Sentence examples for canard from inspiring English sources

There are as many different views on this as there are fans but one legacy of the World Cup may be the undermining of the canard about football being the "religion of Brazil".

Part of that canard is about US hostility.

Just as in 2010 the canard that Labour "bankrupted" the country and left "an economic mess" got established and then became evidently irrefutable, so a new false narrative is becoming embedded in 2015, this time fed by Labour itself.

But he scoffed at the occasional canard that he favoured players of his own religion.

In winter, you're looking at hearty lamb shanks, fillets of beef and magret de canard; in summer, expect Dutch asparagus with new potatoes, young peas in salads, and fragrant strawberries in sweet "soup".

Feast on confit de canard and indulge in local Bergerac and Cahors wines.

Indeed, some argue that the Irish will say yes only if they believe that a second no would lead to their country's ejection from the EU and that is itself a canard.

He claims that he is the only tycoon with interests in every stage of production from "mine to mistress" (a canard in the industry holds that men buy more diamonds for their mistresses than for their wives).

Sounds like an American defeat to me.David GorrellNiagara-on-the-Lake, CanadaCooling the dragon's breathSIR – You propagate the canard that, economically, China now rules the world ("From T-shirts to T-bonds", July 30th).

Which is to prevail, the rule of law, or the baying of the mob?"Let me dispose of one canard straight away.

The oldest canard is that the Gulf airlines must get subsidised fuel because their government owners are sitting on lots of oil.