Sentence examples for dubious undertaking from inspiring English sources
No one is apparently concerned with whether or not the intervention was a good idea, because if it's determined to have been a dubious undertaking it could get in the way of those whose ambitions include undertakings that are even more dubious.
Still, paying for France to reclaim its colony just as the world was about to experience a wave of decolonization was a dubious undertaking.
Extracting a workable piece of entertainment from "Molloy," "Malone Dies" and "The Unnamable," three Beckett novels published in the early 1950s and generally grouped as a trilogy, might at first seem a dubious undertaking.
On Marcel Breuer's plan for a tower over Grand Central Terminal, which was ultimately rejected by the Landmarks Preservation Commission: "Mr. Breuer has done an excellent job with a dubious undertaking, which is like saying it would be great if it weren't awful".
If that is the case then this is morally dubious undertaking.
Speculation is the oxygen of the stock market and so assigning significance to one investor's bet over another might seem dubious – but the punts undertaken by these two pillars of the investment establishment last week were worth noting in terms of what they mean for the UK economy.
When one undertakes the dubious task of comparing one human atrocity to another, one is of course, bound to fail.
The smart boys of MI5 undertake a highly dubious scheme: they dispatch a beautiful ex-model (Saffron Burrows) to persuade some low-rent London friends from her past to break into the bank and to take her along, so that she can quietly nab the Margaret indecencies and return them to the protection of the Crown.
Unfortunately, the efforts undertaken were of dubious legality and were clearly unethical.
It's true that under Reagan, America did undertake a highly dubious invasion of Grenada and did drop bombs once, in Libya, in response to a terrorist bombing that killed two U.S. soldiers in Berlin.
Navarro and Ross argue that their tax subsidy will make private builders more willing to undertake projects with more dubious financial returns, but it certainly doesn't go far enough.
