"The claims were not defended on the basis of factual differences between the parties; but rather based on the appropriate interpretation of European human rights law.
Because of this, some consideration must be given to the design of sampling plans to ensure effective and efficient sampling that can be defended on the basis of scientific rationale.
The specific results of the new model ecosystem study presented in this article can be well defended on the basis of a robust experimental and physical design and because the system contained a diverse and sensitive aquatic community.
Instead it "merely considers entitlement to play for the national team concerned, and any possible indirect discrimination can be defended on the basis of compelling reasons of general interest".
After several court trials here and in England, the work was successfully defended on the basis of "redeeming social importance". Afterwards, when the British publisher Penguin brought out a new and now legal, uncensored edition, it was dedicated to the jury that had approved it.
First, some end-result principles have been defended on the basis of considerations about luck.
To defend, on the basis of aesthetics, the new Penn Station, and its cousin Madison Square Garden, both built in the 1960s after the now universally condemned destruction of the original McKim, Mead & White building, would surely invite catcalls from every corner, including from my own.
The importance of theology, understood as teaching or "doctrine", has been defended on the basis that an understanding of doctrine is necessary to respond intelligently to questions from others, to promote spiritual health, and to draw the believer closer to God.
Ian Carter (1999, 2008), Matthew H. Kramer (2003, 2008), and Robert Goodin and Frank Jackson (2007) have argued, along these lines, that republican policies are best defended empirically on the basis of the standard negative ideal of freedom, rather than on the basis of a conceptual challenge to that ideal.
Especially interesting about the pamphlet is the essentially classical, even Platonic, conception of reason that Jacobi advances there, in defence, however, of a theory of individual liberalism which, in the eighteenth-century, was being defended rather on the basis of quite an opposite mechanistic conception of rationality.
