Laws also tells us that he and Nick Clegg were always dubious about the pledge on tuition fees.
Equally dubious is the pledge to extend Right to Buy to around 800,000 housing association tenants by giving them the same massive discounts as council tenants.
At the hearing, Representative Gabrielle Giffords, Democrat of Arizona, said the reassignment of Mr. Hanley made her "personally very dubious" of the pledge by NASA's head, Maj.
Ryan Reynolds, as the earthling appointed to continue the Guardians' struggle against fear, looks amused, abashed, and highly dubious as he pledges allegiance to a green lantern, the source of ultimate power.
At an event in her home state, she said Trump's move is of "dubious constitutionality" and pledged to support a "clean" resolution opposing it, according to an Associated Press report.
The rest of NSF's increase rests on tapping revenues from the sale of various federal assets, a dubious prospect given pledges by conservative legislators to shrink rather than grow overall government spending.
Now the Northern Alliance has offered a pledge, however dubious, to stop at the gates of Kabul.
A desire for positive headlines helps to account for several of the current coalition government's dubious policies, from a pledge to cap net inward migration, to the decision to shield the National Health Service from public-spending cuts.
Some are of dubious practicality – such as the pledge to force any company hiring a skilled non-EU worker to set up an apprenticeship to train up a British worker.
Nor did it much improve on David Cameron's commitment to cap net migrant numbers – a pledge with the dubious honour of being even more politically cynical and less practically attainable than George Osborne's fiscal targets.
