There were even foreigners-only bookstores, which sold works such as Mikhail Bulgakov's "Master and Margarita," published by Soviet publishers in Russian but in deliberately limited runs — these were books in a gray area, perfectly O.K. for a Russian-reading American or Frenchman but a dubious read for a Soviet citizen.
(The sometimes-advanced claim that it reduced spree killing seems to rely on a very dubious reading of the mass-murder trends).
No dice: The Court adopted, in a secular version of the Second Coming, the dubious reading that the word "become" meant a unit was able "to achieve, for a second time, a status already obtained".
But beyond President Trump's dubious reading of the Antiquities Act, his threats also implicate a suite of other cultural and ecological laws implemented within our national monuments.
WASHINGTON -- The Obama administration pushed back forcefully on Monday afternoon against a Florida judge's ruling that its signature health care law is invalid, calling the judgment a legally "dubious" reading of the law.
The NRA's claim to defense of rights based on a dubious reading of history oppresses the rights of all other citizens to enjoy freedom and security safe from the fear of random violence.
But in the heat of a takeover battle, ego often played a greater role than even such dubious logic (read "Barbarians at the Gate").
Twenty-five minutes in, he had begun to repeat himself, and he'd started looking down at the podium, reading dubious statistics about Sacramento's economic situation.
The national office had learned of dubious accounting by reading criticisms of the company's accounting for some complicated transactions in Forbes magazine.
Having spoken to some of the editors and contributors of the magazine, and having had the dubious pleasure of reading certain excerpts of it, I cannot help but be exasperated by the way in which this has played out.
