Sentence examples for dubious criminal from inspiring English sources

Their resistance efforts have been denigrated as anti-development and dozens of community leaders face dubious criminal and civil charges.

The government's dubious criminal case against one of the oligarchs, Vladimir Gusinsky, was wisely dropped after Mr. Putin made known his unhappiness with the crude attack.

"It was a scarily male world at times," says Dury's daughter, Jemima, "but some of the dubious criminal types turned out to be the most charming and thoughtful.

During this period, the ruling Justice and Development Party, known as AKP, and its leader, President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, used both constitutional reforms and dubious criminal prosecutions of senior officers to bring the military under control.

Recently, Russian Internews, a media capacity-building organisation whose work has been largely focused on training regional and local TV journalists, had its office raided and its servers seized in connection with a dubious criminal case against the head of the group.

He says that scores of leaked recordings reveal corruption at the highest levels of government, including the mismanagement of funds, dubious criminal prosecutions of opponents and even cover-ups of killings.

According to press reports, the case detectives had allowed dubious criminals to smoke crack and consort with prostitutes in exchange for incriminating Ranta.

In 2006, the information commissioner produced a devastating report, What price privacy now?, which detailed literally hundreds – in fact, thousands – of dubious or criminal acts by journalists or agents of national newspapers: illegally obtaining driving licence details, illegal criminal records or vehicle registration searches, telephone reverse traces and mobile telephone conversions.

Then there are those who think Enron appeared successful but actually hid its failures through dubious, even criminal, accounting tricks.

Suddenly dubious and historic criminal charges have surfaced and been levelled against them.

Mystic River brings more closely to mind the Catholic, blue-collar, suburban Boston of corner-cutting cops, petty criminals, dubious lawyers and working-stiffs that George V. Higgins charted in some 20 thrillers, only one of which, The Friends of Eddie Coyle, has been filmed.