Word: dubiousness
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...Past scandals? Yes, Alem?n has a few. In fact, he's currently serving a 20-year jail sentence for embezzling and laundering some $100 million from the coffers of the second poorest nation in the hemisphere. Transparency International awarded him the dubious distinction of including him in its list of the World's Ten Most Corrupt leaders of all time. (To his credit, he only ranked ninth, ahead of former Philippine President Joseph Estrada, who stole a paltry $80 million...
...takes a shine to Jenna. I'm not at all certain that the matches Shelly arranges for Jenna's fellow waitresses (one of them ends up with a poetry-spouting accountant, the other with the diner's surly cook-manager) are made in heaven, and I'm equally dubious about the soft landing the movie finally arrives...
...chance to encounter so many of these hapless drivers several times per day. I have been behind the wheel in Philadelphia, New York City, and Boston, and Cantabridgians are the worst drivers I have had to deal with. Each offense they commit serves as a glaring reminder of this dubious distinction...
...Things came to a head in 1993. Russian politics were paralyzed and Yeltsin, with dubious constitutional justification, suspended parliament and called for new elections. When his foes in the legislature wouldn't leave, and accumulated a stockpile of arms, Yeltsin brought his tanks to the Parliament building. I remember watching from a rooftop across the street as the tanks fired shell after shell into Russia's highest legislative body. In the name of democracy, Russia's president had suspended, and now was bombing, his own parliament. And the West mostly went along, convinced that it was necessary to support this...
Whether one believes it, the claim is controversial and dubious and has little to do with the current events in Balata and what the children actually know from their experiences; the assertion conveys a political message imposed by others. Hadil concluded by claiming triumphantly that “the Zionists shall be chased out of our land,” the same rhetoric used when planning the massacre of the Jews and the destruction of Israel...