Sentence examples for spurious appeal from inspiring English sources

It was the other way round – Brown exploited Leonardo's good name to give The Da Vinci Code spurious appeal.

So many Muslims have rallied to the spurious appeal of ISIS it seems often, to both moderate Muslims and sympathetic non-Muslims, that the voice of rationality has been stilled within Islam.

Schools are attempting to manipulate the exams system by issuing spurious appeals against results in an effort to improve their pupils' grades, the qualifications regulator has said.

This power need not come with responsibility; no government entity will force the company to discourage abuse and promote quality, just as nobody can force Twitter to remain to open to hosting hate speech with spurious appeals to the First Amendment.

Clarke, having used up his second review on a spurious lbw appeal earlier in the day, had none left when the Broad incident happened.

Land-grabbers also prey on the land grantees by filing spurious legal appeals at the local courts.

And third, it means people abuse the system by claiming asylum when their visa ends or by making spurious legal appeals to stay in the country for as long as possible.

By January,  the officials will have had to contend with appeals spurious and genuine and reviews legitimate and politic.

(Hence the appeal of spurious science suggesting there is a 'gay gene', which would seem to close the argument).

The wildly popular C sharp minor Prelude dogged the composer, as "Bolero" dogged Ravel, giving rise to the spurious criticism that such wide appeal suggests a trivial talent.

It is understood the government wants the appeals process to change so spurious challenges can be rapidly weeded out and genuine complaints dealt with more quickly.