Sentence examples for dubious understanding from inspiring English sources

The assailants, Boko Haram, either have a dubious understanding of their faith or, more likely, are acting in their own selfish political interests, apparent from the reports of lavish lifestyle of their deceased founder, M. Yusuf.

However, this is grating for neuroscientists like myself who like to moan about the questionable use of MRI scanners by the media and the like; not only does this promote bad science and dubious public understanding of the brain, but it turns out it's squandering an important natural resource too!

We come here to be confused and hope to manufacture understanding from that dubious raw material.

"I'm more concerned about P.R. people marketing drugs of dubious efficacy, or undermining public understanding about global warming," Mr. Rampton said.

The proximity of sports to violence has always made them a dubious vehicle for peacemaking and cross-cultural understanding – i.e., Berlin, 1936.

The proximity of sports to violence has always made them a dubious vehicle for peacemaking and cross-cultural understanding - i.e., Berlin, 1936.

Such nationalistic muscle-flexing not only rests on sometimes dubious historical premises, but also on a myopic understanding of culture itself, which has never confined itself to national limits.

Freeberg is skeptical of this epiphanic account — he thinks the process was much more arduous and gradual — and he and Gitter are both dubious of Howe's assumption that Laura retained no residual understanding of language from her early childhood.

Freeberg is skeptical of this epiphanic account he thinks the process was much more arduous and gradual and he and Gitter are both dubious of Howe's assumption that Laura retained no residual understanding of language from her early childhood.

"This incredibly low base rate opens the field for many predictions that seem on their face to show great historical understanding and political acumen but are in fact of dubious value," Humphreys writes.

Our previous study also indicated that all practitioners (conventional and CAM) valued communication, but that their understanding of each other's roles tended to be dubious and inadequate, adversely affecting the necessary first step in their relationship building [ 10].