Sentence examples for spurious expenses from inspiring English sources

It's been reported that Nelly hasn't been paying his taxes, and not just in a "skimping on the odd bit and attempting to attribute it to spurious expenses" way.

But HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC) is concerned that some agencies are paying staff for spurious expenses.

In addition, the marital status of a person could influence his decisions: about 55percentt of singles have made spurious expenses.

These campaigns have been couched in the same terms as those for mayor, with the same spurious arguments about expense and the incompatibility of elected mayors with "our" way of life.

We adopted this strategy rather than the classic Bonferroni correction method because the latter is not appropriate for testing associations within complex correlation structures and is designed to overlook true associations at the expense of identifying spurious ones.

For media such as the BBC, FT or Guardian, publication became justified only when Hosie resigned his public post; rightly or wrongly his private life affected his job (the expenses angle is surely spurious unless we want MPs to sleep on park benches).

Shaw believed that at this period of medical history we had become helplessly dependent on the spurious cures of doctors at the expense of the social hygiene and good housing that would form a "sanitary blockade" against many infections.

On the other hand, family-based analysis always guards against population admixture/stratification caused by recent migration and/or non-random mating, and do not give spurious significant results, although at the expense of some loss of power [50].

Some might read this as another spurious justification; others will look at the Panama Papers and the MPs' expenses scandal and probably see where he's coming from.

Setting a low threshold for a significant correlation between genes will result in the inclusion of many spurious links, whereas a high threshold will control the false-positive rate at the expense of omitting many genuine edges.

These disadvantages can include their expense, generally low activity [2], [18], sensitivity to buffer conditions, and cleavage of target proteins at spurious sites [2].