Sentence examples for circumstantial grounds from inspiring English sources
This requirement may disqualify some candidates on completely circumstantial grounds, even those who might make perfectly good judges under other circumstances.
The only reasonable hypothesis for the product's failure must be a defect due to a breach of duty or omission by the defendant.. Res ipsa loquitur is a rule of circumstantial evidence grounded in probability and sound procedural policy.. Res ipsa loquitur is inapplicable if the accident might have occurred without the defendant's negligence.
The case on the ground is still circumstantial.
The first trial ended in a hung jury when one of the jurors refused to convict on the grounds that he lacked "circumstantial evidence in the fourth degree".
[55] Genesis 4.11 w e - ʿattâ ʾārûr ∅ ʾāttâ min hāʾ a ḏāmâ And now cursed (be) you than the ground Conjunctive Adjunct Negotiator Complement Finite/Predicator Subject circumstantial Adjunct Residue Mood base Residue (and now, you shall be more cursed than the ground).
One may believe that something new and exciting has been discovered, but its measurement is on shaky grounds, and evidence for it value is circumstantial.
There is circumstantial evidence that he also designed the mausoleum in the grounds of the house, but a definite attribution cannot be made.
Whether Mr Wahid is guilty or not a parliamentary committee found only circumstantial evidence against him those charges were always a pretext for ousting him on broader grounds.
An on-the-ground investigation by French epidemiologist Renaud Piarroux shortly after the outbreak started found ample circumstantial evidence that it originated at a Nepalese camp with dysfunctional sanitation in Haiti's Artibonite region; several limited genetic studies of the isolated cholera bacteria suggested that the microbes originated in South Asia as well.
Standing in stark contrast was the simple humane decision of the Scottish government to release the Libyan Abdel Basset Ali al-Megrahi from prison on compassionate grounds, a man near death from prostate cancer, who was convicted in 2001 on the basis of thin circumstantial evidence and the testimony of a paid witness for the bombing of Pan Am flight 103 over Lockerbie in 1988.
