Sentence examples for dubious tactics from inspiring English sources

Where Microsoft used legally dubious tactics, Facebook unsheaths its wallet and whips out $1bn.

After years of disclosures concerning cover-ups, dubious tactics and glaring lapses by the police, Mr. Mitchell's case deepened public discomfort.

Even the brazen use of government resources, voter intimidation and other dubious tactics failed to produce the result the president wanted.Mr Chávez had called on his followers to "demolish" the opposition.

A row has broken out between the alcohol industry and Britain's leading medical journal over allegations that the industry is using dubious tactics to promote its products to young people.

In 1954 he produced a notable exposé of the dubious tactics of Senator Joseph McCarthy, who had gained prominence with flamboyant charges of communist infiltration of U.S. government agencies.

They were aided by some dubious tactics from that England attack, which, wrote Selvey, "got ludicrously carried away with itself on the fast bouncy pitch … Benjamin excepted, it was juvenile stuff".

A dubious tactic, that phone call seemed to be.

"This 'disproportionate use' as the report puts it largely ignored the well-understood police powers and rather relied on the highly dubious tactic of so-called 'consensual' searches.

Captain Will Smith batted for nine and a half hours for 210, refusing to declare until into the sixth session of the match, a good innings, but dubious tactic.

This constitutionally dubious tactic would allow officers to arrest any of 37 alleged members of the Bloods gang if they are seen together "standing, sitting, walking, driving, gathering or appearing anywhere in public view or any place accessible to the public," whether or not they are doing anything wrong.

Using so-called "exploding termsheets" to pre-empt other offers is not uncommon in the VC world, though even there it's considered a slightly dubious tactic.