Sentence examples for a permissible ground from inspiring English sources

Charles Cooper, an Assistant Attorney General, showed only meanness and ignorance when he advised, in a gratuitous opinion last June, that the fear of contagion is a permissible ground on which to dismiss AIDS victims.

Joel Feinberg delineated principles for reconciling opposing views regarding permissible grounds for interference with someone's actions for the sake of preventing harm.

For when 'it is impossible to know, in view of the general verdict returned' whether the jury imposed liability on a permissible or an impermissible ground 'the judgment must be reversed and the case remanded.' New York Times Co. v. Sullivan, supra, 376 U.S. at 284, 84 S.Ct. at 728.

This was a permissible "viewpoint-neutral" reason, the court said.

In his opinion for the Court, Chief Justice Roberts upheld the individual mandate, but only on the ground that it was a permissible exercise of Congress's power to tax.

Japan kills hundreds of whales each year on the grounds that it is "scientific whaling," a permissible practice under commission rules.

5 And individual applications of a permissible rule would still be subject to scrutiny as to the tenability of the independent and adequate state ground.

I consider that a permissible variation.

Given the stakes, that omission was a permissible one.

I do not consider that a permissible variation.

Her coach said she was taking a permissible allergy drug.