Sentence examples for Questionable figure from inspiring English sources

Then, there were the headlines parroting a questionable figure that Sochi was the most expensive Olympics ever.

But it is strange that Paris, the former red capital of France, should be so timid and not give its due to a central (if questionable) figure of the revolution.

To be sure, the jail — known in the past as the Manhattan House of Detention — was hardly the only place in the city to be named for a disgraced, notorious or morally questionable figure.

Jarecki, who wears a goatee so sketchy that it might as well be another suspect, could easily seem like a questionable figure, given his slick ability to plug his films as studies in ambiguity (his others include "Capturing the Friedmans" and "Catfish," which he produced).

The latter was still in use when I was a child, and I wondered about this strangely coded moniker alluding to a questionable figure at best and who, if she truly existed, automatically turned the mother who was raising me into an "unnatural" one.

The questionable figure appears in the report's overview.

Unsurprisingly, tactics like these attracted some questionable figures to the program.

"These are questionable figures," said Anette Krame, labour market expert for the Social Democrats (SPD).

Gerard Lyons, a leading pro-Brexit economist and former adviser to Boris Johnson, dismissed much of the IPPR's findings as "second-hand questionable figures" and "meaningless jargon".

Our culture is incredibly aggressive towards the overweight, whether it's constantly parading (highly questionable) figures about how much they cost the NHS in the press, or the continual stream of Victorian-freak-show-esque weight-loss television shows.

Britain's official statistics watchdog has castigated the Government over David Cameron's citation of questionable figures purporting to show how many European Union migrants claim benefits in the UK.