Sentence examples for a groundless assertion from inspiring English sources

When he signed a torture ban in 2005, he made a groundless assertion that he could override Congress and the courts on a major part.

(They updated after they were criticized). It happened again Monday, when Trump earned credulous tweets and headlines from ABC, NBC and others for his groundless assertion about "massively infected" ballots in Florida.

But that won't stop the Kingdom of Bahrain from repeating this groundless assertion and perhaps even using it to keep Miss Lyon out of the country – because she has indeed reported on the Bahraini monarchy's violent crackdowns on pro-democracy protests in that country, and she has done so from that country.

In 1981, he produced "The 5,000 Year Leap," a treatise that assembles selective quotations and groundless assertions to claim that the U.S. Constitution is rooted not in the Enlightenment but in the Bible, and that the framers believed in minimal central government.

Mr. Grassley was apparently reacting to groundless assertions that health-care legislation would call for "death panels" to determine who lives and dies (the AARP, the lobby for older Americans, calls such charges "lies"), and provide health coverage to illegal immigrants when none of the major proposals before Congress would do so.

The bullies' repeated groundless assertions to the contrary do not change this.

She has good points but then assumes wildly impossible understanding of things to make groundless assertions.

It was a groundless fear.

Nor are they a groundless middle-class concern.

Mr. Carr weaves what I consider a groundless story of inferential intrigue.

The Obama administration, economic experts and some Republicans dismissed that notion as a groundless conspiracy theory.