Sentence examples for a dubious project from inspiring English sources

The truth is that Europe's march toward a common currency was, from the beginning, a dubious project on any objective economic analysis.

"WHY did this movie need to be made?" The blogger Carson Reeves was questioning the purpose of "Hitchcock," the Fox Searchlight film starring Anthony Hopkins as the director who risks his reputation on a dubious project titled "Psycho".

Contemporary evolutionists think of this as an impractical and morally dubious project, contrary to the eugenicists of the early 20th Century.

A politically-expedient but financially dubious project would be unlikely to generate enough money to interest private investors.

A rich, productive continent, which has produced arguably the most decent societies in human history, is tearing itself apart because its elite insisted on embarking on a dubious monetary project, and now can't bring itself to take the steps necessary to give that project a chance of working.

Britain, for example, was discovered to be funding a dubious dam project in Malaysia in the hope of winning arms sales.

Despite being mostly baffled, they were in agreement on the likelihood that Marclay had made The Clock for the same reason that movie studios obscenely pump millions into one dubious project after another: they are in search of a blockbuster.

He ricocheted from one dubious project to another but by 1995 his political capital was running out.

But top writers proved surprisingly loyal to their gatekeepers, and Amazon had to spend a lot of money on two dubious projects: a million dollars for "The 4-Hour Chef," by the self-help guru Timothy Ferriss, and eight hundred thousand dollars for "My Mother Was Nuts," a memoir by Penny Marshall, the "Laverne & Shirley" star.

But the new train, the maglev (for magnetic levitation), may turn out to be the latest in a recent string of dubious projects that have raised the hackles of increasingly wary taxpayers.

The country kept afloat thanks to the export of natural gas, even though much of the bounty was squandered on dubious projects, such as a huge artificial lake in the desert.