Sentence examples for be of dubious validity from inspiring English sources

However, mainly because smoking habits are not usually recorded on death certificates (and would perhaps be of dubious validity if they were), it is actually quite difficult to obtain national data on lung cancer mortality rates by smoking habit.

Justice Scalia filed a statement explaining and agreeing with the majority's view that the proposal was of "dubious validity" given the Sixth Amendment's guarantee of the right to confront witnesses.

Jordan Lorence, a lawyer for the Alliance Defense Fund, a Christian group opposed to same-sex marriage, told the judges that Mr. Newsom had engaged in "an act of disobedience" and that city officials accepted that the licenses were of "dubious validity".

He has written articles objecting to the use of surveys based on reputation, which he says are "of dubious validity," and which make up half of the QS ranking scores.

It is of dubious validity, and is often included in nigropileus with which it is said to integrade in the Nallamala Hills.

However, we believe that this extinction coefficient could be of dubious accuracy for our data.

But such an assurance is of dubious legal validity since only parliament or the courts are empowered to read down or change any statute.

There are two subspecies, which are highly similar and of dubious validity.

But political polling isn't the only arena where scholars and the public have become  "fed up, frustrated and angry" at surveys that one leading sociologist claimed are of "dubious value or validity".

Like most such cases since 9/11, it is impossible to determine which side is correct, due to the secrecy surrounding the government's evidence and past terrorism cases of dubious validity.

The suggestion that prostaglandins serve as endogenous ligands for nuclear receptors is presently configured on the use of synthetic compounds and immunoreactive quantitation of dubious validity.