Mr. Bush has so far offered only flimsy arguments against spending limits and public financing of Congressional campaigns.

In a sound ruling last week, a federal judge in Illinois rebuffed this flimsy argument.

One further assertion is adduced to support the flimsy argument: "the Arabic word for a black person -iswid - means 'slave.' "

"If we are taken, no such flimsy arguments will get you out of a hanging or worse."

A flimsy argument, he knew, but all he could think of at the moment.

These are flimsy arguments for a sacrifice of privacy that could spread to every school in the nation.

Some have been falling for rather flimsy arguments.

It is far-fetched for you and some civil rights leaders to invoke the specter of racial discrimination based on such flimsy arguments.

Someone who is making a point out of anger, ideology, inflexibility, or resentment would presumably construct a flimsy argument.

Now he has been sentenced to 12 years in prison for a symbolic act on the basis of flimsy arguments.