| Because our survey effort was equal for each transect within a year, summing abundances over migration visits did not lead to spurious results. |
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| In every important strike the bourgeois press is forced to drop its spurious neutrality. |
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| Thus, we chose a trigger level that minimized the number of hypopneas without spurious triggering of the ventilator. |
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| Market pundits will come up with all sort of spurious reasons why shares may or may not continue to climb. |
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| Placing them between the transmitter and the antenna reduces broadband noise and other spurious signals radiated by the transmitter. |
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| Equally chowderheaded was the European decision to reject the merger between the two companies on grounds that were spurious, at best. |
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| The committee was also required to evaluate the extent and problem of spurious and substandard drugs in the country. |
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| Yet it takes a fictional account of a spurious global warming scenario on celluloid to get Joe Soap talking about it. |
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| No wonder they generate so many spurious results that are never replicated. |
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| People are entitled to compensation when they are injured, but we need to weed out the spurious claims. |
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| These are one-man bands who get enormous coverage by producing spurious reports that set out to frighten people. |
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| Many in the press predicted that the FDA's actions would open the floodgates to a torrent of spurious claims. |
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| The government has an obligation to act against spurious or fraudulent claims. |
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| Regardless of your feelings toward this particular company, you must know your line of reasoning is spurious at best. |
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| The spurious claims that this was the work of dissidents does not tally with the facts. |
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| He also said the industry's claims that tourism would be unaffected were as spurious as its claims about property prices. |
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| That amendment would penalise drug companies if they lodged spurious patent claims designed to prevent cheap generic drugs entering the market. |
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| Pilocarpus was at one time adulterated with spurious jaborandis, other foreign leaves, stems, dirt and mouldy leaves. |
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| Anonymous Egyptian police sources released information that they were seeking nine Pakistani suspects but this lead proved spurious. |
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| Racism is the spurious belief that human characteristics and abilities are determined by race or ethnic origin. |
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| Really, given the spurious arguments these jokers advance for and against the cross, this is as good a compromise as we can possibly get. |
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| Use of adulterants or spurious materials is another issue that further complicates the quality standards of plants-based traditional remedies. |
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| The spurious determinacy given the law at the level of the nation-state is entirely absent at the level of geopolitics. |
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| We used the test with Yates's correction to avoid spurious rejection of the null hypothesis when expectations are too small. |
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| Unfortunately, some creationists have also fallen for this spurious line of reasoning. |
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| There is also an ancient pseudepigraphic tradition which contains spurious anecdotal material about Hippocrates' life. |
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| The spurious argument that Lewin was ineffective in stemming crime is so openly dishonest that Jamaicans like myself have started to tune out. |
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| I fail to see why a choreographer would think it is a good idea to tackily reveal so much spurious flesh, and for so long. |
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| Science is the search for fact, not the publication of spurious propaganda. |
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| The Americans are worried that they'll be the victim of spurious or malicious prosecutions. |
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| I could find all sorts of spurious reasons why I needed to continue smoking. |
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| Hypsodonty has been shown to be a spurious correlate to obligate grazing in previous studies on certain equid and proboscidean taxa as well. |
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| But those writings were condemned as spurious in the decretals attributed to Pope Gelasius at the end of the fifth century. |
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| He pressed his father's friend the Lord Chancellor and, later, the Prince Regent for a barony, in respect of a spurious Plantagenet descent. |
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| Magistrates will come down on the side of the tenant for the most spurious reasons. |
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| It is spurious to claim that this important archaeological site is under threat. |
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| There have been some charges of plagiarism on account of this reference which to my mind are spurious and nonsensical. |
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| Predictions based upon the fact that bear markets only end when shares reach a certain valuation level are equally spurious. |
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| And what is worse, they use their learning to invent spurious reasons for non-payment of the tax. |
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| Not only are such spurious therapies nauseating in their own right, but they misdiagnose the disease. |
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| Previous results pertaining to interlock centrality might be spurious or misleadingly imprecise. |
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| It is what it is, and it's best not to invent spurious reasons to discard evidence just because you don't like it. |
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| Your spurious example of a woman with friends in Switzerland is a typical example of muddying the waters. |
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| Those are actively purchased sales, not spurious, unaudited figures of papers dumped in corners, ignored or, at best, flicked through. |
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| The process of separating some of these elements, which are then related to new contexts, is perceived as spurious and unauthentic. |
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| He cited a range of spurious claims, suggesting that a compo culture has seeped into all sectors of Irish society. |
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| Sadly, phoney clinics offer spurious tests which will diagnose allergies in virtually anybody. |
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| A new budget hotel chain has muscled into the market there with a somewhat spurious name. |
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| The spurious impact of channels on society is an issue of gruesome and far-reaching consequences. |
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| No doubt there'll be some spurious, nebulous rhetoric about rights and responsibilities, respect, choice and other such middle class emollients. |
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| One of the problems with the spurious dichotomies posed between nature and nurture, or genes and environment, is that they don't help us understand the process of development. |
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| But what really stuck in my craw was that Pope mindlessly repeated a spate of spurious claims about ethanol and Brazil. |
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| With this somewhat spurious connection culled from the works, Mr. Slatkin only underscored that the program had more or less been cobbled together without rhyme or reason. |
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| With more than 360,000 people, a resurrected New Orleans stands out in high relief from the spurious values of the Tea Party. |
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| A spurious, wrong-headed idea that spreads virally and poisons public discourse. |
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| She was aware how often spurious communications followed the death of a public figure. |
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| Corry argues that this is merely a political opinion, backed by questionable and spurious data. |
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| A lot of the time the lawyers have to cut a deal because their evidence isn't good enough or can't be admitted for some seemingly spurious legal reason. |
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| Workers detailed the ways they are cheated out of their wages by spurious fees, endemic undercounting of apples picked under the piece rate pay system. |
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| Many women are virtual slaves to their pimps, snared by false protestations of love, and then held in his thrall by a combination of violence and spurious affection. |
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| And the claims of liberal legalists that they can somehow be sterilized by the application of theory of rights are simply spurious and morally unserious. |
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| Even tone deaf students can perform this experiment but the sonometer must be correctly tensioned or spurious harmonics interfere with the frequency determination. |
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| As the day progressed, it seemed the misinformation on the internet was growing exponentially spurious by the minute. |
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| Such blunt legislation will provide people and organisations with the means to bring spurious lawsuits against those they have a reason to dislike. |
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| This extensive and thorough body of work, he pointed out, has been totally ignored by psychologists, who use the tired old standards and as a result obtain spurious results. |
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| Where is the evidence on which the writer bases such spurious claims? |
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| Subsequent investigation revealed that these claims were spurious. |
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| For a variety of spurious reasons, our network is being changed. |
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| Nina Fishman also gives ground to the myth that the 1970s were a time when unions had too much power and were constantly going on strike for spurious reasons. |
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| It is very easy, I think, for the Government to bring up some basically extremely spurious reasons why this moratorium should be continued, but there is no logic to it. |
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| Insurers who try to wriggle out of critical illness claims for the most spurious of reasons are being forced to pay up by a leading consumer watchdog. |
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| The reason for the protest was spurious for several reasons. |
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| It is even conducting a survey, for the most spurious of reasons, of voluntary health organisations, asking them about their links to pharmaceutical companies. |
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| Many of the survivors there expressed anger that the media routinely questioned the veracity of survivor testimony on the basis of spurious reasoning and apparent prejudice. |
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| Throughout all the hullabaloo and spurious handwringing, the one constant was Booker, whose profits derived largely from the unglamorous cash-and-carry trade. |
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| Dr Bevan has been looking very carefully at some wonky carbon-dates, the occasional spurious date that doesn't seem to fit the conventional picture. |
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| For example, spurious harmonics might result if pulses are transmitted in a fixed repetition modulation, or if too many pulses are sent out during a fixed interval of time. |
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| Both women had a penchant for people with titles, even spurious ones. |
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| Modern scholars who deal with Israel's ancient political religion and the prophets who proclaimed its transformation are burdened with a scholarly spurious familiarity. |
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| This is the spurious, evolving dialectic of electoral democracy. |
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| These garages use spurious parts often obtained from vehicles that are written off, with any salvageable parts used wherever they can. |
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| In 1846, the German scholar Karl Wex conclusively proved at least some passages of the Description were completely spurious. |
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| At Kirklees Priory in Yorkshire stands an alleged grave with a spurious inscription, which relates to Robin Hood. |
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| The possibly spurious work, On Ideas survives in quotations by Alexander of Aphrodisias in his commentary on Aristotle's Metaphysics. |
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| Radar video returns from aircraft can be subjected to a plot extraction process whereby spurious and interfering signals are discarded. |
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| Some, however, see such editorial extravagance as dubious prescriptive overkill that objectionably blurs the line between authentic and spurious. |
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| Followers of pseudosciences such as astrology often draw spurious parallels between their beliefs and established science. |
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| People are not able to discriminate between spurious, misbranded and substandard medicines. |
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| However, despite recent spurious reports, Aberdeen has never been banned from the Britain in Bloom competition. |
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| The seventh volume of the Opera Philosophica contains the doubtful and spurious works. |
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| The war in Iraq was not about Saddam Hussain, weapons of mass destruction or any other of the spurious other smokescreens. |
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| The final confirmation that the Description was spurious came in 1869, a quarter century after Wex's publication. |
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| WhatIF, a frequency planning tool, uses a new simulation technique that analyzes spurious performance of Intermediate Frequencies. |
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| Anne was still at Bath, so she did not witness the birth, which fed the belief that the child was spurious. |
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| But we may suppose that John has set his priorities in such a way that the quandary is spurious. |
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| Last autumn a gentleman who is well acquainted with plate marks saw this plate, and informed the owner that it was spurious. |
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| In previous Word Ways issues, zzxjoanw, Torpenhow Hill and pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis have been shown to be spurious. |
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| The VCO operates at twice the fundamental frequency to reduce spurious emissions and frequency pulling problems. |
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| As the title suggests, Rose considered these all to be spurious. |
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| Though a well preserved man of no little stamina, if a trifle prone to baldness, there was something spurious in the cut of his jib that suggested a jail delivery. |
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| Many of the proposed correlations have been argued to be spurious. |
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| However, this charter is considered spurious by many historians. |
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| Documented evidence indicates that a significant percentage of the incidents were spurious, inaccurately reported, or embellished by later authors. |
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| Pseudoanalytical arguments, on the other hand, exploit impressionable individuals and bestow legitimacy on perhaps spurious beliefs and parochial hidden agendas. |
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| Then there's the maker's mark, known as a touchmark, on the underside of the dish, which is completely spurious and was probably invented by the faker. |
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