Sentence examples for considered dubious from inspiring English sources

Its chances of passing the Senate are considered dubious at best.

General Musharraf captured power in a bloodless coup in 1999 and won a five-year term as president in a 2002 referendum that many considered dubious.

In Nature, Teller attacked the theory ("A severe climatic change must be considered dubious rather than robust"), and offered this sermon: "Highly speculative theories of worldwide destruction — even the end of life on Earth — used as a call for a particular kind of political action serve neither the good reputation of science nor dispassionate political thought".

Some of the politicians' statements were considered dubious to industry insiders – the Wall Street Journal, for instance, found suicide rates among microfinance borrowers to be five to 10 times lower than among the general Indian population – but they resonated with the public.

Even the A ring's Encke gap, reported in 1837 by the German astronomer Johann Franz Encke, was considered dubious for well over a century until it was confirmed in 1978 by the American astronomer Harold Reitsema, who used measurements of an eclipse of the moon Iapetus by the rings to improve on normal Earth-based resolution.

The former were considered dubious in various ways, the latter turn second order logic into set theory.

Despite the apparent common sense of Pascal's proposition, it rests on what I — as a nonbeliever — consider dubious assumptions.

They consider it a bad sign that it has the support of groups they consider dubious, such as Common Cause and the NAACP.

But they add that SEIU is pouring resources into a PR and legal strategy that they consider dubious and which comes at the expense of building a militant workers movement within the fast-food industry.

The founder of Muddy Waters, Carson Block, makes no effort to hide his bets against China MediaExpress and other companies on which he blogs or posts online reports - and he says he provides a useful service by exposing what he considers dubious corporate practices.

But to Mr. Obama's detractors, including many in his own party, he has shown a certain fecklessness with his decisions first to outsource the decision to lawmakers in the face of bipartisan opposition and then to embrace a Russian diplomatic alternative that even his own advisers consider dubious.