Sentence examples for a dubious enterprise from inspiring English sources

The government's £1.3bn troubled families programme was always a dubious enterprise.

Whether the facts are accurate or not, it's a dubious enterprise to turn the life, work, and name of Hendrix into an abstract moral conundrum.

But searching for upsides in the economic calamity that has befallen the country, and downplaying the sense of outrage among ordinary Americans, is a dubious enterprise.

In men with many options it may influence the decision to invest money in a dubious enterprise, jump into an ill-advised sexual affair or tell an egregiously big whopper.

REUTERS Trump Further Sullies For-Profit Schools  |  Given Donald Trump's financial achievements, and lack of modesty, it is no surprise he opened a school to pass on the secrets of his success, but Trump University always seemed liked a dubious enterprise, Daniel Indiviglio of Reuters Breakingviews writes.

"Teaching writing," a phrase she placed in quotation marks, still seemed a dubious enterprise: "Group reading, group discussion, all this going over and over and over, usually strikes me as a wasteful form of time-passing or therapy, with little or no connection to writing," she once groused in an evaluation written for an M.I.T. creative-writing instructor under review.

That is, until recently, molecular insights, such as dating of speciation events from molecular clock analyses (in itself a dubious enterprise: see, e.g., Pagel et al. 2006), were the only information available other than what is at times in the terrestrial realm and for some taxa a sparse paleontological record.

It is a sad and embarrassing story and one does have to wonder how Evans, who was described by his former band mate, Bobby Caldwell, as an "intellectual giant" (although, to be fair, this is by rock star standards [ducks]) would have allowed himself to be roped in to such a dubious enterprise.