Sentence examples for a false claim that from inspiring English sources

The British Army insisted protesters had opened fire -- a false claim that wasn't retracted until almost 40 years later.

President Trump, in a meeting with congressional leaders, resurrected a false claim that has been repeatedly debunked.

The Daily Mirror has retracted a false claim that 130 teenagers in Russia had killed themselves as a result of the supposed craze.

On Tuesday, Trump had seemed ready to move on from his assertion that only massive voter fraud had prevented him from winning the popular vote, in November — a false claim that has inspired widespread criticism and ridicule.

Ms. Taylor was also served with a formal disciplinary charge in March, accusing her of making a false claim that a co-worker swore at her.

Mr. Chávez issued his threat after another site, Noticiero Digital, published in its comments section a false claim that at least one of his ministers had been assassinated.

Defamation is a malicious and false claim that comes in two varieties -- slander (an oral statement) and libel (a written statement) -- and both have the potential to harm the reputation of an individual or business, exposing the person or company to ridicule, hatred or financial loss.

Most extraordinary was an almost certainly false claim that emerged during the armed siege of Merah's apartment block: that in 2008 he escaped in a mass jailbreak in Kandahar, where he had been arrested for bombmaking the previous year.

On Tuesday, Trump had seemed ready to move on from his assertion that only massive voter fraud had prevented him from winning the popular vote, in November a false claim that has inspired widespread criticism and ridicule.

Angus Robertson, the SNP's Westminster leader, said it was a shoddy document which made a demonstrably false claim that the Scottish government had gone beyond its remit by pursuing significant constitutional change.

This week, Trump repeated a mischaracterization of the Iran nuclear deal, a patently false claim that the US "is one of the highest-taxed nations in the world" when it ranks near the bottom of industrialized nations, a lie about his support for the Iraq war, and misleading characterizations of crime in the US.