Sentence examples for threadbare claim from inspiring English sources

That the Corps clings to the threadbare claim that the fence has not failed -- despite the appearance of Asian Carp DNA in the waterways beyond the fence and in the Great Lakes themselves -- is a morbidly fascinating example of bureaucratic self delusion. .

It's a classic case of "penny wise and pound foolish". School districts should incur whatever costs come from confronting spurious lawsuits and threadbare claims of damage.

However, according to Bradshaw, the scientific basis for these claims is threadbare at best: if walking the dog makes us healthier it's because we're walking – the dog is incidental.

But he thinks Lumen View's demands were so outrageous and its claims so threadbare that he has a chance of success.

With 19 senior players at his disposal, Tony Pulis has a legitimate claim to the most threadbare squad in the top flight.

The claim is a bit threadbare now that the gag orders are mostly lifted — Judge Sandra Ikuta opened yesterday's hearing by asking if the entire case is now moot — but the two firms say the case must continue because they're still gagged from discussing some of the details of the NSLs, like the identity of the subscriber whose data was requested.

America's claim to economic leadership looks increasingly threadbare, and one of its long-held privileges having the world's main reserve currency—is under threat.

That post-modernism should seem worn out is, of course, no small irony, since its major theoretical claim was that modernism had become threadbare.

Which is just the example that Cameron is now following, with – if he wins the election and they stay in their posts – William Hague and Europe minister David Lidington being allotted Jim Callaghan and Roy Hattersley's historic roles of cobbling together some threadbare formula which will allow the PM to claim that he has "renegotiated" the terms of British membership.

"The application contains threadbare statements in support of C.J.'s asylum claim and much of what is written is borderline inscrutable and nonresponsive," the 9th Circuit said.

Great Britain has for centuries pursued the aim of rendering the peoples of Europe defenseless against the British policy of world conquest by proclaiming a balance of power, in which Great Britain claimed the right to attack on threadbare pretexts and destroy that European State which at the moment seemed most dangerous.