Sentence examples for unfounded notion from inspiring English sources

It wasn't an unfounded notion.

In a news report about this segment that aired on WJBK, Gallagher noted that it "poked fun at the untrue and unfounded notion that somehow Muslim sharia law prevails in Dearborn".

"There is a persistent but unfounded notion that 'between' can be used only of two items and that 'among' must be used for more than two," writes Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary.

(The old saw that Obama is himself a Muslim, or has a family member in the Brotherhood itself, has also resurfaced in Egyptian media; Gohmert has been among the leading proponents of the unfounded notion that Obama has Muslim Brotherhood "advisers").

Unfortunately, a widely observed practice is the indiscriminate crossing of breeds on the unfounded notion that local breeds are genetically inferior.

Further, racial slavery emerged here during the 17th century as planters began to distinguish between black and white servants, leading to ideas about white superiority against unfounded notions of black inferiority that were later explained as "science" by the mid-19th century.

Paulding would later denounce as "malicious and unfounded" the notion that he had based Nimrod Wildfire on Crockett.

While entirely unfounded, the notion "that we Africans eat people", as one RAR soldier put it, had a fearsome psychological effect; men of 1RAR reported Japanese soldiers picking up their comrades' bodies in the midst of battle and running away.

The arrivals here began suddenly three weeks ago, just a family or two at first, fueled by the notion — largely unfounded, the authorities here say — that Canada would grant them asylum.

Sartre's "preface" also foreshadowed the accusation of being an unfounded essentialism promoting the notion that black people shared a common identity, partaking in some enduring African-ness that defines them beyond differences in historical trajectories and circumstances, personal or collective.

Moreover, repeatedly over the next twenty years he argued that Quine's frankly sceptical approach to meaning, and related notions, is both unfounded and also wrong in that it deprives us of notions that we cannot do without, in the study of logic and language.