| 词汇 | example_english_dubious |
| 释义 | Examples of dubiousThese examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. However, teachers and students seemed quite dubious that computers could do so. Such an operation was obviously hazardous, not least because, with the lease over a year expired, its legality was dubious. No reference is given to recent sophisticated analyses of racism and intergroup conflict which have moved well beyond such bland and politically dubious generalities. The problems involved in assessing" functional importance" render the concept highly dubious sociologically. There are other dubious points too, but that one is conclusive. Their dubious financial circumstances thus widen the rift between them. Both anti-war and pro-war camps used propaganda derived from bogus science, or dubious methodology and philosophy of science, when it suited their book. There are also occasions on which the analysis of particular examples is highly dubious. On the rare occasions when that dubious virtue is called for, 'impartial' will do as an all-purpose word. A review of the literature on strategic trade suggests that such arguments are dubious in this context, however. The feasibility of identifying mutually exclusive liability subtypes that are each featured by a unique phenotype profile is thus dubious. There is a tendency to oversell the overlap between cell groups 1 and cell assemblies, often based on dubious interpretation of volume conduction. They started to lament their poor salaries and their dubious prospects. The benefits of this are dubious, specially as it is often used for electoral purposes with destabilising inflationary effects for the domestic economy. However, his book rests on a dubious premise. Between-group comparisons would have dubious validity and have been avoided. At least some of these assumptions, it will now be argued, are dubious. In a constitutionally dubious political move, the president also challenged the majority coalition by threatening not to sign the 1995 budget. Linguists will no doubt find this move dubious. Dubious weighing procedures set off countless disputes between planters and mill owners. The seeming challenge comes from a fundamentally dubious analysis. Conversely, cases for which an example sentence could not easily be invented were considered dubious. At times, attempts to merge them result in dubious effects. Regrettably, the closing chapters are a disappointment, with forced and unlikely associations between architects serving dubious editorial purposes. Allusions to classical music appear in similarly dubious contexts. The professional informer was a dubious and thoroughly unreliable dealer in information. Commoners were not the only ones who harbored dubious suspicions. Furthermore, even for scholars who are dubious about the prospects for generalization or uninterested in its pursuit, theoretical explorations of historical causation remain important. The industry has been plagued with dubious practices, particularly by some of the small, sometimes unregistered, operators. I align with the latter view - history has witnessed the flourishing of many normative systems we now find dubious or even paradigmatically unacceptable. I was very dubious about the prog ramme, and part of the immense struggle with writing the piece was reconciling myself to it. In short, a preference can be both constitutive of your identity but have a dubious history or current status that makes it unworthy of respect. Moreover, the horrors undertaken under the dubious authority of those who have believed in demons have motivated many to dismiss the theory altogether. Due to the dubious constitutionality of this measure, the central government has backed down in recent years. The notion of convergent drift has strong teleological overtones, and its ontological status is dubious. If conformity is selected for, the long-term prospects of a culture are dubious. Moreover, integrating semantic motivation into the theory of syntactic reanalysis does not land us in the theoretically dubious territory of determinism. Although the smallpox virus is much larger than polio, the technical feasibility of artificially synthesizing smallpox is perhaps dubious. If we accept the dubious premise that parents are not the best surrogates in these instances, who should make these decisions? From the modern perspective, providing such advice is the province of men of dubious trades such as trouble fixers, rather than of legitimate lawyers. His principled stand condemned him to the back-benches, and in 1979 he lost his parliamentary seat in dubious circumstances. Particularly dubious is the inclusion of the experience of guilt. The possibility of interviewing informants of living controls was, however, considered unrealistic and also ethically dubious. However, no conclusive linguistic argument is provided for these claims, which certainly are highly dubious. In reality, there are countless analyses of this pattern which are less dubious than treating / / as a continuant. Thus, the postulate of many non-physical minds coincidentally finding non-overlapping (a) regions is rendered somewhat dubious. The only support from the state is their tax-exempt status and some dubious preferential policies, often flouted by state bureaux and public utilities. Certainly any patterns of checks and balances placed on dubious ideas ministers may produce will be negative and conservative in their impact. First, their data are plagued by dubious coding decisions. Many philosophers regard the idea of annulling crime as extremely dubious, if not ridiculous. The example of my neighbor's car alarm involves a nuisance, the benefits of which are dubious. In fact, available evidence makes this idea very dubious. The idea that sounds common in the public domain may be contained, compartmentalised and owned is therefore a very dubious proposal. Their comprehension of mathematical, scientific, philosophical and literary concepts is dubious. Crowded housing, the sewage system, and such dubious practices as spitting and throwing rubbish out of high-rise apartment buildings came under the spotlight. Employers' emphasis on 'party political neutrality' may very well point to dubious concepts of democracy. He also raises the key issue of scale and the dubious viability of small, often spatially isolated, enterprises based on wildlife use. The two authors share the dubious but noteworthy distinction of being two of the most enduringly mass-marketed and commodifiable nineteenth-century figures. Both are true at the same time which is as much to say that the terms have dubious signicance. However, the burial story is of more dubious genesis. I am dubious about this for two reasons. Not surprisingly, this gave rise to dubious practices during the years 1865-1869. However, autonomy makes happiness a dubious concept for welfare policies. The complexity of thrust geometry and the high strain in many areas make any restoration of balanced crosssections a dubious exercise. The evidence for this diagnosis, however, was somewhat dubious. To discuss the category of genius with any seriousness is now regarded as a highly dubious business. Unhappily, though, the argument has a dubious air about it at best. Without a publicly credible justification for human rights, the legitimacy of such a legal order is dubious. Besides, such information frequently stems from sources of dubious reliability. Physicians endorsed dubious benefits such as decreased aspiration and improved survival. In addition, the methods employed seem quite dubious. First, we conclude that it is always more unsatisfactory to include than to exclude records that are dubious a priori. However, many of the species descriptions may be based on characters of dubious value. Again with this explanation the postulated summation of influences as a mechanism is unspecified and rather dubious. In the long run it is dubious whether market-preserving federalism can substitute for the rule of law. More dubious is his insistence that all these earlier writers were essentially writing allegories. Is this why a pact on the dubious side of 'diversity' in western-driven neo-liberal globalization comes to seem like the best deal in town? If, however, we could not arrive at a consensus, the dubious items were removed from the corpus. I regard these arguments as very dubious, but will not pursue them here. The benefits of totalitarian regimes, in science or in life, are at best dubious. There are technical reasons to be dubious about the accuracy of crime rates. However, results from their nitrite assay are dubious and cannot be relied on to confirm this independently. If the answer is unknown, implementation is dubious. Consumers may be more dubious about providing personal health information for uses that seem to benefit primarily someone other than themselves. We saw that it is very dubious for the prisoner to feel that he can morally complain, but this is not our present concern. Repeated court appearances in order to enforce dubious civil agreements could hardly have been convenient for the farmers. Furthermore, the claim that if someone has a reasonable complaint with respect to a distribution, this distribution cannot be in any respect better is dubious. However, this is no reason for abandoning it for, or substituting it by, more dubious alternatives. Except for this dubious similarity, these phenomena occur in totally different physical situations. The very prominence of so many loan refusers made the use of legal proceedings against them a dubious undertaking. However, the cryptospore size criterion is of dubious chronostratigraphic value. Let us note two dubious aspects of his argument. Then you can construct models, plausible models, where you can get either result, and that makes his proposition absolutely dubious. Troubling to this reader is that, with no clear thesis or explanation, such reports are compiled alongside more dubious sources of socio-political analysis. However, two key events challenged this dubious view. The commission outlined several other factors that may have accounted for its dubious figures. Here the deductive treatment is to force everybody to buy their dubious products. These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |
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