Sentence examples for specious reason from inspiring English sources

Blacks turned out to vote in record numbers in Florida this year, but huge numbers were systematically turned away for one specious reason after another.

And so it came to pass with a gaggle of Tory cabinet members suggesting this is just normal or finding some specious reason why we should have done even better.

On July 25 , 2002 I wrote that the Bush administration would pay dearly if it was going to wage war for specious reasons.

Duncan Smith said: "Jobseekers will be able to turn down jobs, but if the adviser thinks they are pretty specious reasons, he may call you in and say, 'We think you should be applying for these jobs'".

Protesters are much less likely to participate in collective action if they know they can be arrested for oftentimes specious reasons, detained for long periods of time and then inconvenienced for months – even years – before they see a day in court.

But Bardis Vakili, a lawyer with the American Civil Liberties Union in San Diego, said the agency is detaining far too many asylum seekers on "specious" reasons: that they may flee or pose a threat.

An influential member of the Senate told me that the lawyers of a legislature managed to defeat all laws not shaped in their interest, and that the pleas of class legislation, the protection of the rights of the poor, and reckless surgery, were specious reasons to delude the people.

Why does Ms. Malcolm succumb to such specious reasoning?

She called this election on specious grounds.

I find specious the reasons we ask for bloodshed and sacrifice from our young men and women in Afghanistan.

And the yen could strengthen further for specious or sound reasons, while volatility has been extreme since the earthquake hit.