Sentence examples for Sounds suspect from inspiring English sources

It found that spending on birth control is six times as effective, as a means of reducing carbon emissions, as spending on renewable energy.That kind of broad, overarching conclusion sounds suspect: the devil is clearly in the details.

He had, the ex-mayor said, been to inner-city colleges where the pupils were worried about how to complete their courses, after proposed changes to the Education Maintenance Allowance.That sounds suspect.

It sounds suspect to me, too, like a half-remembered dream.

Such advice may sound suspect coming from the man responsible for staging authenticity on a so-called reality-based TV series.

The civil rights movement firmly established the notion of bias as unconscious prejudice, to the point where the protestation "I'm not biased" came to sound suspect.

I think it goes some distance in explaining why it has taken a long time for new information to come out". Probably the most significant word here is the word "actually", which many of us (especially children) use to lend weight to something we are saying which we fear will sound suspect.

This statement may sound suspect coming from me, a customer service consultant; it sounds like an example of "when you have a hammer, every problem looks like a nail" thinking on my part, or even the "drunk looking for his keys under the lamppost because that's where there's light" phenomenon.

Just as a utilities company that does not spend on necessary infrastructure but does pay top management large bonuses 'in order to compete in a global market' has increasingly begun to sound suspect in the UK, so too there is a greater appetite on the part of investors as well as consumers for a better understanding of costs.

After Hubbard's death in 1986, a Scientology publication described him as "the original musician," who 3 million years ago invented music while going by the name "Arpen Polo". The publication noted that "he wrote his first song a bit after the first tick of time". Hubbard realized that his accounts of past lives, implants and extraterrestrial creatures might sound suspect to outsiders.

He didn't put it quite this way to me — he wouldn't like the way it sounds, I suspect — but everything he does is designed to eliminate himself from the kick.

The scene in which Vin Diesel and someone else have a drag race outside what appears to be Admiralty Arch (even though that sounds logistically suspect) in front of Rita Ora and an audience of scantily clad young women (even though in real life it would be spotty, male 13-year-old Max Power readers and the whole thing would have been stopped by the police long ago).