Sentence examples for dubious effectiveness from inspiring English sources

Still, there's widespread resistance, and Dr. Fox himself opposes payments as ethically objectionable and of dubious effectiveness.

The only thing keeping it from utter obscurity is its association with a parkway -- a memorial of dubious effectiveness, as Major Deegan might put it.

The Obama administration has called for an expensive crowd-pleaser of dubious effectiveness: sending every Social Security recipient an extra $250.

We need to stop and ask whether we can afford to spend $117 billion that the Treasury Department does not have on a program of dubious effectiveness.

That told you right there that an $800 billion stimulus, much of it consisting of tax cuts of dubious effectiveness, was likely to fall short.

It's interesting to note that the planned Department of Homeland Security, while of dubious effectiveness in its announced purpose, will be protected against future Colleen Rowleys: the new department will be exempted from both whistle-blower protection and the Freedom of Information Act.

The report, released this week by the Senate Homeland Security Committee's Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations, focused on the dubious counterterrorism effectiveness of some 77 "fusion centers".

Some economists are dubious about the effectiveness of so-called targeted tax cuts, like Mrs. Clinton's.

In the netcast, Dolev relates how the initial batch of students believed the workshop, in which participants study paintings and then discuss what may be taking place based on their observations, would be fun but were dubious about its effectiveness.

Mr Hussein is dubious about the effectiveness of the Iraqi army, which disintegrated last June when, though nominally it had 350,000 soldiers, it was defeated by a few thousand Isis fighters.

Some liberals are uneasy about its power, and dubious about its effectiveness.