Sentence examples for bogus notion from inspiring English sources

Invoking the bogus notion of an energy-supply crisis, Republican leaders have doled out a fortune to energy lobbies.

Olympic officials insisted that the changes were not made for safety reasons, but rather to accommodate the emotional state of Kumaritashvili's fellow athletes — a bogus notion.

Haneke's The Piano Teacher (2001) continues to expound the bogus notion that the study of classical music sublimates passion, and has the perverted titular heroine (Isabelle Huppert) quote Adorno's theoretical link between madness and music.

But in the small number that have already responded to the Miller ruling, governors and legislatures still operate within the tough-on-crime framework that led to the rise in the wrongheaded imposition of life without parole on so many juveniles in the first place, based on the bogus notion that they were "superpredators".

I guess in the coming months we'll see how many people in Michigan really have accepted the Republicans' disingenuous and bogus notion that it would be a good thing for the state to force everyone to earn less money.

The longer GOP congressional leaders can keep Holder on the public hot seat, the more chance the GOP has of embedding the bogus notion that the Obama administration engages in a massive cover-up of its screw-ups, misdeeds, and unethical practices.

Fans hailed it as a savage deconstruction of bogus notions of western masculinity.

Mr. Pope.L (he who crawled up Broadway) does so with a posture of radical outsiderness that cancels bogus notions of racial or cultural essence.

Collini is enjoyably tart on bogus notions of "community" or cheap appeals to "respect", and does not neglect to plant a few disses himself ("so-called restaurant critics"; "the latte-sipping self-assurance of secularists").

Nor is it a justification for the bogus notions about sovereignty, the militarisation of immigration and customs functions, politicians dressing up as airforce pilots, bunting and flags and all the other manifestations of fear mongering and political insecurity.

We ran a few successive days' counts, just to be sure we had a meaningful sample, Mstislav trying not to say what he feared he was on the trail of, me gamely offering various bogus notions about female physiology reacting differently to the Greenhouse's CO2 deprivation, joking that Mstislav had gone too long without a lady patient.