Sentence examples for a dubious acquisition from inspiring English sources

The Pittsburgh Pirates have offered John Vander Wal, a good hitter who would be a dubious acquisition because he is 35.

As attitudes towards contested items in museums have altered, as dubious acquisition policies have come under the spotlight, as technology has improved and cross-border collaboration has grown, efforts to reclaim the nation's cultural patrimony have suddenly flourished.

We live in a postcolonial age, where attitudes towards disputed items in museum collections have altered significantly and dubious acquisitions policies are increasingly being questioned and returned to countries of origin.

Money was spent on dubious acquisitions, such as Volvo and Range Rover, e-businesses, buying up dealers, the Explorer tire debacle and costly marketing incentives needed to sell weak products.

This came to a head over the holidays when a dubious New York Post article said Facebook's acquisition Instagram was hemorrhaging users after scaring them with a privacy and ads policy change that it later went back on.

Its high drug prices, its appetite for ever-bigger acquisitions and its ties to a dubious pharmacy affiliate all drew criticism.

Acquisition of tolerance by certain organisms not only masks the true picture but also seems as a dubious factor when applying the issue to the establishment of water quality criteria [ 95].

Is it a dubious endeavor?

"A dubious distinction," Pooley laughs.

His father, Morris Gershovitz, was a dubious patriarch.

That was a dubious choice of gift.