Sentence examples for specious cases from inspiring English sources

Bahrain had a chance to correct a grave injustice and set the country on a better path by dismissing specious cases against 20 Shiite doctors convicted last year after they treated protesters injured during the popular uprising against the Sunni-led monarchy.

It was an utterly specious case, filled to the bursting point with tragic implications and unworthy of a civilized society.

The Danish authorities arrested him and held him in prison for 34 days, but released him after the Justice Ministry concluded that Russian evidence of his crimes was insufficient and in some cases specious.

At the time, she did make a somewhat specious lawyer's case in international tribunals that the invasion of Iraq was not going to war but "the continuation of the 1991 gulf war, and thus wholly permissible under the rule of law".

Consumer groups and Tesco say that Levi's case is specious.

To call it an extension cord would be a serious case of specious logic.

Even failing to achieve best-case reform, simply making the case would refute specious arguments, e.g., the right's treatment of health care as a commodity subject to tender mercies of free market fundamentalism, sacrificing benefits to rising costs and elevating profits above people.

In the case of a Retentional specious present, the relevant contents represent succession, but they do so by appearing as a succession (rather than by carrying an inscription 'this is a succession').

In any case, on Trident, talk of compromise is specious.

Previous Labour home secretaries could have stepped in to do so but seemed to be mesmerised by specious American claims as to the importance of the case: this was never an issue of national security, only of national embarrassment.

E-mail address GO SIGN UP Share Tweet But the China Youth Daily made the counterargument, that overemphasizing the role of social factors in what may simply be cases of deranged attackers runs the risk of drawing specious conclusions.