Sentence examples for specious because the from inspiring English sources

It did not matter that the evidence was meagre, partial, perhaps entirely specious, because the objects themselves were real, had once belonged to real livings beings.

Bill Burton, a spokesman for Mr. Obama, said that the idea of using the Electoral College as a metric was specious because the Democratic nominee, regardless of whom it was, would almost certainly win California and New York.

Mr. McCain's aides have said the comparison between the two elections is specious because Mr. McCain's challenger in 1998 had committed fraud in assembling his nominating petitions.

Representative Christopher Shays, the Connecticut Republican who has been a strong supporter of Mr. Ridge, said he believed the questions about Mr. Ridge's authority were specious because "everyone knows that if you cross Tom Ridge, you cross the president of the United States".

But the logic is specious because most drugs have multiple actions.

A cronut looks more specious because it's also new and cool; the same goes for wider trends that have swept Australia this decade.

She knows that the phrase "fidelity to law" is specious because legal reasoning allows so many techniques to count as fidelity that virtually any result can be reached.

Some are even calling for an end to NATO, on the specious grounds that, because the old threats are gone, NATO has no role.

For discussion of some further issues relating to the Retentional specious present see the supplementary document The Specious Present: Further Issues.

For discussion of some further issues relating to the Extensional specious present see the supplementary document The Specious Present: Further Issues.

"Don't tell us specious rumours," was the gist of the Ghanaian response.