Word: dubiousness
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Maskhadov had been elected President of Chechnya in a somewhat dubious but mostly fair 1997 election, after successfully leading the Chechen resistance movement from 1994-1996. After his electoral victory, however, he was unable to establish an effective state and the country disintegrated into a Somalia-like state of warlordism. In response to a Chechen warlord’s invasion of Dagestan, and Chechnya’s general state of lawlessness, Russian military forces invaded in 1999. Putin left Russian military forces free to violate internationally accepted norms of warfare, presumably with the hope that ferocious and indiscriminate...
...members of Congress he's trying to influence know the trick: they fashion dubious groundswells all the time for themselves. But they also know the trick sometimes works. If the President succeeds in forcing members of Congress to take positions on reforming Social Security-reversing the political calculus that said don't touch the thing-it will not only be a masterful policy accomplishment but a victory for his stagecraft...
...used the dubious reasoning that these applicants should have known better as grounds for calling their behavior, according to HBS Dean Kim B. Clark, “unethical at best,” when it was in fact an innocuous lapse in judgment at worst. In total, over a short 9-hour time window, 119 applicants did the surreptitious deed. We can hardly imagine that many more students came across the instructions and resisted their obvious temptation, and we don’t believe their decision makes them any more qualified for business school if they did. If this action...
Though Long is dubious about turning music into a full-blown career, he’s ready to see where it takes...
...rending” terrorism suspects to nations including Egypt, Syria, Saudi Arabia, Jordan, and Pakistan—each of which has been identified by the State Department as routinely employing torture in interrogation—the U.S. is absolved of any technical guilt of torture. This dubious circumvention of fundamental human rights, however, shows how the current government has taken the doctrine of plausible deniability to a new low. But the Bush administration will soon learn what history has failed to teach them: plausible deniability doesn’t work...