Sentence examples for formal grounds from inspiring English sources

Some critics, great ones, tried to defend the ending on formal grounds.

MONTCLAIR AND GLEN RIDGE, MAY 31 AND JUNE 1 Eight private gardens, including one modeled on the formal grounds at Sissinghurst Castle, will be open to the public.

Ecuador's foreign minister said last month that the country would allow access for questioning, but Sweden later said its request had been rejected "on formal grounds".

Democratic senators had a point when they asked what intelligence Mr Bush had used when he made his claims: was it wrong, or was it hyped?On the other hand, America's formal grounds for war never referred to weapons stockpiles.

The Anglo-American law of murder recognizes no formal grounds of defense or mitigation in the fact that the accused killed to relieve someone of suffering from an apparently incurable disease.

From the Knockree hostel, I completed a splendid 20km circular road-walk that took in Powerscourt, an 18th-century Palladian mansion whose formal grounds are considered the finest in Ireland.

A second volume, Little Gods (2006), gave this supple lyricism a more formal grounding.

These departures, and the explicit sex, suggest an impulse to break new formal ground, but they are also evidence of imaginative fatigue.

Hence there are two kinds of grounding: formal grounding that is at the same time deducibility and material grounding that holds without deducibility.

Peano is very careful to list, on every line of his derivations, what the formal ground for writing the line is.

These proposals, however, are descriptive and do not provide a formal ground to assess the commonalities and differences of the various SPEs.