Sentence examples for a doubtful premise from inspiring English sources

Longevity alone strikes me as a doubtful premise.

"While they camouflaged the critical differences with broad-brush appeals to 'consumer rights,' they were in fact never in any doubt that this purported justification for their otherwise obvious copyright infringement rested on a doubtful factual premise," the judge said.

However, apart from the doubtful premise that in the circumstances of this case the statute would authorize a grant of temporary operating authority without proof of such effort, the argument is foreclosed by the ICC's express finding in its second order that DOD did in fact attempt to obtain the service elsewhere.

That may seem like a doubtful proposition.

She gave me a doubtful look.

A British summer is usually a doubtful, fleeting thing.

Hang about," he said, with a doubtful frown.

She had been a doubtful starter with a bruised heel.

I make a doubtful face, but she insists.

douarrha had become a nomen dubium — a doubtful name.

That's a doubtful proposition, however.