Sentence examples for straw man contention from inspiring English sources

And once the straw man contention has been ridiculed, the Coalition quickly skips over the justifiable connection and contends that fires are "part of the Australian experience" and that nothing different is happening.

That is a straw man argument offered by both extremes.

In fact, Obama's is a straw man argument.

The straw man is the contention that anyone making a perfectly reasonable and scientifically justifiable point – that climate change is likely to cause a higher prevalence of the weather conditions that pose a bushfire risk – has actually been making the unreasonable and scientifically unjustifiable point that climate change has caused a particular fire.

But that is the straw-man argument.

But that's a straw-man argument.

Professor Krugman keeps fighting a straw-man argument.

In a dozen new phone applications, whether faith-based or faith-bashing, the prospective debater is given a primer on the basic rules of engagement — how to parry the circular argument, the false dichotomy, the ad hominem attack, the straw man — and then coached on all the likely flashpoints of contention.

But that argument is a straw man.

Against these ideas, Dembski characterizes both Dawkins' and Gould's argument as a rhetorical straw man.

His argument is like attacking a straw man.