Sentence examples for dubious achievements from inspiring English sources

As politics continues to show, even dubious achievements can become triumphs after sufficient amplification and trumpeting.

A. J. Jacobs is an Esquire editor who specializes in dubious achievements, and not just the kind that make that magazine's year-end list.

I'm going to decry the Portable Pizza Pouch as a new low for a species that can already count the hipster unicycle and Brian McFadden among its dubious achievements.

And while some might rightfully see the first law school (1784) and first insurance company (1810) as dubious achievements, they are not that much inferior to the Erie Canal, which made New York the "empire state".

In Germany, observes Mr Burda, productivity gains in services have been particularly sluggish.One of the Hartz Commission's most dubious achievements was to revamp the Federal Agency for Jobs into a commercial-style operation that spent millions on publicity and flashy new premises.

Among his more dubious achievements is a video showing two performers slashing the throats of two cats and wearing their bleeding bodies as hats (to express his rage at pet lovers who are hardened to their fellow man) and staging the burning of a car filled with white rats.

Those Tigers were also in reach of another dubious achievement.

Thank you, cinema, for your contribution to this dubious achievement.

This dubious achievement may have inspired Senator Richard Shelby, Republican of Alabama.

Wallerstein's dubious achievement was to devise the dietary equivalent of a papal dispensation: Supersize it!

In the short run, this leads to smarter mice, which may seem a dubious achievement.