WASHINGTON — When President Obama signed a budget bill on Friday, he issued a signing statement claiming a right to bypass dozens of provisions that placed requirements or restrictions on the executive branch, saying he had "well-founded constitutional objections" to the new statutes.
Readers may well have well-founded doubts or objections about it.
"If people have well-founded claims and have suffered physical harm then we will look into it," he said.
Without such review, Harlem residents will continue to have well-founded fears that the downside of Harlem's cusp is economic and cultural desolation.
But surely any citizen who reads about judges attending fancy meetings under questionable sponsorship will have well-founded doubts about their objectivity.
In addition, we have well-founded intelligence to tell us that Saddam sees his WMD programme as vital to his survival, as a demonstration of his power and his influence in the region.
It is said that the UK protects those homosexuals who have well-founded fear of persecution were they to return to their home countries but arbitrary decisions have been made, too.
It's the right time for the Home Office not only to protect those homosexuals who have well-founded fear of persecution but also to put an end to the detention of the children and families of asylum seekers.
The bill is not perfect, there are many who have well-founded reservations about its impact on online publishers and those who publish anonymously on the internet, as well as its retention of the burden of proof resting squarely on the defendant.
Trade unionists, opposition parties, and human rights workers have well-founded fears that this landslide election victory could lead to a clampdown on the right to protest and strike in Cambodia - human rights that were crushed long ago in Singapore under Lee Kuan Yew's notorious Internal Security Act.
Nevertheless, I have well-founded hopes that the concerns expressed in this book will be taken seriously by the new pope.
