Sentences with phrase «on spurious»

Meanwhile, five states (AL, ID, IN, KS and OK) enacted provisions to ban abortion at or beyond 20 weeks» gestation based on the spurious assertion that a fetus can feel pain at that point.

We expect Uber will again embark on a spurious legal challenge against the Mayor and TfL, and we will urge the court to uphold this decision.

Few employers would gain from using this decision to dismiss on spurious grounds.

Had the company dismissed Cavenagh for gross misconduct on spurious grounds rather than through exercising a contractual right, they could have relied upon the repudiatory breach to avoid the payment.

The protection of children should always be society's first priority but individuals should avoid making accusations based on spurious evidence.

What we won't do is advise you to run a hopeless defence based on a spurious point of law, which costs you money and just makes matters worse for you in front of the court.

This was often an offer gleefully accepted to the unscrupulous site owner to refuse consent on spurious grounds (if any grounds at all) or turn up the volume of his transistor radio and don a Dracula mask to frighten off any visiting prospective buyer or donee, buying at a substantial undervalue and thereafter selling on at a substantial profit.

Alice Woolley has written thoughtfully about the questionable claims often contained in these letters and the important ethical questions raised by the practice of some «lawyers sending out demand letters based on spurious claims in the hope of extracting funds because of the fear and ignorance of those who receive them» (see, e.g., here, here and here).

Christy et al. (6) and Santer et al. (7) reported on a spurious lower stratospheric cooling in the NCAR / NCEP reanalysis data beginning in 1997.

The present «global» warming scare is based on satellite data rather than on spurious NOAA station data covering the US only.

The latter is data free and relies only on spurious physical reasoning.

The original article on spurious correlation compared mortality to the proportion of Church of England marriages.

It is not actually a tax on the wealthy, but a tax on spurious wealth creation.

A Bose - Einstein meltdown is characterized by a deeply emotive rant heavy with spite and rancour and based on spurious quibbling.

I imagine that this would involve a lot of work, and, given that the journals would probably behave like Nature and reject the article on spurious grounds, the work may be nugatory.

So rally against planning covenants that stop you installing a clothesline on spurious aesthetic arguments.

Adam Lindemann, in a convincing editorial published this week, points out that this «witch - hunt» against Deitch tends to focus on spurious claims, namely how Deitch is ill - suited to the position due to his previous role as a gallery director.

Jay dismisses this possibility on spurious grounds.

Last year, the FDA promised to crack down more harshly on spurious clinics that blinded people with eye injections of stem cells derived from people's fat.

I do wonder whether the Australian temperature record has similar «problems» to those uncovered in New Zealand (artificial lowering of past temperature and raising of recent temperature on spurious grounds).

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.

Bill Hare, who leads a group of top climate scientists and economists at Berlin - based Climate Analytics who helped produce the UNEP gap report, said Geden's accusations «could not be more wrong» and lumped the researcher in with climate skeptics and other naysayers «who systematically downplay the risks of climate change and argue against action to reduce emissions on spurious and ill - founded grounds.»

Incidentally, isn't the leading light of Cornerstone that MP who, wearing his Public Accounts Committee hat, was sufficiently negligent to allow the committee he chairs to attack the Prince of Wales's finances on spurious and no doubt crypto - republican grounds?

When schools fail the spot checks, often on spurious, minor or even factually incorrect grounds, the students lose their place and their visa and are given just two months to leave the country.

it makes too many divisions based on spurious «identity» issues, and it obviously gives no equality of vote.

«A government that sacked workers on spurious grounds has now turned round to employ thousands through the backdoor — this will be looked into.

Practically it will be a huge inconvenience to retailers, will bolster the black market and it is quite clearly based on spurious evidence.

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).

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

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.

«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.

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 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.

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.

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 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.

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

It is nearly Halloween which does signify the coming hew and cry about the spurious war on Christmas.

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

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.

Com» on mate, you are just projecting your own frustrations with some very spurious logic.

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.

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

According to the Wall Street Journal, «UNICEF remains captive to a clutch of activists who have been leading boycotts and protests against the baby formula makers since the 1970s on the highly spurious grounds that the companies trying to supply better nutrition «exploit» the poor... If the toll of African AIDS babies continues to rise, the credibility of one of the most beloved UN agencies may sink.»

Arizona Sen. John McCain, a former prisoner of war, accepted the prestigious Liberty Medal in Philadelphia with a full - blown attack on what he called «half - baked, spurious nationalism.»

A new report has criticised the UKBA for rejecting asylum applications for spurious reasons and costing the tax - payer money when they are overturned on appeal.

But, the militants that has claimed responsibility for recent attacks on oil and gas installations in the Niger Delta region in a post on its Twitter handle on Tuesday, the said the military's claims were spurious.

Gillibrand's campaign last week sent out a fundraising appeal asking to hit $ 155,000 so the commercial could air this month (it was something of a spurious claim that Gillibrand needed the money, considering she last reported more than $ 10 million in cash on hand).

«Carl Paladino has been asleep at the switch and ignored these serious allegations against one of his top aides yet he continues to rail against the system and make spurious allegations saying others are soft on crime,» Duffy said.

But on the other, they press ahead with the sorts of spending the Tories approve of — a massive defence project with a spurious aura of toughness on national security.