Sentence examples for spurious name from inspiring English sources

I witnessed that violence — a putsch in the spurious name of God's will grotesquely portrayed by Khamenei as a glorious democratic moment — and it was clear at once that Iran's leadership had taken a fatal turn.

One collector, Mr. Upstone notes, gave spurious saints' names to his nudes to appease his disapproving wife.

Silly and spurious though brand names often are, they can tell us something about our changing desires and concerns.

He was reputed to be the author of philosophic dramas and philosophic letters: the letters extant under his name are spurious.

If they really did exist, however, nothing is known about them, since all other reports in the ancient tradition are likely to be based on Plato's Timaeus or the spurious works in their name.

It turns out that this category had undergone a clean-up whereby spurious mappings caused by naming errors in some submissions had been corrected.

This model depends on refiguring inequality precisely in the name of this spurious "growth".

But spurious ambulance chasing in the name of human rights seems grubby in a very different way.

I have never hardened my heart to children, but I have no sympathy for parents who condone barrages of attacks against Israeli civilians (including Israeli children) in the name of a spurious resistance that has accomplished neither peace nor prosperity, while allowing militants freedom to launch those attacks from where their children play.

The Mercers purchase power through lies, which get channelled to the public by way of phony scientists, radio hate-mongers, extremist bloggers and Web sites, and spurious nonprofits with innocuous-sounding names.

As may be expected, the percentage of genes in the hypothetical missed genes set that are spurious is higher than the named missed genes set, due to the lack of a functional assignment in the homologous genes used to add genes to the hypothetical set.