Sentence examples for dubious measures from inspiring English sources

These legally dubious measures may eventually be corrected by judicial rulings, but much damage is being done.

The number of stays of execution has grown, reflecting legal challenges and dwindling drug supplies that have seen states including Texas resort to desperate and dubious measures.

Whether under the guise of combatting terrorism, protecting state secrets, or tackling suspicious foreign interference in their country, governments are employing a range of dubious measures to limit free speech, association and assembly.

In elementary school in particular, there isn't even a correlation between doing homework (vs. doing none) or doing more homework (vs. doing less), on the one hand, and any measures of achievement -- even such conventional (and, I believe, dubious) measures as grades or standardized test scores.

Numbers suggest the enormity of loss but are a dubious measure of history.

Wealth, personal enrichment, is still considered a dubious measure of success.

In any case, the N.P.I. is a dubious measure of narcissism, and college students are a dubious sample of emerging adults.

The most circumscribed islanders are the Hawaiians, numerous because of the one-drop rule (though by this dubious measure, I am a member of the Menominee nation and the whole of Wisconsin is my ancestral land).

But that loyalty increasingly meant support for the controversial policies followed by his administration and those of his Federalist successor, John Adams -- even when it meant enforcing a constitutionally dubious measure like the Sedition Act of 1798.

The tests themselves are a dubious measure.

Yet with mind-numbing regularity someone still pops up to challenge equality in sport, be it in prize money or some other dubious measure outside of sport.