Sentence examples for flimsy assertion from inspiring English sources

A lower federal appeals court dismissed Mr. Masri's civil lawsuit, wrongly bowing to the Bush administration's flimsy assertion that proceeding would risk revealing "state secrets".

But good journalists have this pesky habit of asking for facts demanding she prove the flimsy assertions which form the walls of her make-believe world.

Yet the DoJ's case is flimsy, based on assertion, coincidence and lobbying from Amazon, says Benedict Evens of Enders Analysis.

It's a somewhat flimsy, if pivotal, assertion and it conflicts with his idea that white people should adopt and adapt James Brown's "Say It Loud – I'm Black and I'm Proud".

But in the case of great white sharks, says Bond University's Daryl McPhee, the basis for the assertion is flimsy.

Of course, the speculation that Murphy's photos may be the "dangerous" ones is ultimately as flimsy as Murphy's assertion that the image of Tsarnaev on Rolling Stone might inspire a wave of homegrown Islamic terrorists to get to work building bombs in their bedrooms.

As a (former) statistician, I am appalled by the misused statistics and flimsy science underlying these assertions.

The statistical evidence for such an assertion is superficially flimsy.

Pellegrino builds this flimsy idea into a wild assertion that survivors were on this staircase-lifeboat but that rescuers didn't look for it.

An N-word tape would make all those Republican assertions that Trump isn't racist seem even more flimsy than they do today.

An assertion of Sylvester's glamorous divadom, fated to fade too soon when he died of AIDS in 1988, drives this flimsy but glitter-drenched bio musical.