Sentence examples for specious assertions from inspiring English sources

More recently, a government spokesman speaking to reporters about a fatal train crash brushed aside questions about some specious assertions with a flip of the hand and a now-famous line: "Regardless of whether or not you believe it; either way, I believe it.."... Let's face it: Biden arrives at the table with a weaker hand than he'd like.

Jackson's article was filled with specious assertions and was devoid of any acknowledgement that regulation has costs, direct and indirect, and that the challenge for regulators is to strive for the amount of oversight and intrusion that is necessary and sufficient.

More recently, a government spokesman speaking to reporters about a fatal train crash brushed aside questions about some specious assertions with a flip of the hand and a now-famous line: "Regardless of whether or not you believe it; either way, I believe it..".

On the merits of the case, the best supporters could come up with to justify the marriage ban was a tired, and thoroughly specious, assertion that treating gay people differently when it comes to marriage does not offend the Constitution because "sexual relationships between men and women naturally produce children".

Such a specious assertion remains as implausible today as it was during the Cold War.

The assertion was specious and widely debunked.

Another specious claim is his assertion that "Darwin's theory offers no coherent, evidence-based explanation for the evolution of even a single molecular pathway from primordial components".

We "writers" would call your assertion a "specious argument" or in Wheel of Fortune speak, "comparing apples and oranges".

Some of this damage comes from misinformed reporting and speculation in the first days after Snowden's leak – the presumption that the NSA was "tapping directly" into the servers of Google, Facebook, et al. As soon as that assertion was shown to be specious, then came revelations that spies do tap directly into internet fiber, presumably via telecom and backbone providers.

For unstructured search problems like the NP-complete problems this means that there is no exponential speed up but rather at most a quadratic speed up.Your assertions about D-Wave are equally specious.

Second, the government's assertions that terrorist groups could exploit the release of the names are specious.