Sentence examples for specious use from inspiring English sources

But Mr. Redenbaugh disagreed that police were singling out minoritiesdeliberately. "The notion that the racial mix of who you stop ought to resemble the racial mix of the people in the neighborhood is a specious use of statistics," he said.

And there's the specious use of the term "return" - given that most of the detainees who were released weren't found on the battlefield in the first place and were never formally charged with anything.

When Binet's scale traveled to America, it was put to more specious uses.

Those are the same specious arguments used to justify the benighted policy in the first place.

In her book, she argues that the main justification for censorship schemes, "harm to minors," is a specious one, used by adults to impose their own narrow standards on society.

Zamora's removal was made on specious grounds, using a constitutional technicality.

Eventually, though, she felt like she was taking a crash course in the specious arguments used to support white nationalism and how science could dismantle them.

Bruno is the id to Michel's ego, if you want to use specious terms.

Dr. Paul R. McHugh, a psychiatrist who has been appointed to the lay board set up by the Catholic bishops to review the plan on sexual abuse developed in Dallas, is to be complimented for criticizing therapists who use specious repressed-memory therapy techniques.

In the press, in committee hearings, on Capitol Hill — none of these may be "behind-closed-door" affairs, but they don't engage the public openly, which allows for authorities like the FBI to throw around their authority or use specious legal interpretations of laws like the All Writs Act to bully private individuals or enterprises into relinquishing control of their data.

In an interview with Maria Bartiromo on CNBC, Thain used the specious, contemptible reasoning that other executives use to rationalize why they're keeping their bonuses as profits are plunging.