| Brief, chatty and digestible, the book should refute the old canard that economics is dismal. |
| The conservative talk jocks have been purveying this canard to explain their monopoly of the spectrum. |
| As for the old canard that Europe's bloodiest wars were the wars of religion, no serious student of the carnage of the twentieth century can credit that. |
| The briefest glance at David's productivity and output during his tenure there ought to put the quietus on that canard. |
| Telling the New Zealand public that Maori have unlimited tangi leave is a canard. |
| It is a classic anti-semitic canard to punish any Jew for the perceived crimes of all of them. |
