Sentence examples for a dubious position from inspiring English sources

For Republican leaders to act blindsided that such a man might have other character flaws is a dubious position.

Expressions like "the Roman Catholic Church" and "the Ministry of Education" (of a specific state) also have a dubious position as to their status as real names.

Brussels' policy is now one of encouraging "change through engagement" – a dubious position given that Lukashenko has shown very few signs of lessening his grip on power.

"From a business perspective," adds Unruh, "when your sustainability performance indicator only improves the less customers use your product - drink less, smoke less, wager less - you are in a dubious position".

And unlike other states, particularly in the West, which typically have Indian land claims in thinly populated areas resulting from the federal seizure of land, New York occupies a dubious position: it has more claims than any other state, but has been the slowest to resolve those claims, which total roughly 620 square miles, about double the size of New York City.

That has left the city in a dubious position.

A strict-constructionist Jacksonian Democrat, whose staunchest Unionist allies were Southern Whigs, Johnson was appointed to a constitutionally dubious position by a Republican president who did not even appear on Tennessee's presidential ballot in 1860.

Now, the U.S., once a leader in the free trade movement, occupies a more dubious position.

Hydropower projects, however, are in danger of being left out in the new regime mainly due to its dubious position as a renewable energy source.

The talented Amma Asante's movie is an Austenesque comedy of manners, keenly involved with who shall marry whom, and whose fortune is more plump than so and so's social standing, but here's the delicious twist: Belle is desirably financially endowed, but as a mulatto, and illegitimate, she is of dubious position.

"Then the spoofer is in the dubious position of having to consciously shorten a key-press action by 10 milliseconds," Professor Maxion says.