Mr Duncan, the International Development Minister, told the programme that such allegations are groundless.
Hopefully such groundless sensationalism will not derail a regulation so clearly in the public interest.
China's foreign ministry dismissed the New York Times' accusations as "groundless" and "totally irresponsible".
Rusal, controlled by one of Russia's richest men, Oleg Deripaska, dismissed the allegations as "groundless".
"We have heard these reports from the minister of information, which are, quite frankly, groundless, " he said.
"The claims against Anheuser-Busch are completely false, and these lawsuits are groundless, " Kraemer said earlier this week.
He apparently hired a military lawyer to fight the alleged harassment and his complaints were deemed groundless.
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Scientists from Britain and the US chime in saying that forecasts for global cooling are far from groundless.
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Nevertheless, the point is that the charge that the Republicans only cut taxes for the rich is factually groundless.
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He added that critics' fear that the ban would hurt the restaurant and bar business had proved to be groundless.
Such fears are not entirely groundless if the recent conduct of some of Congo's neighbours is anything to go by.
Sneers about domestic politics hurting Hungary's presidency of the European Union in the first half of 2011 proved largely groundless.
Jones describes herself as a journalist, yet her blog is unabashedly pro-IBM, insisting from the start that SCO's claims are groundless.
Senator RICHARD LUGAR (Republican, Indiana): The end result is that many of the accusations have proven to be groundless or, at worst, overstated.
All it would have taken is a phone call or an e-mail to a toxicologist to confirm that Good Guides' warning was groundless.
"The claims against Anheuser-Busch are completely false, and these lawsuits are groundless, " said Peter Kraemer, vice president of brewing and supply for Anheuser-Busch.
Consultancies say such concerns are groundless, but critics note that auditors said the same thing when they were pitching consulting services to audit clients.
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At the time China's foreign ministry dismissed those accusations as "groundless".
Such a broad reading of the Constitution is groundless, but even were the collecting of publicly available information a "search, " it is clearly reasonable as a measure to protect airline safety.
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"China urges the US to correct its wrongdoing immediately, lift the groundless sanctions against the companies and individuals concerned and stop doing things that harm China's interests and Sino-US relations, " the spokeswoman said.
But it looks like that fear was groundless.
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The peace is broken by two young men in tennis whites (Michael Pitt and Brady Corbet), whose polite inquiries gradually harden into threats and then into acts of brutality that feel both groundless and unrelenting.
"The actions of the law enforcement agencies... are related to groundless tax claims made by the Tax Office and Investigation Department of the Moscow Investigative Committee against Rusal Foil, a subsidiary of Rusal, " the company said in a statement.
"Pfizer believes the lawsuit filed in California is groundless and is based largely on information ... that has been widely criticized by many experts in the mental health field, " the company said in a statement provided to The AP.
Joliet, Illinois (CNN) -- Attorneys for Drew Peterson, a former Chicago-area police officer accused of murdering his third wife, argued during opening statements Tuesday that their client spent his career protecting the public and that murder accusations are groundless.
Did the band want to preserve the mystique of this much-hyped performance to ensure a hungry and willing audience if there ever was a true reunion tour (probably a groundless concern with those 20 million lottery participants not going anywhere)?
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