Sentence examples for dubious mission from inspiring English sources

Given what will happen -- the men, badly outnumbered, will be overrun by enemy troops and suffer heavy casualties in the course of an ill-defined and dubious mission -- this seems like an astonishing statement.

With the lovelorn logic of a man who's clearly never read Dr. Phil, Don decides to lie low and hit the road with his friend Dove on a dubious mission, entangling himself in an even messier family drama and an alcoholic picaresque adventure of hangovers, hotel rooms, suspicious piles of cash and Johnny Rivers tunes.

It's a tired movie about a tired man on a dubious mission: in his opening voice-over, Captain James T. Kirk Chris Pineexpressesses doubts about his multi-year mission in space, saying that, if the universe is infinite, he may be "chasing nothing".

She has agitated against Russian President Putin on Ukraine and Syria, and reiterated her belief in "the responsibility to protect," the rationale used to selectively promote the elitist economic agenda that she has so faithfully pursued over the years – even as the exercise of that dubious mission has resulted in widespread devastation in the Middle East, South America and elsewhere.

Sending one of our country's greatest resources, its men and women in uniform, on such dubious missions as those in Iraq and Afghanistan, with their alien cultures and a hard-to-discern "enemy," is itself a crime.

In 1613, a samurai is plucked from rural obscurity to accompany a Franciscan missionary on a dubious diplomatic mission into the Spanish empire.

But instead of cheering, a lot of planetary scientists are dubious about the mission's chances of success.

The Israeli Army, originally dubious about the Dayton mission, has come to respect it and is now allowing it to expand to Hebron.

And if things look really rough, just authorize secretive kill missions of dubious legality and point to precedent. .

Some are dubious about the last of these missions, suspecting Mr Bercow of characteristically seeking the limelight.

The assessments of, and in some instances the very inclusion of, numerous operations, missions, and interventions by SOCOM are dubious.