What's dubiously effective to me might be perfect for you.
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Meredith looks dubiously at the anemic pond alongside the Ark.
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Facebook is a vast wilderness of data, complex and dubiously structured.
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More dubiously, Mr Philippe announced a special €50bn plan to improve infrastructure.
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The ambitions fuelled by Papa Joe's dubiously made money were J.F.K.'s own.
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That's what poorly architected, dubiously written, high-technical-debt software is like. Quicksand.
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" He claimed (dubiously) to have once been named Michigan's "man of the year.
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These are all outcomes that the dubiously nicknamed "Cocaine Mitch" McConnell is happy with.
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It's broad and dubiously sentimental, and relies on gross-out slime gags and mega-pratfalls.
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I must not have looked too hot: they regarded me dubiously, uncertain whether to beg.
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Clovis took a number of other dubiously scientific—some might say dumbassed—viewpoints on his blog.
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Last on my list was Diddy's new fragrance for his Sean John label, dubiously named 3AM.
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Flynn Jr. is dubiously known for promoting the fake news story dubbed "Pizzagate" in the fall.
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Seafood certification systems try to address some of these problems but do so dubiously at best.
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" Two elephants eye a third dubiously as one says to the other: "You know the type.
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Some men are raised to be as hard and rigid as the phalluses they dubiously worship.
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In July, Saban insisted, somewhat dubiously, that the competition for Alabama's starting quarterback job was unsettled.
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Dubiously derived data points about performance and mood seem like a poor substitute, though time will tell.
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What power will a commission like this have if it's viewed dubiously by experts and the press?
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We will listen to ideas that would have been dubiously useful 15, 20, or 25 years earlier.
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The President has dubiously argued he has the power to override the provision with an executive order.
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The Trump administration can only tinker with the rules that enforce the law, and even then sometimes dubiously.
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Though what that means can sometimes be blurry, he said, the Trump claim struck him as dubiously broad.
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Meanwhile, Brian Jacobsen, chief portfolio strategist at Wells Fargo Fund Management, believes the bank has not acted dubiously.
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Melania also wore Ralph Lauren to the final debate — a black jumpsuit that allegedly (read: dubiously) had a pussybow.
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For a style inherently American, the dubiously named Canadian tuxedo aka denim on denim gets a pretty bad rap.
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Dexter sniffs it dubiously, eats a few bites of kibble and tootles back to his bed to sleep in.
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The products, known as Décodex, are centered around a database that tracks 600 websites responsible for dubiously sourced news.
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Before he was speaker, Ryan was often described, however dubiously, as a serious policy wonk who cared about details.
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Velázquez, with an upturned mustache and bushy black hair, gazes dubiously toward the viewer, his expression somber and stern.
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He claims, dubiously, that he was slow to learn how his creation would be used, and then he left.
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HawkeyeBow and arrow and sword assassin Jeremy Renner finally gets some screen time, after dubiously sitting out of Infinity War.
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That's true even as the president insists, dubiously, that he's "working hard" in New Jersey, not really vacationing at all.
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By the end, the story has shifted to Turkey and a dubiously coded landscape dotted with minarets, crescents and stars.
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This is dubiously true, but there were real fears that Mélenchon's non-endorsement would threaten Macron's standing in the race.
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Yet it continues to accept advertising money from unregulated entities pushing dubiously obscure crypto exchanges and flogging wildly risky token sales.
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What shall heretofore be referred to as "The Yosemite Incident" isn't even the only instance of dubiously recorded rap this year.
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It's, like, such a natural," Trump said, before adding, dubiously, that "in my opinion I'm not going to make any money.
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However, once he dipped his head in Rio's (sometimes dubiously filtrated) pools, his hair turned green for the duration of the Olympics.
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Pushback has been swift, as civil rights groups argue that face recognition is faulty, dubiously legal, and often collected without public consent.
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It was (dubiously) credited with helping Donald Trump win the 2016 presidential election, as well as helping pass the UK Brexit referendum.
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" He or she also noted, dubiously, that they considered a possible connection to Kayla Berg after "searching through some missing person cases.
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They offered various shifting excuses for not agreeing to do the interview (while dubiously claiming Trump himself still wanted to do it).
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The monologues that make up "Sea Wall/A Life" (at the Hudson, directed by Carrie Cracknell) are two such dubiously useful contraptions.
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There are interesting ideas and analyses scattered through the book, but they get lost in the sheer volume of dubiously related material.
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These would include Trump University, which offered get-rich-quick seminars that dubiously promised to impart Trump's perceived business acumen to students.
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The disability rights advocate Frances Ryan dubiously suggests that abortion rights may be ableist, since pregnancies with abnormal fetuses are sometimes terminated.
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The final season will reveal if the end of Bojack's story is one of dubiously earned redemption, or his rockiest bottom yet.
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Christian, straight-edge metalcore was the best mid-aughts Mississippi had to offer, dubiously "brutal" as it was, and I loathed it.
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The problem is that some top officials continue to make statements that could pave a dubiously legal and factually challenged pathway to war.
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I asked him about the current state of World Music, and how he sees its current place among the (dubiously dubbed) Western genres.
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Dubiously, the government claimed that a necessary and natural byproduct of this criminal prosecution was the separation of immigrant children from their parents.
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Instead, the Kaiser's proud army was "stabbed in the back" by cunning Jews, craven politicos, and other such dubiously cosmopolitan, non-Junker types.
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After Pickard and another man were busted, the DEA also claimed—much more dubiously—that the US acid supply dropped by 95 percent.
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Pardoning Sheriff Joe Arpaio for violating the Constitution could be defended, however dubiously, as merely an act of compassion for an old man.
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The drop comes even as some Republicans, such as Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin, have claimed, dubiously, that the law will pay for itself.
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The cheaper solutions often rely on dubiously-sourced emulators—software that pretends to be the electronics and hardware you'd find in the original consoles.
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Its biggest problem is the loss of the dubiously legal ability to import your own tracks, which might be a deal-breaker for some.
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White has been the face of the sport in the mainstream since he was dubiously dubbed the Flying Tomato at the 2006 Winter Olympics.
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I found these unpersuasive: Gero failed to capture the composer's skittish manner, and the texts came from "Testimony," the memoir dubiously attributed to Shostakovich.
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A few minutes later, he claimed dubiously – and repeatedly – that it is costing him "billions" of dollars in missed opportunities to serve as president.
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The action is punctuated by news reports that eventually chronicle the growth of a dubiously effective student-led activist movement against the government's actions.
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Numerous hosts and guests said the process was unfair but argued — at times dubiously — that Trump was ultimately going to benefit from it all.
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Instead, the Kremlin has rather dubiously alleged that Syrian government warplanes may have accidentally hit a rebel cache of chemical weapons, causing the deaths.
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In one sequence, Brittany Kaiser, a dubiously-motivated former Cambridge executive and one of the film's main subjects, explains how the company's propaganda machine worked.
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The money has been used to bankroll an army of dubiously credentialed experts, who argue that Muslims are waging a "stealth jihad" against democratic institutions.
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Both the city of Boston and the city of Denver tried to block the company from opening franchises within their borders, under dubiously legal premises.
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Washington (CNN)President Donald Trump has a long history of dubiously distancing himself from allies who have turned on him or found themselves in trouble.
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Even if a pollster does have a pretty decent guess about turnout, the often unacknowledged truth is that cutoffs are often dubiously arbitrary and extremely sensitive.
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The Falcon Heavy is the rocket Musk says could eventually carry astronauts or other equipment to Mars as part of SpaceX's dubiously safe human habitation project.
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For Schweller, Trump represents a retreat from the hubris of the Obama and Bush years — and dubiously successful wars of regime change in Iraq and Libya.
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Djibouti President Ismail Omar Guelleh helped himself to a fourth five-year term in 2628 after parliament dubiously eliminated a constitutional two-term limit in 28500.
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Her disappearance, and hundreds of others, comprise a strange portfolio of "mysterious" national park vanishings, loosely tied together by a few common—and dubiously supernatural—themes.
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Khaled joins the restaurant staff, which includes a dubiously competent chef (Janne Hyytiainen), a bored-looking waitress (Nuppu Koivu) and a spectral maître d' (Ilkka Koivula).
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The most prized of all was the dubiously named "sandy bottoms,"or drinking the entirety of another man's tot—a rare privilege used to settle debts.
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With Mariana Alfaro THE BIG IDEA: President Trump didn't just dubiously blame Barack Obama's nuclear deal for Iran's retaliatory missile strikes against U.S. targets in Iraq.
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A dubiously effective fitness tracker to count your dog's calories will help a person and their pet far less than just taking them to the doctor.
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He also figured prominently in a Guantánamo Bay case in which the Bush administration had dubiously labeled a detainee an "enemy combatant" to detain him in Cuba.
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The BBC reports that a shady group had reached out to them attempting to sell Facebook data on what the hackers claim, dubiously, is 120 million accounts.
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Trump typically fulminates against polls that show him doing badly while cherry picking others, that however dubiously, appear to show him in a more favorable political position.
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His speeches were often unscripted and featured boasts on everything from his money to his IQ. He peppered them with dubiously sourced declarations, misperceptions and false statements.
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That feed will still have plenty of fake and dubiously sourced news stories, which Facebook is still trying to police using software and third-party fact-checkers.
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This time—as the title suggests—they thematically embraced an affection for life and its romantic messes: sexual discovery, desire, and the dubiously transformative power of love.
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The slew of voter ID laws passed to the fix nonexistent voter fraud that dubiously suppresses voters of color is one of the latest 21st-century examples.
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The party claims (dubiously) 95% of people would pay no more in tax for the free broadband, better health care, free university and other goodies it promises.
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I can appreciate your lawyer's advice to focus on the legal distinctions, but you must recognize that this is dubiously similar work, without much distinguishing conceptual consideration.
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Even more dubiously, in 2013 JAMA published a study revealing that WebMD receives more money than any other medical communication company on record from pharmaceutical and device companies.
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Many such groups applied for tax exempt status by dubiously labeling themselves "social welfare" organizations, making their tax status an ideal target for closer review by the IRS.
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Governments trample over the lives and needs of individuals and communities, the wealthy convert their dubiously acquired wealth into cultural capital, all in the name of that heritage.
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Emerging from the ashes of the New York Celtics, which folded during the First World War, the second version of the club was dubiously named the Original Celtics.
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In 22005, he was (very dubiously) linked with Charlize Theron; gossip blogs speculated that he was flirting with Jessica Simpson and later dating the British actress Janet Montgomery.
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On the latter, Yuval rightly observes that there could be the makings of a deal on the wall Trump has dubiously vowed to build on the southern border.
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President Trump claims that Google News is "rigged" against him and Twitter is "shadow banning" conservatives (although the latter belief originated with a dubiously researched Vice News article).
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Choosing to extend the U.S.' protection to some dubiously useful oil but not to the U.S.' partners as they attempt to defend their home communities would seem unspeakably dark.
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Plus, American households are much less leveraged than they were pre-crisis, and the global liquidity glut is flowing into equity rather than into dubiously-rated synthetic debt obligations.
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Challenged on his policies (which don't really exist) or his credentials (which are dubiously applicable to the presidency), he whips out his poll numbers as proof of his worthiness.
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Reddit users, meanwhile, sent a swastika to the front page of the site, in a dubiously effective attempt to have the image appear next to CNN in Google Images.
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"Dream Corp," created by Daniel Stessen, looks in on a treatment center whose staff is dubiously credentialed but engaged in cutting-edge therapeutic techniques that involve manipulating patients' dreams.
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I'd kept the toy store I'd inherited from my father, and one day I caught Duvel in the street, peering dubiously in through the display window of my shop.
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The law helped instill confidence in banks that had squandered their credibility by blowing billions on dubiously engineered investments that few understood and fewer could explain in plain English.
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Dubiously justified and poorly planned, the Iraq invasion abjectly failed the Powell Doctrine, though Vice President Cheney (yet again with Rumsfeld) knew for certain how it would turn out.
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" It also claims, very dubiously, that Ayling was "treated fairly" and "with respect," and commands her not to speak poorly of the Black Death group under threat of "elimination.
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Even the characters speak less deliberately than in TFiOS or early samples of Turtles, which points to Green improving as a writer but his teen protagonists growing dubiously more eloquent.
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Many canon lawyers say his chosen title of "pope emeritus" is a dubiously-founded provocation, and that it would have been more correct to call himself bishop emeritus of Rome.
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You could "consider" NPCs to judge their opinion of you, and most of them would "glower at you dubiously" until you did something to improve your station with their ilk.
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While some polling dubiously placed Obama's approval rating as high as 28500%, nearly every poll showed 6900 to 2628 per cent saying the country was headed in the wrong direction.
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More than one election brought complaints of men rounding up carriage-loads of dubiously eligible women and bringing them to the polls, to help push their candidate over the top.
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The characters' sex lives were not remotely "safe"; they were porn-haunted and self-destructive, a mess of S.T.D. fears and dubiously consensual incidents and sudden marriages and stupid infidelities.
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Cheri Bustos (D-IL) recently introduced a bill in Congress, the dubiously dubbed Save America's Pastime Act, that would amend federal law to specifically exclude minor leaguers from FLSA overtime protections.
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The anarchic thrill of Washington Park was replaced by structured, mostly indoor lessons on Garveyism and a hodgepodge of dubiously "African" cultural knowledge: Egyptian pyramids; the tenets of Kwanzaa; Kiswahili vocabulary.
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Politely, dubiously, he accepted neoprene gloves and bootees ("You people and your cold-weather surfing," he said), along with a bulky foam board that looked like a nine-foot ripe banana.
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Don Jr. refused to provide details of a call he'd had with his dad over the summer, dubiously citing attorney-client privilege because their lawyers were on the phone call, too.
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Republicans also dubiously invoked another so-called "Biden rule" to justify not scheduling a hearing for Supreme Court nominee Merrick Garland during an election year after Antonin Scalia died in 2016.
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He served Falk with a deference that suggested a wholesale blindness to vice, and he was present for any number of untaxed transfers of Singapore dollars, among other dubiously legal exhibitions.
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How much do you want to bet that the US market for RU-43, purchased from online pharmacies or other dubiously legal means, will explode in the aftermath of Roe falling?
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I inquired about a pair of very high wedged sandals that Beyonce was wearing in a photo, and was shown a large selection of flat sandals that looked dubiously similar at best.
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It's the justification for taking on large quantities of debt to buy what otherwise would amount only to an intangible and dubiously intellectual four-year experience on a leafy college campus somewhere.
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Just as KISS had their army, Turbonegro relies on their "navy," Turbojugend (German for "Turboyouth," a name riffing on Hitler Youth, reflecting the same dubiously appropriate jokes of the band's song titles).
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Drafted in an era when players straight out of high school, especially guards, were looked at dubiously, Bryant was taken at No. 13, after the likes of Samaki Walker and Todd Fuller.
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What motivates it is not the defense of free speech, but an ideology that condemns "politically correct" activists and administrators and dubiously recommends "free markets" as the best guarantors of such rights.
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And although Google has made dubiously earnest attempts in the past to address its "insidious frat-house attitude," its abysmal diversity stats speak louder than any female emoji with a hardhat will.
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But the constant spring of information, precautions and warnings, whether it's straight from the CDC or some recirculated, dubiously-sourced post on Facebook, can take a real toll on your mental health.
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Led by Heinrich Himmler, one of the chief orchestrators of the Holocaust, a team of archaeologists set out to investigate ancient sites and dubiously claim their link to the so-called Aryans.
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" Standing next to Chase was Mary Kate Roukey, twenty-three, who had favored Warren until she heard the details of Warren's Medicare for All plan, which seemed, she said dubiously, "super-ambitious.
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People who want to serve on the nation's highest court should not be willing to casually drag a private citizen through the mud, using dubiously legal tactics, to advance their own goals.
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They debated various legal strategies, such as filing tort claims and, more dubiously, claiming that as a sovereign person under common law, a court without a jury does not have jurisdiction over them.
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Also, the Department of Homeland Security's dubiously scientific prototypes look stupid as hell and not "beautiful" as promised, because it's a damn wall:Photo: APSo Trump probably doesn't need the help tanking the project.
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Alongside the news that the Google Home voice assistant speaker will be available in the UK next week, Google is announcing that its dubiously punctuated Wifi router system is on the way too.
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Trump has previously defended Bill Clinton from Clinton's own accusers, and he is is in the midst of behaving in all the ways he's dubiously accusing the Clintons of behaving in the past.
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On the other hand, while the site dubiously claims it has "10 easy, painless ways to lose weight," the page actually included some reasonable, if obvious, tips: walk more, hydrate, share restaurant meals.
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There were towns called Fremont and a street in newly minted San Francisco named for them while the couple were still trying to make their fortune with dubiously acquired property elsewhere in California.
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The president of the United States said something clearly inaccurate, which turned out to be based on a Fox News segment filled with faulty references to statistics and a dubiously edited documentary clip.
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Lastly, and most dubiously, Republican members of Congress, more so than Democrats, count on the generous donations of the telecoms and cable industries to fund their reelection campaigns, and, well, promises were probably made.
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Uruguayans have a healthy mistrust of charismatic, messianic leaders, which preserves them from the bane of presidents dubiously extending their term limits, as we have seen in Venezuela, Ecuador and Bolivia in recent years.
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Members of the royal family, including the monarch, have frequently met with a range of often disreputable – or at least dubiously democratically accountable – leaders, often in pursuit of national commercial, diplomatic and geopolitical interests.
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If you're the type of person who couldn't care less if anyone knows what you do in the sack, then by all means, buy that smart condom that dubiously claims it can detect STIs.
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The dubiously titled "Restoring Internet Freedom Order" was passed in a party-line vote by the commission's Republican majority in mid-December and the final text of the order was released earlier this month.
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RoboHon, Sharp's dubiously useful but definitely adorable phone that walks around on two legs and projects you happy images when you're sad and alone in your bedroom, is actually making its way to market.
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In those pictures were her and Drake, her former superstar music-making buddy and Young Money labelmate, who dubiously became her enemy via alliances revolving around him beefing with her then-boyfriend Meek Mill.
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Developers grab large tracts of land, stealing them outright or occupying them, advertise mega development projects and then buy off regulators with the money they raise selling some of the land they dubiously claim.
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Embraces like that are crucial stand-ins for a whole people that includes slain teenagers, motorists, pedestrians and passengers, as well as dubiously convicted or harshly sentenced sons, daughters, mothers, fathers, cousins and friends.
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Both practices have been dubiously advocated by a whole bunch of healers of late, though the official scientific evidence to back them up remains, much like a long abandoned Mayan temple, lost in time.
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Since the Supreme Court gutted the Voting Rights Act in 2013, states across the country have passed a slew of voter ID laws to the fix nonexistent voter fraud that dubiously suppresses voters of color.
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It may have had a blockbuster weekend worthy of a superhero battle royale, but the dubiously received Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice has put at least one person off of superhero movies for life.
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But its growing hunger for the rare, exotic and dubiously curative is devastating worldwide populations of rhinos and elephants, sharks and tigers — and spurring illegal timber operations in rain forests stretching from Congo to Cambodia.
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"Hemp oil entrepreneurs attempt to sidestep this legal hurdle by dubiously claiming they extract CBD only from hemp stalk before importing it to the United States, a grey area activity at best," according to Project CBD.
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Phillips's Yemeni antiquities have now been acquired by the Freer and Sackler Galleries of the Smithsonian Institution, which used some of its dubiously acquired antiquities to argue for the importance of "protecting" Middle Eastern cultural heritage.
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But something grimmer has to explain the actions of the people responsible for devising and carrying out our foreign policy—in Congress, in dubiously funded think tanks, at the Pentagon, and on the National Security Council.
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To hear some pundits tell it, Donald Trump's election to the presidency was itself a triumph of Russian espionage based purely on the Moscow-linked proliferation of "fake news" and dubiously purchased advertisements on social media.
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The top-end Reno 2 actually isn't as high-end as the previous flagship, the dubiously named but excellent Reno 10x Zoom — that phone remains the fastest Reno in the lineup with its Snapdragon 855 processor.
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Finance reports revealed to investors show the ride sharing titan lost $4.5 billion in 2017, its annus horribilis that began with accusations of heinous sexism and ended with bombshell revelations about a dubiously legal network of spies.
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That didn't stop President Trump, himself a man accused of sexual violence by at least 2003 women, from tweeting dubiously, asking why she didn't report it at the time, spawning a hashtag of survivor stories on Twitter.
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"It was dubiously a crime in the first place and to see the very long sentence ... (it) seemed to me that he was being punished for the murder even though the judge said he wasn't," Toobin said.
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If Rose McGowan can be arrested on dubiously-timed cocaine charges after telling her story, imagine what poor women and women of color face: the high likelihood that they'll end up in prison instead of getting help.
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The backlash against people bringing dubiously legitimate animals onto flights has been brewing for a while, but it popped off in full force at the end of January after an emotional support peacock was denied boarding by United.
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This is the law that set up the Federal Trade Commission's Do Not Call program, which was sort of dubiously helpful in that it asked telemarketers to maintain their own lists of people they weren't allowed to contact.
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To kick things off, Tim Cook spent tons of time lauding Apple's first try at the smartwatch, and Apple's Jeff Williams walked through watchOS 3 updates revealed at WWDC earlier in June, including that dubiously scientific Breathe app.
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But I'm most interested in one he wrote more than 20 years ago: the Cellino & Barnes jingle, and how a local commercial for two dubiously useful personal injury lawyers has gotten so famous, it is now a meme.
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One of the cocktails contained monosodium glutamate, or MSG, a staple in Chinese cooking that has been dubiously linked to ill health affects, causing restaurants to hang flashing "NO MSG" signs in their windows to avoid losing white customers.
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This 17-month drama suggests that, wherever the President may try to go next with his travel ban and other policies justified, however dubiously, in the name of national security, he will have to reckon with the federal courts.
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Warren has said that she was pushed out of the job over that pregnancy and no hard evidence has ever been furnished proving otherwise, despite a Washington Free Beacon story Monday that dubiously suggested county records contradicted Warren's account.
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After years globetrotting on behalf of dubiously democratic politicians in far-flung locales like Ukraine (where he was said to swim nude alongside his client), he returned to Washington, the city where he first established himself as a force in politics.
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Nicki Minaj is not only expected to be supportive of other female rappers (which she has both done and refused to do throughout her decade-long mainstream career), but popular culture has dubiously dubbed empowerment as the theme of female rap.
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THE ARENA: Inside the Tailgating, Ticket-Scalping, Mascot-Racing, Dubiously Funded, and Possibly Haunted Monuments of American Sport (Liveright, $27.95), by the freelance writer Rafi Kohan, is smart, readable, deeply reported and researched, engagingly personal, funny and often surprisingly poignant.
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But that statement raises the question, overshadowing the entirety of the interview, of why Facebook hadn't done these simple things years earlier, when it was already obvious that the platform was being swarmed with dubiously sourced and fraudulent news posts.
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She and other Democrats in the chamber grew visibly frustrated by the president's extremely political address, where he dubiously took credit for a growing economy and appealed to his conservative base, rather than bipartisanship, on issues such as abortion and school prayer.
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He declined to pinpoint the legal standard under which he was refusing to answer, except to dubiously assert some Justice Department policy has long existed in which attorneys general are expected to stay silent about the president's conduct—which is decidedly false.
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That's just one of several examples of Trump dubiously claiming a charitable contribution in this exposé by The Washington Post, which pokes holes in the Republican frontrunner's claim that he gave nearly 5,000 charitable gifts totaling $102 million over the past five years.
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Photo: APThe Government Accountability Office, a federal watchdog agency that provides investigative support to legislators, will look into the Federal Communications Commission and its chief Ajit Pai's dubiously supported claims that a cyberattack took down the FCC's public commenting system earlier this year.
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Nunes dubiously insisted Vindman's only out was to invoke his Fifth Amendment right against self-incrimination — as if speaking to any other government official with proper security clearance about anxiety that Trump might have abused his office should be considered a crime.
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Some think this means a Taliban victory and that it is acceptable to threaten the Taliban with a U.S. return (as dubiously credible as that is) if al Qaeda is allowed to come back, and treat the rest as none of our business.
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In any case, given that dubiously legal ways to obtain Game of Thrones have been noted to come with a significant risk of malware—and given that the real runtime is only a few hours from now—might as well wait for it.
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" Political pressure may have played a part in an episode in May 1990, when New York's fire department dubiously forced the organization to close its basement performance space in response to a call claiming the arts outlet was an "illegal social club.
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" The already-embattled Facebook took on new criticism this week for failing to control the spread of conspiracy theories on their platform in the wake of the school shooting in Parkland, including dubiously-sourced posts suggesting that the teenage survivors were "crisis actors.
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We dove back into the archives and our memories to find the 11 moments that explain Drag Race's success, defining nearly a decade of beautiful, genre-bending, deliriously smart TV. The first season of Drag Race was a strange, experimental, dubiously filtered creature.
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No one did, not even when he conducted two televised and dubiously scientific polls of the people who tuned into "Watch What Happens Live" and turned up numbers based on about 60,000 votes that said, actually, yes, Trump was going to win.
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That's due to widespread allegations some companies that make formula push it with dubiously legal or ethical tactics like lavish promotional agreements with doctors and misleading health claims, particularly in poor countries where many are hard-pressed to afford formula in the first place.
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Mr Di Maio, now deputy prime minister, argued in comments to the Financial Times that Italy's fiscal expansion will prove so successful that other European leaders will clamour to follow, citing, somewhat dubiously, faster growth in America after a budget-busting Republican tax cut.
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In fact, the last place his taxi driver brought him before van Assen gave up on the hunt was a warehouse full of dubiously sourced bikes, which the owner said he bought off of cargo trucks from Brussels, Paris, and other parts of Europe.
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In light of President Trump's imposition of tariffs on imported steel, aluminum and autos, Congress should revisit existing trade authorities under Section 232, which allows the president to adjust import rules based on national security concerns, a provision he dubiously cited in this case.
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Kavanaugh's questions seemed to borrow from a federal appeals court opinion, which rather dubiously argued that Whole Woman's Health should not apply in Louisiana because it is easier for Louisiana doctors to get admitting privileges than it is for Texas doctors to do so.
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It is the president, elected by the people whose lives are at stake, who gets to decide what intelligence the country needs — it is not the FBI's call, much less a determination to be made by a prosecutor dubiously appointed to run a counterintelligence investigation.
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Where large Ku Klux Klan and neo-Nazi groups used to dominate the landscape of hate in the United States, many groups now are smaller, splinter operations that organize via social media and dubiously present themselves as civic organizations working toward the betterment of America.
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For some, both events were commemorated in June with equal reverence, proving that Ms. Garland's funeral is forever linked — however dubiously — to a bunch of fed-up queens who had simply had enough of police raids on their West Village neighborhood bar that hot night.
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When the House decided to impeach Johnson based on his violation of one recently passed (and dubiously constitutional) statute governing federal appointments, Thaddeus Stevens insisted on adding two sweeping charges encompassing the entirety of Johnson's offenses against the authority of Congress and the public good.
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The VA discounts animal research as invalid when it comes to informing decisions about benefits and medical care for service-disabled veterans, but now Secretary Shulkin dubiously defends the practice as "necessary" when his agency stands to lose taxpayer funding and upset corporate partners.
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Just as dubiously, when Molly is at her most vulnerable, he trots out a series of male authority figures, including her estranged father (Kevin Costner), who speak at and for her, who excuse her past, vouch for her character and enthuse about her future.
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Image: Screengrab via the Boring CompanyChipper villain Elon Musk has been having what appears to be a lot of fun selling dubiously safe Boring Company "flamethrowers," which despite outrage from some politicians are actually just garden-variety torches packaged to look like a weapon from Portal.
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A MINUS Jon Hopkins: Immunity (Domino) Trailing such dubiously prestigious credits as Coldplay, King Creosote, and the later Brian Eno, U.K. keyboardist Hopkins established his solo name back in 2013 with this album, the kind of conceptual electronica only techno aesthetes expect anyone to dance to.
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It's not clear who, if anyone, is arguing the poem should be a comprehensive outline of U.S. immigration policies, but the Statue of Liberty is pretty much supposed to be the embodiment of the American Dream — the very dream the White House is dubiously honoring this week.
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At the height of music industry excess, the artists had such a healthy credit rating that they splashed out on theme parks, imported safari animals, and dubiously expensive holistic therapies alongside the usual vacuous shit mega-rich people do, like owning eight houses and seventeen vintage cars.
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Though the ghosts of the past still linger — the current government has (somewhat dubiously) cited the continuing influence of communism in its efforts to revamp the judiciary — the results of the country's new prosperity are evident in a thriving middle class and a vibrant consumer economy.
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"Stop and frisk, in spite of his apology, strikes really, really deep, and not just for New Yorkers but around the country," Gillum said of the dubiously effective policy, which Bloomberg defended for years after leaving office but apologized for shortly before formally announcing his run.
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" If she gets what she wants, she'll throw a pool party for all of her dubiously fashionable friends; if not, she'll invoke a demonic rage, siccing a gang of fiery hula hoopers on anyone who attempts to curb her obsession with footwear, and call you a "betch.
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Sara Nelson, president of the Association for Flight Attendants, said many of her members have been hurt by untrained animals running loose in airplane cabins, and that many passengers dubiously claim their pets are necessary for "emotional" support, which makes the flying experience less enjoyable for everyone else.
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Without knowing anything else about the situation, it would hard to believe that a company with the resources of WWE and a country as rich in dubiously-gotten money as Saudi Arabia couldn't combine their might to find a plane capable of making it to New York on short notice.
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Thanks to several dubiously decided Supreme Court cases (such as the ability of Congress to regulate wheat grown on your own property for your own consumption, or unlimited federal spending for the "general welfare"), the scope of congressional power has grown far beyond the limited, specific and enumerated powers originally assigned.
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As a kind of pied piper for the blog crowd, Mr. DeMarco, with his trademark gaptoothed smile and disarming baby blues, has tended to his flock not so much with the dubiously revealing gimmicks of social media, but on-the-ground, grass-roots outreach via nonstop touring and direct human connection.
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Just days after a British team claimed, somewhat dubiously, that they had synthesized the voice of a 3,000-year-old mummy of the priest Nesyamun, a second group of British researchers announced their own study about a 2,600-year-old mummy of a woman named Takabuti in the Ulster Museum.
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A series of notices from the FDA, including one dubiously labeling the plant an "opioid" even though it doesn't seem to have the same life-threatening side effects as opioids, and others citing 225 deaths ambiguously linked to the substance, have ignited fears that days of kratom's legal status are numbered.
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Islam defends personal freedom and respect — as does democracy — and neither can exist and thrive without a commitment to the security of all our citizens and decimation of those extremists (regardless of the religion or ideology they dubiously claim) who seek to distort the ties that bind all civil, lawful and peaceful societies.
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Last April, when the MSNBC host Joy Reid was found to have posted homophobic content on a now-defunct blog (and claimed, dubiously, to have been hacked), many liberals rallied to her side anyway, pointing out that the posts were more than 10 years old and urging others to accept her profuse apologies.
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Medlin eventually deleted his Twitter account and dubiously claimed on Facebook he had been hacked "by (we believe) a disgruntled past emoloyee [sic] or coworker," Mashable wrote, as well as "revamped" his Instagram:Since the thread went viral, Tee Medlin has deleted his Twitter account and appears to have revamped his Instagram account as well.
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Ajit Pai Refuses to Brief Lawmakers Over Phone-Tracking Scandal, Dubiously Blames Shutdown The House Energy and Commerce Committee wanted Ajit Pai, the chairman of the Federal Communications Commission, to brief them about recent revelations that telecoms like Verizon, the one he used to work for, have been selling our real-time location data for years.
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The notion that the first lady was somehow a victim of her husband's tyranny may have reigned for much of the first year of Trump's presidency, but her controversial choice of jacket over the summer, as well as her dubiously chosen African safari gear, seems to have established her as a villain in her own right.
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Even as the first George Bush administration paid some lip service to the specter of climate crisis back in the early 1990s, oil interests had marshaled a complex of PR outlets and dubiously credentialed authorities to push a denialist line on global warming, and to keep the terms of debate in Washington mired in a state of fretful paralysis.
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Soccer's current crush of games, far exceeding what any functional man or woman can reasonably consume, doesn't preclude the creation of more games, and if left up to dubiously elected presidents of the sport's many competing fiefdoms—as it apparently is—soccer won't stop growing until it consumes every last day on the calendar, insofar as it hasn't already.
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Few presidents have been so dubiously elected as this blend of Augusto Pinochet and Fidel Castro, that Maduro, in advance of the 2018 election, took the precaution of banning the opposition coalition and ensuring that most of its leading figures, such as Antonio Ledezma and Leopoldo López, were either in jail, in exile or otherwise incapacitated.
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That there is always money to find for endless wars and the dubiously useful services of campaign consultants, but somehow only ever less for the sorts of services that people already use and need more of, is the sort of thing that, on its face, would present any left political candidate with an appealing rhetorical running lane.
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"Donald Trump is his own strategist, campaign manager, and tactician, and all credit for his incredible election belongs to him," Stone writes in his book, "The Making of the President 2016: How Donald Trump Orchestrated a Revolution," a score-settling account against everyone who has ever upset Roger Stone, which comes across as a feverish and dubiously sourced campaign journal.
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Instead of instantly useful RPG archetypes, the Ravens have an old bard, a growing assortment of dubiously effective magicians, a giant who was as dangerous to his friend as his enemies, and some… guy named Dytch, who is perhaps the first Rando-class character in a tactical RPG (and who provides some of the most welcome and charming comic relief in this game).
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And he's another piece of amoral work: a dubiously gifted lawyer who secretly taped clients; a profane guardian of Trump's image who threatened detractors with intense pain and utter destruction; a smarmy fixer who used hush money to cover Trump's erotic tracks; an indefatigable scammer who sought to sell his access to the president to the highest bidders, domestic and foreign.
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Nunberg dubiously claimed that he is motivated to do this because he did not want to take "80 hours" to manually sort through his email to provide Mueller's team with copies of conversations between him and two other Trump confidantes: weird Republican operative Roger Stone and notorious bigot Steve Bannon, who was purged from his role as White House chief strategist and then his role at Breitbart.
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This 1992 column by Marjorie Perloff, titled "Mommy Dearest," published shortly before the Bush clan suffered a humiliating political defeat at the hands of Bill Clinton, torches the widely held conceit that Barbara Bush was an emblem of traditional family values, using as evidence, rather dubiously it must be admitted, the recollections of Perloff and her daughter, who was friends with Bush's daughter Dordie in the 1960s.
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That paper bag, underneath the feathers, is one instance, given its brown color, like poreless skin; the piece's title, "untitled (geronimo)" (11033) is another — it references Geronimo, medicine man of the Apache tribe who later became a World's Fair attraction, unable to return to the land of his birth, and also Geronimo Pratt, born Elmer, a Black Panther dubiously accused of murder by FBI informants.
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Wyclef, whose own verse is about a school crush who becomes a prostitute with an ungrateful pimp, stars in the video for some reason as a secret agent who receives his briefs on a Sony Vaio phone and who is tasked with rescuing a woman slated for deportation (much respect to Wyclef for caring about this issue, however dubiously it's presented, a decade before your neighborhood Twitter activist).
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In 0003, the Department of Education launched an investigation into Corinthian colleges and found a pattern of misleading students and coercing them into taking out federal student loans to pay for an education that would get them nowhere: Students who wanted to transfer often came up against the fact that no other institution would take their credits and the Department uncovered that Corinthian dubiously inflated their job placement rates.
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Files on hard drives discovered by his daughter after his death showed that he wrote a 2015 study that found that adding a citizenship question to the census would lead to more Republican-friendly congressional maps.. Files on the drives also showed that he wrote the key portion of a draft letter that the Department of Justice used to maintain, dubiously, that the citizenship question was needed to help enforce the Voting Rights Act.
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I can offer no description of him better than the one rendered by Williamson, who observed that he was "pure Wall Street malignity in concentrated form," while Linton, an ostensible actress with an almost nonexistent résumé, was "raised partly in a castle outside Edinburgh" and posted that cringe-inducing Instagram photo alerting her dubiously interested followers to the Hermès, Tom Ford and Valentino items that she wore on a government trip with her husband.
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The Atlanta native was responding to the brand's dubiously tongue-in-cheek "#BOYCOTT DOLCE & GABBANA" campaign, a $245 slogan t-shirt and accompanying video of smiley-faced youngsters that felt a little too much like Kendall Jenner's ill-fated Pepsi advertisement—which was itself poking jest at the public outcry over the First Lady Melania Trump's recent appearance at a G7 event in Sicily in a Dolce & Gabbana coat so dense with silk flowers that it sells for $51,500. Wheeeeeee!
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