Certainly Czech banks, which had been dominated by dubious state-owned institutions, now look much more competitive.
The result is a world of dubious state prosecutors, disillusioned young lawyers, interfering politicians and underpaid and overworked police.
For that reason, some analysts contend, this mountain of dubious state-backed debt should not be seen as a pressing cause for worry.
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.
Others the polarization in our own country, the justified lack of trust in government, the dumb decisions being made in the interest of maximizing corporate profits, the dubious state of education, growing economic inequality, health care, or climate change and all that ushers in.
In an interview set to air on Thursday evening's edition of Fox News' "Special Report," however, Simpson proudly confessed to doing an especially good job of achieving that dubious state in a recent viral video that featured the 81-year-old austerity advocate dancing to the Korean pop star PSY's smash-hit, "Gangnam Style".
