Exempel på canard

• I don't think people realize how careful we are on financial matters—they seem to think that a popular paper will print any sort of canard offhand. 

• It was even said that the Germans were marching on Brussels, but this was contradicted afterwards as a sensational canard. 

• The report that she was injured in the fire by which her stable was burned, proves to be a canard. 

• The story of an armed band surrounding the bank had been a canard. 

• Where did this ridiculous canard originate? demanded a pompous and elderly gentleman as he tugged at his closely cropped mustache with a nervousness belying his scepticism. 

• It may also introduce a canard: as if only a few people built all the speculative houses.

• The argument that the lancet spread venereal disease was a canard.

• Gilman dismisses as a "great canard" the allegation that modernization theory was "totalitarian" or "just another cold war-driven anti-communist screed" (p. 13).

• The old canard "the operation was a success but the patient died" points to the danger of separating the mere performance of an act from its real purpose.

• He started one canard, and he has intervened at the end of the debate to get it going again.

• She repeated the canard that, in 1990, third-world countries paid more back to the rich west than they received in aid and loans.

• This issue of safety is a canard which should be nailed once and for all, and today is as good a time as any.

• It would suit his doctrinaire book to put across that canard.

• However, he cannot get away, once again, with that canard.

• Therefore, that gets another canard out of the way.

• That canard should be dismissed for what it is.

• We also had the usual canard about morale being bad.

• I hope that that canard will not spread.

• It is a canard that has been put to bed time and again.

• A further canard is that such teaching gives children ideas that they would not otherwise have and that it encourages them in promiscuity.