Sentences with phrase «many spurious»

In a bad quarter, they could find spurious reasons to release those reserves and — voila!

Forbes insists it was not racist for Trump to have tried to delegitimize the first black president of America with spurious claims of his birthplace.

If this is the case, the fatherhood bonus would be spurious, or approach zero.

So their adoption of a blockchain, in fact, a whole family of blockchains, seems spurious.»

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.

A good example of an unrelated spurious correlation is skirt length theory.

Investors are not supposed to have daily time horizons, and three months is a spurious sample period for anyone with a three to five - year investment horizon.

[24] We can not fail to praise the commitment of international agencies and civil society organizations which draw public attention to these issues and offer critical cooperation, employing legitimate means of pressure, to ensure that each government carries out its proper and inalienable responsibility to preserve its country's environment and natural resources, without capitulating to spurious local or international interests.

None seemed credible to me — all spurious talk about waking up all the cells in your body and boosting your immune system.

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.

According to the spurious logic of Western bankers, that means he's delivering 2 % of the value.

They introduce instead the spurious notion of velocity of circulation fashioned according to the patterns of mechanics.»

The full - year outcome after a negative January (or a positive January, for that matter) may simply be spurious.

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

Assuming that all the tests involved have a high statistical power, the lone positive finding is almost certainly the spurious one.

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.

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.

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).

All religious supernatural creation claims are not just speculative... they are spurious.

Jesus was also brought to court on spurious charges; do you believe what his detractors said about him?

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.

It is not merely that no one is saved; it is that hope is spurious and there was no chance of redemption in the first place.

@Maani: «Carl Jung once said, «It is spurious to deny our neighbor his spiritual, psychological or emotional experiences.

They argue that there is a true faith that results in works, and a spurious or false faith that does not.

«It is a spurious argument to say that the protests weaken and embarrass this nation abroad and comfort its enemies,» wrote the editors.

Carl Jung once said, «It is spurious to deny our neighbor his spiritual, psychological or emotional experiences.

This type of allegation is common in spurious sex - abuse cases, in part because it solves a common problem: If the victim was never alone with the predator, when and where did the assault take place?

But the concept of dignitary harm is nebulous enough to count against any conscience claim — even while a spurious link to the (systematically very different) harms of Jim Crow makes it weighty enough to defeat any claim it is weighed against.

In every spurious sex abuse case, there is an original accuser, whose story proves contagious.

Williams, who would go on to write a book about witchcraft, always had a weakness for mumbo jumbo, and he appears to have belonged not only to this spurious Rosicrucian Order but also to the Order of the Golden Dawn.

And others, like me, will defend him against spurious attacks... even though David does not need us to defend him, nor has asked anyone to defend him.

With reasons so spurious and disagreement so large, the boyfriend really seems like the driving motivator in this decision.

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.

And in truth, egregious fibs like the spurious mammogram claim mostly stem from wishful thinking on the part of defenders of the abortion giant, rather than from its own publicity materials.

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 our earliest technological achievements, the story suggests, we have been trying to attain a spurious oneness derived from human self - sufficiency and autonomy.

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.

I don't mind them using their freedom of speech to lobby others to adopt their view, but constantly proposing spurious legislation with absolutely nothing concrete to back it up should be view the same way frivolous lawsuits are and those who can not give any evidence to their claims should be penalized for wasting everyone else's time.

Not until we have been disabused of our spurious humanism, Percy believes, can an authentic humanity emerge.

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

They were spurious fisherman.

The claim of certain groups to be able to change homosexuals into heterosexuals has been shown to be spurious and frequently based on homophobia (cf. Ralph Blair's pamphlet «Ex-Gay» [HCCC Inc., 1982]-RRB-.

The strength and importance of The Black Book is that the compendium of horrors it presents is itself an answer to all the spurious arguments of Communist apologists.

John Donvan doesn't cite any study and it seems spurious at best without some kind of evidence.

A spurious religion, mind you, that was ripped off of cousin Israel's spurious religion that was ripped off of preexisting Egyptian, Persian, Greek, etc. religions, that themselves were ripped off of preexisting religions from...

The lis de verbis can verge on the self - serving and spurious when it is claimed that advertising serves producers while marketing serves consumers, on the disingenuous grounds that marketing gives people what they already want.