And China s big banks have lent large sums, willingly or otherwise, to local governments for infrastructure projects many of them of dubious economic value.

The best of a dubious lot.

This distinction is dubious.

But the overall impact of ODA remains dubious.

And they are more dubious than confident.

For Cœuré, trying to maintain financial stability is in the too difficult box. Even macroprudential regulation is of dubious value supervisors should confine themselves to overseeing individual institutions, leaving macro level policy to the grownups.

The Fed declined to regulate these dubious practices.

Whether democracy will ensue is much more dubious.

Mexico now seems poised to join this dubious club.

Economic sanctions alone are dubious against the world s most sanctioned country.

The problem was exacerbated by fraudulent, or at least dubious, evaluation practices.

Entrepreneurs of dubious quality no doubt entered as well, thanks to the generosity of the state.

Indeed, on closer inspection, it proves to be dubious, when not simply wrong.

Consider the dubious results from the G 8 summit in Gleneagles, Scotland, in 2005.

Now the Fukushima tragedy is being used to justify continuing these economically dubious programs.

To apply it to anencephalic fetuses requires a further, and much more dubious, step.

It becomes much more dubious when it interferes with sexual acts between consenting adults.

In his 1908 essay Der moderne Denkmalkultus (The modern cult of monuments) he describes historical value, artistic value, age value, commemorative value, use value, and newness value.

In fact, many of the federalist arguments look dubious in particular, there is no single European social model.

This is not due solely to our foreign policy, or even to dubious economic policies.

The benefits have become more dubious, while the costs and risks have grown increasingly evident.

The value of freedom. It's a value of community.

Given the dubious benefits of still lower real interest rates, placing central bank credibility at risk would be irresponsible.

And a lot of licit banks were also happy to accept deposits from very dubious sources without questions being asked.

The Nepali Congress Party, for example, has chosen to remain in opposition, dubious of the Maoists commitment to democratic politics.

Matters became even more dubious as the vote tallies were collected and recorded at the Electoral Commission of Kenya (ECK).

That logic is dubious, given how many similar crises have hit widely differing systems over the centuries.

Quantitative easing is a blunt instrument, at best, and operates through highly circuitous and thus dubious channels.

Special interests would not be peddling such dubious pabulum if they felt confident about the economy s future.

CLAREMONT, CALIFORNIA Political scandals sometimes perform a valuable function in cleansing governments. They destroy the political careers of individuals of dubious character.

However dubious Bush s actions may have been on both counts, interest rates on US public debt actually fell.

The Chinese government has also begun a ferocious crackdown on social media, arresting prominent activists on dubious charges.

Because actually, never mind the actual intrinsic value of having gold jewelry. This actually had symbolic value, badge value.

But some dubious assertions have, through constant repetition in recent, often breathless, accounts about the two economies, become part of conventional wisdom.

It is not naïve to believe that nuclear deterrence is both fragile operationally, and of thoroughly dubious utility in sustaining the peace.

It s been that sort of campaign, FactCheck.org s analysts wrote, filled from beginning to end with deceptive attacks and counterattacks, and dubious claims.

Accordingly, DPP concluded that it was dubious that the alleged statement could be proven to be in violation of section 266 (b).

) If the fair value is less than carrying value (impaired), the goodwill value needs to be reduced so the carrying value is equal to the fair value.

The binary value of all 8 bits set (or turned on) is 11111111, equal to the hexadecimal value FF, the decimal value 255, and the octal value 377.

Creation of value

Three months from now, when Mexico s new president Felipe Calderón takes office, many will consider it a dubious honor.

It s been that sort of campaign, FactCheck.org s analysts wrote, filled from beginning to end with deceptive attacks and counterattacks, and dubious claims. nbsp

Experts would remind us that Kazakhstan had never been a country, and that Ukrainian claims to independence are historically dubious.

Value Value , or lightness, varies vertically along the color solid, from black (value 0) at the bottom, to white (value 10) at the top.

In finance, the terminal value (continuing value or horizon value) of a security is the present value at a future point in time of all future cash flows when we expect stable growth rate forever.