Sentence examples for phoney argument from inspiring English sources
As a result, we've wasted a quarter century in a phoney argument about whether the climate was changing.
Miss Ward's lawyer argues that, if the Santa Fe prayers are found unconstitutional, this would amount to government control over what students are allowed to say in an open forum.Alan Dershowitz, a law professor at Harvard, calls this a "phoney" argument.
Since then, George Bush and John Kerry have wrangled over some details of the combat but the campaign has recently spent far more time on a phoney argument over Swift boats, Vietnam medals and Alabama National Guard records.The main reason for this is that Mr Kerry has been all over the place on Iraq: you could barely tell why he voted for the war or what he would have done differently.
Whether or not Cameron regards human rights arguments as "phoney," the courts in applying legislation are obliged to respect rights under the European Convention on Human Rights.
The Post obituary noted that 18 years after the Pentagon Papers hostilities, the man who had argued the government's case before the supreme court, former solicitor general Erwin Griswold, admitted that the national security argument mounted was phoney.
And so much is phoney in the public debate over "permanent" American bases in the country.
Perhaps the most compelling arguments are away from the economic phoney war that the government is fighting with the non-nimbys.
The argument over when to cut the deficit is a phoney war.
But on the internet the rows still rage, with tortured facts, arguments and syntax, all mixed with vituperative insults, phoney politeness and seemingly RANDOM Use Of Capital letters.
Then there is the phoney complaint that no one is allowed to debate immigration.
