Sentence examples similar to spurious privileges from inspiring English sources
According to the commission, the administration released information sporadically over the 10-month investigation, hampering the inquiry, and tried to exempt more than 100 documents through what the commission described as "spurious claims of privilege," only to back down after the commission authorized its staff to seek a court order for the documents.
Or Trump might lash out with an overbroad or spurious assertion of executive privilege, or even of his pardon power.
John Conyers, the chairman of the House Judiciary Committee, deserves credit for energetically pursuing the investigation that turned up these documents and for insisting that Mr. Rove and Ms. Miers submit to interviews, despite the Bush administration's spurious claims of executive privilege.
In discussing his film "The Thin Blue Line," Errol Morris called the claims of cinéma vérité — the style of documentary that privileges direct and unobtrusive observation — "spurious".
Spurious and doubtful works.
Unfortunately, they are spurious.
Both pretexts are spurious.
EH: Oh, completely spurious.
