Sentence examples for dubious venture from inspiring English sources

It had been clear for some time that this was an economically dubious venture.

You might instead blame his publisher for aiding and abetting Glass in this dubious venture.

After a series of dubious ventures with films such as Nell, Catchfire, or Five Corners, she had a hit with Panic Room in 2002.

The F.E.C. ultimately ruled that the video was a legitimate (if dubious) business venture, and that the ninety-thousand-dollar loan Reed had received to produce it was not, therefore, an unlawful campaign donation.

But the impression throughout is of an author having a grand old time: witness a minor-circle-of-hell-league nightclub called Life ("After a few drinks Life won't seem so bad"), a co-VP called Death, and an extremely dubious business venture called Myhotswaitress.com (well worth a visit).

But since there are few such trucks now, the first such stations would have few customers when they opened, meaning they would seem like dubious commercial ventures.

A similar measure failed in the House last week, underscoring that even in a divided government, the Senate remains a more interventionist body while the House is increasingly dubious about foreign ventures and their cost.

Gopnik skilfully retells these stories in a chapter on "radical winter", where he interrogates our enduring fascination with those stoic but perhaps morally dubious men who ventured out to claim a meaningless geographical entity, often leading whole crews to their deaths.

Unbelievably, the Bank's charter actually directs it to take on risky projects in untested sectors, such as dubious green energy ventures.

Ward made a paper fortune in speculative ventures of dubious legality (of which Grant knew nothing).

He borrowed recklessly against it, got involved in shaky foreign ventures with dubious partners, and lost it all.