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"We don't like people being discriminated on race, gender or sexuality or any other inappropriate grounds and we shouldn't allow it in employment".
The new species was rejected in 1924 by Charles Gardner, and again in the 1970s by Nelson, who argued that leaf shape is inappropriate grounds for erecting a new species in this context, and that, in terms of systematically important characteristics, A. intermedius is indistinguishable from A. barbiger.
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Before vanishing from the App Store at the end of last month — on "inappropriate content" grounds.
There seemed to be agreement that developing countries should not be used as inappropriate testing grounds by scientists and companies promoting GM organisms (e.g. Koudand, ) and that the environmental risks of GM crops should be studied, understood and minimised (Fenning, 10/11; Hruska, ; Rosset, 14/11).
If the TLRI regards childhood male circumcision as inappropriate on medical grounds , why do they support it when carried out on religious grounds?
But it also sent a chilling message to foreign journalists, who have generally enjoyed more freedoms than their Turkish counterparts: whatever the government deems "inappropriate " is now grounds for deportation.
"Stunning" and "gorgeous", though accurate, I straightaway rejected as inappropriate , on the grounds that you don't use words like this to women you're not married to, as neither they or your wife would like it.
For the soccer clubs participating in the tournament, vigorous training sessions are sometimes marred by obstacles – a lack of sponsors, muddy grounds inappropriate for matches, and the absence of a professional coach – but the teams work around these issues in their quest for the Gyalyum Chenmo Memorial Gold Cup trophy.
Lawyers for Wal-Mart, which has 3,586 stores across the United States, had asserted that a class action was inappropriate on the grounds that Wal-Mart does not have centralized employment policies and that individual store and district managers, rather than headquarters, make decisions on pay and promotions.
Bone marrow biopsy was deemed inappropriate on ethical grounds , so we used peripheral blood as a surrogate to evaluate the effect of the TERT gene deletion on hematopoiesis (see Fig. 4).
One participant (an acute care clinician) (ID3) believed that although some hospital admissions were inappropriate on medical grounds they often enabled a problem to be resolved quickly: "I sometimes think that perhaps we ought to look at it from the other way around... Bring them into to hospital, sort them out as best you can, but then make the discharge of the patients a bit quicker".
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The phrase "inappropriate grounds " functions as a noun phrase typically used as the object of a preposition or as a subject complement. It describes the reasons or justifications deemed unsuitable or unacceptable. As Ludwig AI's analysis shows, the phrase commonly appears when discussing decisions, actions, or beliefs considered flawed.
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