Sentence examples for spurious attempt from inspiring English sources

The Obama campaign described the charges as a spurious attempt to tie Senator Obama to potentially fraudulent voter registrations.

During nearly five hours of partisan floor debate, House Republicans repeatedly denounced the bill as a spurious attempt at campaign finance reform, and after it passed, 77 to 71, leading Republicans said they would urge the governor to veto it.

"I hope the American public sees this plan as the spurious attempt it is.

These sectors have many important differences that should be respected: blurring of accountabilities, and spurious attempts to conflate values, are unhelpful.

"Any spurious attempts to enter by side doors, fire escapes or ventilating shafts will be met by force," announced a cardboard lobby cut-out of Hitchcock, pointing sternly at his watch.

Employers, on the other hand, contend that many of the discrimination cases filed with the commission are spurious attempts by workers with no job opportunities who have not experienced discrimination.

In the letter, they complained about how a court in May had ruled that the swastika is a "traditional Lithuanian symbol" while "spurious attempts are made to equate the uniquely evil genocide of the Jews with Soviet crimes against Lithuania, which, though great in magnitude, cannot be regarded as equivalent in either their intention or result".

That letter from the seven European ambassadors, issued last month, included a historic sentence: "Spurious attempts are made to equate the uniquely evil genocide of the Jews with Soviet crimes against Lithuania, which, though great in magnitude, cannot be regarded as equivalent in either their intention or result".

Mr. Geithner vowed to devise a "broad definition" of standardized instruments, adding that regulators would be required to carefully police any attempts at "spurious customization".

These might seem like spurious connections, or bullshit attempts to find meaning in brown powder, but these links, these cultural codes, are absolutely at the root of how we interact with everything.

McCarthy didn't dwell much on the particulars but, the truth is, a small group of fossil fuel interests and members of Congress continues to use back-room political maneuvers and spurious public attacks in an attempt to demonize and hamstring the EPA.