The ox—we may venture to assert it on the authority of a great classic—is not given to use his teeth as an instrument of attack, and Tom was an excellent bovine lad, who ran at questionable objects in a truly ingenious bovine manner; but he had blundered on Philip's tenderest point, and had caused him as much acute pain as if he had studied the means with the nicest precision and the most envenomed spite.
Mr Tulliver was, on the whole, a man of safe traditional opinions; but on one or two points he had trusted to his unassisted intellect, and had arrived at several questionable conclusions; amongst the rest, that rats, weevils, and lawyers were created by Old Harry.
It was one thing to look back on forgiven sins, nay, to explain questionable conformity to lax customs, and another to enter deliberately on the necessity of falsehood.
And Dorothea had so often had to check her weariness and impatience over this questionable riddle-guessing, as it revealed itself to her instead of the fellowship in high knowledge which was to make life worthier!
" But this result was questionable.
No one had seen this questionable stranger before except Mary Garth, and she knew nothing more of him than that he had twice been to Stone Court when Mr.
Casaubon had often dwelt on some explanation or questionable detail of which Dorothea did not see the bearing; but such imperfect coherence seemed due to the brokenness of their intercourse, and, supported by her faith in their future, she had listened with fervid patience to a recitation of possible arguments to be brought against Mr.
The only reference she really wanted, for she was much too old and firmly seated in her place in the world for questionable associates to matter to her, was one with regard to Mrs.
-Management's ethics are questionable.
Prada is being slammed on social media by critics who are accusing the brand of promoting racism through a questionable product line.
The one questionable element of the ad is the amount of attention focused on the red lamp being discarded.
Some members of the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ) reported that "In addition to failing to perform peer or editorial committee reviews of articles, the companies charge to publish articles, accept papers by employees of pharmaceutical and other companies as well as by climate-change skeptics promoting questionable theories.
While the original Croc vindicates its questionable appearance by marketing itself as a comfort shoe, complete with arch support and a water-friendly design, its fashion-forward counterpart is lacking in such justification, given that heels are notoriously uncomfortable, squishy soles or not.
"The highly questionable quality of the evidence upon which these accusations have been based and the lack of any effective judicial oversight have given rise to some of the greatest injustices that I have encountered in over 20 years of practice," said Mr Lewis from Garden Court Chambers, who has represented several of the affected claimants and overturned the Home Office's ruling in each case.
Some others,however,are not very good at all and may even be outright dangerous,telling you to eat questionable concoctions or overextending yourself physically.
The desirable results were largely a result of the group's big data technologies, which scanned nearly 2 billion commodities on the platform on a daily basis to spot questionable ones, as well as 600 million pictures that online dealers published together with the products.
Goop is ridiculed for promoting expensive lifestyle products and many questionable health theories.
Now this new controversy — especially since Uber has previously been criticized about its commitment to the safety of female customers, some obviously sexist ads and also several very questionable comments from its top execs related to women — has the potential to make those numbers rise even further.
Regardless of knowing if it's comfortable, the Smarttress alerts you "whenever someone is using your bed in a questionable way.
It is also questionable whether European competition regulators would race to the defence of US tech companies that have come under other scrutiny in Brussels.
