Sentence examples for surely spurious from inspiring English sources
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).
In the Pythagorean tradition, on the other hand, where surely spurious works far outnumber genuine ones, the situation is reversed.
There are also fragments of two surely spurious treatises on ethics and politics, which have recent editions with commentary: On the Good and Happy Man (Centrone 1990), which shows connections to Arius Didymus, an author of the first century BC, and On Moral Education (Centrone 1990), which has ties to Carneades (2nd c. BC).
The most egregious and widespread creationist misuse of cytochrome c sequence data is surely the spurious "equidistance" anomaly generated when amino acid sequences taken from several members of a large clade are compared to the sequence for a single member of an outgroup to that clade.
This is clearly deliberate and not, in itself, completely spurious: few, surely, would argue that there is no connection between the two.
Since trends expected as a consequence of anthropogenic effects are relatively small, these spurious effects may surely mask, or enhance, trends expected from anthropogenic origins.
Of the chasing pack, the most intriguing are surely Birmingham City, who dismissed the impressive Gary Rowett for rather spurious reasons, replacing him with the affable but not entirely convincing Gianfranco Zola.
Surely this is indicative of a more fundamental cultural tenet than the spurious ones being bandied around right now – the very British idea of "decency" and giving respect where respect is due, regardless of origin.
In the case of an author such as Plato, where the vast majority of surviving works are surely authentic, the onus of proof is on anyone who wants to argue that a work is spurious.
