Sentence examples for cited as grounds from inspiring English sources

That evidence was cited as grounds for overturning Mr. Tankleff's convictions.

That was among several issues the Republicans cited as grounds for Judge Sauls to end the contest lawsuit.

Paradoxically, the very same objections that Usher likely cited as grounds for denying the request were exacerbated by further inaction for want of capital.

Mr. Mirski said justices can also be removed by a less elaborate method known as a "bill of address," under which most anything can be cited as grounds.

The very fact that a slippery slope is being cited as grounds for declaring the law unconstitutional — despite that "significant deference" usually given to laws passed by Congress — tells you all that you need to know about the argument's validity.

Thinkers like Coleridge (or Marx) often claim that they have special cognitive means, e.g., rational intuition or dialectics, for gaining knowledge of social wholes, and this (spurious) knowledge is then cited as grounds for special social policy recommendations.

While his metaphysical racial skepticism was cited as grounding his normative position of eliminativism, Appiah is "against races" but "for racial identities" (1996).

In a recent case the LCF City Council passed an "urgency measure" to allow use of fields for a softball tournament on two Sundays, contrary to LCF ordinances citing as grounds "an immediate threat to public welfare". The California Government Code provides for urgency measures when needed to protect pending zoning ordinances.

While the underdetermination argument is often cited as giving grounds for scepticism about theories of unobservable entities, arguably the most powerful arguments against scientific realism are based on the history of radical theory change in science.

Indeed, autonomy is often cited as the ground of treating all individuals equally from a moral point of view.

Medical issues have also been cited as a possible grounds for amnesty.