Sentence examples for a plausible basis from inspiring English sources

This theme, being taken up today by Beck and other antigovernment sorts, had a plausible basis at the time.

The first challenge was a strictly legal one: persuading any justices who might be inclined to intervene in this state election law dispute that there is a plausible basis for the Supreme Court to assert its jurisdiction.

"Telling someone you will seek legal redress unless they are willing to pay a certain cost is not within the extortion statues," Mr. Gillers said, "as long as you have a plausible basis for your legal claims".

Since some testimony involves secrets, there was a plausible basis for allowing the military judge, Col. James L. Pohl of the Army, to control the audio stream available to journalists and spectators viewing the proceedings.

In this instance, although the consequences of turning permissible vouchers into required vouchers would have been profoundly unsettling, the court's recent insistence on an equal place for religion at the public table provided at least a plausible basis for that outcome.

Cleverly borrowing good ideas from both sides of the party divide, his proposals at least look like a plausible basis for agreement (see article).The plan obliges everyone to take out health insurance while creating a tapering subsidy for poorer families to help them afford it.

Nevertheless, the current results do reveal the beginnings of a biologically plausible basis set for concrete nouns, and they furthermore have the potential to be extended to other factors for other types of concepts.

Similar to synaptic potentiation and depression, this bidirectional plasticity mechanism prevents the cell from progressive runaway excitation, thus providing a theoretically plausible basis for information coding in the network.

In several different contexts in The Natural History of Religion Hume suggests that the argument from design — based on our observation of beauty and order in the world — is a convincing and plausible basis for genuine theism (NHR, Intro, 6.1, 15.1).

"The Warner Bros, 1916 short has not been displayed or exhibited for almost a century and there is no plausible basis to contend that there is any chance of confusion between the two productions," TWC lawyer David Boies said in a letter to Warner Bros. and the MPAA (provided, again, to Deadline.com).com

It was not always enough, they went on to say, for a decision to have a plausible legal basis.