Sentence examples for ground for doing from inspiring English sources

Yet its chief ground for doing so, the claim that the capacity for consciousness is what underlies moral status, cannot be dismissed.

Granted, we may feel uneasy about treating shoe-umbrellas and trout-turkeys as bona fide entities, but that is no ground for doing away with them altogether.

They have some grounds for doing so.

And there is no legal grounds for doing anything other than sighing audibly.

It is their job to ferret out wrongdoing and press forward with legal actions, if there are reasonable grounds for doing so.

But the Brexit result provides absolutely no grounds for doing so, and the public and media should not be encouraged to believe that it does.

Filial restraint has so far kept the would-be Social Security privatizers on the right from going after them, but the grounds for doing so are clear.

The grounds for doing it are threefold: national security; preventing or detecting serious crime; and threats to "the economic well-being of the UK".

QUESTION FROM LEIGH HALL: What do you think of the calls for Obama to raise the ceiling without Congressional approval, with perhaps the 14th amendment as grounds for doing so?

It's even stated in the accompanying notes for Lord Saatchi's recent amendments: "a doctor cannot ignore views, or give them minimal weight, unless there are reasonable grounds for doing so".

And if someone wanted to state the case for the old oppositional journalistic template in the face of this festival of writer/editor/reader inclusivity, would there be any grounds for doing so beyond curmudgeonly self-interest?