Sentence examples for To achieve questionable from inspiring English sources

Our position was simple: products having no economic purpose except to achieve questionable accounting, tax or regulatory goals; or that raise serious concerns that customers will use them to issue materially misleading financial statements; or that meet any of the other bullet points in the 2006 statement's list, should, at a minimum, be labeled presumptively prohibited.

To achieve some questionable incremental improvement in my performance?

The second is almost equally extreme, almost impossible to achieve and of questionable value.

However, both programs are also extra-curricular and thus voluntary, so the potential of such programs to achieve widespread coverage is questionable.

The company has been accused in the past of employing questionable tactics to achieve its success, such as underpaying its staff.

Our young people see our society expending the major portion of its economic resources and many thousands of lives (their lives) to achieve, by morally dubious means, questionable political ends.

Worryingly, many academics admit to engaging in at least one questionable research practice in order to achieve publication.

How much leverage Europeans have in order to achieve that in a borderless Internet world is questionable, although as Ms. Heuser noted, the past week has united them as never before in their calls for privacy and better data protection.

But then they suggest that bending the Constitution and the law in order to achieve security is justified, and that the proof this questionable strategy has worked is 11 years without another terrorist bombing.

The other questionable tests and treatments: No. 3: Prescribing medications to achieve "tight glycemic control" (defined as below 7.5 on the A1c test) in elderly diabetics, who need to control their blood sugar, but not as strictly as younger patients.

I have also seen savvy political operators with questionable agendas successfully use power politics to their advantage to achieve less than desirable outcomes.