Sentence examples for dubious means from inspiring English sources

It's too big an effect, produced by too dubious means.

The fact that Hamid Karzai was elected, by whatever dubious means, seems to infuriate western leaders.

But Ms. Villacorta reached these heights by dubious means, according to Ms. Robins and prosecutors.

But when we were fighting a dubious war by dubious means, where did that security lie?

Naderites have also resorted to dubious means to obtain signatures on state petitions to get his name on the ballot.

Little wonder, then, that he resorts to dubious means to scrape together the money to build his fancy toilet.

In a recent article Jaffna-based lawyer and activist Kumaravadivel Guruparan, and a UK-based Tamil doctor, Sivakami Rajamanoharan, described the process as "wholesale militarised seizure" conducted through "dubious" legal means.

That dubious distinction means that each resident suffers under a tax burden that is nearly 2.5 times that of the national average.

Attorneys general in all 50 states are investigating foreclosure improprieties, which include forged signatures on legal documents and other dubious practices meant to patch up holes in loan documentation.

"The Greens are up on their hind legs at the moment, but I'm dubious that this means they will soon be the leading force on the left of Australian politics," he wrote in an e-mail.

The most curious is louche (#3), which means "dubious" or "shady" and, as Corbett observes in his memo, inexplicably found its way into the paper 27 times over 5 months.