Sentence examples for specious grounds from inspiring English sources

She called this election on specious grounds.

Both men said that after they complained repeatedly they were fired on specious grounds.

In fact, leading up to the Ryan announcement, the presidential campaign of 2012 was being fought almost entirely on specious grounds.

Republicans, including more than a few who voted, on specious grounds, to impeach him 14 years ago, extolled the good old days of the Clinton presidency.

A trial lawyer can scour the country for the one expert who thinks that his omission might have caused the patient's injury.Dr Dickman has been sued five times in 21 years on what he (inevitably) describes as specious grounds.

They could not rescind policies on specious grounds after people become sick (that becomes effective immediately) or cap the amount they are willing to pay toward a beneficiary's illnesses in any given year or over a lifetime.

But unlike Mr. McCain, he would let wealthy individuals make contributions as big as they want, on the specious ground that curbs on the size of individual donations are an unconstitutional infringement of free speech.

Blacks and Hispanics are wavering on the specious ground that huge sums of money from corporations, unions and rich donors are needed to carry out voter registration and get-out-the-vote drives.

The Court holds that the Double Jeopardy Clause bars petitioner's retrial for arson because his attorney managed to convince a judge to terminate petitioner's first trial prior to verdict on the specious ground that the offense with which he was charged contains an imaginary "element" that the prosecution could not prove.

To start with, despite my son's diagnosis, the local authority did what a lot of local authorities do, and refused to assess him, on the most specious of grounds.

Indeed, some of the Obama administration's biggest legal victories have come in shielding Bush-era officials by getting lawsuits brought by victims with credible claims of kidnapping and torture thrown out of court on specious secrecy grounds, without any testimony being heard.