Sentence examples for credible grounds from inspiring English sources

He said the report "lacked credible grounds" to suggest Inditex had broken its agreement in Brazil.

The accusation has been rejected by Sussex police, which told the Guardian: "There are objectively no credible grounds on which to base an allegation of police officers being engaged in secret operations against the complainant or seeking to protect any officer involved in the tragic road traffic collision.

"There has to be a credible ground force which we are supporting with our air power.

This posed a credible ground threat that the Serbian leader could not ignore.

The first lesson of political positioning is that you have to have credible ground to stand on.

The truth is that, historically, aerial bombardment usually fails to be decisive unless it supports credible ground forces.

"They are trying to build a leadership of credible ground forces, and I think that is a huge distinction," said Elizabeth O'Bagy, an expert on the Syrian rebel groups at the Institute for the Study of War in Washington.

"You cannot do this job from the air alone unless there is a credible ground force and I don't mean just the Kurds who are only part of the picture," he told the BBC.

Rick thinks Hillary Clinton is an advantageous choice for Secretary of State because she completes a sort of diplomatic phalanx that covers a lot of credible ground in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

"When we knock on the doors of the decision makers to try to make changes or shine light on food issues, school lunches, the farm bill, food stamps, we have some credible ground to stand on," he said.

Crucially, he has failed to convince almost anyone that, even if British participation in the current air campaign were to tip the balance, there are credible ground forces able to take back Isil-held territory.