Sentence examples for has used questionable from inspiring English sources

It has used questionable accounting.

The show had arrived at something close to the truth, but it had used questionable means to that end.

Regulatory commissioners in June identified Mirant as one of 43 companies that might have used questionable electricity trading strategies.

But independent observers said the OAS had used questionable methodology in coming to what Mark Weisbrot from the Centre for Economic and Policy Research called "a political decision", adding it was "highly unusual and perhaps unprecedented for any electoral authority to change the results of an election without a full recount".

And since Mr McGuire has accumulated more than $1.6 billion in options profits, the largest in history, he is emerging as the face of a long-brewing battle over executive compensation.Trembling in the wings are the chief executives of many other companies, suspected to have used questionable methods of allocating options.

All these animal studies reported an early renal vasoconstrictor effect of chloride but have used questionable models (isolated nephron, deinnervated kidney, etc).

Therefore the Enron debacle together with the recent collapse in the share prices of Tyco, WorldCom, Elan and now also IBM all companies that may have used questionable accounting practices will lead to lower equity valuations of U.S stocks.

When Wallace did some research, he discovered instances where supporters of vaccination had used questionable, in a few cases completely phony, statistics to support their arguments.

Charles W. Morse was a businessman from Maine who by 1890 had used questionable financial processes to acquire control of the New York City Ice Company and the Consumers' Ice Company of New York, merging them into the Consolidated Ice Company.

What emerges is a picture of a group that has used some questionable accounting practices; that has never really made a profit; that has made imprudent use of funds set aside for nuclear decommissioning and waste-management; that lacks transparency over the level of its nuclear provisions; and that has indulged in a reckless and costly strategy of international expansion.

Such critiques towards the field of EMT in tissue repair can also be applied to other processes, such as endothelial-to-mesenchymal transition (EndMT), which has used similarly questionable methods to demonstrate EndMT as an important source of tissue-effector myofibroblasts [ 71].