Never mind that the charge — "unlawful assembly" — was spurious.
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" Nunes, of course, denounced the director's objections as "spurious.
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Whether or not these spurious criticisms apply — to individuals?
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After all it had disqualified candidates on spurious grounds before.
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Or making all sorts of other wild and spurious claims.
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You conceal your own murderous impulse beneath this spurious attribution!
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The 20.6% figure "thus may be spurious," the study says.
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"The grounds they have stated are entirely spurious," he said.
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Spurious accusations threaten the bipartisan coalition built by election security advocates.
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Then, he invokes Art Okun as support for his spurious arguments.
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Might "harm reduction" lend spurious legitimacy to all types of FGM?
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Unsurprisingly, the section was then flooded with even more spurious articles.
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Invariably, black politicians navigate spurious questions about their qualifications for office.
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Well, of course, Democrats laughed, laughed all of this off as spurious.
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Officials pressure and arrest human rights activists and critics on spurious charges.
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The cybersecurity industry is not shy about shaming competitors for spurious research.
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Separately, he warned against a "spurious nationalism" like the one Trump pushes.
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As Facebook users shared accounts of the incident, they added spurious detail.
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But one thing Roman won't do is prescribe homeopathic remedies or spurious remedies.
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Shield it from cosmic rays, which would inundate the detector with spurious signals.
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The government agrees: it has locked up thousands of critics on spurious charges.
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Spurious claims were often given priority over those by people like Mr Mshengu.
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Army spokesman Sani Usman said "spurious claims" were made in the latest video.
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Leaving aside the entirely spurious namecheck of machine learning, is that even grammar?
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Opposition rallies have been banned for almost a year on spurious security grounds.
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John McCain ("half-baked, spurious nationalism") and George W. Bush ("Bigotry seems emboldened").
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Hawaii, in contrast and fortunately, was not saddled with this spurious constitutional distinction.
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Jews. Among its many spurious claims was that Jews were "perpetual nomads," incapable
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"These spurious attacks on ICE by our political leaders must stop," he added.
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Nor was Edward Snowden, who faced similarly spurious accusations a few years ago.
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Correlation is not causation, but can anyone believe that those relationships are spurious?
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So, after decades of scrambled and spurious dietary advice, where are we now?
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"This spurious, after-the-fact explanation won't do," Engel added of the report.
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Anyone familiar with the BDS guidelines will know this is a spurious concern.
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Flabby defenses, emotionality and spurious arguments were sliced away, leaving the subject perfectly exposed.
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Academic institutions and media are mobilized to make Big Announcement about the spurious signal.
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He's also the founder of the highly partisan, often spurious, and achingly irrelevant GotNews.
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INGRAHAM: ...takes back the deal at the last moment on some seemingly spurious grounds.
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Eventually, the "evidence" for Alpha Centauri Bb's existence was chalked up to spurious data.
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High-ranking B.N.P. members have been framed on spurious corruption charges, among other things.
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"PayActiv's chief operating officer, Ijaz Anwar, described the lawsuit as "spurious and without merit.
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"My concern is that people can make spurious allegations all the time," he said.
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But instead of calling for a thorough investigation, Minustah denounced the rumors as spurious.
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That rarity is probably why we love salacious stories about it, even spurious ones.
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And yet Hajizadeh repeated the spurious claim that the attack had killed U.S. soldiers.
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"Widows" and "Ocean's 8" put a spurious sisterly spin on old-fashioned American greed.
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Accusations that the protests are being fomented and funded by "foreign forces" are entirely spurious.
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So their adoption of a blockchain, in fact, a whole family of blockchains, seems spurious.
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The opposition denounces them as a device for giving Mr Morales's candidacy a spurious legitimacy.
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Even with the Android rebuild, Spiegel's assurances for renewed user growth in 2350 seem spurious.
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Who cares about societal norms, who cares about tradition, who cares about spurious legal queries?
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Sound smart: P-hacking is the practice of using large datasets to find spurious correlations.
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McCain braved ill health to voice his condemnation of "spurious nationalism" reminiscent of the 1930s.
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Citing "longer life expectancies" is a spurious argument for raising the Social Security retirement age.
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The more data computers collect, the more spurious the correlations are that can be found.
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Accepting cutting by doctors would grant spurious respectability to all forms of FGM, she says.
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Before that, he spent years promoting the spurious claim that Obama was born in Kenya.
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Quite a few people miss out on free, cutting-edge treatment because of spurious suppositions.
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This is the sort of spurious demographic nonsense the alt-right uses all the time.
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This false equivalence depends largely on a spurious statistic that should never have been published.
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Despite the spurious rhetoric of equivalency, supporters of antifa have, to date, killed no one.
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But this correlation is spurious, because it ignores the size of the overall labor pool.
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Kolomoisky called the allegations nonsense and has said the bank was nationalized on spurious grounds.
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Specifically, it banned Apple TV and Chromecast from its digital shelves last year for spurious reasons.
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In its effort to appear more advanced, Asus accompanies the screen with some spurious AI claims.
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The comparison seems spurious and I would argue that Eckstrom and Was aren't looking high enough.
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The latter is a spurious economic predictor proposed in 1998 to poke fun at forecasting markets.
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Last year, John McCain during an event blasted "half-baked, spurious nationalism" in the United States.
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Mr. Parvez, who was subsequently detained on spurious charges, should be released and allowed to travel.
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In his acceptance speech, he warned the audience about the rise of "half-baked, spurious nationalism."
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Surely the reason for his hesitation was that he feared being accused of making spurious claims.
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But did he fear this because he knew or suspected that the claims were indeed spurious?
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Last month, McCain during an event blasted the "half-baked, spurious nationalism" in the United States.
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"I will fight this spurious claim and do not rule out taking legal action," she added.
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We fiercely disagree with the spurious claims and will continue in the process to prove them false.
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"We will vigorously defend against these spurious charges that lack basis in fact and law," he said.
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When I spoke to the company to find out why, I got a rather spurious reply, too.
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"The allegations that are being put forward we think are spurious and are not meritorious," he said.
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Until these responses are prioritised, it is hard to justify turning to speculative—and possibly spurious—options.
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I'm inclined to think the paintings are very good with or without their willfully spurious inspirational provenance.
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He said they confiscated corporate documents tied to various Hermitage subsidiaries on a spurious tax evasion pretext .
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The sheer volume of market data frequently makes it possible to find spurious signals purely by accident.
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The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) called the charges against Yücel "spurious" and demanded his immediate release.
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He spoke out against "half-baked, spurious nationalism" and Trump's reported disparaging remarks about immigrants from Africa.
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The American tradition of salacious and spurious political attacks is alive and well in the Trump era.
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Nunes has called the objections "spurious," but ranking Democrat Adam SchiffAdam Bennett SchiffAre Democrats turning Trump-like?
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These are similarly spurious: the data sets are sparse and simple, the outputs binary or highly limited.
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"My understanding is that the easing of sanctions on a spurious character is questionable," Capito said. Sen.
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Often, their critics say, they did it with spurious and inflammatory fake news about migrants and crime.
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"They say, 'We are so against anti-Semitism,' " Krauskopf said, modulating his voice to connote spurious compassion.
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These supporters spin circuitous defenses of Mr. Duterte's administration, disseminate spurious reports and cast dissent as destabilization.
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But the U.A.E. counterterrorism judge who reviewed Mr. Assad's detention ruled the allegations spurious, the spokesman said.
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Those leaders also should immediately drop spurious legal charges against those who have not engaged in violence.
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" Carvajal had argued the U.S. extradition request was "spurious" and intended "to obtain information about Nicolas Maduro.
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Cockroaches are considered vermin in Japan, and the country is well-equipped to tackle this spurious foe.
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Last Monday, the Republican senator slammed "half-baked, spurious nationalism" as unpatriotic — another dig at the White House.
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Some spurious tales claim the act had roots in a shaming ritual for adulterous women in medieval Japan.
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Police in Cambodia arrested Kem Sokha, the leader of the main opposition party, on spurious charges of treason.
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Daniel Bastard, the head of the group's Asia-Pacific desk, said the charges being considered were "completely spurious".
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Iran must also "release all U.S. citizens" missing in Iran or being held on "spurious charges," he said.
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There are no laws regarding cryptocurrencies, so targets have been arrested on spurious charges such as energy theft.
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Which letters correlate to which kinds of trading advice (buy/sell/hold, etc.) are spurious/invented by me.
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This spurious guilt-by-association is both lazy and unbecoming of a man in his position of authority.
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Anyway, completely spurious over-readings aside, "Daddy's Car" is only one of many tracks produced by Flow Machines.
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Social media executives have had to testify before Congress and answer for spurious instances of anti-conservative censorship.
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On a statistical basis, the forecasters were "actively adding negative value" — essentially destroying value by issuing spurious numbers.
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And the arguments leveled at Fatou Bensouda, against the court, are spurious at best and revolting at worst.
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The Daily's owners say that the tax bill was spurious, and that they had not been properly audited.
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"It introduces room for spurious associations or associations that are hidden in their overall finding," Dr. Olfson said.
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Indeed, after re-analyzing their training data, the authors found ample evidence of these so-called spurious cues.
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This report debunks Trump's spurious claims that he was the target of a political conspiracy and witch hunt.
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So, the Republican National Committee intern or staff member who put up the spurious quotation has my sympathy.
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And it drags out the spurious narrative that science isn't in consensus about climate change, its causes, and effects.
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But this involves spurious precision: no one has any idea how fast a company depletes its brand per year.
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Cambodia's most prominent opposition politician, Sam Rainsy, lives in exile to avoid imprisonment for a spurious conviction for defamation.
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"So far 41 people have died after consuming spurious liquor," Assam Power Minister Tapan Gogoi told Reuters by telephone.
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Dilip Rajbnonshi, a doctor at the government hospital in Golaghat, said the deaths were due to "spurious country liquor".
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The previous head of the CNRP, Sam Rainsy, has been hounded out of the country by spurious criminal charges.
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"An androgynous, hybrid, spurious revolt […] saps the foundations of the deadly rigidity of dichotomous thought," the show notes add.
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He has spread spurious and demonstrably false charges against his critics and attacked journalists who are doing their jobs.
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Recently, for example, Facebook blocked ads for an academic book by the Israeli philosopher Yoram Hazony on spurious grounds.
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In a statement Tuesday, Kristen Clarke, president and executive director of the Lawyers' Committee, called that a spurious claim.
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These allegations are based on the same spurious interpretations used during the Russia investigation to claim clear proven crimes.
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He persuaded the queen to prorogue Parliament on spurious grounds and was subsequently slapped down by the Supreme Court.
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Kiev accuses Moscow of an economic blockade by submitting vessels traveling to its ports to spurious and lengthy checks.
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If you ask to meet an investor and that never happens for various spurious reasons, don't take their money.
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The report explained that because the country does not have cryptocurrency laws, police are arresting miners on "spurious" charges.
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Community bankers also tell me that the increased costs of fighting spurious lawsuits make it more difficult to operate.
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They were denied the opportunity to play in basketball games and slapped with what they say were spurious academic violations.
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As Halliday Johnson's wisely curated exhibition demonstrates, women artists have long subverted the spurious narrative that they are technological neophytes.
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Investor confidence improved after Turkey released an American pastor who had spent two years behind bars on spurious coup charges.
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In opposite corners of the space sit two monitors displaying "Spurious Memories," a project that Dewey-Hagborg conducted in 2007.
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" Pop-ups and other ad-like modules on websites shouted spurious claims of compromise at users: "Your PC is infected.
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Because the entire proposal is predicated on this spurious and outdated definition, to remove it causes the rest to crumble.
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More recently Wanda Group's billion-dollar investment in Paramount Pictures was opposed by interests making similar — and equally spurious — claims.
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Last month, he warned against "half-baked, spurious nationalism" while accepting the Liberty Medal from former Vice President Joe Biden.
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What is worse, some of these groups have, out of personal vendetta, unleashed spurious attacks on Bauman and I-732.
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The government's own expert in the Sarao case estimated that a large spurious order moved prices by just 85033 percent.
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" In apparent criticism of the current administration, he warned against isolationism "for the sake of some half-baked, spurious nationalism.
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When questioning counsel, Sotomayor would rather zero in on factual flaws and spurious assumptions than spin out twisty doctrinal hypotheticals.
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Or did he fear only that a hostile and cynical press would falsely accuse him of having made spurious claims?
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Contrary to Mr. Barak's spurious claims, Israel has a vibrant free press, a thriving civil society and an independent judiciary.
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To build a nation of equal opportunity for everyone, we need to dismantle this spurious legacy of our common upbringing.
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That suggests these companies could do more to combat other forms of spurious content, such as around elections, West says.
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A lawyer for Greitens's campaign told the AP that Temple's latest ethics complaint was "spurious" and should be thrown out.
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Some might use spurious historical analogies and warn this will lead to a repeat of the history of the 1930s.
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When that collusion delusion fizzled out like a wet firecracker, Democrats clumsily switched scripts to spurious charges dealing with Ukraine.
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McCain warned of "spurious nationalism" during a speech Monday night in Philadelphia after receiving the National Constitution Center's Liberty Medal.
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Some lawmakers have made spurious comparisons of opioid death rates in states that expanded and did not expand Medicaid eligibility.
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The spurious speeches about equal rights don't square when you make excuses for clients that make jokes about 'n******s.
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These effects include turbulence in the Earth's atmosphere as well as random noise and spurious signals added by our own instrumentation.
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So far Trump has not put forward any evidence backing his spurious allegations that professional journalists are trading in fake news.
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Henish recalled the case of one of his clients, a 20-year-old student imprisoned on spurious terrorism charges in 2015.
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Among their accusations, the ambassador's critics claimed that she was disloyal to the president — charges that Mr. Reeker considered completely spurious.
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At the same time the country's respected finance minister, a rival of Mr Zuma, is due in court on spurious charges.
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"Exhibit B: Laura Ingraham — perhaps after seeing Coulter's tweet — Googled Nicki Minaj, and decided to double down the spurious logic."N.
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In fact, his only serious opponent, Mr Navalny, was barred from taking part in the election in March, on spurious grounds.
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It's spurious to say they're trying to influence the election, and if they are, they are doing a really shitty job.
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And San Francisco's California Academy of Sciences is doing its part to support that certainly biased, but not altogether spurious claim.
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In addition, the marital status of a person could influence his decisions: about 77 percent of singles have made spurious expenses.
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Details of the bout are not available, and those sources that claim specifics read as spurious imaginings of Victorian fan-boys.
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When journalists are not being killed in cold blood, they are staggering under the weight of censorship and spurious legal action.
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Earlier this month, he warned against "half-baked, spurious nationalism" while accepting the Liberty Medal from former Vice President Joe Biden.
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The purpose of the tweet quite clearly was to conjure up a spurious and xenophobic stereotype that all Muslims are terrorists.
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He suggested they be traded for prisoners in Iran whom the US and allies believe are being held on spurious charges.
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Mr. al-Hussein said these states often invoke what he described as spurious arguments that human rights inquiries violate national sovereignty.
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The inventors of this spurious term claim that R.O.G.D. is not a real trans identity but the product of social pressure.
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This spurious parallelism, though, does suit the movie's dog-eat-dog worldview or its baiting representation of the white characters' racism.
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Second, some items are likely spurious and easily disproved, which Trump's defenders will use to say that it's all a fiction.
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With such rigorously imprecise phrasing, Twitter opens the door to spurious accusations that try to flip those categories on their head.
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In other words, we need to combat the spurious and politically weaponized doctrine that now goes by the name of originalism.
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In her ruling, Jackson emphasizes that arguments that former White House aides enjoy "immunity" from congressional testimony are even more spurious.
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"It punctures the already spurious narrative that the killing of Soleimani has united the Iranian people behind their government," he said.
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Another involved spurious allegations of corruption against Joe Biden for his role in forcing out a top Ukrainian prosecutor in 2016.
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"It punctures the already spurious narrative that the killing of Soleimani has united the Iranian people behind their government," he said.
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But already on Monday, Trump inserted himself into the fray, describing the latest claims of misconduct as spurious and non-credible.
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MORE (R) denounced "spurious nationalism" in a speech that never directly mentioned Trump but was a clear swipe at the president.
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For that usage, OBELI go back to Homeric scholars, who used them to indicate a removal of spurious information or redundancy.
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That suggests the finding could be spurious, the result of a chance, or the product of some other unaccounted-for factor.
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He also repeats the spurious claim that Facebook gives users "complete control" over what it does with personal information collected for advertising.
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It lets those who make and operate AI ensure they are basing decisions on the right inputs, and not harmful spurious correlations.
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A spokesman said Joyce believed the claim to be "spurious and defamatory" and had asked for it to be referred to police.
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In declaring a spurious state of emergency on America's southern border, has he at last gone too far and provoked a crisis?
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The following year, he struck down a restrictive abortion law in Wisconsin because it was based on "spurious contentions regarding women's health".
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John McCain took aim at "spurious nationalism" in U.S. foreign policy, in remarks clearly intended as a repudiation of President Trump's worldview.
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Outrage ensued, and Hypatia has, in less than a day's time, apologized for publishing the article, enumerating several spurious problems with it.
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John McCain on Monday cautioned against the US turning toward "half-baked, spurious nationalism" during an event honoring the war hero's contributions.
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In the recent months, HMCL has carried out raids at 22 establishments to seize over 2,75,000 spurious spare parts and counterfeit labels.
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Beijing asserts that much of the South China Sea is its sovereign territory, claims most of the internationally community view as spurious.
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Others made spurious charges that Germany's Jews were shirking military service and secured a special census of Jews in the armed forces.
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Clinton recalled having contentious discussions with Chinese officials over their broad — and in her view, spurious — claims to the South China Sea.
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He described spurious allegations about Ukraine and the 2016 election as a "conspiracy theory" and defended the integrity of Trump's foremost target.
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That's what Kris Kobach, the former Kansas secretary of state and former head of Trump's spurious voter fraud commission, will find out.
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We believe that this exhibition — indicative of art's significant, decades-long intersection with drugs — will correct spurious claims made against the family.
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The problem is often confounded hundreds of times when these spurious study results are cited over and over again by other researchers.
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And with the way the Cowboys have played in recent weeks, having Las Vegas predict a blowout over Washington seems somewhat spurious.
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"There's a growing problem there, and we know that it's not some spurious thing — it's something systematic," said one sports safety researcher.
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In the view of these analysts, the charges against him are spurious and were concocted in order to smear the Turkish president.
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"The news being circulated by these terrorists and their sympathizers are spurious and are meant to spread lies and disinformation," he said.
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Nunes later responded to the FBI's statement, accusing the bureau and the Justice Department of issuing "spurious objections" to the memo's release.
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This was caused by Turkey's arrest and detention of a U.S. consulate employee under spurious charges relating to last year's coup attempt.
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Ramaphosa had accused Zuma of removing Gordhan on the basis of a "spurious" report and local media have also reported its existence.
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The case involved a fairly spurious claim that the Affordable Care Act must be read to sabotage many of its own marketplaces.
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That infuriating anti-vaxxer on Twitter making spurious claims about the dangers of traditional medicine may have been a Kremlin-backed troll.
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And spurious take-downs of creators' music that they already paid SoundCloud to host further burned the company's cred with its core constituents.
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Users point out that Content ID blocks all kinds of legitimate material (just uploading static has become impossible, thanks to spurious copyright claims).
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The gold medal didn't affirm our nation's claim to hockey ascendancy; it affirmed our nation's spurious claim to unequivocal cultural and political superiority.
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Kolomoisky emphatically denies any wrongdoing, rejects the central bank's assessment of PrivatBank's financial health and said the lender was nationalized on spurious grounds.
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No SETI scientist is going to believe a single signal is ET rather than some spurious effect from the equipment or the surroundings.
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If lawmakers deflect the issue on spurious grounds, whether jurisdictional or otherwise, they are putting women and the pets they love in jeopardy.
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You want to avoid spurious lawsuits," she said, "but you also want to be make sure the work you are doing is impactful.
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That his son was invoked by both Trump and Sanders, solely to prop up an obviously spurious and pointlessly political claim, is sickening.
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The real point is not to provide spurious moral claims about whatever limit is set, but to win public support for that decision.
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It was a "difficult transition" for the country but the markets had got "extremely jittery", with shares suspended daily for "very spurious reasons".
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The Trump administration has demonstrated an interest not only in protecting spurious terrorism from visa holders but in preventing fraud and visa overstays.
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Among the myriad, and often spurious, explanations for the market's abrupt change of mood, I think there is a compelling explanation: the Fed.
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Among the myriad, and often spurious, explanations for the market's abrupt change of mood, I think there is a compelling explanation: the Fed.
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His officers systematically targeted Latinos, often arresting them on spurious charges and at least sometimes beating them up when they questioned those charges.
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Maze described CBP's reasons for denying his client's entry as "spurious," but said the aggressive questioning left Yazdani feeling he had no choice.
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But Russia denied it had breached the treaty and responded with its own allegations of American violations, which the Americans asserted were spurious.
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With Ukraine, Americans already have the smoking gun: a memo documenting Trump's efforts to pressure Zelenskiy into investigating the Bidens on spurious grounds.
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They have also ignored what seems to be a severe case of intimate partner harassment in order to make a spurious political point.
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Pence is saying that the allegation that Daniels and Trump engaged in a sexual affair in the 2000s are spurious and beneath comment.
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WASHINGTON — President Trump's litany of false statements and spurious claims has opened a national debate on the fragility of a fact-based society.
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Under Section 377, prominent Malaysian opposition politician Anwar Ibrahim was imprisoned twice on sodomy charges which many viewed as spurious and politically motivated.
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Yet in the current case, the police refuse even to say whether they are doing it or not, raising spurious claims of terrorism.
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On top of that, Berg believes the idea that these tax cuts would somehow help reduce the national debt in the future was spurious.
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Just this week, Arizona Senator John McCain blasted "half-baked, spurious nationalism," and former President George W. Bush warned of "nationalism distorted into nativism."
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Mercifully, that likely means we will go another two years without a House hearing called to investigate spurious claims of platform "bias" against conservatives.
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Further, "crypto geniuses" like James Altucher have polluted all of our feeds for the past few months with strange claims and spurious product offerings.
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In an open letter to South Africans published on Thursday, Matjila said he wanted to respond to "unsubstantiated, malicious and spurious allegations" against him.
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Kornreich also took issue with Kesha's claim that the sexual violence she alleged was motivated by her gender, an argument the judge found spurious.
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"In the past few days, a calculated and targeted attack has been launched to spread vicious and spurious allegations against me," the statement reads.
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A handful of American nationals remain in prison in Turkey, alongside tens of thousands of people arrested on spurious grounds since the failed coup.
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Americans should "expect Zika to come to the United States," Fauci said, while cautioning journalists not to make spurious assumptions about its potential spread.
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Meanwhile, the government maintains its spurious position that cannabis has "no medical uses," while the exportation of the 5,000-year old plant continues apace.
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Kaveh Madani, a Western-educated Iranian water expert, formally resigned in April in the wake of spurious charges of disloyalty to the Islamist regime.
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There are a LOT of reasons this is a ridiculous, spurious comparison, and even more reasons why its deeply offensive, and anti-Semitic. pic.twitter.
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One night, his claim that he needed to go was revealed as spurious, and I let him know that I was onto his hustle.
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And the details and words reported by CNN last night do nothing to exonerate Trump from his still-spurious claim that he was wiretapped.
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Our best guess is that the prosecutor is seeking 15 years in prison for Özlem on completely spurious charges of aiding a terrorist organization.
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There might be a few bad apples who make spurious claims about candidates, but the APA can disavow them taking cover under the rule.
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Virginia passed its first anti-miscegenation law in 1691, partly to prevent what it called "spurious issue," or what most people just call children.
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MORE (R-Ariz.) condemning the rise of "half-baked, spurious nationalism," which was widely viewed as a critique of Trump's "America First" foreign policy.
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Most ISPs see little competition in their markets, therefore there's little to no incentive to raise caps or stop hammering consumers with spurious surcharges.
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He was charged with several spurious crimes, including the misuse of state funds by "illegally celebrating" a holiday in honor of the police force.
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Predictably Russia refuses to admit its chicanery and typically has launched its own spurious charges against the U.S. that it has violated the treaty.
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The study is controversial, and its finding — that the Cuban refugees caused a large, statistically unmistakable fall in Miami wages — may be simply spurious.
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Counselor to the president Kellyanne Conway said Tuesday that she does not see in President Donald Trump any of the "spurious nationalism" that Sen.
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The censure of his best minister on such spurious grounds is a frontal challenge to Mr Kuczynski, less than five months after he took office.
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This highlights another feature of pseudoscience: its supporters choose to completely ignore all evidence which undermines their claims, often providing spurious reasons for doing so.
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In other international news, Papua New Guinea threatened to ban Facebook for a month for seemingly spurious reasons, concerning locals who rely on the service.
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Bringing up the spurious issue of "anti-religiosity" falls into the familiar Trump administration pattern of muddying the waters to deny the existence of racism.
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The White House is also explicitly threatening U.S. military action to change the regime in Venezuela and against Iran for a host of spurious reasons.
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Borjas only found effects on the wages of high school dropouts — and that finding, as the Center for Global Development's Michael Clemens found, was spurious.
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Last week, Senator John McCain, the senior senator from Arizona, spoke in Philadelphia, denouncing the "half-baked, spurious nationalism" that he saw overtaking American politics.
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"The American people have a right to their opinions, but these spurious attacks on ICE by our political leaders must stop," Mr. Pence said Friday.
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"Close to about 1,500 people must have consumed that lot of spurious liquor on Thursday that led to the deaths of 150," Saikia told Reuters.
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The case was not about inciting "interethnic enmity and hatred," nor was it about the spurious charges of embezzlement that were leveled against Mrs. Sharina.
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He then named the competent Pravin Gordhan to the post, but promptly directed spurious investigations toward him as punishment for enacting policies preventing opaque governance.
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It requires the believer to think that racism is not a major factor in American life, and that acknowledgements of it are almost always spurious.
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"The American pork industry's arguments are spurious and downright embarrassing," said Dr. Lance Price, director of the Antibiotic Resistance Action Center at George Washington University.
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The inquiry centers on whether Trump abused the power of the presidency to pressure the Ukrainians to investigate his political rivals based on spurious charges.
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There have been attempts by the state to recover losses from Kolomoisky and Bogolyubov, who themselves argue that the nationalization was done on spurious grounds.
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They find "no relationship" between "the US NTR gap and EU manufacturing employment," confirming that the correlation that exists in the American context isn't spurious.
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But I will tell you this, the one thing that I thought was spurious, a word I don&apost use lightly, his comment about free speech.
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Given the session's spurious purpose, many of the questions were just different ways of asking if Twitter discriminated based on political ideology, which Dorsey repeatedly denied.
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In addition to spurious correlation, inaccurate predictions could arise from a lack of complete data about the problem, or from a pernicious attack by an adversary.
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For a government to lose four in its first year, including the ministers of finance and the interior, on spurious grounds smacks of a parliamentary conspiracy.
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We expect Uber will again embark on a spurious legal challenge against the Mayor and TfL, and we will urge the court to uphold this decision.
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Belt and Road has been dismissed, particularly in the United States, as neocolonial debt-trap diplomacy, destined to collapse under the weight of financially spurious projects.
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"The movement to block the participation of NGOs on spurious or hidden grounds is becoming epidemic and severely damages the credibility of the U.N.," she said.
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In the case of the Bundys and their sort, it is also spurious, and not only because locals in Oregon want to be rid of them.
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MORE (R-Ariz.) blasted "half-baked, spurious nationalism" in the United States in an emotional speech Monday night after receiving the National Constitution Center's Liberty Medal.
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It's up to all of us to ensure that Trump's spurious calls for water don't distract us from the real solutions that are within our reach.
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The totally unexpected sharp decline in the cost of solar power gives reason to hope that IAMs rely too much on spurious and unnecessarily gloomy extrapolations.
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This hasn't stopped the Telegraph, who first broke the story, from already landed on some slightly spurious conclusions courtesy of ex-Loaded mag editor Martin Daubney.
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It's believable that Dorsey (or his public relations team) wasn't aware of his host's spurious medical advice, though Greenfield's tweet is less than two months old.
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They make spurious arguments, such as correlation doesn't prove causation — which is true as a general statement, but the supporting evidence here so clearly proves causation.
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It was carried out by a disturbed individual with easy access to assault weapons adapted from military warfare and marketed in the spurious name of sportsmanship.
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The responses sent to Mr. Pozner included a link to a post from 2013 describing the company's efforts to deal with spurious but effective copyright claims.
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He lives in Paris surrounded by his tois, as the group of half a dozen friends employed to various spurious roles in his entourage, is known.
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They may challenge it with spurious First Amendment attacks that ignore the lessons of the Cambridge Analytica scandal that meaningful privacy protections are essential to democracy.
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As president, Trump has regularly railed against the intel agencies, including spreading spurious allegations that his offices at Trump Tower were wiretapped by the US government.
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Mr. Nunes, of California, described the F.B.I. objections as "spurious" and accused the two law enforcement agencies of making "material omissions" to Congress and the courts.
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They have accused Mr. Jones of spreading spurious claims that have subjected them to physical and verbal harassment, death threats and sustained attacks on social media.
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And blockchains can always be only part of the solution: no technology can turn crooked leaders straight and keep them, for instance, from feeding in spurious data.
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"The court's thoughtful ruling recognizes that our impeachment inquiry fully comports with the Constitution and thoroughly rejects the spurious White House claims to the contrary," said Nadler.
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Jamie Raskin pointed out Infowars had repeatedly published spurious content about mass shootings, claiming they were performed by "crisis actors" who wanted to take people's guns away.
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At the same time, the trio aggressively pursued every spurious lead and rumor that mentioned Donald Trump, who they clearly did not want to see become president.
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Once people hear that magic mushrooms may treat depression, it won't be long before all kinds of spurious headlines are seen to encourage people to self-medicate.
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The Confederates themselves drew a straight line between the two "rebels" Washington and Lee, but the pretended equivalence is as spurious as "state sovereignty," historians remind us.
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Now, after years of demonization by the Likud and its political allies, including spurious accusations of disloyalty, the Israeli left's foremost political party has internalized the message.
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And precisely because you've now cut the corporate rate too low, you've generated a lot of spurious problems regarding whether pass-through businesses are receiving equitable treatment.
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"This spurious concoction is basically on a par with the most humdrum pulp fiction," Howard Thompson, reviewing the film for The New York Times, wrote in 1950.
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When Lutsenko was prosecutor general in Ukraine — a position roughly equivalent to our attorney general — he would, said Ustinova, harass anti-corruption campaigners with spurious criminal investigations.
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But it can also lead to sensational, and even spurious, research, like a controversial new paper claiming that people probably picked up a novel coronavirus from snakes.
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The Starr investigation was expanded to include (among other tangential matters) the investigation of Clinton's spurious denial in a civil deposition of his sexual affair with Lewinsky.
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Aides say Trump has advocated for an aggressive self-defense that might help shift public opinion and convince more Americans that Democrats impeached him on spurious charges.
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I assume that the point is to discourage spurious sick days, not some kind of bizarre voyeuristic urge to learn the gory details of every employee's ailments.
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But there is another massive platform offering spurious anti-vaccination content to people seeking information, a review by CNN Business reveals: Amazon, the world's largest online marketplace.
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Even more spurious claims, including those of gang rape and drugs by a client of lawyer Michael Avenatti, are not only clearly false but disgusting and partisan.
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"I think we made our position pretty clear on who's attending and not attending these spurious, made-up requests for folks to show up," he told reporters.
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Some might read this as another spurious justification; others will look at the Panama Papers and the MPs' expenses scandal and probably see where he's coming from.
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This complaint repackages spurious allegations and legal claims made against Greenpeace by the Kasowitz firm on behalf of Resolute Forest Products in a lawsuit filed in May 2016.
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And they will continue to change science, freeing up scientists' time and wetware for more interesting problems than whether a signal is spurious or a galaxy is elliptical.
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Wood said that instead of addressing this problem for what it is (false advertising), American leadership tends to treat such spurious surcharges as the height of capitalistic creativity.
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This spurious conflation quashed the industry for about 60 years, until a 2014 farm bill defined it as an agricultural crop, leaving the door ajar to American farmers.
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The book's central claim—that marijuana causes violence by inducing schizophrenia and other psychotic disorders—relies on a chain of spurious reasoning that falls apart when examined closely.
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Alternatively, if Google prioritizes the most factual reporting, it's likely to ignore such spurious claims and give a distinctly more scientific flavor to its search and news results.
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Speaking at Berkshire's annual shareholder meeting in Omaha, Nebraska, Buffett said it seemed "spurious" to argue that calories from Coke alone were a significant factor in obesity levels.
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We redacted personal details that weren't newsworthy, information from spurious sources, and material the vetting team described as rumors about contenders' personal lives, and contact and identification information.
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Though the award might seem spurious, it is a good benchmark for the distribution of world-class footballers around the globe and the strength of their home countries.
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It's not hard to imagine conservative lawmakers in North Carolina, Texas, or Wisconsin using spurious qualifications to keep Democratic presidential candidates off the ballot in key battleground states.
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Lepore has taken up the mantle of literary resurrectionist, and in "Joe Gould's Teeth" she succeeds despite the unsavory nature of her subject's life and spurious literary legacy.
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Most of Collins's own questions for Whitaker focused on the spurious allegation by Trump and his allies that the Justice Department tipped off CNN about Roger Stone's arrest.
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In a devastating critique of Becker's Heavenly City, Peter Gay coined the phrase "the fallacy of spurious persistence" to name a tendency to claim false or exaggerated continuities.
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But honest debate — much like our political debate at home — is poisoned by explosive and misleading claims, whether those claims are merely overheated political rhetoric or spurious accusations.
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But representatives from a number of advocacy organizations, including the ACLU, Planned Parenthood, the National Women's Law Center, and National Center for Transgender Equality, find this explanation spurious.
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I develop an idea that I will interview him for some spurious work project and then with a recording device between us, talk to him about his life.
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" A lawyer for Mr. Peterson, Joseph A. DiRuzzo III, said Tuesday that the former deputy's team would fight "these spurious charges that lack basis in fact and law.
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A major problem is that incumbent broadband providers have gone to great lengths to nickel and dime subscribers with a wide variety of spurious surcharges and bogus fees.
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Dr. Pettinelli said that as Yutu-2 gathers more data, it might be possible to remove the spurious reflections and pull out accurate findings about the deeper layers.
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Yet if either party blindly pursues its own agenda, the United States is in for four punishing years of hateful accusations, spurious investigations, legislative deadlock and growing fragmentation.
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The American people should question those — including elected Democrats and senior DOJ and FBI officials — who were making such a spurious public case about the need for secrecy.
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It is becoming worrisome that in this reign of bigotry, Bannon may be the brain and Trump the brawn; Bannon the spiritual president and Trump the spurious packaging.
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The novel was so popular that "Pamela"-inspired merchandise, from teacups to fans, quickly sprang up, as did spurious sequels, a theatrical version, and even a comic opera.
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However, such dips could also be created by other sources, such as spurious instrumental noise or binary stars in the background eclipsing each other, creating false positive signals.
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Later on the same day Bush spoke, McCain denounced the perils of what he called "spurious nationalism" during his acceptance speech for the National Constitution Center's Liberty Medal.
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This legal mechanism allows defendants to head off spurious lawsuits and recover fees, while not diminishing the ability of a plaintiff to go to court for legitimate purposes.
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In addition to the seemingly spurious HR complaints, Google employees have had their internal conversations leaked to alt-right sites that then targeted them for online harassment, Wired reported.
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"This decision and the spurious rationale should worry anyone concerned about Israel's commitment to basic democratic values," said Iain Levine, Human Rights Watch's deputy executive director, in a statement.
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"We already know they're going to remove me today," said Ortega in a speech at her office, slamming what she said was a "spurious" case designed to silence her.
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In pursuit of fugitives, the Chinese authorities are increasingly willing to challenge the sovereignty of foreign governments and to seek the help of international agencies, even on spurious grounds.
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If a country of America's heft gets away with justifying protection on blatantly spurious national-security grounds, what is to stop members like India or China doing the same?
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Representative Devin Nunes, the intelligence committee's Republican chairman who commissioned the document, dismissed the FBI and Justice Department objections to its release as "spurious" in a statement on Wednesday.
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When Representative Adam Schiff, Democrat of California, made a spurious allegation against Representative Devin Nunes, Republican of California, Mr. Ryan backed Mr. Schiff and sidelined Mr. Nunes for months.
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Sources said the numerical Internet address of the spurious DCCC site resembled one used by a Russian government-linked hacking group, one of two suspected in the DNC breach.
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He spent several years in internal exile after the Chinese authorities jailed him for 81 days on spurious charges of tax evasion and then refused to relinquish his passport.
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Many religious people may well be racist, but today's most effective racists wave the banner of scientific authority, pointing to IQ tests or spurious just-so stories about evolution.
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Misleading or inaccurate information is not new, dating back to some of the more spurious revolutionary pamphlets distributed by our own founding fathers — an eighteenth century version of Reddit.
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These allegations, although spurious at best, nevertheless sit before the same IG, who will have to determine whether to launch yet another investigation into the actions of law enforcement.
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As far back as 2000, a New York City housing court judge ruled that Mr. Trump filed a "spurious" lawsuit to harass a tenant into vacating a Trump building.
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"The American people have a right to their opinions, but these spurious attacks on ICE by our political leaders must stop," Pence said to some applause in the room.
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Consumer groups like Free Press were also quick to issue statements urging ISPs to cease the practice of spurious and unnecessary surcharges in the face of the looming pandemic.
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And they know that spurious charges of "anti-Israel" from hyperpartisan groups like the Republican Jewish Coalition don't carry any weight with most voters or with most American Jews.
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" "Although Myanmar has failed shamefully to redress the injustice of their trumped-up arrest and conviction on spurious evidence, we are relieved that their ordeal behind bars is over.
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Finding himself in a close race despite these efforts, he tried to purge even more based on criteria so spurious that the courts have — for now — blocked his efforts.
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Trump, however, had questions about the Ukrainian president's record on "anti-corruption" — which, in Trumpspeak, means willingness to open spurious investigations — and told the group to talk to Giuliani.
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The bad news is that the tech companies and big business are fighting this and raising spurious claims that it will "gut the internet" and end online free speech.
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More recently, the Bureau responded to the Black Lives Matter movement's rise by warning about the possibility of domestic terrorism from "black identity extremists," a spurious category at best.
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In the early 1980s, a New York City housing court judge ruled that Mr. Trump had filed a "spurious" lawsuit to harass a tenant into vacating a Trump building.
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Anti-union workers allege that a presentation made by PATP before the vote contained spurious claims, and that pro-union advocates would not share the presentation with them afterward.
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Last month, Mr. Duterte's Justice Department ordered Senator Leila de Lima, one of Mr. Duterte's most vocal opponents, arrested on spurious charges that she took bribes from drug traffickers.
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The spurious logic behind this scheme was that if enough of them started calling black people "googles" online, the tech behemoth would eventually have to censor its own pages.
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For years Mr Orban has been lent a spurious respectability by Fidesz's membership of the European People's Party (EPP), a big group of centre-right parties in the European Parliament.
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Mr. Durst's lawyers say they have been eager to resolve matters in New Orleans so they can get to Los Angeles to answer what they say are spurious murder charges.
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"The court's thoughtful ruling recognizes that our impeachment inquiry fully comports with the Constitution and thoroughly rejects the spurious White House claims to the contrary," he said in a statement.
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Buffett, Berkshire's chairman and CEO, also defended the Coca-Cola stake Saturday, saying it seemed "spurious" to argue that calories from Coke alone were a significant factor in obesity levels.
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I find it frightening that the power of the federal government could be used in in this manner in the middle of the political season with spurious or scant evidence.
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To sort out what this web of spurious claims consists of—and to help you identify when someone is dipping their toes into it—here's a guide to the conspiracy.
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But the markets have gotten, I think, extremely jittery we could give examples every day of shares suspended, for really very spurious information… JC: You said time, time solves this.
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The opposition and even some members within Zuma's cabinet, including Deputy President Cyril Ramaphosa, said at the time that Zuma removed Gordhan on the basis of a "spurious" intelligence report.
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Prior to publication, they gave it to the New York Times, which published that article in April 2015 featuring the Uranium One deal, with spurious ties to the Clinton Foundation.
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Roskam joins lobbying firm Anti-corruption group hits Congress for ignoring K Street, Capitol Hill 'revolving door' MORE (R-Texas) had used to raise spurious doubts about climate science. Rep.
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"They are citing spurious national security concerns to evade congressional oversight while leaking information to The Washington Post ostensibly about classified meetings," Nunes said in a statement to the Post.
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Given the dashed hopes of previous searches and the many spurious claims of Viking presence in the Americas, scientists on the project as well as outside experts have voiced caution.
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He was personally blamed for the austerity measures and brought to trial on what turned out to be spurious charges relating to how he handled sensitive files about Greek taxpayers.
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Dubbed the "infodemic" by health officials, the flood of posts includes conspiracy theories about the origins of the novel coronavirus, dangerous advice about spurious treatments, and unreliable reports of vaccines.
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The A.C.L.U. also targeted Kris Kobach, the Kansas secretary of state and candidate for governor who became a villain among liberals after repeatedly making spurious claims about widespread voter fraud.
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"We have sent samples for forensic examinations to ascertain the ingredients used in that particular lot of spurious liquor that led to the deaths of so many people," he added.
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" The Academy further declared that "spurious allegations claiming members or committees use our process to push forward nominations for artists they have relationships with are categorically false, misleading and wrong.
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Democrats have largely treated as spurious the insinuation that the Obama White House tried to leverage intelligence for political gain — and senior officials from that administration have fiercely denied it.
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If presented correctly, the scientific view of reality clarifies many of the spurious controversies we often encounter by separating what we know from what we are still trying to understand.
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While it may disrupt fewer lives, the new ban, and its justification, conveys the same spurious messages: that Muslims are inherently dangerous and that resettling refugees represents a dire threat.
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Stories like this one from Newsweek's Jack Moore, which doesn't raise doubts about the claim of responsibility in Las Vegas until the seventh paragraph, helps spread the terrorist group's spurious claim.
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"Illegal sales mean that there's always a risk of buying spurious seeds and we buy such smuggled seeds as there is no alternative," said Vijay Niwal, another cotton farmer in Maharashtra.
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LONDON, March 9 (Reuters) - Buckingham Palace on Wednesday dismissed as "spurious" a newspaper report that Queen Elizabeth backs a British exit from the European Union, saying the monarch remains politically neutral.
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Last week two dissidents were jailed on spurious charges of inciting racial hatred, following a Kafkaesque trial sparked by a discussion on Facebook about an unpublished book written two decades ago.
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This has touched off political debate, particularly among Republican candidates, about how to safeguard Americans, including spurious solutions such as shutting off Muslim immigration (Donald Trump) and carpet-bombing ISIS (Sen.
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"All investors in Indonesia should be free to trade with confidence, without fear that legitimately executed trades will later be subject to spurious legal action by unconnected third parties," Goldman said.
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The opposition and even some members of Zuma's cabinet, including Deputy President Cyril Ramaphosa, said at the time that Zuma had removed Gordhan on the basis of a "spurious" intelligence report.
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The invite system is unusual for a bounty program, but Apple explained it as necessary to weed out spurious submissions and make sure trusted researchers had adequate support from the company.
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Today, the man once hailed as the Kurdish Obama and the saviour of Turkey's hapless opposition faces spurious terror charges from the government and dwindling support among both Kurds and Turks.
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Inside DHS, there is a growing attitude of frustration with the way the issue is playing out in the public eye -- complaining about what they see as spurious reports, sources say.
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Among the "players" at the protest was investigative reporter Alexander Sokolov, convicted of organizing an extremist group and attempting to overthrow the authorities, a verdict RSF called "spurious" and politically motivated.
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The researchers argue that the correlation is spurious — suggesting that there's no broad, generalizable connection between medical marijuana and opioid overdose deaths, and the previously found link was likely a coincidence.
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Via Pokemon Go Association Related: 'Pokémon GO' Simulation Satirizes Spurious Gameplay Dark Political Cartoons Show How Technology Is Our New Master I'm the First (and Maybe Final) Professional 'Pokémon GO' Trainer
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Kemp used this position to set up an unfair playing field, launching spurious investigations into Democratic "hacking" of the election and placing a disproportionate number of black voters' registrations on hold.
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"Their spurious detention while attending a routine workshop was bad enough: that they are now being investigated for membership of an armed terrorist organization beggars belief," Shetty said in a statement.
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That's another reason that Peto resisted the proposal that he look at various subpopulations: the greater the number of groups you look at, the greater your chances of seeing spurious effects.
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Péladan had little direct impact on early modernism: instead, the dominant force was Theosophy, the half-visionary, half-spurious movement that Helena Blavatsky and others launched in New York in 1875.
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I am a novelist, too, far less successful than she, but keenly aware that her quest for riches, and the protection she believes that they will afford her, is largely spurious.
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In this manner, the federal circuit's ruling will incentivize spurious litigation cases and simultaneously make it more difficult to invalidate low-quality patents, thereby undermining patent owners' confidence in the system.
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The Trump administration wants a deal that excludes that provision, but without it Canada can face spurious rulings against its exports even with a "free trade" agreement in force, Shenfeld said.
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It strongly suggests that a majority of the stocks have been peddled on spurious bull stories to ordinary people who have been forgotten the moment their money has been taken from them.
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They decided not to allow pinch-to-zoom interactions on the tablet like in Google Maps, he says, because that could lead to "spurious inputs," which is official speak for careless taps.
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Cases of shoddy medical treatment and spurious drugs are often reported in India, where the public health system remains overburdened and people, especially in smaller towns, struggle to access basic health services.
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Journalists, whistle-blowers and activists are keenly aware that critics of the government often pay a price, whether in the form of "trolling" on the internet, harassment by officials or spurious lawsuits.
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"The move to ban demonstrations predicated on a spurious assertion that the opposition is plotting violent regime change, is not sustainable," analyst Piers Pigou, Crisis Group's senior consultant for southern Africa said.
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Rather than banning independent media, as despots might have done a generation ago, he slaps spurious fines or tax bills on their owners, forcing them to sell their businesses to loyal tycoons.
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Senator John McCain again exposed the rift between the Republican party establishment and President Donald Trump Monday, railing against what he condemned as "half-baked, spurious nationalism" in a high-profile speech.
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Mr Ramirez's current campaign is against "ambulance chasers"—lawyers and other unscrupulous operators who tempt seafarers into launching spurious injury claims against ship operators and then pocket the bulk of the damages.
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Such convictions were no less spurious than the beliefs of modern athletes who have strapped their limbs with "kinesio tape", a specialist elastic material developed by a Japanese chiropractor in the 1970s.
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Through these raids in recent months, HMCL has seized over 2,75,000 spurious spare parts & counterfeit labels and FIRs have been filed against all the counterfeiters at respective police stations in each state.
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Nunes has fired back sharply at the FBI's efforts to cast doubt on the veracity of the document, calling their objections "spurious" and doubling down on the need to release the memo.
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For example, the website Spurious Correlations presents such correlations, citing (with a very high level of confidence) the correlation between U.S. government spending on science and the number of suicides by hanging.
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Kemp has used this position to set up an unfair playing field, launching spurious investigations into Democratic "hacking" of the election and placing a disproportionate number of black voters' registrations on hold.
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The Washington Post found hundreds of ICOs that featured spurious teams and claims including one site that featured Prince Charles and Jennifer Aniston – under fake names – as members of the advisory board.
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In life, she fanatically concealed her traces: She liked strong bolts on her doors, fake names (she had at least three in rotation) and what seemed to be a spurious French accent.
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But pulling back like this can help offer some better tools than the blunt ones that shape French debates over the veil, especially the spurious opposition of secular universalism and pluralist tolerance.
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Mr. Dutton called the allegations, first reported by Ten Daily, "spurious and baseless" and said he had not breached the Constitution, but the case added a cloud of doubt to his candidacy.
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The Mercers purchase power through lies, which get channelled to the public by way of phony scientists, radio hate-mongers, extremist bloggers and Web sites, and spurious nonprofits with innocuous-sounding names.
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Democrats should not underestimate the importance of working as a party to frame the debate around key issues so that they don't end up giving bipartisan legitimacy to spurious conservative talking points.
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And both arguments were equally spurious: Coal is in free fall as an energy source, feared as a major cause of climate change and run off the market by cheaper natural gas.
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Ramaphosa said Zuma removed Gordhan on the basis of a "spurious" intelligence report that accused him and his deputy Mcebisi Jonas of plotting with banks in London to undermine the South African economy.
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Unlike previous hearings that have focussed on the very real concerns of foreign interference in US elections and preserving data privacy, the grounds for some of these latest accusations are much more spurious.
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Officials have blamed this in part on unscrupulous doctors issuing spurious exemptions, prompting lawmakers to consider new legislation that would give the state the final say over whether a medical exemption is valid.
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Yet this is a weak and spurious reason for calling an election: opposition parties, particularly those who officially supported remaining in the EU, are supposed to oppose the government -- that is their job.
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Not simply dumping people on planes, as Greece learned in December when most of the 39 Pakistanis it returned home were sent straight back by the authorities in Islamabad on spurious administrative grounds.
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The May 85033 opinion piece "Corporate merger with Chinese company poses security risk" contains such spurious and far-fetched allegations about Ant Financial's proposed acquisition of MoneyGram that we feel compelled to refute.
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The Senate majority leader refused to even hold hearings on the nomination of Merrick Garland, based on the spurious argument that the next president should have the right to decide on the appointment.
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For example, last year the Centres for Medicare and Medicaid prohibited the unrestricted use of fingerstick glucose-testing on critically ill patients, after several fatal incidents that were linked to spurious pinprick tests.
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Meanwhile, distributors failed to report suspicious orders, the state pharmacy board neglected to enforce regulations that should have checked the spread of the epidemic, and pain clinics churned out spurious prescriptions on demand.
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It could have been worse; Mr. Schiff used the House rules deftly to rebut the most egregious of Republican attempts to distract the hearing by bringing up conspiracy theories based on spurious evidence.
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He said that Ukrainians were "terrible" and that they "tried to take me down"—an apparent reference to spurious conspiracy theories that Ukraine, and not Russia, was behind the election interference in 2016.
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And finally, there is the pattern already deeply familiar to his political opponents — making spurious claims against adversaries under Mr. Trump's oft-stated theory that the best defense is a scorched-earth offense.
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On Tuesday, the Arizona senator delivered a speech condemning "spurious nationalism," which was widely seen—including by the president himself—as an attack on Trump's ethno-nationalist appeals and America First foreign policy.
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Reporters Without Borders, a Paris-based press rights organization, had denounced the charges against Sokolov as "spurious" while the Russian human rights group Memorial said Sokolov and his co-defendants were "political prisoners".
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Take the case of Jason Green, a lawyer who first made a name for himself in housing court by representing mega-landlords repeatedly accused of harassing tenants with spurious lawsuits and poor services.
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That office was supposed to forward the whistleblower complaint to Congress — but that handoff was stymied when the Department of Justice intervened with a spurious legal analysis for bypassing an unambiguous legislative mandate.
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That vagueness clearly fueled the judge's concern that he might have been tricked into delaying the FOIA case with a spurious claim that charges against the former FBI official were still being mulled.
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Cases of shoddy medical treatment and spurious drugs are often reported in India, where the public health system remains overburdened and people, especially in smaller towns and villages, struggle to access basic health services.
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Delhi's AAP government, for instance, has found itself hamstrung by varied forms of obstruction from the BJP-led central government, not to mention by scores of spurious lawsuits and repeated police raids and investigations.
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Dr Mahathir has promised to give the job within two years to Anwar Ibrahim, a former UMNO colleague who was locked up both by Dr Mahathir and by Mr Najib on spurious sodomy charges.
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That piece of good news was overshadowed the same day as six journalists were sentenced to life in prison based on generally-regarded-as-spurious charges of being involved with the 2016 coup attempt.
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Indeed, much of the bogus US political items generated during the 2016 election didn't emanate from Russian agents, but fly-by-night operations churning out spurious fodder appealing to biases across the political spectrum.
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Two days earlier Turkey's parliament lifted the immunity of its members, opening the way for 50 of 423 MPs from the pro-Kurdish Peoples' Democratic Party to face prosecution, mostly on spurious terror charges.
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" McCain, while accepting the Liberty Medal in Philadelphia on Monday night, warned the United States against turning toward "half-baked, spurious nationalism cooked up by people who would rather find scapegoats than solve problems.
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House Intelligence Committee Chairman Devin Nunes, who is a close ally of President Donald Trump and subpoenaed the department for documents, has brushed off those concerns as a "spurious" attempt to skirt congressional oversight.
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Forty-three staff members from IRI, the National Democratic Institute, Freedom House, the International Center for Journalists and the Konrad Adenaur Foundation were convicted on spurious charges aimed at expelling international organizations from Egypt.
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While this argument is spurious, we would do well to consider that there are cultural environments in which men and women alike are not socialized to have the vocabulary that would allow for refusal.
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Describing his collection of 10 oil-paint portraits,The Departure from Purity, the artist hopes to communicate a message that reflects the true nature of feeling weak-minded in the face of spurious temptations.
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On one hand, she was horribly abused by her father; on the other, she contributes to the spurious apologue of the vindictive woman who uses false rape allegations to strike out at a man.
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Although the bill will certainly not go anywhere, especially during impeachment hearings, it is a welcome development from a Congress that, in 1937, rushed to prohibit marijuana based on spurious testimony and hyperbolic fearmongering.
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The FBI's domestic terrorism investigations into right-wing extremists might be hamstrung by politics, even as the FBI appears to be directing more resources toward the spurious threat posed by black civil rights activists.
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Two years ago the White House issued a statement calling for an end to family reunification on the spurious grounds that it attracts unskilled immigrants, lowers wages, increases the deficit and undermines national security.
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While it was a widely telegraphed move designed to stop virtual coins from being used for money laundering and other crimes, the step also underscored authorities' intent to close down avenues for spurious speculation.
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One of the more unsettling consequences that results from perpetuating the "drain the swamp" myth, is its ready translation into spurious lines of attack against political opponents that only exacerbate potentially calamitous societal division.
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Government-aligned media have named more purported participants in the spurious plot, intensifying the already palpable fear that anyone in our party, or anyone seen as supporting it, could be the government's next target.
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Studying cross-sections of a survey like that can introduce some spurious results, so a better analysis of this question will need a lot more data, but there's no indication that's going on here.
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If startups and small businesses must compete in a world where a patent troll can seek "total profit" damages for infringements associated with a single spurious design patent, there may be "no profit" remaining.
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The last to do so, Selahattin Demirtas, joint leader of the pro-Kurdish Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP) and a candidate in the 2014 presidential election, was thrown in prison last year on spurious terrorism charges.
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After the fright he gave the markets by cancelling the airport (in response to a spurious vote badged as a "consultation" of the people that he held before taking office), AMLO sought to reassure investors.
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But unlike the spurious conclusions Ioannidis cited — about how eating a little bacon or an egg will shave years off your life — heavy levels of alcohol consumption have been proven to have terrible health consequences.
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JOHANNESBURG, Sept 15 (Reuters) - The head of South Africa's state-owned pension fund dismissed as spurious allegations made by a newspaper on Friday that he had misused funds and improperly raised salaries for some executives.
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A looming danse macabre figure makes the painting teem with a quixotic mix of fact and fiction, perhaps designed to provoke a blend of sacrosanct and soft-porn sensation that is imaginative but somewhat spurious.
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But, such a claim seems spurious given the fact that NSEERS could have been terminated years ago, but wasn't, and that former DHS Secretary Janet Napolitano had apparently felt the regulatory framework was worth keeping.
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Producer and PR specialist Felix Kramer pointed out that this was a bit like crying wolf about harassment, when so many people in games have suffered from both spurious personal attacks and the attendant gaslighting.
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FiveThirtyEight's Christie Aschwanden has a great round-up of what p-hacking is, and why it's so easy to find spurious correlations in food science (and certain types of genetics studies and social science studies).
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The funds were in respect of export earnings that were kept offshore, payment of imports that never made it into the country and funds stashed in foreign banks "under spurious circumstances," he said without elaborating.
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Trump repeats this over and over again based on a spurious claim: That the FBI's counter-intelligence investigation was begun because of the opposition research document put together by former British Intelligence officer Christopher Steele.
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As we all canter uncontrollably towards another February 14 of melted station chocolate and candlelit Groupon tapas, now seems like as good a time as any to make completely spurious claims about your sex life.
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He called the investigation, requested by the Western Values Project, an environmental watchdog group, "pretty spurious" and said he spent more than two hours speaking with federal investigators who traveled to Utah to interview him.
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Samandar Kukanov, a political opponent of Mr. Karimov who had spent more than 23 years in prison, was released in November, but many more political prisoners remain behind bars on spurious charges, rights advocates say.
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"This is a spurious lawsuit brought about by a parent and the Alliance Defending Freedom as part of a broader effort to bar trans students from equal access in sports," said GLSEN executive director Eliza Byard.
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Since his termination last August, Google employees who advocate for diversity at the company say that Damore's supporters have weaponized the company's HR department, filing spurious complaints that claim diversity activists are discriminating against white men.
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It was barely three months ago that James Gunn, the high-profile director of the Guardians of the Galaxy movies, was fired amid a spurious campaign to link him to pedophilia over 2010-era Twitter jokes.
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Separately on Friday, Facebook Inc, which along with other social media companies has faced growing pressure over spurious content spread on its platform, announced it would remove user groups and pages that contained misinformation about vaccinations.
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"The data processing was an even greater task as we had to write our own software packages to carefully calibrate the data and subtract out spurious signals at each point in the sky," Staveley-Smith said.
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The host later took aim at "fake news," a term used to define stories which are deliberate and spurious in content that has been corrupted to indict real stories that might be damaging to its subject.
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The officials also touted heavy investment in technology for detecting doctored videos and text inside pictures, but acknowledged that that they have been unable to stop some duplicates of videos that have been identified as spurious.
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One thing is clear: If the financial services industry is to embrace a new technology, it cannot be one in which mischief and mistakes are immutable and fraudsters can defend their actions on spurious ideological grounds.
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Trump and other Republicans turned voter fraud into a sort of all-purpose epithet, which they have also used to make spurious claims about the legitimate counting and recounting of votes in Florida, Georgia, and Arizona.
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For some Americans, it's relatively easy to vindicate themselves in a court of law—to quash bad warrants and suppress bad evidence, to thwart overzealous prosecutors and defeat spurious charges before they even reach a jury.
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Upside-down arrows produce spurious negative signs that can wreak havoc in physics, so nearly 40 years after Hamilton's bridge vandalism, physicists went to war with one another to keep the quaternion system from becoming standard.
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In these scenarios, women may be more protected from harassment — just as their male counterparts are more protected from the specter of spurious allegations — but they are likewise barred from interactions that might benefit them professionally.
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To check that these findings weren't spurious, we looked at speeding tickets after the release of four movies in "The Hunger Games" series, another popular franchise in the same time period that didn't glorify fast driving.
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As he and his wife struggled to understand Rachel's needs, Hotez was gathering up the data showing how spurious the vaccine-autism link was, and learning that most researchers were looking elsewhere to understand the condition.
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Democrats have accused Republicans of launching a spurious investigation of Clinton, the 2016 Democratic presidential nominee, to divert attention from Special Counsel Robert Mueller's investigation into possible collusion between President Donald Trump's election campaign and Russia.
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There were about 10 different distilleries producing the spurious liquor that went to various tea plantations and other areas, said Mrinal Saikia, a local lawmaker from the Bharatiya Janata Party, which rules Assam and the country.
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On July 19th, after weeks of naval shadow-boxing, Iran procured a bargaining chip of its own by grabbing a British tanker, the Stena Impero, in the Strait of Hormuz on spurious charges of safety violations.
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Yet, it is our understanding that your client's representatives, including the Washington Post, continue to pursue and to disseminate these false and spurious allegations in a manner that is injurious to American Media and its executives.
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Mukesh Agarwal, the additional director general of police in Assam State, said dozens of people had died within hours of drinking spurious alcohol on Thursday evening in the districts of Jorhat and Golaghat in northeastern India.
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Democrats have accused Republicans of launching a spurious investigation of Clinton, the 2016 Democratic presidential candidate, to divert attention from Special Counsel Robert Mueller's investigation into alleged links between President Donald Trump's presidential campaign and Russia.
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Last Monday, accepting the Liberty Medal at an event honoring war heroes, McCain warned against "half-baked, spurious nationalism cooked up by people who would rather find scapegoats than solve problems" — a direct call against Trumpism.
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This spurious correlation might unknowingly become part of your bank's financial model, and the next time a similar large coffee chain opens, it triggers a massive automated sell-off of assets that poisons the greater financial system.
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He called Trump's birther claims "spurious" when asked about a claim that Cruz wasn't eligible to run for president because he was born in Canada, and Trump's tweet stating Democrats would sue if Cruz was the nominee.
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Mr Babanov—whom Mr Jeyenbekov had personally threatened to lock up—had already fled the country after the election to escape spurious charges of inciting ethnic unrest that could have led to a long spell in prison.
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Bolton, according to reports, is preparing to publish a book accusing Trump of linking a decision to withhold military aid from Ukraine in order to pressure the country's president to announce spurious investigations of Trump's Democratic rivals.
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The Arizona senator and his party's 2008 presidential nominee described that "half-baked, spurious nationalism" as "unpatriotic as an attachment to any other tired dogma of the past that Americans consigned to the ash heap of history."
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Instead, the president and administration officials depict refugees as security threats, frauds and criminals, deride asylum as a "loophole," and stoke spurious fears that people will try to "stampede" or "force their way in" to the country.
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Considering how obvious bot spam like this is, and how easily a tool or script can be made that walks the connections and finds near-identical spurious accounts, one wonders how hard Twitter can actually be looking.
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The sudden spike in spurious claims has led some terror experts to speculate that it has gotten sloppier as its territory has dwindled and the group's focus has turned to launching attacks outside of Iraq and Syria.
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Mr. Trump and his allies have already floated a long list of spurious assaults on Mr. Mueller and members of his team, smearing them with allegations of conflicts of interest, bias and abuse of their investigative powers.
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Under their spurious interpretation, the agency could not, for example, provide additional guidance on emissions trading to the many states and power companies that are moving ahead with planning processes for meeting the rule's carbon reduction targets.
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In another paper called "Right for the Wrong Reasons," Linzen and his coauthors published evidence that BERT's high performance on certain GLUE tasks might also be attributed to spurious cues in the training data for those tasks.
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The underlying message of these spurious attacks is that the movement to fact-check the internet is a left-wing conspiracy whose real goal is to censor the right, and therefore must be resisted at all costs.
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Having stonewalled Congress' demands for information for nearly a year, it's no surprise to see the FBI and DOJ issue spurious objections to allowing the American people to see information related to surveillance abuses at these agencies.
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Trump made the comments about McCain after the Republican senator made a speech that attacked "half-baked, spurious nationalism" in the U.S. "At some point, I fight back and it won't be pretty," Trump said last week.
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"The United States must ensure that those admitted to this country do not bear hostile attitudes toward it and its founding principles," the order says, conveying the spurious notion that all Muslims should be considered a threat.
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McCain during his "The View" interview on Monday laughed when asked if he is "scared" of Trump's recent threat to "fight back" against the senator after McCain last week blasted "spurious nationalism" in a widely praised speech.
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And yet in this budget, they willingly, willfully exploded the deficit, not for public uplift or rebuilding America's infrastructure but rather on the spurious argument that giving truckloads of money back to businesses will spark their benevolence.
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I&aposve interviewed both Ljung and Wahlforss in the past, and neither had answers to the big questions facing SoundCloud about its product direction, business model and the spurious copyright takedowns that have eroded its trust with musicians.
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In their lawsuit, the attorneys general for Arizona, Oklahoma, Nevada and Texas argued that the move would violate US law and imperil US national security—spurious claims that have been debunked by US officials and tech policy experts.
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In particular, there is bad blood between Dr Mahathir, who is 92 years old, and Anwar Ibrahim, a former deputy prime minister whom Dr Mahathir first treated as a protégé and later had jailed on spurious sodomy charges.
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Executives working for multinational firms have been arrested, and ludicrously high fines imposed on spurious grounds (Acacia Mining, a British firm, was told to pay $190bn—more than three years of Tanzania's GDP—for allegedly undervaluing gold exports).
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Media that remain critical of the government have faced problems ranging from withdrawal of government advertising to spurious tax raids, lawsuits on the basis of antiquated rules and harassment on social media by legions of pro-government trolls.
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Some of the honorees tend towards the spurious: French researcher Marc-Antoine Fardin's 2014 study "Can a Cat Be Both a Solid and a Liquid?" was inspired by internet photos of cats tucked into glasses, buckets and sinks.
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When the FBI source for most of the information used to spy on the Trump team, a guy by the name of Christopher Steele, paid by the Hillary team to generate this fake spurious nonsense information against Trump.
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"Under Tanure's auspices, Oi has engaged in spurious talks with conflicted creditors who also hold Oi's shares, in order to preserve value for existing shareholders," said one of the people, who requested anonymity to discuss the matter freely.
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They say their candidate won fair and square — by being a better candidate who had more experience and offered a bolder vision for the party, and not because the DNC voting members were persuaded by a spurious attack.
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We may have to buy browsing data for Congressional office building ZIP codes and then p-hack our way to statistical significance in an attempt to fish spurious correlations out of unreliable datasets, but we've done it before.
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While one might think that masquerading as a medical office and dispensing spurious information to vulnerable women should be illegal, these fake clinics aren't only legally protected, they are also very often the lucky recipients of state funding.
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While such analyses are useful (particularly in their clarifying agreement that Brexit would do at least some damage to the British economy over the next 15 years), they are also guilty of providing a spurious sense of precision.
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In what has been largely read as a denunciation of President Trump's world view -- the senator derided "half-baked, spurious nationalism" -- McCain also reminded us who we are as a people and, perhaps more importantly, who we were.
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She and Puja allegedly drugged dissidents within the commune, quarantined enemies on the basis of spurious AIDS-test results, made repeated attempts to poison and kill Rajneesh's personal physician, Swami Devaraj, and attempted to poison Ma Yoga Vivek.
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Richard Emery, a civil rights lawyer, said the system needed to create incentives for the police and prosecutors to chase new leads even after an arrest, perhaps with stricter limits to prevent defense lawyers from using spurious information.
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The defense argued that life without parole was unjust, based on spurious claims that Ulbricht was directly responsible for Silk Road buyers who died from drug overdoses as a result of substances they bought on his black market.
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William H. Helfand, whose vast collection of prints, posters and similar memorabilia documented the peddling of spurious pills, potions and other medical treatments across the centuries in the United States and beyond, died on Tuesday in Branford, Conn.
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The top Democrat on a House of Representatives committee accused its Republican leaders of launching a spurious investigation of Hillary Clinton to divert attention from inquiries on alleged links between Donald Trump's presidential campaign and Russia.
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This isn't necessarily the case for all French heritage houses; the Balmain label, established in 1945, has been revived with only spurious connection to the historical style of founder Pierre Balmain, a lesser-known contemporary of Christian Dior.
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Xu Zhiyong warns that what is happening in Xinjiang today — an extensive surveillance network; large numbers of Uighurs "incarcerated in 'educational training centers' on the most spurious grounds" — could soon become the norm for the rest of China.
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The man, Joseph Speights, said he had been arrested on a spurious charge after he told Officer Mulkeen and his team that he was going to file a complaint against them for pulling him over in the Bronx.
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Democrats say the evidence to support this allegation is already overwhelming: Trump himself provided a summary of his July 25 phone call with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky in which he pressed Zelensky to investigate spurious allegations against Biden.
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Her work explores an approach called adversarial filtering, which uses algorithms to scan NLP training data sets and remove examples that are overly repetitive or that otherwise introduce spurious cues for a neural network to pick up on.
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Congress should move quickly to take up this bill to ensure that everyone — whether a reporter at a local newspaper or an online reviewer of a retailer or professional service provider — can have speech protected from spurious lawsuits.
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In both cases, party supporters believe the legal grounds are spurious and designed to eliminate a challenge to Prime Minister Prayuth Chan-Ocha, the former junta leader who stayed on after March elections the opposition says were manipulated.
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"There are dozens of superficial correlations involving language which are spurious, and linguistic behavior, such as pronunciation, doesn't fossilize," said Damián Blasi, study author and postdoctoral researcher in the University of Zurich's Comparative Linguistics Department, in a statement.
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The President of the association of social workers in Puerto Rico, Larry Alicea affirms that social workers already teach values in schools and that Keleher does not deserve her position because of the spurious multi-million-dollar contract.
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"We also reject the rationales the Maduro government proffers for its repressive actions, which, when closely examined are spurious and, politically-motivated, and without basis in domestic or international law," a U.S. State Department spokesperson said on Saturday.
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As with Byrne, Koenig's songs endorse a spurious ideal of maturity, in which a formerly ironic and immature lad decides to be a responsible adult and express his sincere emotions for the sake of a monogamous heterosexual relationship.
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The Coens like to open their movies with a question mark — the spurious truth claims in "Fargo," the tumbling tumbleweeds in "The Big Lebowski," the Old World shtetl in "A Serious Man" — which suits their playfully layered, sideways storytelling.
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Others, like Pruitt, have been urging Trump to follow his campaign promise and remove the U.S. from the agreement, using the spurious argument that remaining in the treaty could hurt the EPA's attempts to dismantle greenhouse gas emissions regulations.
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I called them Dickensian, mocked their poor service, questioned their spurious excuses for tardiness—I gave them the sort of verbal seeing-to that only myself and a disgruntled racist colonel in an inner city youth center could muster.
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The sources said the Internet Protocol address of the spurious site resembled one used by Russian government-linked hackers suspected in the breach of the DNC, the body that sets strategy and raises money for the Democratic Party nationwide.
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Sirin Labs, the same company that brought Tom Hardy and Leonardo DiCaprio to the London premiere of its spurious "world's most secure phone" two years ago, is unveiling another Android device today with mighty claims and a prestigious endorsement.
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We have, at least, largely dispensed with some of the more obviously spurious ideas, such as that intelligence is something that can be easily measured, or that it depends on biological markers such as head shape or brain size.
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The Independence Party's interim leader, Nigel Farage, was the first British politician to meet Mr. Trump after his victory — an astonishing breach of diplomatic protocol that highlighted Mr. Farage's spurious claim to be our man in the new Washington.
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Few minority plaintiffs will have the resources to hire the teams of lawyers who can jump through the hoops HUD is erecting, and then to take defendants to court after HUD has dismissed a complaint on spurious procedural grounds.
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Mohamed Nasheed, who became the country's first democratically elected President in 2009 and achieved worldwide renown for highlighting the effect of global warming on the archipelago, was imprisoned in 2015 on terrorism charges that his supporters say were spurious.
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McCain, who has denied Trump a crucial vote on Senate Republicans' efforts to repeal and replace Obamacare, condemned "half-baked, spurious nationalism cooked up by people who would rather find scapegoats than solve problems" in an acceptance address Monday.
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One general way to protect the Fed against spurious attacks on its authority is to make clear that quantified cost-benefit is not required for its prudential standard setting or its designation of other banking firms as systemically important.
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But Youssef said the internal audit he conducted in 2014 showed the program, in fact, produced little success while often forcing agents in the field to waste time chasing spurious leads generated by the FBI's analysis of NSA data.
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Collectively, the witnesses described an effort by Trump and his associates to pressure Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky to investigate former Vice President Joe Biden and his son over spurious corruption allegations being pushed by Trump's personal lawyer, Rudy Giuliani.
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Legal experts dismiss the states' argument as "absurd," yet they worry it could find an audience among conservative jurists, given the prior success of anti-Obamacare lawsuits thought to be spurious that still found their way to the Supreme Court.
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Trump glancingly covered those talking points: The border is both a national security crisis (because of spurious arguments about drugs, smugglers, and terrorism) and a humanitarian crisis (because of the genuinely unprecedented influx of children and families into the US).
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Briefs backing the banks argued that a ruling in favour of Miami could transform cities into extortion rackets, able to gain large settlements from lenders worried about the cost of an investigation and the publicity accompanying even a spurious case.
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She drew a spurious line of influence from Vladimir Putin to Britain's Nigel Farage -- who addressed a Trump rally in Mississippi on Wednesday -- to Trump himself, who is, said Clinton, the agent of the alt-right's takeover of the Republican Party.
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Although never substantiated and was brushed off by local officials as a spurious hoax, the "purge" showed up in a leaked FBI warning reportedly issued to Louisiana law enforcement as a sign of general heightened danger to them over the weekend.
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Any lawyer who brought a motion on similarly spurious grounds—or who tried to argue for changing the law to allow ethnicity-based disqualification—would be subject to sanctions including monetary penalties, censure, and even referral to the disciplinary authorities.
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Among those watching the proceedings from the gallery were Milo Yiannopoulos, the former Breitbart pundit; Jacob Wohl, the social media personality pushing spurious allegations against high-profile Democrats; and Larry Klayman, the controversial lawyer who founded the group Judicial Watch.
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" Bush's speech calling out the uglier parts of Trumpism comes just days after John McCain -- Bush's main opponent in the 2000 GOP presidential primaries -- delivered a similar rebuke, describing the dangers posed by the rise of "half-baked, spurious nationalism.
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The report, based on a study of 200 electrical retail outlets across major cities like Mumbai, Hyderabad, Ahmedabad and New Delhi in July, found the products to be spurious and riskier, with the highest number of violations in the national capital.
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" Earlier this month, Scaramucci's lawyer wrote a letter threatening legal action against The Tufts Daily newspaper if it failed to "retract the false statements and issue a public apology," claiming he had made "spurious claims about my reputation and integrity.
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The feud between the two Republicans, which has been ongoing since the 2016 campaign, devolved into Twitter threats earlier this week after McCain delivered a passionate speech slamming "half-baked, spurious nationalism," which many saw as a veiled attack on Trump.
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The report, recently filed by Sgt Aaron Barnes, includes spurious and badly sourced claims, such as a vague estimation that 80% of the club "appeared to be under the influence of drugs" based on little more than eye-witness accounts.
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While aviation technology specialists insist that mid-air Wi-Fi is an internationally tried-and-tested process and dismiss all security concerns as "spurious", the Indian government continues to be haunted by the Kandahar hijack incident from 15 years ago.
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In India, they have been slapped with spurious defamation suits when they report on suspicious doings of the powerful, and beaten by mobs and killed for their reporting — Gauri Lankesh was gunned down last month in front of her home.
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That Doesn't Mean You Are Ready for It Gina Kolata, a Times science writer, has looked into "predatory journals" — academic publications that will print just about anything, including a spurious study claiming that people can slim down by eating chocolate.
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The seven-page document he compiled and circulated also accused American diplomats of covering up for crimes committed by the Bidens, a spurious theory that played a role in the recall of the American ambassador to Ukraine, Marie L. Yovanovitch.
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"Sanchez adds: "Trump has frequently and loudly complained about the reluctance of his own Justice Department to launch spurious investigations of his political adversaries, and it&aposs not hard to imagine that reluctance being weakened in the aftermath of attacks.
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But CNN president Jeff Zucker has told people inside and outside the network that he's not interested in hiring former officials he perceives as complicit in spreading falsehoods or spurious talking points, according to four people familiar with the conversations.
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"It is our understanding that your client's representatives, including the Washington Post, continue to pursue and to disseminate these false and spurious allegations in a manner that is injurious to American Media and its executives," Fine said in the email.
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If Qatar is seriously concerned about the humanitarian impact of state policy, it should not burden the UN and international community with spurious human rights claims, but should cooperate with the UN and others to help end international terrorism and extremism.
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And a growing number of House impeachment investigators say the evidence is overwhelming that President Donald Trump used the power of his office to pressure Ukraine's government to open spurious investigations into his political opponents, including former Vice President Joe Biden.
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Trump's criticism of McRaven and McCain, his spurious draft exemption, and his failure to visit even one of the "hot zones" where he continues to put American lives at risk—all these things point to a central fact: he's a chickenshit.
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Based on spurious allegations of massive voting fraud, a number of states responded to the Supreme Court's evisceration of the Voting Rights Act of 1965 in Shelby V. Holder (2013) by placing more prohibitions and barriers to exercising the right to vote.
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Photo: APRetail giant Walmart yanked shirts saying "Impeach 45," which just so happens to be the number President Donald Trump has embroidered on his shirt sleeves, from its online store on Tuesday after getting rolled by spurious threats of a boycott on Twitter.
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Vendors claim that combustion can be improved by passing fuel through magnetic fields, that refrigeration circuits can be made more efficient by injecting heat and that multiple layers of reflective foil enhance the effect of insulation quilt, to name but three spurious technologies.
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This is a technology that excels at finding connections, and this can lead to all sorts of spurious analyses: from scanning babysitters' social media posts to detect their "attitude" to analyzing corporate transcripts of earnings calls to try to predict stock prices.
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Since spurious cases tend to be dropped when there's an attorney on the other side, providing low-income renters with access to legal representation, similar to the right to counsel in criminal trials, is a logical first step in curtailing unwarranted removals.
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The spurious logic of these lawsuits is the same one that animates thousands of trolls on Twitter: if we're to have an equal society, the women of the world can't have anything resembling a public celebration for this cultural milestone of a movie.
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Once women are in their clutches, they bombard them with spurious information: that abortions are extremely painful and perilous, that ending an unwanted pregnancy may result in permanent psychological damage, that an abortion might not even be necessary because miscarriage is so common.
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" The federation said the report commissioned by the anti-discrimination agency, which examined the issues surrounding the annulment of decades-old convictions, "makes clear that the government can no longer hide behind spurious arguments that annulling the convictions would not be legally possible.
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GOP leaders have argued the longer Kavanaugh's nomination remains pending in the Senate, the more he is likely to face what they call spurious allegations — such as a recent charge from a woman who claimed gang rapes occurred at parties Kavanaugh attended.
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In a way it's appropriate that Trump got the backing of liver auguries, a system born of the paranoia of ancient autocrats who drew what they believed were intelligent but were actually spurious and ignorant conclusions from the world and acted accordingly.
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Shocking even conservative legal experts, the Trump administration fell for this spurious argument and lent its support to the Texas lawsuit — which, if successful, would render all of the marquee provisions of Obamacare, like protections for patients with pre-existing conditions, null.
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In twin speeches — one in July, where he issued a call to bipartisanship in the Senate, and another in Philadelphia this past week, where he railed against "half-baked, spurious nationalism" — Mr. McCain has taken on both his colleagues and President Trump.
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"The unfair trial of Akhtem Chiygoz tops a wave of spurious and demonstrably false criminal and administrative cases instigated by the occupying Russian authorities against members of the Tatar community," Oksana Pokalchuk, the director for Amnesty International in Ukraine, said in a statement.
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The director, Oleg Sentsov, is seen in much of the Western world as a political prisoner convicted on spurious charges of conspiracy to commit acts of terrorism as a result of his outspoken criticism of the 2014 annexation of his native Crimea.
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The organizers are also making the spurious claim that the Jewish star is necessarily a symbol of Zionist oppression — a breathtaking claim to anyone who has ever seen a picture of a Jew forced to wear a yellow one under the Nazis.
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One, J. Christian Adams, runs an Indiana-based advocacy group, the Public Interest Legal Foundation, that wages legal battles to purge voter rolls and has made claims of illegal voting by noncitizens in Virginia that election officials and others say are spurious.
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As the spurious Brexit mantras of sovereignty and halting the flood of foreign labor are clung to desperately, I do often wonder why one of the few legitimate concerns about the EU is rarely touted though as a good reason to get out?
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"Having stonewalled Congress' demands for information for nearly a year, it's no surprise to see the FBI and DOJ issue spurious objections to allowing the American people to see information related to surveillance abuses at these agencies," Nunes said in a statement.
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By 2004, the President was struggling to maintain his popularity as the war in Iraq was turning out to be an operational disaster, on top of the fact it had been based on spurious claims of Saddam Hussein possessing weapons of mass destruction.
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Since so many of the innovations that have had the effect of actually improving things have come from nonlawyers, the legal establishment's continued protection of the status quo — all justified under the spurious guise of "consumer protection" — is all the more indefensible.
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"Trump's criticism of McRaven and McCain, his spurious draft exemption, and his failure to visit even one of the 'hot zones' where he continues to put American lives at risk—all these things point to a central fact: he's a chickenshit," King tweeted.
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Many legal scholars have long thought the lawsuit, first filed in February, is spurious and that higher courts — up to and including the Supreme Court, which has upheld Obamacare against existential legal threats on several prior occasions — would not take it seriously.
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Legal experts dismiss the states' argument as "absurd," yet they have worried it could find a receptive audience among conservative jurists, given the prior success of anti-Obamacare lawsuits thought to be spurious that still found their way to the Supreme Court.
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Accordingly, the exhibition provoked the idea that the Third Reich used the Zeppelin to vindicate the spurious idea of a racially pure society, known as völkish in German — bogusly associating the aviation invention with supremacy over the skies, and by extension, racial and ethnic supremacy.
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" The 71-year-old former Celebrity Apprentice host's latest attack against the Arizona senator came shortly after John McCain alluded to Trump in an emotional speech while accepting the National Constitution Center's Liberty Medal Monday evening, stating that "half-baked, spurious nationalism is unpatriotic.
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The foundation of Trump's argument rests on a spurious claim that the Antiquities Act, which allows the executive branch to declare certain lands as national monuments and puts those lands under federal protection, has been abused by former administrations to the detriment of local economies.
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"Preventing a well-known activist from traveling abroad for human rights advocacy, and then locking him up on spurious grounds, is a shameful attempt to suppress a peaceful dissenting voice from Kashmir," Aakar Patel, Executive Director at Amnesty International India, said in a statement.
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"There is no legal body in this country with the legitimacy to get us out of this mess," says Jacky Lumarque, the rector of Université Quisqueya in Port-au-Prince, who wanted to run for president himself but was disqualified—on spurious grounds, he says.
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As a former national security professional, on principle I was against the release of either memo — sensitive intelligence matters should not be litigated in public — but appreciated Schiff correcting the record and countering the spurious claims by Nunes that the FBI was being deceitful.
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At the end of 2004, just as Ukraine's Orange revolution began, Mr Putin expunged the celebration of the Bolshevik revolution from the Russian calendar, replacing it with a somewhat spurious anniversary: the chasing of the Poles out of Moscow during the Times of Troubles.
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"In the past few days, a calculated and targeted attack has been launched to spread vicious and spurious allegations against me," said Appelbaum, a developer at the project, which is behind popular software that allows users to browse the web anonymously, in a statement.
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During the early 1980s, military-backed death squads rampaged through entire communities, justifying a scorched-earth policy on the spurious principle that "indigenous villages were the rivers in which the leftist guerrillas swam," as Edgar Gutiérrez, a former foreign minister, put it to me.
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"To refuse the obligations of international leadership for the sake of some half-baked, spurious nationalism cooked up by people who would rather find scapegoats than solve problems is unpatriotic," he writes in his preface, a scolding he directs at no one in particular.
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McCain has waged it in public remarks since Trump's election, including a speech in Philadelphia last October, when he pushed back against the "half-baked, spurious nationalism" that was gripping too many Americans and lamented the abdication of America's moral leadership in the world.
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Iran has a history of imprisoning Americans on spurious charges -- along with a history of negotiating prisoner releases -- including the release of American hikers detained in Iran and a prisoner swap which included the release of Washington Post journalist Jason Rezaian and three other Americans.
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Democrats quickly coalesced around a push for a special prosecutor to take control of the Russia inquiry, saying the leadership of the Justice Department could not be trusted with the job after the termination of the F.B.I. chief on what they considered spurious grounds.
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Civil service unions try to assure teachers, cops and firemen are paid fairly but also assure that they are protected when a spurious complaint is brought against them or a political appointee wants to fire them for optics, despite what may be right or wrong.
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But in the era of Brexit, Donald Trump and Cambridge Analytica, of Rodrigo Duterte and Jair Bolsonaro, the ruses it depicts are eerily recognisable: the spurious storylines and made-up enemies, the redefinition of what constitutes a fact, the wholesale manipulation of the citizenry.
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In terms of theme, he could not get beyond what he was convinced was a fundamentally spurious obsession with suicidal ideation, but simultaneously he felt that every other poetic topic or concern was an obfuscation, an eschewal, or a bald retreat from this theme.
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If Paul Ryan and other congressional Republicans who've long supported free trade wanted to write legislation curtailing Trump's ability to invoke spurious national security claims to raise taxes on imported goods, it seems overwhelmingly likely that they would be able to get the votes to do so.
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"The continued use of degrading and unscientific 'virginity exams' by the Afghan government is part of a broader pattern of abuses in which women and girls in Afghanistan are jailed on spurious 'moral crimes' accusations," Human Rights Watch senior researcher Heather Barr said in a statement.
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The idea of the left in bed with pedophiles was apparently too irresistible to ignore: at press time, the photo had been shared upwards of 20,000 times and was recently liked by Donald Trump Jr. The far-right has long made spurious links between leftists and pedophiles.
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If you don't believe me—and, at this stage you're fully justified in being somewhat suspicious of my quite possibly ever-so-slightly spurious claim—then I highly recommend that you make yourself a cup of tea and set eight minutes aside to watch the video below.
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The continuing crisis with the neighboring Gulf state of Qatar -- which has been blockaded and isolated by the Saudis and their allies on spurious charges that it backs terrorism and extremism -- also looks reckless for a man trying to project an image of cool-headed statesmanship.
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That 2016 decision regarding the Texas admitting-privileges rule rebuked state lawmakers for the torrent of laws — more than 400 — that they have enacted since 2010 restricting abortion access based on spurious claims and fake science, and often imposing regulations that are impossible to comply with.
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Some familiar with the practice said wealthy Russians were giving up their residency because they feared that disclosing their offshore companies would open them to the risk of the information being leaked to business rivals, or even abused by corrupt officials for spurious prosecutions or blackmail.
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WASHINGTON — A 28-year-old North Carolina man pleaded guilty Friday in federal court to firing a military-style assault rifle inside a Washington pizza restaurant as he investigated spurious claims in online articles that the pizzeria was at the center of a child sex-slave ring.
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Conspiracy theorists like Corsi and Trump ally Roger Stone pushed the Seth Rich conspiracy theory on Infowars and in other outlets with audiences of millions — and so far, Fox News and the Washington Times have been forced to issue issued full retractions of their spurious allegations.
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Cynics will interpret albums like More Life and indeed Pablo as indicators that external validation liquefies a performer's talent and confidence, that money inspires the spurious notion that creative excess equals aesthetic quality, but these aren't bad things, exactly, and to insist otherwise reveals a furtive craving for auteurism.
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" Later Wednesday, House Intelligence Committee Chairman Devin Nunes said it was "no surprise" to see the FBI and the DOJ "issue spurious objections to allowing the American people to see information related to surveillance abuses at these agencies" after both "stonewalled Congress' demands for information for nearly a year.
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In two filings today in the United States District Court, Central District of California, Gucci has asked the Court to dismiss the spurious claims that Forever 21 lodged on June 26, 2017, and has brought counterclaims against Forever 21 for willful trademark infringement, trademark dilution, and unfair competition.
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"*Trump falsely claims Obama didn't contact families of fallen troops (NY Times)*McCain condemns "half-bakes, spurious nationalism" (Washington Post) North Korea's deputy U.N. ambassador warned that the situation on the Korean Peninsula "has reached the touch-and-go point and a nuclear war may break out any moment.
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"The spurious and non-branded LED products are a serious threat to not just the organised and compliant market players but also to the government's key programs like Make in India," the report said, referring to the government's programme to set up more manufacturing units in the country.
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"Having stonewalled Congress' demands for information for nearly a year, it's no surprise to see the FBI and DOJ issue spurious objections to allowing the American people to see information related to surveillance abuses at these agencies," Nunes, the chairman of the House Intelligence Committee, said in a statement.
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Spurious attacks on the court by self-serving government officials investigated and indicted for committing atrocity crimes who are trying to elude justice, and dissemination of falsehoods and distortions about the ICC by their well-resourced and highly paid public relations professionals, are what smell like a skunk.
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Rather than joining forces — and seeking an ally in John McCain, who the week before denounced Trump's "half-baked, spurious nationalism" — to issue some concrete demands, they hung around the Senate, and all three voted in the middle of the night for an important GOP leadership legislative priority.
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These forecasts are not just lacking in value, they're destroying value by issuing spurious numbers, according to Salil Mehta, an independent statistician who was formerly the director of research and analytics for the United States Treasury's Troubled Asset Relief Program and for the federal Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation.
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The Hill's 12:30 Report: McCain rips 'half-baked, spurious nationalism' | Trump fires back | Trump drug czar nominee withdraws | California bans pet stores from selling non-rescues | Melania's hurricane PSA | National Pasta Day Let's not name names here but let's see, what nationalists with power do we know....?
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MORE (R-Ariz.) warning about a "half-baked, spurious nationalism" that reminds him of conditions in the 1930s that preceded World War II. During his vital and historically important speech, Bush condemned a political discourse that sets a negative national tone and provides permission for cruelty and bigotry.
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"The correlation identified in this paper might be real, but could equally well be a spurious feature resulting from, for example, the over-subtraction of some of the background templates," Dan Hooper, head of the Theoretical Astrophysics Group at the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory, told Gizmodo in a Twitter direct message.
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Though they have not entirely ruled out using the courts to knock down claims of immunity they view as spurious, Democrats led by Representative Adam B. Schiff of California, the chairman of the Intelligence Committee, have hinted for weeks now that they do not intend to wait around for decisions.
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"Tor Developer Jacob Appelbaum Resigns, Denies Sexual Assault ClaimsFormer Tor Project employee and well-known computer security and privacy advocate Jacob Appelbaum…Read more ReadAppelbaum denied the allegations, saying: "In the past few days, a calculated and targeted attack has been launched to spread vicious and spurious allegations against me.
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Instead of language chastising consumers for their selfishness, instead of spurious accusations of secret profit behind ad-block technologies, the advertising industry needs to recognize that it has built no good will, that its failure to stop and active decision to escalate this problem is the direct cause of consumers' actions.
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Spurious charges of dual Jewish loyalty and Jewish money were the basis of much of the hatred that Jews faced in Germany before World War II, as well during many of the eastern European Pogroms and the Spanish Inquisition, all of which predate the founding of the modern State of Israel.
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Zambian leaders also followed the EU lead in the spurious claim that GMO corn would cause allergic reactions, a more likely outcome from conventional plant breeding practices allowed by the EU. They also claimed that Zambian citizens were being used as guinea pigs although this corn was routinely eaten by Americans.
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It is shocking that Travis Kalanick could publicly say that Uber would do everything to support our client and her family in her recovery when he and other executives were reviewing illegally obtained medical records and engaging in offensive and spurious conspiracy theories about the brutal rape she so tragically suffered.
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And when a blogger at the far-right Unz Review noted that the DNA variations associated with high IQ in a 2017 study of Europeans were at the lowest frequency among Africans, the study's lead author, Danielle Posthuma, wrote in a published reply that such cross-population comparisons were spurious.
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MORE (R-Ariz.) warned about the spread of a "half-baked, spurious nationalism" that reminds him of the years that preceded the Second War War, and the destruction and dysfunction of a Senate that conducts itself without the mutual respect and comity the founders envisioned for the great deliberative body. Sen.
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At his extradition hearing in Madrid earlier this month, Mr. Carvajal's lawyers argued that the United States wanted to extradite Mr. Carvajal for "a spurious purpose" — to make him stand trial for drug trafficking — while their main goal was to get information from him about President Nicolás Maduro of Venezuela.
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Neither, in his opinion, understood the threat of Russia nor the importance of US engagement in the Middle East, and when McCain took a stand against President Trump's health care reforms and disparaged any "half-baked, spurious nationalism," he re-emerged in the American imagination as a truly independent-minded senator.
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He registered surprise at first, followed by satisfaction, as he seemed to realize that their moment could also be his moment; that he could, for this one instant, hallucinate mutual respect and pantomime common cause; that he could just slough off all his sins and latch on to a spurious grace.
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In light of the use of North Korean mink in Chinese-made false eyelashes and maybe-spurious, maybe-true reports that the DPRK government collects a whole lot of dog fur annually from citizens that could be used to make clothing, brushes, and maybe even false lashes, Vox asked e.l.f.
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Nearly every real person who commented was in favor of net neutrality, but their arguments were drowned out by a flood of spurious comments purportedly made by identities stolen from porn sites, by people whose names and email addresses had been harvested without their permission, and, in some cases, from dead people.
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It is not hard to see how for instance a Government minister, who does not agree to financial terms proposed by an international company, could find themselves removed from office on spurious charges that cannot be verified over crimes they did not commit, while someone more malleable is inserted in their place.
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The hosts played a clip of him at the National Constitution Center recently blasting the Stephen Bannon agenda, in his words, "some half-baked, spurious nationalism cooked up by people who'd rather find scapegoats than solve problems" -- not taking the moment to consider that scapegoating is a favorite tactic of liberal identity politics.
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Mr. Trump and his surrogates have from the start been engaged in a smear campaign to discredit the Mueller investigation, starting with their first, spurious claim — nearly a year ago — that Mr. Mueller and members of his team had supposed "conflicts of interest" that disqualified them from working on the Russia investigation.
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And while it wasn't as immediately outrage-inducing as the spurious Reddit comments Ken Bone made about having looked at Jennifer Lawrence's nude photos and believing Trayvon Martin's shooting was "justified," what the media found was potentially much more damaging: Coe had just been released from prison two days before the Oscars.
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This convinced many Republicans that pursuing centrism is a fool's errand, and the subsequent losses of candidates like McCain and Romney, who were both distrusted by conservative activists, have only strengthened the belief among Republican elites that they win when they nominate conservatives, and lose when they nominate moderates, spurious though the claim may be.
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In the face of spurious explanations for public policies that would foreseeably inflict real damage on identifiable groups of people, judges and justices are abandoning the traditional diffidence of the judicial role and expressing a new willingness to call out legislatures for what they are really doing, not just what they say they are doing.
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And the councils and police forces in those cities will look at this landmark decision made by the select few in a room in Islington, and they'll think that if they got away with closing fabric—one of the most celebrated nightclubs in the entire world—under relatively spurious terms, then anything is possible.
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And the method by which they were passed might have been good politics: As Jeff Blehar pointed out on Twitter, if the House GOP was convinced these reforms needed to be made, it made all the sense in the world to make them in such a way that they would prevent against spurious attacks.
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Nevertheless, through their own inaction, congressional Republicans—who alone, through sheer force of numbers, have the power to delay tomorrow's vote—stand ready to cement Team Democrat as the official pro-internet party, yoking themselves in the meantime with Pai's spurious claim that deregulating the broadband industry will, somehow, benefit American consumers more than Verizon's profit margins.
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While the 24 peace activists are currently free, the incident is only the latest in a long line of perceived witch-hunts of activists that have become commonplace in Turkey since the 2013 events of Gezi Park (some of the spurious trials are ongoing), and recent developments are yet another troubling sign of Turkey's descent into increased authoritarianism.
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Mr Babanov, a businessman and political moderniser, left Kyrgyzstan after Mr Jeyenbekov threatened to jail him, too, on spurious charges of attempting to overthrow the new government and of inciting racial unrest between ethnic Uzbeks and Kyrgyz—an accusation intended to call to mind clashes between the two ethnic groups in 2010 that led to hundreds of deaths.
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Roberts has demonstrated a concern for the public legitimacy of the Court, and for the future of his own reputation, and this occasionally leads him to vote in unexpected ways: in 2012, he helped preserve Obamacare, and last term his vote prevented the Trump Administration from adding a citizenship question to the U.S. census on spurious grounds.
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Because Republicans are normally profoundly uninterested in questioning the system of foreign intelligence surveillance authorities — which, after all, are now in the hands of an executive branch headed by a Republican — they are clinging to spurious claims of Deep State deception, perhaps hoping that this weekend's document release is too lengthy for most Americans to examine directly.
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Youssef, a decorated counterterrorism agent and prior FBI whistleblower, told The Hill that he sought, in the summer of 2014, to get the FBI to reform the program out of concern it gave the FBI easy access to Americans' telephone data, leaving it open to potential abuse while generating spurious connections between innocent people and bad actors.
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And even as Mr. Putin extolled the benefits of diversifying the Russian economy away from its dependence on commodities like oil and gas, Michael Calvey, the American founder of one of the largest Russian venture capital firms investing in new technology sat in jail, recently arrested on seemingly spurious fraud charges because of a commercial dispute over a bank.
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