Sentence examples for dubious state from inspiring English sources

The result is a world of dubious state prosecutors, disillusioned young lawyers, interfering politicians and underpaid and overworked police.

New York City's Police Department has already declared a zero-tolerance policy for lawbreaking during the conference, which it insists will extend to littering, jaywalking and violations of an obscure and constitutionally dubious state law against three or more people appearing in public in masks.

And they're in a dubious state at the moment.

Thousands of layoffs in the financial sector have softened demand for office space in Manhattan, and other tenants are cautious, given the economy's dubious state.

Right now, we're in the midst of another fast-unfolding example of surveillance apparatus and public data standing in the way of dubious state claims — in the case of the disappearance of Washington Post journalist Jamal Khashoggi, who went into the Saudi consulate in Istanbul on October 2 for a pre-arranged appointment to collect papers for his wedding and never came out.

While Lanza does comment on the dubious state of the aforementioned green room couch, she's clearly at ease in dingy venues, thanks in part to a youth spent tagging along with her late father a musician who designed sound systems for a living to underground parties throughout the city.

Certainly Czech banks, which had been dominated by dubious state-owned institutions, now look much more competitive.

For that reason, some analysts contend, this mountain of dubious state-backed debt should not be seen as a pressing cause for worry.

Even from such dubious states as insecurity and paranoia, architecture can be made.

The West's intellectual-property system, for instance, is a mess, because it grants too many patents of dubious merit.The state has also notably failed to open itself up to innovation.

In the meantime, we have some half a million frozen embryos lying in dubious moral state – suspended "life", so to speak – though the huge majority will never be implanted in a human body.