The association may be spurious, but is plausible.

While it assumes predictable financial flows, such predictability can be spurious.

The vast majority of these initial research claims would yield only spurious findings.

The Arab Spring drained away whatever spurious legitimacy that style of governance ever had.

The argument that smaller lenders are not a systemic threat is spurious consider Spain s cajas.

The Cultural Revolution s major figures, who wrought so much mindless violence, thus either maintain their silence or offer spurious self defenses.

Examples of payloads include data destruction, messages with insulting text or spurious e mail messages sent to a large number of people.

Morsi s decision on November 22 to grant himself absolute authority for the spurious purpose of defending the revolution is not new for Egypt.

Spurious economic arguments against higher taxes have been debunked in the West, but are still commonly repeated in the finance ministries of developing countries.

Financial institutions should be alert to attempts to evade the sanctions through spurious transactions or by third parties acting on behalf of listed individuals or entities.

Just prior to the 1990 World Series he wrote about the findings of another fan, Ron Berler, who had discovered a spurious correlation called the Ex Cubs Factor .

It is the breakdown of non economistic, common sense ways of valuing human activities framing them in larger social contexts that has led to today s spurious methods of calculating pay.

It is the breakdown of non economistic, common sense ways of valuing human activities framing them in larger social contexts 160 that has led to today s spurious methods of calculating pay.

Under Nigeria s various dictatorships, for example, many journalists underwent a rite of passage that most prefer to forget routine harassment, beatings, torture, frame ups on spurious charges, and incongruously long prison sentences.

In the 20th century various botanists attempted to further define S. macrophylla in South America as a new species, such as S. candollei Pittier and S. tessmannii Harms., but many authorities consider these spurious.

This differentiates it from experimental research in which a quasi artificial environment is created to control for spurious factors, and where at least one of the variables is manipulated as part of the experiment.

The separation wall was designed to isolate the Palestinian people with the ultimate aim of destroying their political, social and economic unity on spurious security grounds that had no connection with what was happening on the ground.

He also invites the Committee to draw inferences from allegedly systematic practices of the Ontario Commission being wholesale rejection of human rights complaints on the basis of inaccurate accounts of the events and facts and spurious arguments and considerations made behind closed doors' .

The Arab Spring drained away whatever spurious legitimacy that style of governance ever had. But, in Pakistan, delegitimation of military rule had actually occurred three years earlier, and the pressure for change came from much the same source a restive and mobilized new middle class.