Sentences with phrase «by spurious»

Therefore, they play down the importance of real knowledge and expertise, derived from the inside and only make decisions based on the advice of clever, earnest but knowledge - free consultancy clones, quick to prove their cases by spurious research intended to confirm the decision first thought of.

He is not a scientist and by his spurious actions now has negative credibility in the scientific community.

As Steve McIntyre showed in his preceding post, the authors could not produce a warming trend except by spurious manipulation of the data.

DeMott and Randall (2004) found more mixed results, although their data may have been contaminated by spurious adjustments (Durre et al., 2002).

Secondly, the reason the reviews are a problem is not because people are being swindled by spurious reviews but because the resulting metrics screws up Amazon's algorithms and, therefore, the rankings.

Finally, the RSS group found differences between MSU and AMSU sensor readings caused by spurious calibration drift in either NOAA - 14 or NOAA - 15 satellites.

This may be caused by spurious alignments between similarly structured recent transposons found in reference and outgroup species, effectively separating the annotation gain events into smaller pieces.

In contrast, nucleotide positions in our reference genomes that aligned to very few outgroup species were likely errors caused by spurious alignments between complex regions that are difficult to map.

UK institutional checks have been hollowed out and replaced by a spurious rubber stamp, giving the green light to investors.

Studies on the effects of divorce are plagued by spurious correlations, incalculable variables, and the near - impossibility of separating cause from effect.

So that our legislatures will no longer be limited by the spurious interpretation of the right to privacy that prevents them from criminalizing abortions.

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 play.

It was not an entirely spurious claim: Classified documents released by Edward J. Snowden showed a complex effort by the National Security Agency to get into the systems of a Chinese telecommunications giant, Huawei, though the United States maintained that the effort was for national security surveillance, not for the theft of intellectual property.

Special pleading is a form of spurious argumentation where a position in a dispute introduces favorable details or excludes unfavorable details by alleging a need to apply additional considerations without proper criticism of these considerations themselves.

This tract was thought spurious by some, but is known to be St. Augustine's by his mention of it in Epistle 231 ad Darium Comitem.

«Available information suggests that the charges against Zhang are spurious and are aimed at preventing him advocating on behalf of churches and individuals affected by the cross removals in Zhejiang Province.

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.

Michael Walzer calls this stance «realism,» emphasizing by the quotes that its claim to self - evidence is spurious.

But it is also certain, that this recognition, because it is in a spurious eternity before the imagination, develops double - mindedness, if it is not slowly and honestly earned by the will's purity.

The Papal claims were backed by a collection of documents, some genuine and some spurious, which appeared about the middle of the ninth century: the Decretals of Isidore.

It is certainly not self - evident that the additional value that would accrue to God by God's knowing that the creatures» fiduciary attitudes were authentic, rather than spurious, is sufficient to justify all that evils that would have been avoided had God been willing to forgo this additional value.

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

Besides imparting visually stimulating aesthetics for the end users at the point of sale (POS), packaging also offers enhanced functionalities for enabling better interface with the the end users; extending shelf life by imparting optimised barrier properties and providing safetnet from the fake and spurious through impregnable brand protection / anti-counterfeiting solutions.

It permits the unscrupulous dealer to deceive the public and to profit by the sale of a spurious article in the dress of a well known and popular brand.

Not only did defendant adopt the name and imitate the bottles and cartons in use by plaintiff, but at the very beginning, when he started the manufacture and sale of his sauce in competition with the long established business of plaintiff, he printed on his bottle labels a caution to use «only the genuine Evangeline,» thus apparently seeking to create the impression that such «Evangeline» Tabasco Sauce was an old and established brand, against spurious imitations of which the public should be warned.

[There's hardly a basketball star in America without a late - model car and some spurious piece of paper, signed by an «uncle,» to vouch for it; Macon rides public transport.]

One of the least edifying spectacles in modern football is that of managers attempting to deflect criticism for a defeat by making spurious attacks on the opponents who beat them.

«Clearly, this is a safe product, it is a lean product, it helps reduce obesity, and there is a spurious attack being levied against it by some groups who are against it... And you can suspect who they might be — people who don't like meat.»

He also accused the NPP running mate of «spurious analysis» when he claimed that the economy under the watch of the NPP under former president Kufour grew by almost 500 percent.

The country has been paralysed by nonsensical and spurious «elf an» safety» cop - outs, which have benefited no - one and cost a fortune in lost productivity.

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.

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

«In addition to all these, Nwalozie had multifarious electronic scam documents in various folders in his email box, ostensibly for the payment of a spurious N12, 500,000 to one Robert Giese, an American, by the «Office of the Presidency, Federal Republic of Nigeria, Abuja.»

It said it is yet another in its series of spurious fabrications by Amnesty International aimed at tarnishing the good image of the Nigerian military.

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

According to him, «We are aware of last minute deals by the present government with spurious awards of contracts and payments made - this is unfair to our people.

«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.

In their place, voters will have to endure even more fatuous communications by politicians on social media, ever more empty of content and thought, ever more full of false friendship and spurious empathy.

«This report, arguably the most authoritative source of corruption of surveys in the world, belies the spurious claims of certain media outlets a few months ago that Ghana had been ranked the second most corrupt nation in Africa by Transparency International.

; Patrick Akpolobolokemi, the former NIMASA Director - General was rough - handled and bundled into a van right in front of the court premises where a judge had just granted him bail; several persons are known to have been detained for periods far in excess of the constitutionally mandated 48 hours initially under spurious detention orders signed by magistrates courts in the Federal Capital Territtory!

An excellent rebuttal of the spurious arguments put forth by various parties.

I have responded to similar spurious allegations of complicity in the loot in the media and on my website, martinamidu.com in the past, but the media and the public are being hoodwinked by Woyome's outburst and the incumbent Government's overwhelming silence to set the records straight.

But no one foresaw that when the old aerials pick up the new signals, they produce a spurious signal that falls within the UHF frequency band used by terrestrial TV broadcasters.

«And they do say that they looked at all the different types of stellar activity and other things that could generate a spurious Doppler signal at 11 days, but after looking at all that, they concluded the variability in the data is best explained by the presence of a planet.»

Data are sometimes lost — even, as one researcher claimed when confronted about spurious results, eaten by termites.

The intention was to foster the diversity that is now «systematically suppressed on the spurious grounds of energy and efficiency», by funding scientists who would challenge conventional wisdom, in the hope of unpredictable insights and new and exciting industrial opportunities.

A seemingly threatening situation presents itself; you go into fight - or - flight mode; the threat proves spurious; you alert your (genetically close - knit) social group to the absence of actual danger by emitting a stereotyped vocalization — one that is amplified as it passes contagiously from member to member.

She might be referring to a paper by Thompson et al. that appeared in Naturea couple of years ago about a spurious cooling in the 1940s that scientists couldn't quite understand.

High - precision radial - velocity measurements confirm a sinusoidal variation with the period and phase predicted by the photometry, and rule out the presence of line - bisector variations that would indicate that the spectroscopic orbit is spurious.

By producing a multitude of spurious studies purportedly showing that MSG is safe as a food additive they can say with impunity, «The weight of the scientific evidence demonstrates that MSG is safe for human consumption»».