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In the US, the deregulation of the financial sector over the last few decades, and the accompanying rise of
dubious
financial instruments, destabilized the real economy while doing little to improve productivity.
But although Prime Minister Ehud Olmert might seek to regain his popular credibility by a major new peace demarche, the two-headed Palestinian Authority, always a
dubious
partner in the eyes of the Israelis, is now more suspect than ever.
For, in our zeal to learn lessons from history, we often learn the wrong ones, or distort history towards
dubious
ends.
The argument that other EU countries would be likely to follow the UK’s lead is
dubious.
More recently, elections in the post-communist countries of Europe have brought groups to power whose democratic credentials are dubious, to say the least.
Quantitative easing is a blunt instrument, at best, and operates through highly circuitous – and thus
dubious
– channels.
The arguments used to justify the coup are
dubious.
The WHO’s
dubious
decisions demonstrate that its officials are either too rigid or incompetent (or both) to make necessary adjustments to the pandemic warning system – which is what we have come to expect from an organization that is scientifically challenged, self-important, and unaccountable.
But Leviathan's bleak portrait of contemporary Russian life actually confirms many of the reasons why Americans have been largely
dubious
about Russia's ability to reform following communism's collapse.
Dubious
claims by faithful activists gave rise to the biofuels industry (with supporting lobbyists).
As long as Africa is full of such
dubious
men, applying “African solutions to African problems,” as they like to say, will do the continent no good.
Notwithstanding Trump’s
dubious
claim that the Paris agreement saddles the US with “draconian financial and economic burdens,” his decision is particularly strange, given that the agreement is voluntary and non-binding.
Although the Assembly remains
dubious
about her, Mrs Megawati was heartened when Assembly Chairman Amien Rais foreswore any challenge to her presidency for the remainder of her term, which expires in 2004.
(Though, true to form, Trump accompanies this common-sense assertion with the
dubious
suggestion that the US should cut off trade with China.)
But the situation in the US Congress is more
dubious.
Again and again, we seem to choose the
dubious
luxury of another safari park over the prosaic benefits offered by an extra farm.
analysts wrote, “filled from beginning to end with deceptive attacks and counterattacks, and
dubious
claims.”
But the concept of “breakout time” is
dubious.
But, whatever the merits of Germany’s commitment to “moral” economic behavior, its stance on fiscal discipline in the eurozone remains
dubious.
Even after the global economy began to recover, governments channeled their resources toward
dubious
and uncoordinated schemes to support energy production and consumption, rather than effective investments aimed at driving a shift toward more sustainable energy systems.
Smaller firms are gradually recuperating; banks have rebuilt their capital cushions and reduced their
dubious
assets; the housing sector has stabilized; and a growing number of households are reestablishing healthier balance sheets, especially as employment gradually picks up.
Entrepreneurs of
dubious
quality no doubt entered as well, thanks to the generosity of the state.
The Chinese government has also begun a ferocious crackdown on social media, arresting prominent activists on
dubious
charges.
With so much depreciation worldwide, why would the US want the
dubious
honor of a strong dollar?
Yet even China’s most favored beneficiaries remain
dubious
about its model and motives, largely because Chinese aid remains primarily a business proposition.
Consider the
dubious
results from the G-8 summit in Gleneagles, Scotland, in 2005.
This explanation seems
dubious
elsewhere, too.
This is no trivial matter: Turkey currently bears the
dubious
distinction of having the highest number of judgments for human-rights violations rendered against it by the European Court of Human Rights.
They destroy the political careers of individuals of
dubious
character.
If so many senior Chinese officials openly flaunt fraudulent or
dubious
academic degrees without consequences, one can imagine how widespread other forms of corruption must be.
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