Sentence examples for false appeals from inspiring English sources

Philosophy, said Mr. Blackburn, should help to inoculate people against false appeals and baseless assertions -- just the sort of thing that passes for debate in America's polarized culture.

"False appeals to consumers' charitable nature just to fill your own pockets is a despicable act," the F.T.C. said at the time, adding, "legitimate fund-raisers won't push you to give on the spot".

Democracy is threatened when citizens refuse to participate in power, whether by not voting, not thinking critically about important issues, not showing up for civic activities or allowing emotional false appeals and flattery by candidates and parties to sway them on important issues.

Even with rapid progress, and with Obama's incredible achievement, we will not likely in our lifetimes witness a truly colorblind society that values diversity and cultural differences without the constraints of a false appeal to racial distinctions.

Unlike a lot of novels and TV docudramas that selectively latch onto facts to create a false picture, "The Appeal" delivers a real picture of a real problem.

We need to get beyond appeals to false analogies: "remember Bosnia" – the Bosnian Serbs had the support of clapped-out Serbia – or "what about Rwanda" – the killers had no external support at all.

A jury convicted Poindexter in 1990 on five felony counts of misleading Congress and making false statements, but an appeals court overturned the verdict because Congress had given him immunity for his testimony.

From the Chinese perspective, Americans appear to be thrashing against the realities of a new era: faced with a sudden sense of weakness and global changes in power, Americans look unable to summon the energy or unity to make even the simplest self-sustaining choices, and instead, are seeking refuge in the tinny appeals and false comfort of demagogues.

Here we find one of the earliest statements of the modern appeal to false authority: people are often persuaded by certain qualities that are irrelevant to the truth of the issue being discussed.

On the domestic front this appeal to false equivalency is trivial, of no consequence.

President Donald Trump, a man notorious for throwing around patently false accusations, has suddenly appealed for "due process" as top White House aides have been cast out over domestic violence allegations.