Sentence examples for spurious business from inspiring English sources

The TED franchise has a lot to do with this, of course; and the boom in the self-help market, wherein the spirit of "and you can too" has proved lucrative to those who can bolt on a spurious business application to their cultural or journalistic insights.

Says Nacchio: "It surprised the industry how willing people were to invest in curious, if not spurious, business plans".

In fact, the government said, Mr. Madoff's spurious advisory business "held only a small fraction of that balance".

Rather, it is a negative, laissez faire model which encourages the onward expansion of these well blessed regions with fat Whitehall cheques for research funding, and new planning guidelines to accommodate tens of thousands of new homes (albeit at much higher densities) on the spurious grounds that big business wants to invest there.

"Stanford has done a lot for this country," he told the local Daily Observer, calling Sir Allen's indictment "spurious".Sir Allen's businesses dominate the Caribbean country of just 85,000 people.

In such a case the TSLS estimates in Table 4 would partly reflect the effect on business lending of spurious bank-level outcomes.

"The firm is busy with its business, and shouldn't be asked to take time out from their work, to defend themselves of spurious allegations," Armey said.

Business lobbyists raised various spurious objections to the rule, but there really is no legitimate reason to deny shareholders fair elections to choose directors that would work for them instead of management.

I've interviewed both Ljung and Wahlforss in the past, and neither had answers to the big questions facing SoundCloud about its product direction, business model and the spurious copyright takedowns that have eroded its trust with musicians.

But it also demolishes the workings of celebrity, parsing the way that gossip becomes currency in the fame business, rumour a gauge of spurious greatness.

If it were my business to spin up a spurious "Watergate" here, I might be able to come up with something.