Sentence examples for dubious past from inspiring English sources

It emerged that, despite his dubious past, he had joined the US army.

But General Ahmar has been trying hard to put a gloss on his dubious past.

Tonight, Australia found its own gesture that was far more than dancers celebrating a dubious past.

He discovers that the fanatical religious community at the camp has a nasty reputation locally, and that the leader has a dubious past.

Life settlements have a dubious past indeed; as relatively new, poorly understood and, until recently, minimally regulated transactions, they have been prime terrain for fraud.

(And yes, by the same token, there's nothing unfair or dirty about the Obama campaign raising some of McCain's dubious past associations either).

Expats with dubious pasts and presents have, of course, long shuffled through the pages of Somerset Maugham, Graham Greene and John le Carré.

The self-defence forces turn out to have members with dubious pasts and the kind of weaponry assault rifles and improvised armoured cars that is the trademark of narcos.

Of course, politicians in Washington cannot afford to look soft on drugs and, with two consecutive Presidents with dubious pasts (Clinton's 'didn't inhale' fiasco and Bush's 'youthful indiscretion'), it is unlikely there will be an official shift in policies.

It was less often remarked that he was an adroit designer (of capri pants, for one thing, adapted from island fishermen's clothes), an experimenter with fabrics (he pioneered stretch materials) and a man with an extensive and highly dubious Fascist past.

I'm friends with a guy named Fred Macpherson, who you might know as the lead singer of Spector, recent Buzzcocks panellist and/or the man who dared denounce the Olympic flame for its dubious Nazi past.