This prompted Labour peer Lord Lea of Crondall to accuse her of "sophistry", and to raise his concern that, in many cases, only interns given financial help by "Mummy and Daddy" could afford to work for free.

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Nor is it pure sophistry to think of these genes as part of an extended human genome.

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Although pretending to be the product of serious scholarship, it is just another in a series of ideologically driven, anti-technology articles by this author and a handful of others who use flawed methodology and sophistry to arrive at a preordained but fallacious conclusion.

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But one newspaper senior executive I've spoken to says "this is sophistry".

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Hard cases make bad law, which is why they are reserved for the Constitution, not left to the caprice of legislatures, the sophistry and casuistry of judges or the despotic rule making of the chief executive and his bureaucracy.

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Some were just holding out for something they have never before seen from this President: a flat, clear admission of wrongdoing, stripped of self-pity or sophistry, that would allow them to spank him and move on.

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