Sentence examples for flimsy claim from inspiring English sources

(Of course, any attempt to prove spying would likely be met by a flimsy claim of state secrecy).

An electoral tribunal threw out a flimsy claim of fraud brought by Andrés Manuel López Obrador, who came second; Mr López Obrador called for civil disobedience.

The judge did not buy the flimsy claim that the mandate would cause the states serious financial harm if it did go into effect.

The status quo is now an ostensibly socialist one, and repression is being meted out by those with clinging to increasingly flimsy claim to represent 'el pueblo'.

They relied on a flimsy claim that a borough of 2.3 million people was somehow incapable of producing 12 fair-minded jurors.

We at WWO think of the kids we support as our children and that is not a flimsy claim.

Another man angling for the same estate, which generally came with income in rent from tenant farmers, could lob a flimsy title claim into court, then gather a small army of supporters and wrest the property from a rightful owner, holding the place for years as the wheels of justice ineffectually spun.

It remains to be seen whether, and to what extent, the new regimen will succeed in avoiding flimsy claims of secrecy.

He has been refused a day in American courts on flimsy claims of national secrets (that the names of the men who broke the law brutalizing him might be revealed).

It is only five years since the generals squeezed out Turkey's first Islamic-led government in 1997 amid flimsy claims that it was seeking to impose religious rule.

To avoid accountability, his administration has repeatedly sought early dismissal of lawsuits that might finally expose government misconduct, brandishing flimsy claims that going forward would put national security secrets at risk.