Sentence examples for dubious provisions from inspiring English sources

I will be curious to see how the Securities and Exchange Commission handles some of what I believe are the more dubious provisions of the Jobs Act.

But it also includes several environmentally dubious provisions aimed at encouraging oil shale exploration and coal-to-liquids projects that could contribute to global warming.

The senators' willingness to compromise is commendable, but the agreement they have assembled is really more a collection of talking points than a budget plan, and contains some highly dubious provisions.

Mr. Leahy has put together a package of his own that jettisons some of the more dubious provisions of the attorney general's plan, while adding some short-term fixes that might actually do some good.

Meanwhile, even though the overarching purpose of the act was supposed to be conservation — the Arctic Refuge is only a small part of the more than a hundred million acres it set aside — by the time it worked its way through Congress it was riddled with parochial and environmentally dubious provisions such as subsidies for logging in national forests.

But under a constitutionally dubious provision such articles may be deemed a "contribution" if the outlet is controlled by the candidate.

He also defended the right to privacy by denying wiretaps requested under a dubious catchall provision of the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act of 1968.

Mr. Schumer has said he is simply defending New York banks against a company that has made a "cottage industry out of extracting legal settlements" from a dubious patent provision.

Congressmen recognized the dubious constitutionality of the provision.

Major League Baseball had nothing to do with the dubious name of the provision — the Save America's Pastime Act — but it and Minor League Baseball certainly supported it.

They totalled £4 billion for the newly combined Lloyds Banking Group, with provisions of £13 billion for dubious debts.