"It removes Saddam's spurious excuses for the suffering he inflicts on the Iraqi people and puts more pressure on the regime," the British foreign secretary, Jack Straw, said in a statement.
I called them Dickensian, mocked their poor service, questioned their spurious excuses for tardiness—I gave them the sort of verbal seeing-to that only myself and a disgruntled racist colonel in an inner city youth center could muster.
I called them Dickensian, mocked their poor service, questioned their spurious excuses for tardiness – I gave them the sort of verbal seeing-to that only myself and a disgruntled racist colonel in an inner city youth centre could muster.
All that changed when some of the most incompetent imperialists in history, in the administration of the second President Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney, used utterly spurious excuses about non-existent links to 9/11 and weapons of mass destruction to launch Gulf War II.
"I have heard all kinds of excuses, spurious reasons, almost unlimited," he said.
Terri, the lady who creates these monsters, describes herself as a "neophile", as if awarding herself a spurious condition is an excuse.
It said the 20% off "is a promotion rather than a sale", and that "the customer has the choice of using the 20% off code when they check out". A weird response – and no excuse for the spurious counting clock.
They keep declaring success for austerity and internal devaluation, using any excuse at hand: a spurious surge in measured Irish productivity becomes evidence that internal devaluation is working, the decline in bond yields following ECB intervention is proclaimed as a vindication of austerity.
