent the choice that was set up for all Greek cities by the stories told about the past. |
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Apart from the dubious analogue stopwatch that blights the top of the dashboard, the SCP includes a fortified ECU map that allows 10 seconds of over-boost on full throttle. |
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The argument for higher charges makes a number of dubious assumptions. |
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Medallion man womaniser Farina is forever offering the benefit of his experience, including dubious advice that women love a splash of cologne on a man's testicles. |
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Now, which five of you fritterers of time are going to step forward for your own opportunity to get in on the ground floor of this dubious pyramid scheme? |
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She is aware that this has not been a panacea or overnight solution in Sweden, but regards it as by far the best of a dubious set of alternatives. |
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No dubious burger restaurants here, but elegant restaurants and diners, with plump fish, prawns and mussels doused in the taste and tanginess of the sparking Adriatic Sea. |
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And there were a lot of dubious converted-barn enterprises offering a thousand vomitous flavours of yoghurt and cheese rolled in tea leaves and steeped in Baileys. |
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Indeed, her chapter on the subject is riddled with unsupportable claims backed by dubious studies. |
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Organised crime controls a considerable part of the economy, and public property is transferred in a non-transparent manner to dubious commercial companies. |
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Enter Indiegogo, whose dubious campaigns have earned it ire from creators and backers alike. |
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To postulate the reality of the latter is in fact very dubious, because it relies on a contestable empirical claim that simply cannot be sustained. |
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The phoney e-card is the latest scam in the eternal battle for online traffic, playing cynically on people's goodwill to bombard them with adverts or promote dubious websites. |
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In yet another egregious political machination, however, Fujimori supporters in congress unconstitutionally thwarted this popular initiative on a dubious technicality. |
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Aurillac, a lovely city at the foot of the Cantal mountains, has the dubious distinction of being the prefecture in France furthest from a motorway. |
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My legs, which I was already teetering on with dubious balance, seemed to give out and I collapsed, curling into a miserable ball under the glass. |
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This is hugely dubious, but there was something distinctly theatrical about their sparring, two sides of one performance. |
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The employee described it as a kind of hush money, making staffers disinclined to question dubious company practices. |
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But no, the lure of Mammon is so great that they've schlepped into town and braved the crowds for the dubious delights of risking death-by-stampede in the lighting department. |
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Any experienced historian such as Walsh should know that the third-hand writings of second-hand information taken half a century after an event concluded are dubious at best. |
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He can sell missiles and even nuclear material to other dubious states. |
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He has the dubious distinction of being the first object of scorn for most people after they develop their literary palate beyond the 6th grade level. |
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I'm just a bit more dubious about the odds of this happening than Hewitt. |
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Now they are holding a ballot to decide which of the villains will win the dubious honour of having his or her effigy burned on a Guy Fawkes bonfire next month. |
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To the death she refused to be bamboozled by dubious reasoning. |
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If you are being suspected of a little dodginess yourself, you don't want to spend your time consorting with a person of such a spectacularly dubious reputation. |
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This rough-around-the-edges high school dropout's profligate ways led to personal bankruptcy and, ultimately, some very dubious dealings with shady characters. |
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Yet it is impossible not to recognise in the modern game an additional and growing canker that has attached itself to all the old familiar forms of dubious behaviour. |
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The MEK has the dubious honor of being the only entity more disliked by the Iranian people than the Iranian regime itself. |
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There is no evidence of the growing pains that often bedevil follow-up albums recorded with additional personnel and the dubious luxury of a multi-track recording desk. |
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A few years ago a Canadian colleague suicided when her ground-breaking work was repeatedly questioned on grounds that many of us thought were themselves of dubious merit. |
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Many modern philosophers consider that claims to knowledge of an unembodied consciousness are too dubious and implausible to be worth considering. |
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I was dubious about the composition project, until I heard the music. |
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I listed at the beginning the most usual procedures used to provide assistance in conception, but deferred discussion of the two methods that are most morally dubious. |
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For the cash-strapped film industry, getting some amount of clean financing from the corporate sector is a whole lot better than dealing with dubious underworld dons. |
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Japan is throwing its annual whale week again to celebrate its dubious commercial hunting of the endangered mammals. |
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Like most arguments about realism in politics, this is a dubious one. |
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You are asking us to be careful about adopting assumptions which are founded on rather dubious ground and would subvert our intentions, good as they may be. |
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As Larkin would no doubt expect, the history of dubious royal parenting steps back to time immemorial. |
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That is why Dali's importance as an artist confounds all those facile publicity stunts, his dubious political allegiances and his avaricious pursuit of wealth. |
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They resort to dubious methods of shaping public opinion by planting unsourced stories in the media, which are not only unverified, but also unverifiable. |
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So it's a pretty dubious and in fact now a completely outmoded term. |
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In the films, he takes on the adventure novel, placing extraordinary people in extraordinary situations, and ironizing those structures in playfully dubious manners. |
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The evidence needed for sound policymaking should thus be much more comprehensive than attempts to extrapolate dubious principles from the findings of controlled trials. |
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Domestically, the prime minister maintains the dubious line that he is the only man who can keep the still-fragile peace. |
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We kindly inform these little jokers with the dubious jokes that they risk judicial proceedings they may not find funny at all. |
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The Louisiana university has turned into a nanny state, issuing a campus smoking ban of dubious legality. |
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The British detectives have since interviewed countless witnesses and cleared a number of dubious suspects in the case. |
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He argued that these policies were of dubious benefit in terms of economic development and represented to some degree an unsanctioned redistribution of wealth. |
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Of course in modern times there still are dubious devices used on horses to alter their appearance or action, but the bearing rein was particularly cruel and senseless. |
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My Eastbourne Leak tells me a strange tale of a cheeky chappie among local divers who seems to be using conservation as a cover for a more dubious plan. |
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But with niggles aplenty and late tackles proliferating, it was little surprise that Rutherford and Ruthven were to exchange penalties for dubious tackles throughout the game. |
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Black's opening play was rather dubious and Karpov has won the exchange. |
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Philosophy aims only at the truth, not at mere persuasion regardless of truth, which is a dubious enterprise in both its intentions and its methods. |
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He intends to not be here to see what lime-green, red and purple look like against the background of blue walls already illuminated by dubious tubelights. |
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However, thanks to dubious sales techniques, it is widely mis-sold. |
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The Kia Rio, a four-door minicar, has the dubious distinction of the highest death rate among the 2011 models. |
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She was dubious about my plan at first, but later I managed to persuade her to cooperate. |
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Can there be a more dubious moment in the entire poem than this precariously enjambed impersonation of prophetic forthspeaking? |
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Current knowledge of what exactly the exoteric writings were like is scant and dubious, though many of them may have been in dialogue form. |
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According to late and dubious sources, these churches included minsters at Milton Abbas in Dorset and Muchelney in Somerset. |
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A more dubious story tells of how he wished for his bones to be carried along on future expeditions against the Scots. |
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By the late 19th century, blood transfusion was regarded as a risky and dubious procedure, and was largely shunned by the medical establishment. |
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Mr Hudson was placed on List 99, which bars dubious characters from teaching jobs. |
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Later medieval chroniclers have provided dubious accounts of his life, in the absence of any real details. |
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Through the late nineteenth century, the martial art of boxing or prizefighting was primarily a sport of dubious legitimacy. |
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Some books have speculated that the club won this election to division one by dubious means. |
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Although nothing strictly illegal had been done, it was felt that the acceptance of the gifts was morally dubious. |
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The two airbases on Cyprus were so congested that a third field which was in dubious condition had to be brought into use for French aircraft. |
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On his way south to face dubious justice at the Tower of London, he fell ill. |
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Many critics have claimed that this argument relies on a dubious assumption about how individual happiness is related to the general happiness. |
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French military chiefs were dubious about their ability to win another war against Germany on its own, especially an offensive war. |
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The Vestiarium was followed by the equally dubious The Costume of the Clans two years later. |
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Although Polley's professional reputation was admired, his dubious financial practices eventually contributed to the band's downfall. |
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Much of the material describes events that are up to three centuries earlier than this date and its historical accuracy is dubious. |
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Rather he is adopting the understandable but morally dubious principle that the end justifies the means. |
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Jacob's claim to fame is dubious, not like his father Adam's, the wood hewer par excellence. |
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The council's most dubious decisions usually come on 8-7 votes, with the special interests winning the day. |
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Recovering the extra cost of a liquid natural gas or compressed natural gas truck is dubious at this early stage of the industry. |
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Craig's closest competitors in that dubious category are Haywood Sullivan and Don Gile at. |
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Thus, the government's options are greatly limited since the prospect of reattempted competition is dubious at best. |
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In the human evolutionary family, the so-called robust australopithecines claim the dubious honor of possessing the weirdest-looking heads. |
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With wild turns from Gene Wilder and Zero Mostel, Mel Brooks takes Springtime For Hitler from highly dubious to lowbrow cult genius. |
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In my view, this was ethically dubious on her part, and extremely so. |
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All parties when questioned about dubious spending claims have used the old efficiency savings, tax avoidance ploy for years. |
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And all the time he struggles in amusing fashion as a dog-walker for a ravenous boarhound with dubious personal habits. |
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Among the many ironies of that moment was that the conservatives' man of the hour has been, at best, a dubious ally in the war on terror. |
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Between these dubious bookends are plenty of forgettable songs amped up with tacky power chords and stridently sociological lyrics. |
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I have a lovely goose feather duvet, so was dubious about trying synthetic. |
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The story said the panel found the science behind polygraphs dubious and noted that a polygraph test is not admissible in court as evidence. |
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Broomrape, kudzu and giant hogweed also have made the State Weed Board's dubious roster. |
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We don't wonder at her dubious expression, menaced as she is by a descending battalion of silver phalluses we recognize as fuel rods. |
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After he made some dubious claims about the company, fewer people trusted him. |
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Certainly Hollywood has plenty of wanna-bes who could bring the appropriate amount of cheeky smarm to such a dubious enterprise. |
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It is a concern that private investigators who conduct these operations are unregulated, and many are known to deploy dubious tactics. |
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Provision to attach a monopod was added to the buttstock, but the monopods, of dubious value anyway, were never issued. |
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What with sodomy laws still on the books, Welch admits he was dubious when he first went to Houston six years ago to choreograph. |
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The Falcons frustrated dominant Leicester, nilling them on try-count and handing them a dubious new club record in the process. |
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For a while I was amused to get offers for dubious products from her before realising her email account had been nobbled. |
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However, the effects of such an extraordinary display of illocutionary force are, to say the least, dubious. |
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The corpse plant holds the dubious record of being the smelliest flower ever discovered. |
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He's superbly gifted, corrosively ambitious and consumed by dubious ideology and bitterly at odds with Sergeant Dudley Smith. |
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Some, however, see such editorial extravagance as dubious prescriptive overkill that objectionably blurs the line between authentic and spurious. |
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Khodr is a countertenor, a male voice that emerges from natural endowment rather than ethically dubious surgical procedures. |
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But all of this dubious wealth has become a millstone for the Swiss. |
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There's also the opportunity to sample the dubious comforts of medieval garderobes. |
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I'm not sure what criteria RCA use to decide which of their recordings to remaster in this line, though, because some of them have dubious sonic credentials. |
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During the eleven years of personal rule that followed, Charles performed legally dubious actions, such as raising taxes without parliament's approval. |
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The closure of the Schoolhill site includes the removal of the Student Union building, giving Aberdeen the dubious distinction of having two universities but no student bar. |
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At the back of my car, a gnomish woman sold dubious sandwiches, and a wizened man worked the aisles with a coffeepot of mud dispensed in bathroom-sized paper cups. |
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The country you live in, the parliamentary democracy that ruled it, for good or bad, has been trumped by a plebiscite of dubious purpose and unacknowledged status. |
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When found, the skeletons were the subject of dubious scientific theories on human evolution, partly fueled by biased reconstruction of the skulls by the scientists involved. |
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The detective's reconstruction of what happened that night is dubious. |
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This text underwent numerous expansions and revisions throughout Antiquity and the Middle Ages, containing many dubious stories, and was translated into numerous languages. |
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Naval historians have repeatedly discredited the story, noting the lack of any evidence in contemporary documents, its fanciful stock conventions and dubious origins. |
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