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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To accuse the Chinese military of launching cyberattacks without firm evidence is not professional and also groundless.
Scientists from Britain and the US chime in saying that forecasts for global cooling are far from groundless.
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But as many people now know, that is a groundless accusation, there is absolutely no evidence against him.
People's Daily and its overseas edition dismiss the report by US company Mandiant as "groundless" and "irresponsible".
Nevertheless, the point is that the charge that the Republicans only cut taxes for the rich is factually groundless.
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Beijing has consistently dismissed the Japanese government's complaints about alleged radar-locking as groundless.
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.
Mr Zilk, whose hand was damaged by a letter bomb sent by Austrian neo-fascists five years ago, said the charge was absolutely groundless.
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".
"This is nothing but a groundless outcry of the political philistines ignorant of any legality of the study of space science for peaceful purposes, " the commentary said.
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Puncture the groundless, self-defeating myth that this is their last chance and remind your base that success breeds success in politics as much as in sports and business.
Plainly, and for many years, the Chinese have deployed it as a negotiating weapon, often in association with entirely groundless claims that Japanese militarism is again on the rise.
"It is unfortunate that, yet again, we are hearing the same tired, unwarranted and groundless allegations that used to be unjustifiably and futilely repeated by the previous U.S. administration, " Khazaee wrote.
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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.
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