Sentence examples for a dubious number from inspiring English sources

It is also a dubious number, he added.

Apple has released a report claiming to have created half a million domestic jobs -- a highly dubious number which takes credit for everything from the app industry to FedEx delivery jobs (never mind that drivers would be hauling someone else's gadgets if Apple went out of business).

This dubious number is culled from an estimate of the total number of migrant workers who enter the country with the help of an extralegal party.

On Monday, BuzzFeed broke the story with a piece titled "33 Embarrrassing Congressional Edits to Members' Wikipedia Pages" -- and listed at the dubious number one spot: Coffman's page.

And in regards to apples taking the new and dubious number one ranking on the dirty dozen, Luder told USA Today: "We think what's happening to apples is more pesticides and fungicides are being applied after the harvest so the fruit can have a longer shelf life".

The threat was clear: the ECB would help Italy only if the prime minister took action to bring down its vast debt.Mr Berlusconi adopted a new austerity budget (with some dubious numbers) but did virtually nothing to accelerate Italy's sclerotic growth.

Everyone agrees that conflicts of interest riddle the securities and accounting industries — research analysts touting dubious companies to win their business, auditors signing off on dubious numbers to keep it — and that something must be done, so Wall Street has decided to adopt the talking cure.

In Victoria Square, Athens, home to an ever-growing number of migrants, a dubious night-time economy has emerged.

Even if "national security" is considered our number one priority (a dubious choice when the real unemployment rate is over 16%), estimates are that the military budget could be cut in half or more and we would still have the most powerful military machine in the world.

SCORECARD The advertisement is the latest in a number that resort to a dubious disregard for the facts.

In a recent post on Slate, Professor Eric Posner argues that this number is based on a "dubious set of calculations".