• The populist mayor of Cluj, Georghe Funar, has built a career out of needling the city's Hungarians, doing away with historic street-names and sponsoring what Hungarians say is a spurious archaeological dig round a statue of Matthias Corvinus, a 15th-century Magyar king.

    ECONOMIST: Romania

  • "It seems spurious that a fresh master's graduate in their first job should qualify as a highly-skilled migrant where a businessperson of 25 years global experience earning hundreds of thousands of pounds without a master's degree does not, " said its chairman Keith Vaz.

    BBC: Immigration officer at Heathrow

  • Whether KIF6 ends up being a real disease gene or a spurious association is up in the air.

    FORBES: Gene Test For Heart Disease May Be Useless

  • This randomization feature allowed researchers to compare the newly-enrolled group with an equivalent group not selected knowing that there was no selection bias that might produce a spurious result.

    FORBES: States Face a "Sophie's Choice" on Medicaid Expansion

  • He may also have been affecting a spurious veneration for the court and his belief in the judicial system, seeking to compare his deference for authority with the unruliness and general disrespect exhibited by most criminals.

    BBC: Behind the mask

  • The judges said the money came from a "spurious source" and that the case was aggravated by the fact that she was a minister at the time.

    BBC: Former Argentine Finance Minister Felisa Miceli

  • "There have been instances where people have been asked to fax back spurious lengthy surveys to a personal number at rates of up to 37.5p per minute, " said Oftel in a statement.

    BBC: Oftel issues scam warning

  • The Irish also qualify as the most cosmopolitan with none of their players earning a living in their own country, although maybe this is a bit spurious, since they all play in England, and most of them could probably have qualified to play for England had they wanted to.

    FORBES: Euros that are really worth something

  • They forward spurious data to others before taking a moment to reflect on its worth or check its validity - the equivalent of passing on some scuttlebutt by word of mouth, but this time to thousands across the world.

    CNN: BELIEVE IT OR NET

  • It proposes a system of preliminary hearings in which a judge could throw out spurious cases, and would, crucially, have the power to cap costs, so that one side or the other couldn't run up huge bills, with the implicit threat of financial ruin if costs were awarded against the other.

    BBC: Cheering the changes

  • Dating the precise dawn of literature to a specific year is of course spurious, but the weight of scholarly evidence does suggest that this location was at least one of the cradles of early writing.

    BBC: Iraq honours the word

  • Failing to control for multiple testing is a warning sign that results might be spurious.

    FORBES: Minimum Pricing, Maximum Confusion: Should Governments Fix The Price Of Booze?

  • While resilient, the Internet suffers from a glaring vulnerability: the impact of spurious Border Gate Protocol (BGP) routing.

    FORBES: Is China Testing Cybernukes?

  • Many people talk about government spending as a percentage of GDP or attempt to use spurious metrics that confuse the main theme of the data.

    FORBES: We can do better than 0-58

  • The show includes one spurious work that Mr. Wilson thinks the collector bought knowingly a 20th-century imitation of an ancient turquoise-inlaid bronze plaque with "taotie" (a mask motif) from the late Erlitou culture, Henan province, 1800-1600 B.

    WSJ: The Craft Collector | One Man's Search for Ancient China | Sackler Gallery | By Lee Rosenbaum

  • Hall was initially arrested in December and made a statement describing the claims as "pernicious, callous, cruel and above all spurious".

    BBC: Stuart Hall: More alleged victims to sue over abuse

  • Earlier on Wednesday, a statement from Ibrox said media speculation about legal action from Whyte's camp was "highly spurious".

    BBC: File on ex-Rangers chief Charles Green sent to fraud office

  • Lord Wigley said that the Commons had rejected the amendment on the "spurious grounds that it is inappropriate" but peers voted to agree with MPs by 174 votes to 220, a majority of 46.

    BBC: Government defeated again on asbestos cases

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