"ground" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- Regina refuses, on the spurious grounds that Emma had not eaten the turnover as planned.
- Helva called a halt to what promised to be a round-the-chrono affair, on the spurious grounds of some critical computation.
- But read a little further and you'll find that the headlines were cooked up on spurious grounds.
- They supported Saddam, and then when it no longer suited their interests, they got rid of him, and on spurious grounds.
- I don't want him walking away from the contents of that safe on the spurious grounds that somebody else must have planted whatever's in it.
- At least once an hour someone would come to find me on the spurious grounds of a spelling inquiry.
- She said: "Never in my experience has an institution at the heart of the British constitution been marked down for destruction on such spurious grounds.
- I have to say that these are spurious grounds for complaint.
- I also notice efforts to undermine the proposed Services Directive on the same spurious grounds.
- All too often, European governments have on spurious grounds failed even to apply the EU's own travel ban and other restrictive measures.
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