Sentence examples for dubious success from inspiring English sources

It's the emblem of a dubious success — a lifetime job that plays out like a life sentence.

Black bodies exist only on the receiving end of apocalyptic fanfare like airport screenings designed to weed out Ebola carriers (with dubious success) or excessive, deadly force from police that claim to protect and serve all people.

My dubious success and my self-destructive ego inspired me to devote Lesson 3 to trying the "three turn," a deceptively simple but supremely daunting maneuver that typically takes a novice at least a month of training sessions to learn.

Personally, I'm dubious about the success of this strategy.

But opponents say it would be a costly move with dubious chances of success.

The name is unwieldy, the goals uncertain, and the chances of success dubious.

Before we wonder whether what we are doing when we play sport, is ethically dubious, a creative success or a failure – let's just wonder what it is to play and watch sport.

Whilst the ingenuity of whoever is really behind all this might be admired on some dubious level, the success of their campaign, not to mention the cut of their ethical jib, is more open to question.

This may sound like a dubious recipe for success, but as the show is Lionel Bart's Oliver!, directed by hotshot Rupert Goold at Drury Lane and based on that long-running 1994 Sam Mendes version at the Palladium, the odds are that the public will turn up in droves.

Secret and Whisper have hit a dubious benchmark of success.

(Last September, a report by France's court of auditors found that the system is poorly controlled and its success dubious).