Sentence examples for spurious by from inspiring English sources

If there are to be any more knocking heads off cardboard cutouts in Nuremberg or cheap name-calling, they will be rendered more spurious by the day.

The world beyond their sightless eyes seems prankish and spurious by turns — there to trick them, or not really there at all.

Reports (some apparently spurious) by federal agents hostile to the church and widespread revulsion toward the Mormon practice of polygyny mitigated against federal sanction of the church leadership as the governmental heads of the proposed state.

In fairness to Benjamin, however, it should be pointed out that he was eighty-three athehe time Cosey tackled him, and that his eyesight (he always trusted to his natural vision, disdaining the magnifying glass most experts use) had begun to fail, because of a cataract; as soon as his daughter saw the brief, she recognized it as spurious by the uncharacteristic sheen of the ink.

This book is universally regarded as spurious by modern scholars, and even Pliny, who accepts its authenticity, reports that some people ascribe it to Cleemporus.

The authors take great care to convince the reader that the observed associations are unlikely to be spurious by both utilizing the latest quality control protocols in the medical genetics literature (Winkler et al. 2014) and carefully account for population stratification in their analysis.

The method has been set up using naked AuNPs produced by means of laser ablation, allowing strong enhancements of the signals, without the presence of spurious by-products which may affect the results.

However, rather than being spurious by-products of non-specific RNA transcription, the expression levels of lincRNAs in any given cell are precisely coordinated throughout the tissue, and dynamic through the course of development [ 11].

However, much of this seeming chaos is spurious, caused by obscuration of dust in dark foreground neutral material rather than by the actual distribution of ionized material.

A recent letter by Evan Rehm in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences PNASS) respectfully challenges prior "spurious conclusions" by authors of an earlier article hypothesizing that "tropical montane species are responding more strongly to climate change than temperate-zone species".

She told the judge that if the court decided to remove HBJ's immunity there might be "many, many cases of spurious allegations by reference to Instagram over whether diplomats are exercising their diplomatic functions or not.