Sentence examples for as a spurious from inspiring English sources
The Obama campaign described the charges as a spurious attempt to tie Senator Obama to potentially fraudulent voter registrations.
The Obama campaign described the accusations as a spurious effort to tie Mr. Obama to potentially fraudulent voter registrations.
In 1705, with the emperor's approval, he attacked and killed Sangs-rgyas-rgya-mtsho and deposed Tshangs-dbyangs-rgya-mtsho as a spurious reincarnation.
During nearly five hours of partisan floor debate, House Republicans repeatedly denounced the bill as a spurious attempt at campaign finance reform, and after it passed, 77 to 71, leading Republicans said they would urge the governor to veto it.
Diogenes Laërtius quotes a number of sayings ascribed to him (mostly moral or political maxims) and five lines of lyric verse, as well as a spurious letter to Croesus.
Irwin, meanwhile, in what amounts to a compelling but vitriolic critique on Edward Said's Orientalism - a "wicked" work of "malignant charlatanry" - issues a clarion call for a new scholarly tradition which will wrest Orientalism back from those who use it, as he claims Said did, as a spurious weapon against western imperialism.
Celebrity culture has lent conspicuous consumption (of relationships, as well as of objects) a spurious respectability that some opinion-formers are reluctant to criticise even when it runs counter to their own values.
Tyack condemned the design as "imposing a spurious version of a garden that never existed on a historic and much-valued urban landscape that has been preserved and maintained over many generations".
But that is a spurious argument as far as I am concerned.
His results showed that the chance that random backgrounds from run-of-the-mill particles would produce a spurious signal as big as the one they were seeing was about 1 in 3 million.
But, given that the term "dialect" has been used by some with racialist overtones in the past, as scholars made a spurious distinction between Amerindian "dialects" and European "languages", the preferred usage in Mesoamerica in recent years has been to designate the linguistic varieties spoken by different ethnic group as separate languages.
