Sentence examples for a weak case of from inspiring English sources

But it also found other incidents in which the F.B.I.'s investigation of various groups was based on a weak case of connection to terrorism or any other crime.

Critics of the initial CREW lawsuit said the case was likely to get thrown out of court because the ethics organization by itself had a weak case of "standing" — that is, it would have a hard time showing that its pro-transparency advocacy work was "harmed" by Trump's business ties.

Yet, perhaps because he recognizes that the decision below presents such a weak case for a claim of judicial "legislation," petitioner makes the implausible contention that any state judicial decision in this context -- and, by implication, any state attorney general opinion or administrative ruling -- is suspect if it is not "dictated by" existing statutes.

But the show makes a weaker case for the relevance of contemporary art in Detroit.

And if his prosecutors were to lose at trial, Mr. Vance could be criticized for bringing a weak case and accused of bringing it only to quell his critics, political and legal insiders said.

Jurors in the case of the man accused of killing relatives of the Oscar winner Jennifer Hudson began deliberations on Wednesday after prosecutors trying to counter defense claims of a weak case insisted that "a tsunami of evidence" linked him to the crime.

He classes Erasmus not among the Ciceronian rhetoricians but among the sophists, both ancient and modern, who habitually beg the question and conceal a weak case behind a flood of words and irrelevant considerations.

"The Grand Council of Guardians believes that the Queens district attorney's office presented a weak case," said Charles B. Billups, the president of the Grand Council, adding that the state should create a special prosecutor's office for cases like this.

"It's often politically more expedient for the district attorney's office to permit a grand jury to dismiss a weak case," Mr. Arshack said, "instead of dismissing the charges themselves".

Although there are techniques to resolve questions about the circumstances, experts said untrained officers might think they were signs of a weak case and then prematurely dismiss a complaint.

The crystal may become dislodged or shatter, and a weak case would be at risk of deformation.