Sentence examples for based on some spurious from inspiring English sources

Once, Heston would have personally picked them based on some spurious criteria.

He's based on some saint.

As Gard and Wright (2005, 101 102) have pointed out, 'much of the rhetoric around the so-called 'obesity epidemic' is based on the spurious claim that obesity causes or is one of the important multiple causes of non-insulin dependent diabetes mellitus or 'ischemic heart disease'.

This is dangerous rhetoric, based on a spurious distinction.

I care about my students' outcomes great deal, but making judgments about a lesson based on a spurious grid of phrases that defy consistent interpretation has become so lamentably futile there is nothing left to do other than laugh.

The new powers given the bureau recall for many the two previous periods of abuse by the F.B.I: the collection of domestic political intelligence under J. Edgar Hoover up until 1974 and the surveillance of a political committee in the mid-1980's based on the spurious information that its members were involved in terrorism in Central America.

In addition to the administration's overuse of the Espionage Act and its overly aggressive leak investigations, the trust between the government and the public has been strained by the National Security Agency's indiscriminate collection of all Americans' telephone logs, based on a spurious reinterpretation of the Patriot Act.

This rebuilt event is perhaps less well constrained (station azimuthal coverage is only 64° with a couple of S&P pairs helping to tighten the solution) but it shows more accurately where the real earthquake occurred and that the original ISC location was in fact a phantom event based on a spurious association of unrelated seismic phases.

The day before, the president claimed Google's search algorithm was biased toward left-leaning media organizations — a claim that was based on a spurious report from conservative blog PJ Media and again quickly debunked by Google.

Lawyers could also use the findings in their attempts to overturn convictions based on spurious evidence.

Now newspapers are filled with reports based on spurious PR generated surveys and polls, simply to save time and money.