Sentence examples for dubious interventions from inspiring English sources

This is how many patients end up having expensive and duplicated tests and dubious interventions.

Bad behaviour also reaps strange rewards in the story of a group of elderly friends making dubious interventions in one another's lives, but old age isn't all jolly rule-breaking in Atwood's world: the collection's closing piece sees care home residents who just want to fade away in peace targeted by activists who want the elderly to quit hogging resources and "move over".

The uptake of many dubious interventions relies on a form of magical thinking, where doing something is seen as better than doing nothing.

This was not the chancellor's first taste of dubious intervention.

Presidents Nixon and Reagan both cited the earlier conflict to legitimise dubious intervention in Vietnam and Grenada.

This activist foreign policy is not new in France, which has a long history of sometimes dubious intervention on the African continent, and still has a capacity of deployment despite budget restrictions.

If we were all habitually trustful and credulous of human goodness and sincerity, then there would be no questioning of dubious foreign interventions, infringements of civil liberties or sharp business practices.

Perversely, the greatest danger for those pushing most forcefully for intervention is that the dubious consequences of recent interventions may ultimately discourage states from intervening in clear-cut and egregious cases of widespread atrocity and genocide of the kind that inspired the anger of the likes of Power in the first instance – in Bosnia and Rwanda.

In days of yore, a contra-baldness intervention would have meant wearing a hairpiece, undergoing some dubious holistic treatment or, at the very least, owning an unseemly collection of hats.

Rightwing authoritarianism, divine intervention, dubious mental health, Manchester... all the right ingredients for a Happy Mondays song.

Try a dubious hair treatment.