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And, although most businesses expect a long-term carbon price, the lack of bipartisan support for this scheme leaves many
dubious
about whether it will survive the next election.
Or analysts at investment banks that earn large fees from stock offerings may -- as we have seen not so long ago -- tout stocks even when they are
dubious
about them.
When this method of administration has been used elsewhere around the world, it has resulted in firms asserting
dubious
capabilities without regard to quality, price, or the timeliness of deliveries.
While his democratic credentials are dubious, he has not acted in an openly authoritarian fashion.
In October 2003, Putin cracked down on Mikhail Khodorkovsky, the CEO and main owner of Yukos oil, Russia’s most valuable company, who was thrown into prison on
dubious
charges of tax fraud after backing Putin’s political opponents.
Opaque or
dubious
dealings have cast doubt on the integrity of organizations and institutions on which we should be able to rely.
The Fed declined to regulate these
dubious
practices.
Alongside this inertia was a period of dubious, when not corrupt, government in the Kaliningrad oblast itself, as well as rivalry from neighboring Russian parts of the Northwest Region.
Numerous civil-society organizations and news outlets have been shut down, and Turkey now holds the
dubious
honor of having a record-breaking number of journalists behind bars.
They relentlessly but unsuccessfully pressured Montenegro’s leaders to remain in a dysfunctional union with Serbia, condoned Kostunica’s
dubious
2006 referendum on a new constitution enshrining Kosovo as a part of Serbia, and weakened demands for Serbia’s cooperation with the International Criminal Tribunal in The Hague.
Overall, countries that had implemented at least one regulatory change that made the investment framework less welcoming in 2006-2007 accounted for some 40% of world FDI inflows during that period – an impressive figure that demonstrates that something very
dubious
is afoot.
The cynical, and increasingly popular, view is that they were again voting their pocketbooks – all financial legislation in the run-up to the 2008 crisis was supposedly driven by the financial sector’s appetite for more customers to devour with teaser loans and
dubious
mortgages.
Chen Guangcheng, a blind lawyer – famous for exposing a forced abortion scandal in Shandong – was given a four-year jail term on the
dubious
charge of “organizing a mob to disturb traffic.”
In today’s Russia, for example, property rights do not enjoy widespread popular support, because so many of the country’s fabulously wealthy oligarchs are seen as having acquired their wealth through
dubious
means.
Overall, there are more gaps than real observations, and the observations themselves are often
dubious.
As a result, Trump positions himself in the
dubious
company of those throughout American history who displayed malice and suspicion toward new arrivals: the supporters of the Alien and Sedition Acts of the 1790s, which lengthened the period for naturalization to 14 years; the Know Nothings of the pre-Civil War years, who sought to bar Catholics from the country; those in the early twentieth century who claimed that newcomers from eastern and southern Europe, and from China and Japan, could not be made into Americans, and whose arguments led in the 1920s to stringent quotas for immigration from those regions; and those so intent on keeping out Jews seeking to flee Nazi Europe that even the small immigrant quotas for those countries were not filled.
Developing a new set of non-proliferation mechanisms would be a waste time that we cannot afford, because any new protocol would have a
dubious
legal basis and encourage further imbalances in implementation.
Engaging in physical and emotional assaults upon the defenseless in order to elicit worthless confessions and
dubious
intelligence is degrading, humiliating, and traumatizing.
But, above a certain per capita income threshold, that trend reverses itself: at high income levels, economic growth correlates with environmental improvement, leading to the
dubious
conclusion that it might be possible to achieve sustainable growth without deviating from “business as usual” (maintaining current emissions levels).
But if parties are not state-supported, they must find funds through channels that are often dubious, when not illegal.
The government arrested Agwa in September 2015 on
dubious
charges under a counterterrorism law, and he is still detained today.
Even macroprudential regulation is of
dubious
value: supervisors should confine themselves to overseeing individual institutions, leaving macro-level policy to the grownups.
If and when America's economy slows, and when the valuations of US assets become far more dubious, the euro will become an attractive investment.
Yet this recognition may be part of the problem: though China continues to reassure the West that it is not nurturing imperial or expansionist ambitions, Western political leaders remain dubious, if not outright suspicious.
Ignorance of the law has become an excuse to flout it, and to engage in ethically
dubious
behavior, such as inviting Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe to his Mar-a-Lago resort, or attacking the department store Nordstrom for dropping his daughter Ivanka’s clothing line.
Privately, China's leaders are
dubious
(at best) about North Korea.
Mexico now seems poised to join this
dubious
club.
Too many question marks about their national unity are said to exist, too many internal conflicts linger, and their records on political and judicial reforms are supposedly
dubious.
But many, although
dubious
or altogether worthless, easily become established in medical practice and produce a torrent of income for persuasive doctors serving well-insured patients.
The Nepali Congress Party, for example, has chosen to remain in opposition,
dubious
of the Maoists’ commitment to democratic politics.
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