Sentence examples for a dubious connection from inspiring English sources

This was audacious because we were a "nobody", and we were trying to use a dubious connection to request that resource.

The decision to shut down the embassy was also inevitable, given the deteriorating security situation, the lack of contacts with the Houthi rebels and a dubious connection with Iran, which could easily complicate the embassy's security profile.

The list is based exclusively on sales figures from eBay, so it's a dubious connection to say the least, but it's still interesting to note which states couldn't get enough Daft Punk on vinyl last year.

"Unless there is a discernible change in the trend, it's really hard to say with any certainty that you've actually changed the trajectory of a city overall or in a certain area," he said, pointing to the oft-cited but arguably dubious connection between New York City's embrace of Broken Windows policing and a massive drop in local crime in the 1990s.

I'm from Boston!" Just that dubious connection makes us companionable on Google+, makes us "social connections," as the local Google+ idiom has it.

And it has dubious connection to the actual kitchen paces that any of the chefs in the competition have gone through or might.

On the economic front is a growing scandal over dubious connections and misused funds at a national investment fund, 1MDB, that Mr Najib launched and which is now burdened with $12 billion of debts.

Unfortunately his dubious connections as a mate of Caravaggio in Rome also led to her being raped and having to endure a humiliating court case that put her as much as her rapist on trial.

Mansour, an "eerily brutal and bright" Jewish financier with dubious connections, invites him to frequent lunches and dinners, where finger bowls are de rigueur and a bodyguard named Jason provides on-the-spot shoulder massages.

The deal was done and dusted by the time Gillinson's successor Kathryn McDowell took over, though she was later responsible for extending that initial contract through to this autumn, at a time when Gergiev's tenure with the orchestra must have already seemed less than a total success to say the least, and questions were being asked about his dubious connections with the Putin regime.

The more Bush officials insisted upon these dubious connections, the less persuaded Americans seemed to be.