Sentence examples for dishonest arguments from inspiring English sources

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"But 'Let it burn itself out' and 'It's not as virulent as regular TB' are just dishonest arguments," Farmer said.

And there is a simpler case available: Not content to steal elections with dishonest arguments, the other side is literally tampering with the democratic machinery to steal votes.

It is based on flimsy or dishonest arguments, including: (1) We need a missile shield because the cold war deterrence doctrine of MAD, mutual assured destruction, is out of date.

The boycott against transgenic salmon organized by the Center for Food Safety, Clean Water Action and Friends of the Earth is based on irrational fears and dishonest arguments ("Chefs Join Campaign Against Altered Fish," Sept. 18).

Howard Kavaler, an American diplomat who had described for the jury his vain search through the embassy rubble for his wife, Prabhi G. Kavaler, also a diplomat, who was killed in the explosion, said he was extremely disappointed "that the jury accepted some or all of the patently false and dishonest arguments advanced by the defense to save the life of a convicted mass murderer".

And loud enough objections can act as a counterweight to moves to quietly slip new loopholes into encrypted services via vaguely-worded legislature — or attempts to pass off intellectually dishonest arguments as inarguable logic.

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This is a dishonest argument.

If acting a part does lead to taking on the characteristics of the part, then in one respect Plato has a powerful point and in another respect is generating a dishonest argument.

This is a typically dishonest argument much like the one we saw leading up to the war with Iraq.

However, when Bill Maher takes polling data and paints 1.5 billion people of the same faith with a broad brush, he presents an intellectually dishonest argument that fails common sense.

I've seen the same trite drivel, debunked studies, dishonest statistical arguments based on England or Australia or whatever it is you think you're going to "destroy" me with already.

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