Sentences with phrase «as spurious»

The term «junk science», as used in political and legal disputes in the United States, brands an advocate's claims about scientific data, research, analyses as spurious.

The new draft proposals released yesterday at the Copenhagen Climate Conference will lead to large - scale destruction of ecosystems and unprecedented land grabs as spurious «offsets» will allow Northern countries to burn ever more fossil fuels say civil society groups who have been tracking negotiations.

As a satellite drifts through new LECTs, it consequently samples the emissions from the earth at changing local times, in effect allowing local diurnal cycle variations to appear in the time series as spurious trends.

A positive trend for dispersed sea ice extent in the Antarctic in winter amid rising winter temperature in the southern hemisphere is not matched by trends in concentrated sea ice extent and the degree of dispersion and is discounted as spurious.

Bad Painting rejected «good taste» as well as the spurious intellectualism of Conceptual art, and its works reflected the disturbing and violent nature of contemporary American society.

He slams abstract painting as spurious because the absence of a clear real - world visual referent allows it to escape objective critique.

«For the SDLP to subsequently claim that this amounts to electoral fraud is as spurious as it is pathetic.»

It is now clear that the majority — perhaps the vast majority — of neuroscience findings are as spurious as brain waves in a dead fish (see «Hidden depths: Brain science is drowning in uncertainty «-RRB-.

Also speaking on Sunday, Ojudu denied the allegation that he organised the violence that marred the primary, describing it as spurious and senseless.

The lawyers, led by Frank Davies, described the figure as spurious, according to Citi News» Fred Djabanor.

He maintained that the allegation was as spurious as it was in the imagination of those who concocted it.

The Othniel «judgeship» (3:7 - 11) has often been regarded as spurious.

To many men there has remained only the spiritual authority they derived from personal religious life, or, as a spurious substitute for any kind of authority, personal attractiveness whether genuine or fictitious.

When you are pretentious enough to call yourself «Real Wisdom,» I automatically dismiss you as a spurious, self - satisfied, know - it - all, religious egoist.

Not exact matches

As TMM mentioned last week there is a regional flavour as to opinion on China so perhaps we just need to get through a complete trading day cycle before we get a true representation of reaction, but TMM are going to stand by their guns as far as China goes and if we are going to start seeing some spurious euro trashing we will play this as a regional cross trade rather than a global plaAs TMM mentioned last week there is a regional flavour as to opinion on China so perhaps we just need to get through a complete trading day cycle before we get a true representation of reaction, but TMM are going to stand by their guns as far as China goes and if we are going to start seeing some spurious euro trashing we will play this as a regional cross trade rather than a global plaas to opinion on China so perhaps we just need to get through a complete trading day cycle before we get a true representation of reaction, but TMM are going to stand by their guns as far as China goes and if we are going to start seeing some spurious euro trashing we will play this as a regional cross trade rather than a global plaas far as China goes and if we are going to start seeing some spurious euro trashing we will play this as a regional cross trade rather than a global plaas China goes and if we are going to start seeing some spurious euro trashing we will play this as a regional cross trade rather than a global plaas a regional cross trade rather than a global play.

Bullard sounded as if he would not be in favor of the Fed raising rates because of the inflation rate turning away from the spurious 2 percent mandate.

The probability of a randomly selected mutation in a randomly selected gene having precisely that effect is quite low, so just as with the stones in the field, a positive finding is more likely than not to be spurious — unless the experiment is unbelievably successful at sorting the wheat from the chaff.

Creationism / ID do not present any testable hypotheses, all they do is try to poke spurious holes in the theory of evolution (which itself has evolved and continues to evolve, as many good theories do).

There has been much spurious research and false conclusions drawn by those known as «anti-Mormons» to lead people to a bad impression of a man who was about as good a man who ever lived - save Jesus, of course.

But we may, I think, conclude with Errol Harris (AT 74) that from the Hegelian perspective, the philosophical shortcomings of classical logic extend to mathematical logic as well, and that as logic of the understanding, both deal with the «abstract concept of class or aggregate,» and are both inextricably connected with a metaphysics of externally related particulars that lose themselves in a «spurious infinite,» and with a concomitant mechanical cosmology.

Bonhoeffer also believed that the concept of God as a «supreme Being, absolute in power and goodness,» was a «spurious conception of transcendence,» and that «God as a working hypothesis in morals, politics, and science... should be dropped, or as far as possible eliminated» (Letters and Papers from Prison, S.C.M. Press edition, Great Britain: Fontana Books, 1953, pp. 122, 164, 360).

Besides determining which books were to be accepted as scriptural, the early churches also had to decide which of the variations of the same work was authentic and which were spurious.

Since the decision of the Supreme Court of Canada in R. v. Morgentaler (1988) holding even relatively minor criminal code restrictions on abortion contrary to the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms (on similar» and similarly spurious» grounds as those of the U.S. Supreme Court in Roe v. Wade), Canada has been without restrictions on abortion.

He came to feel that the «method and manner» of his apologetic works were «spurious,» and he turned to «make - believe» as «another way of talking about the reality of things.»

All four arrests sparked criticism from all around the world with Christian campaign groups branding the accusations levelled against the men as «spurious» and therefore demanded that they all be released.

you might as well place your faith on the scribblings of nosrtada mus... it's all spurious, questionable, and moot.

Mild forms of deception or exploitation of the public are more common, as when spurious scientific claims are made for a product.

Since Boyle was a» lover of the truth», he refused to financially support the publishing of SPURIOUS books, such as the non-biblical writings in the Apocrypha!

Self - deception, as we saw in the previous chapter, happens because our natural longing for significance often leads us into spurious kinds of «performances» before others whose esteem we regard as essential to our own sense of self - worth.

More specifically, as the above - mentioned case illustrates, from the Dalit communities» point of view the economic, social, cultural, and religious distance between Christian and non-Christian Dalits is exaggerated, if not altogether spurious.

Even as responsible a black columnist as William Raspberry of the Washington Post has defended Farrakhan on the spurious grounds that he had some true things to say (as though Hitler did not).

1: formal religious veneration 2: a system of religious beliefs and ritual; also: its body of adherents 3: a religion regarded as unorthodox or spurious; also: its body of adherents Every religion is a cult.

These priests who are denying the Eucharist to people because of their political positions are abusing their position as a priest and making spurious interpretations of the Catechism.

Arguments that America was founded as a secular society are spurious and false.

Definition of CULT 1: formal religious veneration: worship 2: a system of religious beliefs and ritual; also: its body of adherents 3: a religion regarded as unorthodox or spurious; also: its body of adherents 4: a system for the cure of disease based on dogma set forth by its promulgator 5a: great devotion to a person, idea, object, movement, or work (as a film or book); especially: such devotion regarded as a literary or intellectual fad b: the object of such devotion c: a usually small group of people characterized by such devotion

There can be no spurious «branch» theory of the Church claiming unity as a veneer of niceness.

The suggestion had been made long since in the spurious Decretals of the ninth century which significantly emanated from the lower church clergy of France who desired the centralization of Church government and the enhancement of the papacy as a defense against the highhandedness of overlords, alike lay and clerical.

The second contributor to spicy food's spurious reputation as an annihilator of senses is the fact that our sense of taste really does diminish as we age.

The quandary for the manager should be who will be sold or loaned in this January's transfer window, while spurious links have been raised regarding Javier Hernandez to Real Madrid they can't be discounted as a possible destination for the Mexican.

If it is the latter then his often quoted «love» for Arsenal is a spurious as that of Thierry Henry and will present no bar to his leaving for his «dream» move to whichever club is offering the best deal at the time.

Although it is welcome that NSAs are «encouraged» to submit only actions within their core area of business, spurious marketing strategies masquerading as health initiatives could be registered and so gain credibility from the image transfer from WHO.

All these I took in my strides as part of the price for participating in government and politics, including the spurious EFCC charges promoted by the current government in Ogun State.

My initial reaction was to dismiss it as the handiwork of mischief - makers who are hell bent on pitching me against anti-corruption and law enforcement agencies especially the EFCC in order to instigate and / or precipitate spurious investigations against my person to settle personal scores.

According to a statement released by the CBN spokesman, Isaac Okoroafor, on Tuesday, the bank described the claim as «spurious and uniformed».

Much as I agree with the sentiment of this post (being a left - of - centre LibDem who regards any agreement with the Conservatives as unlikely to be workable) the central argument is totally spurious.

The statement read in part, «Besides, he also posed as Barrister Peter Jackson, a spurious lawyer working with the National Judicial Council.

«Attending an international women function with the Governors» wives couldn't have been linked to the bogus allegation of corruption made by Sahara Reporters» spurious headline earlier on, as these are approved trips.

The growth in spurious and exaggerated personal injury claims and excessive legal costs has resulted in higher costs for consumers, local authorities and the NHS, as well as making it harder for genuine claimants to get compensation.

«Except for interests other than the ends of justice underlying the pending charge against Senator Hamma Misau, we hereby call on the prosecution to play its prosecutorial cards face up, as we shall gladly love to meet them in court to articulate our robust defence against the obviously spurious allegations against the distinguished senator.

It is no coincidence that as we were slaughtering hundreds of our Shi'ite brothers on very spurious grounds in Zaria recently, the Saudis were also announcing in Riyadh the execution of 47 Shi'ites on terrorism charges, including Sheikh Nimr al - Nimr; provoking great uproar in the Shi'ite world.