Sentence examples for dubious credit from inspiring English sources

Banks lent staggering sums of money to homeowners with dubious credit, convinced that real estate prices could only go up.

To the show's dubious credit, there is no conscious camp in such moments, which were threadbare back in the days of "Valley of the Dolls".

Banks thought there was new safety in lending to dubious credit risks because those borrowers could not use the bankruptcy laws to renege if they went broke.

In the United States, many of the mortgages underlying the securities bundles that turned bad were subprime, meaning the home-buying borrowers had dubious credit histories.

And for that, Thomas Cromwell must take both dubious credit and full blame: during his interrogations of Anne's lovers – "I've found men who are guilty.

Investment bankers' willingness to snort endless lines of dubious credit and spew them out as arcane "repackaged" mortgage-backed securities provided the impetus behind the boom.

He turned to increasingly dubious sources of credit and branding opportunities at home and abroad.

The recent rumbles and ruptures in the financial markets are finally making people reassess the dubious systems of credit that have arisen in the past few years.

Hot on their heels -- and this bit is maybe familiar too -- was the developer David Walentas, whose Two Trees Management Company snatched up 11 buildings in Dumbo in 1981, and to whom is given the sometimes dubious, sometimes admiring credit for single-handedly carving out a commercial and residential neighborhood from the distinctive warehouse buildings at the edge of the East River.

That Mr Museveni is even willing to try is a reflection of the failure of the media, human rights groups, and diplomats to push back against the dubious landslide victories credited this year to Prime Minister Meles Zenawi of Ethiopia, as well as to Mr Kagame.Negotiations with oil companies appear to have been tough and in Uganda's national interest.

These are to be accomplished, they suggest, via energy conservation, renewable energy sources, and highly dubious carbon offset credits.