Not for us, the fluffy bears hugging satin hearts – they fail on grounds of taste too, anyway (see also: "sexy" lingerie).
The landmark designation caught up good and bad alike, and Mr. Graves's proposal was not the only one that failed on the grounds of either the loss of the brownstones, or the changes to the Whitney.
Sausages in milk, while certainly interesting, failed on the grounds of being on the wrong side of vile.
That official suggested that the tunnel was both compromised by a spy, and also failed on technical grounds.
"It didn't seem to make very good commercial sense," said Mr. Placke, "and ultimately I think it failed on those grounds".
This week AT&T threw in the towel on its doomed effort to buy T-Mobile after promising T-Mobile's owner, Deutsche Telekom, $3 billion in cash plus valuable wireless spectrum if the merger failed on antitrust grounds, which, predictably, it did.
Previous defamation claims against the search engine Google failed on the grounds that it is not a publisher and not responsible for the contents of the blogs and articles listed in its search results.
"The Meadors have had 10 years without peace,' she said, "and although the criminal case against them failed on technical grounds they must now realize that selling their brother's loot was the wrong way to go".
However, they said the other five deaths had arisen out of shootings of Iraqis by British forces "in the field", and therefore failed on the grounds that the shootings had occurred outside the jurisdiction of the UK.
"The Meadors have had 10 years without peace," Ms. Lowenthal said, "and although the criminal case against them failed on technical grounds they must now realize that selling their brother's loot was the wrong way to go".
