Sentence examples for dubious basis from inspiring English sources
But it is conceivable that the passionate expansion of an economic structure, upon a dubious basis of natural resources, might lead to over-development on such a scale as to render it top-heavy to the point of collapse.
In addition to the 3% tax on broadcasters, Spain plans to emulate the French scheme of levying a 0.9% tax on the revenues of telecoms operators, equivalent to about €400m a year, on the dubious basis that they earn "billions".
As a rule of thumb, a kappa value above 0.8 is taken as good agreement, a kappa value between 0.67 and 0.8 is taken as fair agreement, and agreement below 0.67 is seen as data providing a dubious basis for an evaluation, though the precise cutoffs depend on the purposes for which the data will be used.
And while the government is keeping borrowing for the CEFC off budget (on the dubious basis it is for "commercial investments"), it was revealed during Senate Estimates last week that all this means is that "there is a prospect of recovery of investment".
But that piece too strikes me as having a dubious basis.
It was on this dubious basis that CIA interrogators were trained to use dubious techniques they had never employed before.
Like Hecuba at the Swan Theatre, a war with a dubious moral basis is prosecuted in Henry V, revived now with huge flair and bite in a production by Gregory Doran that is an impressive addition to his English histories project.
Some of those children are missing out on food groups, even becoming malnourished, because of incorrect parental diagnosis, often undertaken in worried-well good faith, after parents have purchased high street food-allergy testing kits with dubious scientific basis.
Registrar Simmonds ruled that "the assets of the company (Vital UK) were put out of the reach of the creditors on a somewhat dubious delayed basis".
Special criticism has been directed here at the dubious scientific basis for homeopathy.
His continuing pretrial detention on an extremely dubious (and secret) basis has already had chilling effects and occurs contrary to any notion of the public interest.
