Sentence examples for spurious ground from inspiring English sources

Yet still ministers argue against taking in families fleeing war on that spurious ground that it will encourage others to make the journey.

Collingwood thus dismisses "amusement art," on the spurious ground that to be interested in a work of art for the sake of amusement is to be interested not in the work but only in the amusement that it inspires.

If we do in fact support diversity, women's rights, and gay rights, then we cannot in good conscience give Islam a free pass on that spurious ground.

They are excluding people on spurious grounds," he said.

The Pope granted them an annulment, on spurious grounds.

But MPs do want to stop deportations being blocked on "spurious" grounds.

The administration still denied California's request on equally spurious grounds.

The government's chief scientific adviser has hit out at climate sceptics who attack global warming science on spurious grounds.

It is on this front that the unions should be fighting, rather than the spurious grounds of passenger safety.

I was eased out of that job, and back into unemployment in a matter of weeks on fairly spurious grounds.

In recent years we have become far too closely annexed to American interests, on the spurious grounds that the "special relationship" persists.