Sentence examples for dubious operation from inspiring English sources

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He felt that Dresden and its civilian population had been the prime target of the raid and that its destruction and their deaths served no strategic purpose, even in the widest terms; that this was a significant departure from accepting civilian deaths as a regrettable but inevitable consequence of the bomber war; and that he had been complicit in what was, at best, a very dubious operation.

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Even dubious operations, like the Thomas Jefferson School of Law, in San Diego, have kept their doors (and palms) open.

Patients aren't exposed enough to the costs of health care, so they waste a lot of other people's money on dubious operations and overpriced drugs.

As Annie told me, "Outsourcing for certain dubious operations from the official spies to… these corporate spies [creates an aura of] plausible deniability".

As Annie told me, "Outsourcing for certain dubious operations from the official spies to… these corporate spies [creates an aura of] plausible deniability". In other words, if something does go wrong or they get caught, it is the private company that has to take the blame, not the government agency.

I first became interested in him while investigating one of his F.B.I. informants, a scam artist named Josef von Habsburg who helped lure a lawyer into a dubious sting operation.

And he later told a Senate oversight committee staff about a highly dubious CIA operation that risked adding to proliferation of nuclear weapons.

There are dozens, possibly hundreds of political campaigners who may have been convicted as a result of dubious undercover operations, which may turn out to have involved miscarriages of justice.

TSB chief operating officer Jean Laporte called Montreal, Maine & Atlantic's operations "dubious" and said the railway chose to limit the speed on certain routes instead of improving its equipment.

Thus, the argument that U.S. forces must remain in Afghanistan (apparently indefinitely) to protect America's reputation is dubious, because prolonging combat operations will kill even more civilians and reinforce the narrative that militants are fighting against foreign occupiers.

Although radical at the time, her vote and famous speech accompanying it are now widely regarded as prophetic: The legislation, putatively meant to authorize the war in Afghanistan, has since become the legally dubious basis for military operations in over 20 countries. .

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