Sentence examples for maintained dubious from inspiring English sources

To the fury of successive US administrations, the ISI – with or without the tacit approval of the army high command in Rawalpindi – has maintained dubious realpolitik alliances with jihadis dedicated to ejecting Nato forces from Afghanistan and overthrowing President Hamid Karzai, whom they revile as an American puppet.

Even if he maintains the dubious notion that transforming Iraq by military force could have been a plausible policy for any administration, it is time for Mr. Friedman to join those who opposed this war from the start.

Officers of the Irish Republican Army, to whom Pat maintains a dubious but self-preserving allegiance -- Behan spent time in jail for his affiliations with the I.R.A. but depicts these men as brutish, self-important twits -- have kidnapped a young British soldier, to be killed as retribution if the Belfast boy is not given a reprieve, and they have brought him to the boarding house.

Two months later, there are signs the San Francisco may not maintain its dubious position for long.

Motorola's RAZR surely stands as one of the most recognizable phones of yesteryear (although myself I preferred the Samsung Trace) — and while the brand has been desultorily maintained for Verizon's dubious benefit, a new video from Lenovo suggests a more serious throwback device is nearly at hand, so to speak.

Putin responded by maintaining Moscow's dubious defense that Damascus had given up its chemical weapons and that the deaths were either the result of Syrian government airstrikes hitting rebel stocks of chemical weapons, or a set-up to discredit Assad.

But Mr Anwar is out of jail and again leading opposition to the entrenched elite he was once part of.That entrenchment is maintained, says Mr Anwar, by dubious election procedures and a stacked electoral commission, supported by Malaysia's state-controlled media and a pliant judiciary.

Instead, the Fed has maintained that disclosure of the practice is adequate, a dubious assertion given the myriad ways to bury and distort disclosures.

This point is far from new--Jeffrey Beall has long maintained Beall's List, a very useful catalog of publishers with dubious records of genuine academic scholarly publishing.

Indeed, the notion of the individual essence of a body conceived as a power to maintain itself is of dubious intelligibility.

The Waco Semi-Weekly Tribune maintained that a number of black Waco residents attended, a claim that historian Grace Hale of the University of Virginia sees as dubious.