Sentence examples for basis to defend a from inspiring English sources

It is impossible, on any moral basis, to defend a law that jails consenting adults for voluntarily inhaling one kind of burning plant but not another.

Just like the sports car driver who claims that other cars on the highway were also speeding but the officer only stopped him, the fact that others who might have violated the law have not been charged is not a justifiable basis to defend a lawsuit.

For this reason, libertarianism looks like an unpromising basis on which to defend enactment of a social minimum.

On that basis, Tehran was able to defend the Qum enrichment site that was built in secret and revealed through espionage, but was not yet operational.

The Review Group provided a thorough analysis of the legal basis the NSA has used to defend its bulk metadata program - such as the 1979 Supreme Court case, Smith v. Maryland, which as the Review Group noted leaves many unanswered questions as to whether the decision is still good law and applicable in a "very different technological society from the one that existed in the 1970s".

"The basis of this protest is to defend the truth, to simply say the truth," Mr. Radasinovic said.

Douglas Carswell, the Conservative MP for Harwich, said: "I think this proposed royal charter is indefensible and it's bang out of order to try to defend it on the basis that a future government might do something even more indefensible.

I don't know that there is a legal argument to defend them on the basis of whistleblowing.

As a longtime Wall Street Journal columnist, he continued to defend the evidentiary basis for war with Iraq long after it was discredited, but his attacks on Trump reportedly fell out of favor with the paper's management, and he decamped earlier this year to the New York Times.

He is grilled in the West on a constant basis, but he's absolutely prepared to defend his adopted nation.

For housing associations, the profits position is harder to defend on this basis.