Sentence examples for dubious acts from inspiring English sources

He wanted to test how willing the average person would be to obey an authority figure, even when instructed to perform morally dubious acts that violated his or her conscience.

Desperate, Salerno indulges in dubious acts of documentary re-creation — repeated shots of a dark-haired fellow crashing through northern woods like an axe murderer in a shabby shocker.

At times Sam appears to be plagued by doubts and remorse as his mission in Africa pulls him away from his family and involves him in what seem to be morally dubious acts.

Desperate, Salerno indulges in dubious acts of documentary re-creation repeated shots of a dare-creation repeatedshots throfgh northern woods like an axe murderer in a shabby shocker.

War also forced Hastings (or so he believed) into dubious acts to raise extra funds, two of which the demand for a subsidy to the company from Chait Singh, the raja of Banaras, and the requisitioning of the treasures of the begums of Oudh (the mother and grandmother of the vizier)—were to count heavily against him later.

None of us is entirely free from doubtful desires and few of us from any dubious acts; those with minors or by force or coercion are always wrong — as are other acts that destroy or damage someone's else's humanity; most everything else has a good shot at being merely human.

I don't think it's a morally dubious act unless nobody in the room knows that you're acting.

While the score can serve as a summary of many of Walker's own artistic concerns, specifically the legacy of sex and violence in the Antebellum South, it makes for a tough and ethically dubious act.

A Dutch doctor who had carried out euthanasia many times said, "The price of any dubious act is doubt...I don't sleep for the week after" (pp 138), and "The idea that each case gets easier and easier is just rubbish" (pp 137) [ 32].

The historian Simon Corcoran, in a passage on the origins of the early persecution edicts, criticized Davies' over-reliance on these "dubious martyr acts" and dismissed his conclusions.

The accusations that the letter-signers committed "treason", as the New York Daily News put it, or that the letter is a criminal violation of the constitutionally dubious Logan Act are a bit much.