Sentence examples for dubious figures from inspiring English sources

The president often relies on dubious figures on the cost of illegal immigration.

The official conceded that, in the early days of the Trump campaign, the candidate attracted some dubious figures.

One of the dubious figures in the 'pan-demonium' is the unfortunate scientist who makes so surprising an entry at midpoint.

Ben Ali travelled often to Paris, his "real capital", where he lived lavishly and courted not only the French political elite but also the more dubious figures of the Trabelsi clan.

The documentary also argued that Teresa was an "ally of the status quo," pointing to her relationships with dubious figures all around the world, most notably Haitian dictator Jean-Claude Duvalier and scandal-hit American financier Charles Keating.

Ludicrous and dubious figures, given to reliably ludicrous and dubious pronouncements, emerge periodically from the political mist – Grant Shapps, Iain Duncan Smith, Sajid Javid – and columns featuring them begin to write themselves.

Unlike the dubious figure that "40,000 teachers could lose their jobs" — more on that below — this at least was specific information.

The character I find most sympathetic is the president of Harvard, Lawrence Summers, onetime Clinton's treasury secretary and a rather dubious figure in some ways.

But it ranges from a modest 1.7% in Taiwan to 20% or more in Vietnam, Venezuela and Argentina (using private-sector estimates for the latter rather than the government's lower but dubious figure).

The first was inflation, which ranges from 2% in Taiwan to 20% or more in Argentina and Venezuela (using private-sector estimates for the former rather than the government's dubious figure).

But the combative American music critic Dave Marsh was having none of it; he described Lomax as "a dubious figure" who "believed folk culture needed guidance from superior beings like himself".